I have spent the last few days at an excellent conference at Georgetown on the Political Economy of International Organizations, expertly organized by my colleague Jimmy-Ray Vreeland. The conference mostly attracts European economists and American political scientists (a good mix) specializing in international economic institutions, especially the IMF and World Bank, although there were also papers on the environment, human rights and other issues of cooperation. All papers can be downloaded from the conference web-site and are well-worth a look.
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I agree with Erik Voeten. The PEIO conference has, since 2008, developed into a regular annual meeting that attracts leading researchers in the field.
Compared to the International Political Economy Society (IPES) meetings, which are also great (they take place in November), PEIO has a stronger European involvement (in terms of meeting location, participation, and organization), and it involves more economists.
The next PEIO meeting will take place on 27-29 January 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland. The 2012 meeting will again take place in the USA.
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