Political Economy Workshop Archive

2024-2025 Political Economy Workshops

Fall 2024

• October 3       | Alastair Smith  (New York University) - "Political Life Cycles* by Justin Melnick, Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
• October 10     | Jack Paine (Emory University) - "The Threat-Enhancing Effect of Authoritarian Power Sharing"
• October 17     | Sean Westwood (Dartmouth University) - "What do we know about partisan animosity?"
• October 24     | Michael Kistner (University of Houston) - "Ambition and Conflict in State Legislatures" by Chrisitan Fong and Michael Kistner
• October 31     | Jesse Shapiro (Harvard University) - "Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of US Elections" by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
• November 7   | Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma (CalTech) - "Money and Votes in Electoral Competition:  Evidence from the US Senate (joint with Matias Iaryczower and Ted Enamorado)"
• November 14 | Mayya Komisarchik (University of Rochester) -"Backlash Against Repression:  Evidence from Refugees Fleeing the Former Soviet Bloc*" by Valentin Bolotnyy, Mayya Komisarchik and Brian Libgober
• November 21 |Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University) - "Breaking the Gang:  A Preventive Approach to Reduce Recruitment in Schools" by Elona Castro, Felipe Coy, Carlos Schmidt -Padilla, Maria Micaela Sviatschi
• December 5   |David Nickerson (Temple University) -"Habituation of Mobilization:  The Declining Effectiveness of GOTV Tactics" by David Nickerson
• December 12 | Gabriele Gratton (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) - "Bad Democracy Traps" by Gabriele Gratton, Barton E Lee and Hasin Yousaf

2023-2024 Political Economy Workshops

Winter 2024

• February 15 | Juan Sebastian Galan Guerrero  (Universidad de los Andes) - "Resisting Social Death:  African Origins of Development in Colombia"
• February  22 | Sandy Gordon (New York University) - "Local Response to Changes in Voting Rights Protections:  Polling Place Closures Following Shelby County," joint with Dimitri Landa
• March 7 | Vicki Fouka (Stanford University) - Structural Transformation and Value Change:  The British Abolitionist Movement"

Spring 2024

• March 21 | Brandice Canes-Wrone (Stanford University) - "Dollars and Donors:  Comparing the Policy Views of Donors and the Affluent"
• March 28 | Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University) - "The Shift to Commitment Politics and Populism:  Theory and Evidence"
• April 4 | Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University) - "The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate:  Evidence from Germany's NetzDG by Rafael Jimenez Duran, Karsten Muller, Carlo Schwarz::SSRN
• April 11 | Dimitri Landa (New York University) -"Who Gets the Credit News Gathering Competition and Political Accountability" by Hafer, C., Landa, D. and Le Bihan, Patrick

• April 18 | Amanda Clayton (Berkeley) - "Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance:  Experimental Evidence from Malawi" by Clayton, A., Dulani, B., Kosec,K. and Robinson, AL

• April 25 | Emily Sellars (Yale University) - Fiscal Legibility and State Development" (joint with Francisco Garfias)-

• May 2 | Gary Cox (Stanford University) - "Inquisition and the decline of science in Spain" by Cox, GW and Figueroa, V.
• May 9 |Dorothy Kronick (Berkeley University) - "Oversight, Depolicing, and Crime:  Evidence from Colombia by Nicoloas Idrobo and Dorothy Kronick
• May 16| Peter Buisseret (Harvard University) - "Inequality, Polarization, and Culture Wars"
• May 23| Stefano DellaVigna (Berkeley University) - "Policy Diffusion and Polarization across the United States" by Stefano Della Vigna and Woojin Kim

Autumn 2023

• October 5 |David Broockman (University of California-Berkeley) - "Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability in the American Electorate (co-authored with Ben Lauderdale)."
• October 12 | Dan Alexander (University of Rochester) - "Electoral Contests over Voter Beliefs"
• October 19 | Jessica Trounstine (Vanderbilt University) - " Political Protection of Privilege:  How Land Use Regulations Preserve Exclusivity"
• October 26 | Pam Ban (University of California-San Diego) - "Efficacy of Congressional Oversight"
• November 9 | Vincent Pons (Harvard University) - Title not available
• November 16 |Mike Olson (Washington University-St. Louis) - "Deep South Disfranchisement:  State Legislative Politics and Black Disfranchisement in Mississippi and South Carolina in the Late 19th Century"
• November 30 |Keith Schnakenberg (Washington University-St. Louis) - "Informative Campaigns, Overpromising, and Policy Bargaining"
• December 7 |Bard Harstad (Stanford University) -"Contingent Trade Agreements"

