IPES 2026 Program

International Political Economy Society Annual Conference · Sessions in Luce Hall: Room 1 (Luce 101), Room 2 (Luce 202), Room 3 (Luce 203) · Coffee all day 8 AM–6 PM, Rosenkranz Hall. Tap View to read a paper or slides in your browser; Download saves the file.

Friday, October 23

Morning Sessions

Chairs: Room 1 Christina Schneider · Room 2 Ken Scheve · Room 3 Leo Baccini

8:00 AMRegistration desk opens · Common Room, second floor of Luce Hall

8:00 AMBreakfast · Rosenkranz Hall Lobby (8:00–9:00 AM)

9:00 AM

Room 1 · Luce 101

World Wide Webs: How Migrant Networks and Porous Bureaucracies Forged the Knowledge Economy in the Global South

Jerome Patrick Cruz

Friday, October 23

Morning Sessions

9:00 AM

World Wide Webs: How Migrant Networks and Porous Bureaucracies Forged the Knowledge Economy in the Global South

Cultivating New Principals: International Organization Reorientation after Major State Withdrawal

Laundering Lobbying: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Weaponize Corporate Political Infrastructure

9:30 AM

What Borrowers Want: Borrower Agency, Economic Ideology, and Institutional Adaptation under Development Finance Competition

Institutional Breakdown and Foreign Lobbying: Trade Remedies, Lobbying, and the WTO Crisis

Protecting Workers or Displacing Them? Labor Enforcement, Informality, and the USMCA's Rapid Response Mechanism

10:00 AM

Climate Politics at the Technological Frontier

Access and Influence: Determinants of WTO Observer Status for International Organizations

Supplying Immigration Rhetoric

11:00 AM

Beyond Information Leakage: Authoritarian State Media and the Strategic Reporting of Economic Sanctions

Rated Unequal: Climate Risk, Fiscal Capacity, and the Price of Sovereign Debt

Trading Away the Machine: The Political Consequences of Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries

11:30 AM

Firms at the Chokepoint: Supply Chain Position, Geoeconomic Rivalry, and Corporate Political Strategy in the U.S.-China Technology Competition

When A Few Export Sectors Speak Loudest: Economic Concentration and Exchange Rate Strategy

Losing Its Bite: the WTO's Appellate Body Crisis and the Return to Protectionism

12:00 PM

The Price of Climate Talk: Central Bank Communication, Climate Governance, and Sovereign Risk Premia

Regulatory Protection and Innovation: How Firms Shape Non-Tariff Measures

The emperors' new armor: Strategic sectors and trade dependence in contemporary protectionism

12:30 PM

Women's Political Representation and Foreign Direct Investment into Autocracies

Reindustrializing America: At What Price?

Balancing Sovereignty and Cooperation: The Logic of Deferred Contracting in International Agreements

Afternoon Sessions

2:30 PM

When Do Donors Engage or Retreat? Aid-for-Diplomacy under Public Hostility

Narratives and Electoral Responses to Financial Crises: Evidence from the 1907 Bankers' Panic

Innovation under Pressure: How Firms Respond to U.S. Entity List Sanctions

3:00 PM

Greenwashing Repression

Wages over Workers' Power: Selective Labor Norm Diffusion in Global Supply Chains

Stumbling Blocks and Building Blocks: Rules of Origin in Preferential Trade Agreements

3:30 PM

Bias Against Mobile Capital: Evidence from U.S. Environmental Enforcement

The Political Geography of Place-Based Industrial Policy

Competing to Negotiate: How Rivalry Shapes the Fate of International Treaties

4:30 PM

Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and Firms' Demand for Economic Security Policies: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms

Gendered Brain Drain. The Role of Women's Rights in Return Migration

Globalization in Place: Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Political Cleavages

5:00 PM

Designed to Fail? Bureaucratic Blueprints and Individual Discretion in World Bank Projects

When Governments Reshore: Trust, Dependence, and the Politics of Supply Chain Security

Empowering Labor? The Political Effects of Global Value Chains

5:30 PM

Economic Integration and Collective Identity: The Effect of Eurozone Membership on Public Opinion in Bulgaria

The Globalization Backlash in Rural Areas: Price Shocks, Far Right Support, and the Limits of Agricultural Subsidies

Geopolitical Barriers to Globalization

Cocktail Hour & Poster Session

Transformative Technicalities: The International Tax Agreement's Effect on Investment

Piecemeal Optimization: Multinational Corporations under Wartime Uncertainty

Governing to Borrow: Fiscal Politics and the Currency Composition of Government Debt

Offshoring Migration Policy: Migrant Responses to Restrictive Policies in Transit Countries

Strategies of Foreign Influence: Lobbying and Grassroots Diplomacy

The Impact of IMF Programs on Tuberculosis Outcomes and Government Health Spending: A Cross-National Difference-in-Differences Analysis, 1980–2019

Soft Power for Sale: Corporate Advertising and Influence on Public Opinion

Embodied Credibility: LGBTQ+ Staff and the Politics of Inclusion in International Organizations

The Political Economy of Demand for Global Financial Insurance

Everyday signals of geopolitical change. How exposure to non-Western tourists affect Swiss perceptions of global power relations

Saturday, October 24

Morning Sessions

9:00 AM

Prioritizing Neglected Technologies: How the World Health Organization Shapes Vaccine Technology

Identity and Emigration: Migration Decisions and Political Consequences in Ranked Ethnic Systems

Do Global Supply Chains Make Supplier Firms Greener? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms' Carbon Emissions

9:30 AM

The Power Dilemma: How the Green Energy Transition Reshapes Democracy in the Global South

Populist Leadership and Foreign Aid

Investments and Influence: How Geopolitical Framing Impacts Economic Soft Power

10:00 AM

Ground Rules: The Politics of Foreign Land Access

Central Banks as Creditors and Domestic Debt Restructuring

Geoeconomic Vulnerability and Relational Chokepoints in Strategic Goods