Political Economy Seminar

The Political Economy Seminar brings faculty and students together from across the campus. The seminar primairly focuses on formal or applied (game) theory analysis of topics in political economy or political science, e.g., voting, learning in elections, corruption, political selection and bad governments, civil and interstate conflict.

Professors:  Ernesto Dal Bo and Robert Powell

 

 

 
Spring 2013 Events:
Monday, January 28, 2 p.m.
597 Evans
“Trade Shocks and Pro-Democracy Mass Movements: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle"  
Speaker: Saumitra Jha (Stanford)
 
Monday, February 11, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
TBA
Speaker: Ana De La O (Yale)
 
Monday, February 25, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
“An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition”
Speaker: Tiberiu Dragu (NYU)
 
Monday, March 11, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
“Culture, Institutions and Democratization”
Speaker: Gerard Roland (Berkeley)
 
Monday, April 1, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
“Learning and Elections"
Speaker: Rafael Hortala-Vallve (LSE)
 
Monday, April 15, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
“Institutional Competition and Governance Quality: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan"
Speaker: Ruben Enikolopov (New School)
 
Monday, April 29, 12-2 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
"Sequential or Simultaneous Elections?  A Welfare Analysis"
Brian Knight (Brown)