2022-2023 Workshops

Winter 2023

• February 16 | Andrew McClellan (UChicago Booth) - "Intraparty Politics and Dynamic Policy Polarization"
• February 23 | Antonio Nicolo (University of Padova) - "Learning it the Hard Way: Conflicts, Economic Sanctions and Military Aid"
• Spring 2023 | March 23 | Matilde Bombardini (University of California, Berkeley Haas) - "Investing in Influence:  Investors, Portfolio Firms and Political Giving" (M. Bertrand, M. Bombardini, R. Fisman, F. Trebbi and E. Yegen)
• March 30 | Ray Fisman (Boston University) - "Measuring Government Openness Through Freedom of Information Request (with Eyub Yegen)"
• April 13 | Andy Hall (Stanford University) - "Cable News, Fundraising and Legislator Polarization"  Co-authored by Janet Malzahn and Dan Thompson
• May 4 | Benjamin Marx (BU Sciences Po in Paris) - "The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building:  Evidence from the French Revoluation" (with Cedric Chambru and Emeric Henry)
• May 11 | Andrew Little (University of California, Berkeley) - "Biased Learning from Elections" by Andrew Little, Andrew Mack and Thomas Pepinsky
• May 18 | Stephane Wolton (London School of Economic and Political Science) - "Unmasking the Enemies:  A Theory of Denunciations in Autocracies" (Joint work with Tinghua Yu from Birbeck University)
• May 25 | Lucia Motolinia (Washington University of St. Louis) - "When Reelection Increases Unity and Cohesion:  Evidence from Parties in Mexico"
• June 1 | Gabe Lenz (University of California, Berkeley) - "Why Voters Who Value Democracy Participate in Democratic Backsliding"

2021 - 2022 Workshops

Fall 2022

October 6

Eric Snowberg (University of British Columbia) - "An Organizational Theory of State Capacity (with Mike Ting, Columbia)"

October 13

Clemence Tricaud (University of California, Los Angeles) - "Gender and Electoral Incentives:  Evidence from Crisis Response"

October 20

Greg Huber (Yale University) - "People Having Meaningful Policy Preference.  Evidence From Panel Date Using Novel Survey Instrumentation"

October 27

Dan Thompson (University of California, Los Angeles) - "How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?*
Joshua Ferrer, Igor Geyn, Dan Thompson

November 3

Open

November 10

Kareem Haggag (University of California, Los Angeles) - "The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility:  Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement" (Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag and Bryan A Stuart)

November 17

Mary Kroeger (University of North Carolina) - "Outsourcing Legislation:  How Non-Legislators Write State Law"

December 1

Avidit  Acharya (Stanford University) - "Electoral Campaigns as Dynamic Contests (A. Acharya, E. Grillo, T. Sugaya and E. Turkel)

December 8

Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University) - "Gerrymandering the Swing Voters"

Winter 2022

February 24

Don Green - (Columbia University) "Revisiting a Natural Experiment:  Do Legislators with Daughters Vote More Liberally on Women's Issues"

March 24

Federica Izzo (UCSD) - "Policymaking in Times of Crisis (joint with Peter Bils)"

March 31

Elisabeth Kempf (Booth) - "The Political Polarization of U.S. Firms"

April 7

Hye Young You (NYU) - "How are Politicians Informed?  Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress"

April 14

Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins) - "Sequential Vote Buying"

April 21

Daniel Waldenstrom (Research Institute of Industrial Economics -Sweden) "Democratization and Inequality:  Long-Run Evidence from Capital Shares"

April 28

Betsy Sinclair (Washington University) -Cancelled

May 5

Vladimir Kogan (Ohio State) - "Adult Culture Wars and Student Academic Achievement"

