Murphy Institute Conference on
The Political Economy of Policy Reform
9-10 November 2001
Diboll Conference Center (Info, Map )
Tulane University
Accommodations at the Pontchartrain Hotel
( Participant List )
9 November 2001
■Richard F. Teichgraeber III (Director of the Murphy Institute)
■Doug Nelson (Murphy Institute)
Panel I. Explaining Trade Liberalization (Chair, Mike Finger)
● 9:30-11:00
■ Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth): “How Tariffs Fall: Lessons from US Trade Policy History”
■ I.M. Destler (University of Maryland): “Executive-Congressional Collaboration for Trade Liberalization”
● 11:00-11:15, Coffee
● 11:15-12:00
■ Christopher Magee (Bucknell) and Stephen Magee (University of Texas): “The Madison Paradox and the Low Cost of Reducing Special-Interest Legislation”
● 12:00-1:00, Lunch (At Diboll Center)
● 1:00-2:30p
■ Robert C. Fisher (Thomas Weisel Partners LLC), Omer Gokcekus (North Carolina Central University), and Edward Tower (Duke): “‘Steeling’ Votes at Low Prices: Congressional Voting Patterns on the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999”.
Panel II. Economic Analysis and Policy Making (Chair, Doug Nelson)
● 1:45-3:15
■ Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern (University of Michigan): “Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards”.
■ Jeffrey Hart (University of Indiana): “Can Industrial Policy be Good Policy?”
● 3:15-3:30, Coffee
● 3:30-5:00
■ H. Keith Hall (USITC): “Economic Analysis at the US ITC”
■ Joseph Francois (Erasmus): “General Equilibrium Studies of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Do They Really Help?”
● 6:00p: Dinner at Upperline Restaurant (1413 Upperline St, New Orleans)
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10 November 2001
Panel III. International Environmental Issues (Chair, Brian Potter)
● 10:00-10:45a
■ Emilson Silva (Tulane University): “Equitable and Efficient International Schemes to Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions”
● 10:45-11:00a: Coffee
Panel IV. The WTO, Trade Liberalization and Development (Chair, Robert Stern)
●11:00-12:30
■ Claude Barfield (AEI): “Dispute Resolution at the WTO”
■ Julio Nogués (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and UNIDO): “Unequal Exchange: Developing Countries in the International Trade Negotiations”
● 12:30-1:30: Lunch
● 1:30-3:00
■ Sam Laird (UNCTAD) and Raed Safadi (OECD): “The WTO and Development”
■ L. Alan Winters (University of Sussex): “Coherence with No “Here”: WTO Cooperation with the World Bank and the IMF”
● 3:00-3:15, coffee
Panel V. Policy Learning and Policy Convergence (Chair, Yutaka Horiba)
● 3:15-5:30
■ Patrick Messerlin (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) and Bernard Hoekman (The World Bank): “The World Bank, the WTO and the Trade Policy Research”
■ Oliver Morrissey (Nottingham University) and Doug Nelson (Tulane Univeristy): “The Role of the World Bank in the Transfer of Policy Knowledge on Trade Liberalisation”
■ Alan Duncan and David Greenaway (Nottingham University): “Tax Credits and Welfare for Working Families: A Case Study of UK-USA Policy Convergence”.
● 5:30-6:45--Reception
● 7:00p--Dinner at Clancy's Restaurant (6100 Annunciation St, New Orleans)
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