2008-09 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 John Hatfield.
Please select the link above to view the schedule or email Tina Bernard for an appointment.
Spring 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 7 Joint with OB |
Witold Henisz University of Pennsylvania (visiting Stanford) |
Preferences, Structure and Influence: The Engineering of Consent | 12:00-1:00 PM L107 |
| April 21 | Fred Finan UC Los Angeles |
Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| May 5 | Robert Powell UC Berkeley |
Persistent Fighting to Forestall Adverse Shifts in the Distribution of Power (no paper) Abstract |
12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| May 19 | Romain Wacziarg UC Los Angeles |
War and Relatedness | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| June 2 | Vijayendra Rao Development Economics Research Group, World Bank |
Is Deliberation Equitable? Dignity through Discourse |
12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
Winter 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 13 | Chris Meissner UC Davis |
On the Looting of Nations | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| January 27 | Andrew Healy Loyola Marymount University |
Individual Unemployment, Layoffs, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| February 10 | Leeat Yariv California Institute of Technology |
Sequential Deliberation (no paper) |
12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| February 24 | Sendhil Mullainathan Harvard University |
Misperception in Choosing Medicare Drug Plans | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| March 3 | Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| March 10 | Jim Snyder Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Returns to U.S. Congressional Seats in the Mid-19th Century | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
Fall 2008 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 23 | John Matsusaka University of Southern California |
Popular Control of Public Policy | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| October 7 | Asim Khwaja Harvard Univeristy |
Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| October 21 | Lakshmi Iyer Harvard University |
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| November 4 | Andrea Vindigni Princeton University |
A Theory of Military Dictatorships | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| November 5 | Steven Callander Northwestern University |
Searching for Good Policies | 12:05-1:20 PM S152 |
| November 18 | Brian Knight Brown University |
Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsement | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| December 2 | Francesco Trebbi University of Chicago |
The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
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