Claremont Workshop on Political Economy Data and Analysis

Workshop on Political Economy Data and Analysis

October 7, 2005

Albrecht Auditorium

Claremont Graduate University

Schedule | Links

Participants: Please email papers,

presentations, and relevant links here.

Conference Schedule

8:30 – 9:00: Coffee

9:00:    Welcome by Robert Klitgaard, President and University Professor, CGU

9:00 – 10:15:

I.          Measurement of Political Economy Concepts

·         Measure of Economic Freedom – King Banaian, St. Cloud State

o       Paper

o       Slides

·         Updating Estimates of Relative Political Capacity – Marina Arbetman Rabinowitz, Kristin Johnson, CGU

10:15 – 10:30: Break

10:30 – 12:00:

·         Political Economy Measures of Welfare Outcomes: Data Availability Ahead of Theory – Bryan Roberts, Barents Group, KPMG

o        Paper

·         Measures of Good Governance – Marie Besancon, Harvard

o        Paper 1

o        Paper 2

12:00 – 1:15: Lunch

1:15 - 3:15:

II.                 Research using Political Economy Data

Chair: Yi Feng, CGU

·         Effects of Political Instability and Violence on Trade, Investment and Growth – Brock Blomberg, CMC

·         Recent Research on Corruption – Omer Gokcekus, Seton Hall

o        Paper

o        Slides

·         Interrelationships Among Income Distribution, Institutions and Growth and Hypotheses on the Effects of Different Types of FDI – Art Denzau and Daniel Lee, CGU

o        Slides

·         Evaluating Jeff Sach’s Critique of the View that Good Governance is important for the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid – Hilton Root, Pitzer

3:15 – 3:30: Break

3:30 – 5:15:

III.             Political Currency Regimes and Crises

Chair: Tom Willett, Claremont

·         Characterizing Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes – Jeff Kim and Alice Ouyang, CGU, and Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier

o         Paper

·         Political Variables, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Economic Instability – Eric Chiu, CGU

o        Paper

·         Interest Group Influence on Exchange Rate Policy during Speculative Attacks – Stefanie Walter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

o        Slides

Links

World Bank Governance Datasets