International Political Economy Speaker Series
The International Political Economy Speakers Series (IPES) invites distinguished scholars to present their work at MIT. The events are an opportunity for MIT faculty, students, and their guests to learn about new developments in IPE and for invited speakers to receive valuable feedback on their on-going projects.
RSVPs are required for each event.
Seminars take place Friday afternoons in the Millikan Room, E53-482, 12:00-1:30
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Theo Serlin
Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2025)
April 4, 2025 12:00AM Millikan Room, E53-482
"Economic Sanctions Are Effective Only After the Onset of War"
Daniel Nielson
University of Texas at Austin
May 3, 2024 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Climate Change and Political Mobilization: Theory and Evidence from India
Amanda Helen Kennard
Stanford University
March 22, 2024 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Membership and Its Benefits: Vote Shares in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Soo Yeon Kim
National University of Singapore
December 1, 2023 12:00PM
December 1, 2023
12:00PM
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries
Richard (Ricky) Clark
Cornell University
November 17, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
"Do Workers in Developing Countries Love Globalization?"
Nita Rudra
Georgetown University
February 24, 2023 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
"Robots, Foreigners, and Foreign Robots: Policy Responses to Automation and Trade"
Stephen Chaudoin
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
November 18, 2022 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Opening up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Democracies
Adam Dean
George Washington University
November 4, 2022 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance
Didac Queralt
Yale University
April 1, 2022 12:00PM
April 1, 2022
12:00PM
Low-skill products by high-skill workers: The distributive effects of trade in emerging and developing countries
Erica Owen Palmer
University of Pittsburgh
March 11, 2022 12:00PM
March 11, 2022
12:00PM
Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Rachel Wellhausen
University of Texas-Austin
February 18, 2022 12:00PM
February 18, 2022
12:00PM
Governments as Borrowers and Regulators
Timm Betz
Texas A&M University
March 6, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
A Civic Culture? Common Schooling, Inequality, and Political Participation in Antebellum New York State
David Stasavage
Dean for the Social Sciences and Julius Silver Professor of Politics, New York University
November 1, 2019 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves the Strategic Interests of Private Actors
Rebecca Perlman
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
October 11, 2019 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Border Orientation in a Globalizing World
Beth Simmons
Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
December 7, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Economic Transparency and Foreign Direct Investment
Jim Vreeland
Georgetown University
May 4, 2018 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Identity Politics and Economic Policy
Nikhar Gaikwad
Columbia University
February 16, 2018 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
"Ideology and Global Distributive Institutional Politics"
Erik Voeten
Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs
Georgetown University
December 8, 2017 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation
Ryan Brutger
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Goergetown University
September 29, 2017 Noon Millikan Room, E53-482