May 12

Svetlana Kosterina (Pittsburgh) - "Delegated Bargaining"

May 19

Helios Herrera (Warwick)

Fall 2021

October 7

Eduardo Teso - (Northwestern University)  "Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations" (coauthored with Jorg Spenkuch and Guo Xu)

October 14

Gilat Levy (Virtual) - (London School of Economics and Political Science) "Short Term Political Memory and the Inevitability of Polarisation"

October 21

Jessica Sun - (Emory University) "State Intervention in Migration in Conflict"

November 4

Ian Turner (Yale University) - "Dark Money and Voter Learning"

November 11

Alessandro Riboni (Virtual) - (Ecole Polytechnique Universite') "Sticky Spending, Sequestration and Government Debt"

November 18

Pavi Suryanarayan - (John Hopkins University) "Hollowing out the State"

November 25 - Thanksgiving

December 2

Betsy Sinclair - (Washington University in St. Louis)

2020 - 2021 Workshops

Fall 2020

October 1

Chris Blattman  (University of Chicago)  - "Gang rule:  Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance"

October 8

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita - "From Investiture to Worms:  A Political Economy of European Development and the Rise of Secular Authority" (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)

October 15

Scott Gelbach (University of Chicago) -  "The Oligarch Vanishes:  Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections" (joint with John S. Earle, Anton Shirikov and Solomiya Shpak)

October 22

Anthony Fowler (University of Chicago) - "Moderates" (authors A. Fowler, S. Hill, J. Lewis, C. Tausanovitch, L. Vavreck and C. Warshaw)

October 29

Jen Lawless (University of Virginia) - "Reinvigorating Local News," from News Hole: The Demise of Local News and Political Engagement--and What We Can Do about It (co-authored book in progress with Danny Hayes).

November 5

Wiola Dziuda (University of Chicago) -  A Model of Politics and the Central Bank coauthored with Carolin Pflueger

November 12

Andrew McCall (University of Chicago-Political Science) - Expert Chiefs, Officer Beliefs, and Racial Inequality in Arrests

November 19

Ali Cirone (Cornell University) - Seniority-based Nominations and Political Careers (coauthored with Gary W. Cox and John H. Fiva) 

December 3

Steve Callander (Stanford University) - "Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach." It is joint work with Dana Foarta and Takuo Sugaya.

Winter 2021

February 11

David Brockman (UC Berkeley) - "Policy Voting in Elections:  A Field Experiment"

February 18

Ariel Roginsky (Harris-U of C) - "Explaining Nuclear Ambiguity"

February 25

Itai Sher (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - "Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies"

March 4

Alex Hirsch (Caltech) "Voter Attention and Electoral Accountability", Saba Devdariani† Alexander V. Hirsch‡

March 11

Diana Moreira (UC Davis) - "Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the Pendleton Act", Diana Moreira and Santiago Perez

Spring 2021

April 1

Lynn Vavreck (UCLA) - THE BITTER END: THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION & A CHANGED AMERICA

April 8

Francesco Trebbi (UC Berkeley) - "Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization: 1927-2018 (with Nathan Canen and Chad Kendall)

April 15

Pablo Montagnes (Emory) - "Politics from the Bench?  Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court" (joint work with Jorg Spenkuch at Northwestern and Tom Clark at Emory)

April 22

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford) - "Digital Addiction"

April 29

Paola Giuliano (UCLA) - "The Seeds of Ideology:  Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States" (joint with Marco Tabellini)

May 6

Molly Roberts (UC San Diego) - "Resilience to Online Censorship (based on joint work with Jennifer Pan, Will Hobbs, Keng-Chi Chang, and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld)

May 13

Milan Svolik (Yale) - "Voting Against Autocracy"

May 20

Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI) - "Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil, Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan, and Monica Martinez-Bravo

May 27

Brandice Canes-Wrone (Princeton) - Cancelled

2019 - 2020 Workshops

October 3

Kate Casey (Stanford) "An Experiment in Candidate Selection"  

October 10

Alex Coppock (Yale)  "Persuasion in Parallel"

