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Session 11: Political Economic Theory

Date
Thu, Aug 20 2026, 8:00am - Fri, Aug 21 2026, 5:00pm PDT
Location
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Organized by
  • Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)
  • Peter Bils (Vanderbilt University)
  • Steve Callander (Stanford University)
  • Hulya Eraslan (Rice University)
  • Tom Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)
  • Arjada Bardhi (New York University)

This session will bring together researchers from political science and economics who apply economic theory to the study of politics. This includes work in the areas of voting theory, political bargaining, policy-making and implementation, lobbying and regulation, and the media and information environment in which politics takes place. The session will encourage productive dialogue between researchers in economic theory that have developed ideas and tools relevant to the study of politics, and those in political science who study questions and topics that can be addressed by economic theory.