2007/2008

Stanford Seminar in International Law & Economics

International Law & Economics Workshop

Winter 2007/08: Room 185 Law School, Tuesdays,  4:15-6:15.

January 8: Nuno Limao (Maryland Economics). Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements (with Patricia Tovar).

January 15: Giovanni Maggi (Yale Economics). On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements (with Robert Staiger).

January 22: Robert Howse (Michigan Law). Pursuing Sustainable Development Strategies: The case of the balance of payment rules in the WTO.

January 29: Bernard Hoekman (The World Bank). The General Agreement on Trade in Services: Doomed to Fail? Does it Matter?.

February 5: Rodney Ludema (Georgetown Economics). The Free-Riding Effect of the MFN Clause: Evidence Across Commodities and Countries (with Anna Maria Mayda). 

February 12: Pol Antras (Harvard Economics). Offshoring and the Value of Trade Agreements (with Robert Staiger).

February 19: Thomas Miles (Chicago Law). Which States Enter Into Treaties? (with Eric Posner).

February 26: Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth Economics). The Genesis of the GATT (with Petros C. Mavroidis and Alan Sykes).

March 4: Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute for International Economics). Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization (with Aaditya Mattoo).

March 11: Helen Milner (Princeton Political Science). The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries: Increasing FDI through International Trade Agreements? (with Tim Buthe).