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2006-07 Political Economy Seminars

 

Spring 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Location

April 24

Santiago Oliveros
UC Berkeley

Who Abstains in Equilibrium?

[ PDF 276KB]

Noon-1:15 pm/L103

May 8

Ken Shotts
Stanford Univeristy

Media Effects on Policy Choice

[ PDF 232KB]

Noon-1:15 pm/L103

May 22

 

 

Noon-1:15 pm/L103

June 5

Alan Gerber
Yale University

Partisan Response to Election Outcomes

Noon-1:15 pm/L103

 

Winter 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Location

January 30

Amy Finkelstein
MIT

E-ZTax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates

[ PDF 290KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/L107

February 27

Timothy Besley
London School of Economics

The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

[ PDF 365KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S172

March 6

Sergei Guriev
New Economic School

Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse

[ PDF 268KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/L107

March 13

Matthew O. Jackson
Stanford, Department of Econ

Endogenous Militarization, Deterrence and Wars between Nations

Noon-1:00 pm/L107

 

Fall 2006

Speaker

Title

Time/Location

September 26

Konstantin Sonin
New Economic School

The Killing Game: Reputation and Knowledge in Non-Democratic Succession (joint work with Georgy Egorov)

[ PDF 530KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S152

October 10

Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Harvard Business School

The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales an Empirical Analysis (joint work with Koleman Strumpf)

[ PDF 325KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S152

October 12

Ernesto Dal Bo [ PDF 31KB]
Haas School of Business

Workers, Warriors, and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium

[ PDF 271KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/L103

October 24

Steve Callander
Northwestern University

Political Motivations

[ PDF 401KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S152

November 7

Jonathan Rodden
MIT

Political Geography and Electoral Rules: Why Single-Member Districts are Bad for the Left

[ PDF 669KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S180

December 5

John Hatfield
Stanford GSB

Revenue Decentralization, the Local Income Tax Deduction, and the Provision of Public Goods

[ PDF 157KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/S152

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