Political Economy Seminar
Winter 2008 - 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Tom Clark, Emory University Department of Political Science | Rule Creation in a Political Hierarchy | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Abhijit Banerjee, MIT | Do Informed Voters Make Better Decisions? | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Bard Harstad, Kellogg School of Management | Boycotts and (Self-) Regulation in a Dynamic Game | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Nolan McCarty, Princeton University | tba | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Filipe Campante, Harvard Kennedy School |
Media and Polarization
Download Campante11_16.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago |
The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis
Download TrebbiDec2.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Marco Battaglini, Princeton University Economics Department | Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Benjamin Olken, MIT | How to Target the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Christopher Paik, Stanford University | Special Practice Job Market Presentation | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | John Patty, Washington University | Stovepiping (with Co-author Sean Gailmard) | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Craig Volden, Ohio State | A Theory of Government Regulation and Self-Regulation with the Specter of Nonmarket Threats | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Hulya Erasian, John Hopkins University | Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Francesco Squintani, Warwick University |
Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive
Download Squintani9_27.pdf |
12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Eric Weese, Yale University | Inefficient Political Boundaries | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Dean Karlan, Yale University |
Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is
Download karlan10-6.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Gregory Huber, Yale University | Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters Limitations in Controlling Incumbents | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia Economics Department | Is it Whom You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Razvan Vlaicu, University of Maryland | Self-Organizing Legislatures: Policy making Under Procedural Endogeneity | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Jens Hainmueller, MIT Political Science Deparment | Political Investing: The Common Stock Investments of Members of Congress 2004-2008 | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | 12:00 am |
Spring 2008 - 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Torsten Persson, Stockholm University |
The Logic of Political Violence
Download persson3_30.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Padro i Miguel, LSE Economics | The Effects of Democratization on Economic Policy: Evidence from China | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Jordi Blanes-i-Vidal, London School of Economics | Revolving Door Lobbysists | 12:00 am South Bldg 181 |
| January 1 | Suamitra Jha, Stanford University | Shares, Coalition Formation and Political Development | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Andrew Healy, Loyola Marymount University | Individual Unemployment, Layoffs, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Dennis Epple, Carnegie Mellon University |
Inefficiencies from Metropolitan and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
Download Epple2_23.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Jim Snyder, MIT |
The Returns to U.S. Congressional Seats in the Mid-19th Century
Download snyder3_10.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | David Stasavage, NYU | What Democracy Does (and Doesn't ) do for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections | 12:00 am GSB-W104 |
| January 1 | Daron Acemoglu, MIT |
Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
Download 2Acemoglu3_3.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Peter Hammond, Warwick Economics Department | Social Choice and Individual Reports of Subjective Well-Being | 12:00 am B400 (Knight Center) |
| January 1 | Christopher Berry, University of Chicago | Cancelled | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Leeat Yariv, California Institute of Technology | Sequential Deliberation | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Ebonya Washington, Yale University | Appendix | 12:00 am Littlefield 107 |
| January 1 | Steve Ansolabehere, Harvard University | Constituents' Responses to Congressional Roll Call Voting | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Sandeep Baliga, Kellogg, Northwestern University | The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | 12:00 am |
Summer 2008 - 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Christopher Cotton, University of Miami | Competing for the Attention of Decision Makers | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Terry Moe, Stanford University Department of Political Science | Public Sector Unions and the Costs of Government | 12:00 am GSB B-400 |
| January 1 | Robert Powell, UC Berkeley | Persistent Fighting to Forestall Adverse Shifts in the Distribution of Power | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Rohini Pande, Harvard University | Can Voters be Primed to Choose Better Legislators? Experimental Evidence from Rural India | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Witold Henisz, University of Pennsylvania (visiting Stanford) |
Preferences, Structure and Influence: The Engineering of Consent
Download Henisz4_7.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Vijayendra Rao, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank | Is Deliberation Equitable? Dignity through Discourse | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Sean Gailmard, UC Berkeley | Congressional Development of the Institutional Presidency | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University |
The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts
Download Hoxby4_17.pdf |
12:00 am SE107 |
| January 1 | Tom Lyon, Michigan Ross School of Business | Linking Public and Private Politics: Activist Strategy for Industry Transformation | 12:00 am SE107 |
| January 1 | Romain Wacziarg, UCLA |
War and Relatedness
Download Wacziarg.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Tom Romer, Princeton University | tba | 12:00 am GSB B-400 |
| January 1 | John Huber, Columbia University |
Democracy, Targeted Redistribution and Ethnic Inequality
Download Huber.pdf |
12:00 am GSB B-400 |
| January 1 | James Robinson, Department of Government Harvard University | Endogenous Checks and Balances | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L107 |
| January 1 | Fred Finan, UCLA |
Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments
Download Finan4_21.pdf |
12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
| January 1 | Shanker Satyanath, NYU Department of Politics | Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Red Belt | 12:00 am SE107 |
| January 1 | Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago | Rebel Tactics | 12:00 am W104 |
| January 1 | Cancelled | 12:00 am GSB Bldg L103 |
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| January 1 | Ollee Folke, Columbia University | Shades of Brown and Green: Party Effects in Proportional Election Systems | 12:00 am Littlefield 107 |
| January 1 | 12:00 am |
2008 - 2009
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