October 17

Juan Vargas (El Rosario)

October 24

Gabriele Gratton (UNSW)

October 31

John Marshall (Columbia)

November 7

Georgy Egorov (Northwestern)  Social Media and Xenophobia:  Evidence from Russia" 

November 14

Christina Kinane (Yale) "Control without Confirmation:  The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments" 

November 21

Claudio Ferraz (UBC)  "Internet, Social Media, and the Behavior of Politicians: Evidence from Facebook in Brazil"

December 5

Cesi Cruz (UBC)

February 6

Guy Grossman (UPenn)  "Media Ownership as Political Investment:  The Case of Israel Hayom"

February 13

Marina Agranov (Caltech) "Social Learning in Groups:  an Experimental Study"

February 20

Greg Martin (Stanford) "Online Competition and Newspaper Quality:  Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist in the U.S."

February 27

Mahvish Shaukat (World Bank) "Electoral Competition and Politician Behavior:  Empirical Evidence from India"

March 5

Jen Lawless (UVA) "Risky Business:  Gender Stereotype Attacks in Primary Campaigns"  (Cancelled)

Working paper

March 12

Steve Callander (Stanford)  (Cancelled)

April 2

Dimitri Landa (NYU)

April 9

Alex Hirsch (Caltech)  "Voter Attention and Electoral Accountability"

April 16

Ali Cirone  (Cornell)

April 23

Alastair Smith  (NYU)

April 30

Itai Sher (UMass)

May 7

Brandice Canes-Wrone (Princeton)

May 14

James Fearon (Stanford)

May 21

Milan Svolik (Yale)

May 28

Molly Roberts (UCSD)

June 4

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford)

2018 – 2019 Workshops

October 4

Sevgi Yuksel (University of California-Santa Barbara)

October 11

Stelios Michalopoulos(Brown University)

October 18

Gary Cox (Stanford University)

October 25

Pia Raffler (Harvard University)

November 1

Saad Gulzar (Stanford University)

November 15

Sean Gailmard (Berkeley-University of California)

November 29

Ruixue Jia (University of California-San Diego)

December 6

Ruixue Jia (University of California-San Diego)

January 10

Jake Shapiro (Princeton University)

February 14

Dominic Rohner (HEC- University of Lausanne)

February 21

Eitan Hersh (Tufts University)

February 28

Dana Foarta (Stanford University)

March 13

Renee Bowen (University of California-San Diego)

April 4

David Stromberg (Institute for International Economic Studies)

April 11

Jessica Preece (Brigham Young University)

April 18

Bob Erikson (Columbia University)

April 25

Mattias Polborn (Vanderbilt University)

May 2

Laura Paler (University of Pittsburgh)

May 9

Nolan McCarty (Princeton University)

2017 - 2018 Workshops

2016 - 2017 Workshops

2015 - 2016 Workshops

2014 - 2015 Workshops

2013 - 2014 Workshops

2012 - 2013 Workshops

2011 - 2012 Workshops

2010 - 2011 Workshops

Spring 2010 Workshops

March 31 - Ana De La O (Yale)
"Information Dissemination and Local Governments' Electoral Returns, Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico"

April 14 - Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law)
"Judicial Review and Democratic Failure"

April 21 - Jacob Shapiro (Princeton)
"The Roots of Militancy: Explaining Support for Political Violence in Pakistan"

May 12 - Scott Gehlbach (Wisconsin)
"The Institutional Basis of Successful Economic Reform: Privatization Effectiveness and Regime Change After Ukraine's Orange Revolution"

May 19 - Frederico Finan (Berkeley)
"Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance"

June 1 - Elisabeth Gerber (University of Michigan)
"Political Geography, Campaign Contributions, and Representation"

June 2 - Jim Robinson (Harvard)
"The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Columbia"

Winter 2010 Workshops

January 27 - Jim Snyder (MIT)

February 17 - Konstantin Sonin (Northwestern)
"A Model of Balance of Power with N>2"

February 24 - Eli Berman (UC San Diego)
"Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq"

March 3 - Claire Lim (Standford GSB)
"Measuring Media Influences on U.S. State Courts"

