Political Economy Seminars

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 12:00-1:00 PM, unless otherwise noted. If you have any questions regarding the seminar please email our seminar organizer Steve Callander and  Katherine Casey.

Please select the Meet the Speaker link below (•) to view the current schedule or e-mail Miriam Torres for an appointment (GSB faculty only).

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Spring 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker

April 30 Asim ljaz Khwaja
Harvard Kennedy School
Tax Farming Redux:  Experimental Evidence on Incentive Pay for Tax Collectors (abstract) 12:00-1:00 PM
E103 
     (•) 
May 14 David Lewis
Vanderbilt University  
Predicting Agency Failure: Delegation, Multitasking, and Compliance with the Law (Abstract) 12:00-1:00 PM
E103 
     (•) 
May 28 Jesse Shapiro
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers 12:00-1:00 PM
E103 
     (•) 
June 4 Torun Dewan 
LSE 
12:00-1:00 PM
E103 
     (•)

Winter 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker 

January 16 Anthony Fowler
Harvard University
Long Term Consequences of Elections 3:30-4:45 PM
M109 
 
January 22 Daniel Carpenter
Harvard University Department of Government
R&D Abandonment in Regulatory Equilibrium: Evidence from Asset Price Shocks Induced by FDA Decisions 12:00-1:00 PM
SE107 
     (•) 
January 29 Ruixue Jia
IIES, Stockholm University
Pollution for Promotion   12:00-1:15 PM
SE107 
 
February 12 Paul Novosad
Harvard University
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India 11:30-12:45 PM
C105
 

Autumn 2012

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 2 Mattias Polborn
University of Illinois  
Policy Divergence and Voter Polarization in a Structural Model of Elections 12:00-1:00 PM
E103 
October 23 Leonard Wantchekon
Princeton University
How Does Policy Deliberation Affect Voting Behavior? Evidence from a Campaign Experiment in Benin 12:00-1:00 PM
E103  
October 29 Frederico Finan
UC Berkeley 
Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service 12:00-1:15 pm
M104 

November 13

Maggie Penn
Washington University in St. Louis 
Scoring from Contests 12:00-1:00 PM
E103  

November 27

Maria Petrova
New Economic School 

Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia

12:00-1:00 PM
E103 

December 13

Deborah Beim
Princeton University 

Learning in the Judicial Hierarchy

12:00-1:15 PM
M104 

 

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