Political Economy Seminars
Seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 PM, unless otherwise noted. If you have any questions regarding the seminar please email our seminar organizer Saumitra Jha and John Hatfield.
Please select the link above to view the schedule or email Miriam Torres for an appointment.
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Spring 2012 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 3 | John Huber Columbia University | Democracy, Targeted Redistribution and Ethnic Inequality | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
| April 17 | Caroline Hoxby Stanford University Department of Economics | The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts | 12:00-1:00 PM SE107 |
| May 1 | Shanker Satyanath NYU Department of Politics | Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Red Belt | 12:00-1:00 PM SE107 |
| May 8 | Luke Keele Penn State University | How Much is Minnesota Like Wisconsin? Assumptions and Counterfactuals in Causal Inference with Observational Data | 12:00-1:00 PM SE107 |
| May 15 | Terry Moe Stanford University Department of Political Science | Public Sector Unions and the Costs of Governmentd joined with Sarah F. Anzia | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
| May 29 | Tom Romer Princeton Univeristy | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
Winter 2012 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Peter Hammond The University of Warwick | Social Choice and Individual Reports of Subjective Well-Being | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
| February 7 | Gerard Padro i Miquel LSE Economics | The Effects of Democratization on Economics Policy: Evidence from China (Abstract) | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
| February 21 | Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management | Economic Integration and Structural Change | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
| March 6 | David Stasavage NYU | What Democracy Does (and Doesn't) do for Basic Services: School Fees, School Inputs, and African Elections | 12:00-1:00 PM B400 |
Autumn 2011 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 27 | Francesco Squintani Warwick University | Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| October 11 | Abhijit Banerjee MIT Department of Economics | Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| October 25 | Gregory Huber Yale University | Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision-Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters Limitations in Controlling Incumbents | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| November 1 | Nolan McCarty Princeton University | Complexity, Capacity, and Capture | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| November 8 | Hulya Eraslan John Hopkins University | Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| November 22 | Bard Harstad Kellogg School of Management | Boycotts and (Self-) Regulation in a Dynamic Game with Co-author Georgy Egorov | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
| December 6 | John Patty Department of Political Science Washington University | Stovepiping with Co-author Sean Gailmard | 12:00-1:00 PM W104 |
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