March 10 - Nolan McCarty (Princeton)
"Welfare and Paternalism"

Fall 2009 Workshops

September 30 - Chris Edmond, New York University
"Information Manipulation, Coordination and Regime Change"

October 21 - Tom Palfrey, Caltech
"Political Institutions and Investment in Public Infrastructure"

October 28 - David Myatt, University of Oxford
"On the Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down"

November 18 - Maggie Penn, Washington University
"Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions"

December 9 - Alex Debs, Yale University
"Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships"

Spring 2009 Workshops

April 8 - Mathew McCubbins, University of California at San Diego
"Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination"
Supplemental Paper: "Good Edge, Bad Edge: How Network Structure Affects a Group's Ability to Coordinate"

April 22 - Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago
"Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs"

May 6 - Esteban Klor, Hebrew University
"Does Terrorism Work?"

May 20 - Leeat Yariv, Caltech
"Similarity and Polarization in Groups"

May 27 - Ken Shotts, Stanford University
"Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power"

Winter 2009 Workshops

January 14 - Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University
"School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race"

January 21 - Steve Callander, Northwestern University
"Searching for Good Policies"

February 4 - Charles Manski, Northwestern University
"Actualist Rationality"

February 11 - Stephan Whitaker, University of Chicago
"Constituencies and the Allocation of Private Activity Municipal Bond Cap Authority" (presentation)

February 25 - Salvador Barbera
"Individual Versus Group Strategy Proofness: When Do They Coincide?"

March 4 - Jim Alt, Harvard University
"Inequality and the Political Economy of Corruption: Evidence from US States"

Fall 2008 Workshops

October 1 - Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
"A Field Manual for the Cradle of Civilization"

October 8 - Yong Wang, University of Chicago
"Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI"

October 15 - Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University
"Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century"

October 22 - Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University
"Measuring Legislative Effectiveness in Congress"

November 5 - Scott Ashworth, Princeton University
"Sanctioning and Learning in Elections"

November 12 - Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
"The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design"

November 19 - Richard Holden, University of Chicago (GSB)
"Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans"

December 3 - Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
"The Economic Effects of Gerrymandering"

Spring 2008 Workshops

April 9 - Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago (SSA)
"Anti-Depressants, Suicide, and Drug Regulation"

April 16 - Jorge Fabrega, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Petty Corruption and Social Networks: An Exploration with Data from Sub-Saharan Africa"

April 23 - Jessica Trounstine, Princeton University
"Modern Machines: Information, Patronage, and Incumbency in Local Elections"

April 30 - Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Some Initial Facts and Sketch of a Theory about Economic Conditions and Voting Behavior"

May 7 - Ebonya Washington, Yale University
"Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Income on Support for Redistribution and Other Proposals"

May 14 - Masataka Harada, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Testing Strategic Use of Public Debts: A Natural Experimental Approach Using the 1965 Voting Rights Act"

May 21 - Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan
"Balancing Regionalism and Localism: Political Representation in American Transportation Policy"

May 28 - Laurent Bouton, University of Chicago (Program on Political Institutions Fellow)
"One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation"

June 4 - Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
"External Validation by Parameter Recovery: An Application to Voter Turnout Models"

June 11 - John Balz, University of Chicago
"Beyond Margaret Sanger: Commercial Interests in Early U.S. Birth Control Policy"

Winter 2008 Workshops

January 23 - John Patty, Harvard University
"On the Basis and Measurement of Power in Congress"
Papers:
"Amendments, Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules" (w/ Elizabeth Maggie Penn)
"Equilibrium Party Government"

February 6 - Shigeo Hirano, Columbia University
"Direct and Indirect Representation"

February 20 - Craig Volden, Ohio State University
"Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations" (w/ Vanessa Bouché)

March 5 - Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia
"Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy"

Fall 2007 Workshops

September 26 - Nicola Persico, New York University
"Factions and Political Competition" (w/ José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita & Dan Silverman)

October 3 - Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago
"What Drives Media Slant?" (with Matthew Gentzkow)

October 10 - John Matsusaka, University of Southern California
"Institutions and Popular Control of Public Policy"

