Political Economy Seminars

Find seminars on political economy that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

Political economy seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Winter 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 09
12:00-1:20
Encina Hall
Peter Buisseret
Harvard University
Joint with American Politics
Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
Jan 17
12:00-1:15
E104
Stefano DellaVigna
UC Berkeley
Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States joint paper with Woojin Kim 
Jan 31
12:00-1:15
P106
Sam Kapon
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Using Divide and Conquer to Improve Tax Collection
Feb 14
12:00-1:15
P106
Gleason Judd  
Princeton University
Electoral Competition into Collective Policymaking with Elite Polarization
Feb 28
12:00-1:15
P106
Tom Palfrey
Caltech
The Dynamics of Collective Action
Mar 05
12:00-1:20 pm
Encina Hall West, room 400
Eunji Kim   
Columbia Political Science
Joint with American Politics
Copaganda: The Entertainment Media Origins of Policing Attitudes
Mar 13
12:00-1:15 pm
M101
Anna Denisenko
University of Rochester, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy
Verifiable Advice to a Biased Policymaker 
Mar 20
12:00-1:15 pm
C105
Massimo Morelli
Bocconi University
 
joint paper with Luca Bellodi, Antonio Nicolo and Paolo Roberti

Spring 2024

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 10
12:00-1:15
TBA
Paolo Piacquadio
University of St. Gallen 
 
Apr 17
12:00-1:15
TBA
Tim Besley
The London School of Economics and Political Science
 
Apr 24
12:00-1:15
TBA
Romain Wacziarg
University of California, Los Angeles
Endogenous Partitions
May 08
12:00-1:15
TBA
Pauline Grosjean
University of New South Wales
Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization joint paper with Saumitra Jha, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou 
May 15
12:00-1:15
TBA
Mikhail Golosov
Yale University 
Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: A Theory of Cycles of Populism and Austerity
May 22
12:00-1:15
TBA
Matilde Bombardini
University of California, Berkeley 
Climate Politics in the United States
May 28
12:00-1:15
TBA
Anthony Fowler
The University of Chicago
Joint with American Politic
Do Primary Elections Exacerbate Congressional Polarization?

Fall 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Oct 04
12:00-1:15 pm
E102
Jo Thori Lind
University of Oslo
Hand in hand we vote. How social interaction in couples affects electoral turnout joint paper with Bernt Bratsberg, Halvor Mehlum and Oddbjørn Raaum
Oct 11
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Peter Bils
Vanderbilt University
Working for the Revolving Door
Oct 18
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Milena Djourelova
Cornell University
Experience, Narratives and Climate Change
joint work with Ruben Durante, Elliot Motte, and Eleonora Patacchini (
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Oct 25
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Marco Battaglini
Cornell University
Chaos and Unpredictability with Time Inconsistent Policy Makers 
 
Nov 08
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Daniel Chen
Toulouse School of Economics
Training Altruism Effectively joint paper with Sultan Mehmood and Shaheen Naseer  (
Nov 15
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Francesco Trebbi
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States joint paper with Miao Ben Zhang and Michael Simkovic
Nov 29
12:00-1:15 pm
P106
Axel Niemeyer
Caltech
Dec 13
12:00-1:15 pm
E101
Chad Kendall
USC Marshall School of Business
joint paper with John G. Matsusaka
 

Seminar Organizers

Associate Professor of Political Economy
The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy