Politics and Economics of International Finance Conference

8:30–9 / Continental Breakfast

9–9:10 / Welcome

9:10–10:40 / Session 1
“Are U.S. dollar and Treasury bonds still special?”
Wenxin Du (Harvard Business School)

10:40–11 / Coffee Break

11–12:30 / Session 2
“The (Domestic and International) Politics of Sovereign Finance”
Layna Mosley (Princeton University)

12:30–1:30 / Lunch

1:30–3 / Session 3
“Geoeconomics”
Jesse Schreger (Columbia Business School)

3–3:15 / Coffee Break

3:15–4:45 / Policy Panel
“US international economic policymaking in the 2020s”

• Emily Blanchard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth), former chief economist at the Department of State
• Brent Neiman (University of Chicago Booth School of Business), former Deputy Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Finance

• Cameron Ballard-Rosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Sarah Bauerle, Indiana University

• Emily Blanchard, Dartmouth University

• Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University

• Sarah Brooks, Oklahoma State University

• J. Lawrence Broz, University of California San Diego

• Andrea Bubula, Columbia SIPA

• Roberto Chang, Rutgers University

• Fernando Cirelli, Columbia SIPA

• William Clark, Texas A&M University

• Mark Dincecco, University of Michigan

• Wenxin Du, Harvard Business School

• Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard Kennedy School

• Jeffry Frieden, Columbia SIPA

• Pato Goldstein, Columbia University

• Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania

• Jana Grittersova, University of California Riverside

• Robert Gulotty, University of Chicago

• Mark Hallerberg, Hertie School

• Ivan Julio, Boston University

• Richard Levich, New York University

• Quan Li, Texas A&M University

• Michael-David Mangini, University of Southern California

• David Marsh, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

• Christopher Meissner, University of California Davis

• Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University

• Layna Mosley, Princeton University

• Patricia Mosser, Columbia SIPA

• Brent Neiman, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

• Erica Palmer, University of Pittsburgh

• Sonal Pandya, University of Virginia

• Pablo Pinto, University of Houston

• Didac Queralt, Yale University

• Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University

• Zacharie Quivigier, Columbia University

• Ronald Rogowski, University of California Los Angeles

• Peter Rosendorff, New York University

• Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, Brown University

• Jesse Schreger, Columbia Business School

• David Singer, Massachussets Institute of Technology

• Sanjay R. Singh, University of California Davis

• Mark Sobel, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

• Randall Stone, University of Rochester

• Solomon Tadesse, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

• Alan Taylor, Columbia SIPA

• Calvin Thrall, Columbia University

• Michael Tomz, Stanford University

• Sydney White, Columbia University

• Alexandra Zeitz, Concordia University

• Nick Zevanove, Columbia University

Wenxin Du (Harvard Business School)

• Du, W., Keerati, R., & Schreger, J. (2025). Decoupling dollar and Treasury privilege (International Finance Discussion Papers No. 1427). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/files/ifdp1427.pdf 

• Du, W., Hébert, B., & Li, W. (2023). Intermediary balance sheets and the Treasury yield curve. Journal of Financial Economics, 150(3), 103722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103722 

Layna Mosley (Princeton University)

• Ballard-Rosa, C., Loeffler, H., Mosley, L., & Rosendorff, B. P. (2025). Sovereign credit ratings, economic information and executive approval. Working paper, Princeton University.
• Mosley, L., & Rosendorff, B. P. (2023). Government choices of debt instruments. International Studies Quarterly, 67(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad030
• Ballard-Rosa, C., Mosley, L., & Wellhausen, R. L. (2022). Coming to terms: The politics of sovereign bond denomination. International Organization, 76(1), 32–69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818321000357 

Jesse Schreger (Columbia Business School)

• Clayton, C., Maggiori, M., & Schreger, J. (2026). A framework for geoeconomics. Econometrica, 94(1), 105–136. https://doi.org/10.3386/w31852
• Clayton, C., Coppola, A., Maggiori, M., & Schreger, J. (2025). Geoeconomic pressure. NBER Working Paper No. 34020. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w34020 
• Clayton, C., Maggiori, M., & Schreger, J. (2025). A theory of economic coercion and fragmentation. NBER Working Paper No. 33309. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33309
• Clayton, C., Maggiori, M., & Schreger, J. (2025). Putting economics back into geoeconomics. NBER Working Paper No. 33681. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33681

Conference Chairs

Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.

Jeffry A. Frieden
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University.

Logistics

Marianna Pecoraro
Associate Director of Events Management, Columbia SIPA
[email protected] 

Sydney White
Graduate Assistant
[email protected] 

The Conference will take place at the International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St), Room 1501.

Non-Columbia University affiliated guests will be emailed a visitor pass for access to the Morningside Campus. 

We recommend using public transportation from the hotel to Columbia University: take the Uptown-bound 1 train to 116 St - Columbia University. You can enter campus via the Broadway/116th St gate. At the gate, you must display the QR code in your guest confirmation email, as well as a government-issued ID that matches the name on your email confirmation. Once on campus, please walk towards the bridge that goes over Amsterdam Ave. and enter the International Affairs Building’s 6th floor. 

Alternatively, you can enter the International Affairs Building via the 420 W 118th St entrance. You will be asked to display the QR code and government-issued ID.

Disability Services is available to assist with campus accessibility concerns and other accommodation needs. Email [email protected] or call 212-854-2388 for assistance.

Hotel Belleclaire
2175 Broadway, New York, NY 10024
(212) 362-7700

Columbia University is accessible from the Subway via the 1 train. From the Hotel Belleclaire, take the 1 train from 79th St. station uptown to 116th St. station, which is located directly outside Columbia’s gates.

Further Directions from Hotel Belleclaire to Columbia University