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The Political Economy of the Interwar Period

USC Price School of Public Policy
Wednesday, October 18
308 Lewis Hall

9:00 am to 10:00 am: Light Breakfast

10:00 am to 11:00 am: Paper 1

Congress, the Harding Administration, and International Policy in the Early Interwar Period,” Justin Peck (Wesleyan University)

Discussant: Anthony Orlando (Calpoly, Pomona)

11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Paper 2

The Multiplant Origins of the National Market,” Robert Gulotty (University of Chicago)

Discussant: Margaret Peters (UCLA)

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15 pm to 2:15 pm: Paper 3

World War I and the Rise of Direct Taxation in Colonial Africa,” Daisy Ward (University of Texas at Austin)

Discussant: Darin Christensen (UCLA Luskin)

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm: Paper 4

Economic Voting during the Great Depression,” Juan Herreño (UCSD), Matias Morales (NYU Wagner), and Mathieu Pedemonte (Cleveland Fed) 

Discussant: Sebastian Saiegh (UCSD)

3:15 pm to 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm: Paper 5

Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Primary Schools and Rural Civic Participation,” Asli Cansunar (University of Washington)

Discussant: Allison Spencer Hartnett (USC POIR)

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm: Paper 6

Sovereign Debt Restructurings and International Trade: The Political Economy of the German Debt Default in the 1930s,” Olivier Accominotti (London School of Economics and CEPR), Thilo N. H. Albers (Humboldt University Berlin), Philipp Kessler (Statistisches Bundesamt), and Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles and CEPR)

Discussant: Tine Paulsen (USC POIR)

6:00 pm: Walk to Bacari West Adams for happy hour and dinner.