Political Economy Seminar Series

Past events

Thomas Palfrey
November 17, 2025
"Team Equilibrium in Crisis Bargaining Games: The Effects of Collective Choice Rules" 

Martin Vaeth
November 3, 2025
"Rational Voter Learning, Issue Alignment, and Polarization" 

Aakaash Rao 
October 27, 2025
"The Business of the Culture War (with Shakked Noy, MIT)"

Laurent Bouton
October 6, 2025
"A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-riding Aversion" 

Nicola Mastrorocco
May 12, 2025
"The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contribution"

Alberto Bisin 
April 21, 2025
"The Questione Meridionale: Elites and Civil Society, with Giovanni Federico (NYU AD)"

Ehud Kalai
April 07, 2025
"Equilibrium Resilience in Contemporary Applications of Game Theory" 

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra 
March 31, 2025
"Moral Violence: Unbundling Social Preferences At the Heart of a Major Armed Group in Congo"

Luca Braghieri 
December 2, 2024
"Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico" (joint with Francisco Garfias at UCSD)

Alessandra Fenizia 
November 4, 2024
"Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting"

Ceren Baysan
October 28, 2024
"Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism"

Brain Wheaton 
October 14, 2024
"Can Truth-Seeking Triumph over Tribalism? Evidence from Ideological Reversals Among Economists"

Francesco Squintani
September 30, 2024
"The Choice of Political Advisors"

Giulia Caprini
September 23, 2024
"Strategic Storytelling in Online News"

Emily Sellars
May 15, 2023
"Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico" (joint with Francisco Garfias at UCSD)

Peter Buisseret
May 22, 2023
"Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting"

Gerard Padro i Miquel
May 01, 2023
'Competitive Capture of Public Opinion"

Federica Izzo
Apr 17, 2023
"Ideological Infection"

Alessandra Casella
Apr 03, 2023
"Mediating Conflict in the Lab" (with Evan Friedman and Manuel Perez Archila)

Torsten Persson
Mar 27, 2023
"The Political Economics of Green Transitions" (with Tim Besley)

Ernesto Dal Bo
Nov 14, 2022
"From Rivals to Partners: Capital, State Coercion, and the Rise of Modern Economic Growth (with Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman"

Andrew Mack
Nov 07, 2022
"Incentives for Learning in Repeated Elections"

Erik Snowberg
Oct 24, 2022
An Organizational Theory of State Capacity (with Mike Ting)

Sultan Mehmood
Oct 10, 2022
"Contract Enforcement in a Stateless Economy"

Benjamin Enke
Oct 03, 2022
"Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization"

Pablo Querubin
Sep 19, 2022
Plata y Plomo: How Higher Salaries Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence (joint with Massimo Pulejo, NYU)

Oeindrila Dube
May 23, 2022

Political Economy Seminar Series
Helios Herrera
May 16, 2022
“Identity-Based Elections”

Political Economy Seminar Series
Elias Papaioannou
May 09, 2022
"Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa"

Political Economy Seminar Series
Milena Djourelova
May 02, 2022
“Media Persuasion through Slanted Language: Evidence from the Coverage of Immigration”

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Leonard Wantchekon
Apr 25, 2022
"Political Uncertainty and the Forms of State Capture"

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Silvia Vannutelli
Apr 11, 2022
"From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance"

Political Economy Seminar Series
Ingela Alger
Nov 29, 2021
"Homo Moralis Goes to the Voting Booth"

Political Economy Seminar Series
Matt Lowe
Nov 08, 2021
"Religious Revival and Social Order"

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Karam Kang
Oct 25, 2021
"Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market"

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Dana Foarta
Oct 11, 2021
"Market Competition and Political Influence: A Political Economy Approach"

Political Economy Seminar Series
Dana Foarta
Oct 11, 2021
"Market Competition and Political Influence: A Political Economy Approach"

Political Economy Seminar Series
German Gieczewski
Sep 27, 2021
"Experimentation in Endogenous Organizations"

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Adam Meirowitz
May 17, 2021
Title TBA

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Massimo Morelli
Apr 26, 2021
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Keith Schnakenberg
Apr 05, 2021
Title TBA

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Tim Besley
Nov 09, 2020
Title TBA

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Andrea Prat
Oct 05, 2020
"Measuring Voters' Knowledge of Political News"