Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and
Economic Policy
and
Murphy
Institute of Political Economy
Conference
on Political Economy of
Policy
Transfer, Learning, and Convergence
11 April 2003
●9:00a--Welcome
■Richard F. Teichgraeber
III (Director of the Murphy Institute)
■Alan
Duncan (Leverhulme Centre for Research on
Globalization and Economic Policy)
Panel I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in
Policy Learning, Transfer and Convergence (Chair, ?)
● 9:30-11:00
■ Evelyne Huber & John Stephens (University of North Carolina): “State Economic and Social Policy in Global Capitalism”.
■ David
Dolowitz (University of Birmingham): “The Europeanization of Policy Transfer: The EU as
Policy Mediator”.
● 11:00-11:15, Coffee
●
11:15-12:00
■ Diane
Stone (University of Warwick): “Transnational Transfer Agents and Global Networks in
the ‘Internationalisation’ of Policy”.
● 12:00-1:00, Lunch (At Diboll Center)
Panel II. Characterizing
Policy Transfer, Learning and Convergence (Chair,)
●
1:00-3:15p
■ Kevin
Grier (University of Oklahoma): “Convergence: Concepts, Tests &
Evidence”.
■
Oliver Morrissey (University of Nottingham) & Doug Nelson (Tulane University): “Characterizing International Policy Learning”.
■
Graham Wilson (University of Wisconsin): “Importing Cooperation in Environmental Policy”.
●
3:15-3:30, Coffee
Panel III. Macroeconomic
Policy (Chair,)
● 3:30-5:00
■
Richard Hemming (International Monetary Fund): “Policies to Promote Fiscal Discipline”.
■ Robert
Franzese and Jude C. Hays (University of Michigan): “Modeling Spatial Relationships in International and
Comparative Political Economy: An Application to Globalization and Capital
Taxation in Developed Democracies”.
●
6:00p: Dinner at Upperline Restaurant (1413 Upperline
St, New Orleans)
12 April 2003
Panel IV. International
Trade/Competition Policy (Chair, David Greenaway)
●
10:00-10:45a
■ Thomas
Prusa (Rutgers University) & Susan Skeath
(Wellesley College): “Retaliation as an Explanation for the Proliferation of
Antidumping”.
●
10:45-11:00a: Coffee
●11:00-12:30
■ Chris
Milner (University of Nottingham): “Learning, Herding, or Coercion: The Case of the ‘Trade
Policy Revolution’ in Sub-Saharan Africa”.
■
Julian Clarke, Simon Evennett (World Trade Institute)
& J. David Richardson (Syracuse University): “Recent Cross-Border Competition-Policy
Transfer and Convergence”.
● 12:30-1:30: Lunch
Panel V. The Welfare State (Chair, Alan Duncan)
● 1:30-3:00
■
Robert Walker (University of Nottingham) & Michael Wiseman (Urban Institute):
“Refreshing Reform: Ideas from British Welfare Strategy”.
■ Alan
Duncan (University of Nottingham), Mark Pearson (OECD) & J.K. Scholz (University of Wisconsin): “Is
There an Emerging Consensus in Making Work Pay Policies?”.
■
Mitchell A. Orenstein (Syracuse University): “Mapping the Diffusion of Pension Innovation”.
● 3:00-3:15, coffee
Panel VI. Labor Market and
Education Policy (Chair, Doug Nelson)
● 4:00-5:00
■ David
Greenaway (University of Nottingham) & Bruce Chapman (Australian National University): “Learning
to Live with Loans? Policy Transfer and the Funding of Higher
Education”.
● 5:00-6:45--Reception
●
7:00p--Dinner at Cobalt Restaurant (333 St. Charles, New Orleans)
