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Political Economy Seminar Series

Past Speakers

Date Presenter Title
04/03/06
Amrita Dhillon (Warwick) Enforcing Contracts (PDF 202 KB)
04/24/06
Justin Fox (Yale) Electoral Donations and Interest Group Influence (PDF 271 KB)
05/01/06

Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard)

Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms  (PDF) 
05/08/06
James Robinson (Harvard) Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions (PDF 637 KB)
05/15/06
Allan Drazen (Maryland) Pork Barrel Cycles (PDF 406 KB)
05/22/06
Alberto Alesina (Harvard) Why is Fiscal Policy often Procyclical (PDF 206 KB)
06/05/06
Pohan Fong (Concordia) Dynamics of Government and Policy Choice (PDF)
10/02/06 Sourav Bhattacharya (Kellogg School) Campaign Rhetoric and the Hide-and-Seek Game (PDF 298 KB / 42 pages)

10/09/06

Ken Shepsle (Harvard) Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate (PDF 224KB/ 28 pages)
10/23/06 Tapas Kundu
(Kellogg School)
Can democracy always lead to efficient economic transitions?

11/06/06

Leeat Yariv (Caltech) An Experimental Study of Jury Deliberations (with Jacob K. Goeree)
11/13/06 Ethan Kaplan (Stockholm U.) The Iceberg Theory of Campaign Contributions: Political Threats and Interest Group Behavior
11/20/06 Roger Myerson (University of Chicago) Leadership, trust, and power

11/27/06

Ben Lockwood (Warwick) Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation, and Voter Welfare (PDF 322 KB / 34 pages)
12/04/06 Eric Dickson (NYU) Rational Choice Epistemology and Belief Formation in Mass Politics (PDF 275KB)
4/23/07 Halvor Mehlum King of the Hill

4/30/07

Sophie Bade Pre-electoral Debate: The Case of a Large Election
5/7/07 Becky Morton The Effects of Identities, Incentives, and Information on Voting

5/14/07

Marina Azzimonti On the Dynamic Inefficiencies of Government

6/4/07

Anders Olofsgard Delegation versus Communication in the Organization of Government
10/1/07 Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)
10/8/07 Robert Staiger (Stanford University) Offshoring and the Value of Trade Agreements
10/15/07 Daniel Diermeier (Kellogg School of Management) Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures
10/22/07 Sven Feldmann (Kellogg School of Management) A simple fully revealing equilibrium in multi-dimensional cheap-talk with multiple senders
10/29/07 Guido Tabellini (University of Bocconi) The Scope of Cooperation: values and incentives
Related Papers:
(1) The Scope of Cooperation: Values and incentives
(2) Instiutions and Culture
11/5/07 Timothy Feddersen (Kellogg School of Management) Moral Bias in Large Elections
(With Sean Gailmard and Alvaro Sandroni)
11/12/07 Enrico Spolaore (Tufts University) Trade, History and Geography
11/26/07 David Baron (Stanford GSB) Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation
04/07/08 Matias Iaryczower
(Cal Tech)
"Ideology and Competence in Alternative Electoral Systems"
04/14/08 Gregory Huber
(Yale)
"Enforcement and Compliance in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Investigation"
04/21/08 Ahmer Tarar
(Texas A&M)
"Bargaining and Signaling in International Crises"
04/28/08 Andrea Vindigni
(Princeton)
"A Theory of Military Dictatorships"
05/05/08

John Roemer
(Yale)

"A Positive Theory of Income Taxation Where Politicians Focus Upon Swing and Core Voters"
05/12/08 Francesco Trebbi
(Chicago GSB)

"Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress"

05/19/08 Ragnar Torvik
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
"Endogenous Presidentialism"
05/26/08 Stuart Jordan
(Rochester)
Cancelled
06/02/08 Matilde Bombardini
(University of British Columbia)
"Together or Alone is Lobbying for Trade Policy"
09/29/08 Giovanni Maggi Cancelled
10/13/08 Alan Wiseman
(Ohio State/Kellogg)
Delegation and Positive-Sum Bureaucracies
10/20/08 Ken Shotts (Stanford GSB) Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power
10/27/08 Bilge Yilmaz (Stanford GSB) Deliberation and Security Design in Bankruptcy
11/3/08 Daniel Diermeier (Kellogg) Parties, Coalitions, and the Internal Organization of Legislatures
11/10/08 Christoph Lulfesmann (Simon Fraser) Collective and Private Provision of Public Goods in Democracy
11/17/08 Stuart Jordan (Rochester)

Judicial Control of Arbitrary Executive Power

12/1/08 Georgy Egorov (Harvard)  
03/30/09 Anke Kessler
(Simon Fraser University)
"Ideologues:  Explaining Partisanship and Persistence in Politics (and Elsewhere)"
04/06/09 Andrea Galeotti
(Essex University)
"Strategic Information Transmission in Networks"
04/13/09 Bauke Visser
(Erasmus School of Economics)
"Decision-making and Learning in a Globalizing World"
04/27/09 Alessandro Riboni (University of Montreal) "Ideology and Endogenous Constitutions"
05/11/09 Daniel Diermeier
(Kellogg School of Managment)
"An Efficiency Rationale for Committee Power"
06/1/09 Antonio Merlo
(University of Pennsylvania)

“External Validation by Parameter Recovery:
An Application to Voter Turnout Models”

     

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