October 31 - Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
"Long Term Persistence" (w/ Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza)

November 7 - Bard Harstad, Northwestern University
"Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules"

November 14 - David Baron, Stanford University
"Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation"

December 6 - Author Roundtable
Chris Berry, University of Chicago
Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multi-Level Governments

Spring 2007 Workshops

March 26 - Sarah Anzia, University of Chicago
"She Works Hard for Your Money: Congresswomen and Federal Domestic Spending" (with Christopher Berry)

April 9 - Jeffrey Grynaviski, Political Science, University of Chicago
"Entrenching the Machine: Political Defenses to Reform Party Challenges"

April 23 - Pedro Camarinha Vicente, Oxford University
"Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in West Africa"

May 7 - Avinash Dixit, Princeton University
"Predatory states and failing states - An agency perspective"

May 21 - Steve Ansolabehere, MIT
"Constituents' Policy Perceptions and Approval of their Members of Congress"

Winter 2007 Workshops

January 22 - Shanna Rose, New York University, Wagner
"Accountability, Selection, and Term Limits: Theory and Evidence from U.S. State Elections" (with James Alt and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)

February 5 - Alberto Simpser, University of Chicago, Political Science
"A Theory of Corrupt Elections"

February 19 - Navin Kartik, University of California at San Diego, Economics
"A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting" (with Nageeb Ali)

March 5 - Steve Callander, Northwestern University, Economics
"A Theory of Policy Expertise"

Fall 2006 Workshops

October 2 - No regular meeting. Tim Groseclose, UCLA talks at Noon in Harris School Room 140C
"A Rational-Choice, Format-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"

October 16 - Randall Calvert, Washington University
"Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"

October 30 - Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan
"The Robust Federation"

November 13 - Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago
"Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress"

November 27 - Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
"Regime Type and Immigration"

Spring 2006 Workshops

April 4 - Amrita Dhillon, Economics, University of Warwick
"Enforcing Contracts"

April 18 - Dimitri Landa, NYU
"Challenger Entry and Voter Learning"

April 25 - Christian Ponce de Leon, University of Chicago
"Distributive Politics and the Poor"

May 9 - Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
"Rethinking Jackson’s Bank War: Party Politics and American Monetary Union in the Antebellum Period"

May 16 - Chris Berry, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"The Life and Death of Federal Domestic Programs, 1970- 2004"

May 23 - Tim Groseclose, UCLA
"A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument for the Inexistence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"

May 30 - Ken Shepsle, Harvard University
"Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate: Strategic Aspects of Supreme Court Appointments"

Winter 2006 Workshops

January 17 - Boris Shor, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Testing Partisan Theories of Defense Procurement 1983-1992"

January 24 - Milan Svolik, Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"A Theory of Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes"

February 7 - Zahi Ben-David, Business School, University of Chicago
"Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies" (with John Graham and Campbell Harvey)

February 21 - Jeff Jenkins, Political Science, Northwestern University
"Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate" (with Sean Gailmard)

March 7 - Roger Myerson, Economics, University of Chicago
"Leadership, Trust and Constitutions"

Fall 2005 Workshops

October 4 - Daniel Chen, Political Science, University of Chicago
"The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Do Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand?"

October 11 - Stephanie Waldhoff, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Economic and Political Determinants of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Reexamining the Environmental Kuznets Curve"

October 18 - Scott Basinger, Political Science & Public Policy, Stony Brook University
"Congressional Campaigns and Voter Choice: A New Framework for Analyzing Aggregate Electoral Behavior"

October 25 - William Bianco, Political Science, Penn State University
"The Art of the Possible: Majority Rule, the Uncovered Set, and the Limits of Legislative Action"

November 1 - Omar Al-Ubaydli, Economics, University of Chicago
"Diamonds are a dictator's best friend: natural resources and the tradeoff between development and authoritarianism"

November 8 - Brian Knight, Economics, Brown University
"The Political Economy of School District Mergers"

November 15 - Mike Munger, Political Science, Duke University
"Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of insurgent recruitment: the role of culture"

December 6 - Adrian Vermeule, Law School, University of Chicago
"Absolute Voting Rules"