Spring 2024 Faculty Convener: Professor Maria Carreri
Time and place: Mondays 7:30 to 9:00 PM in 223 Philosophy Hall and virtually (if noted under individual seminar date). If virtual, the Zoom links to virtual seminars will be sent via email closer to the seminar date. To be added to the PE Seminar Mailing List, please contact Kristie Dinh
| Date | Speaker | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 09/18/2023 | Nathan Nunn (UBC) | "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides" |
| 09/25/2023 | John Huber (Columbia) | TBA |
| 10/09/2023 | Edoardo Teso (Northwestern) | TBA |
| 10/23/2023 | Carlo Prato (Columbia) | TBA |
| 10/30/2023 | Student JM Prep: Lukas Leucht (Internal) | TBA |
| 11/13/2023 | Student JM Prep: Miguel Ortiz (Internal) | TBA |
| 11/20/2023 | Stephanie Zonszein (Internal) | TBA |
| 12/04/2023 | Adam Bonica (Stanford) | TBA |
September 10
"How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior"
Speaker: Andy Hall (Stanford University)
September 24
"Pledge-and Review Bargaining"
Speaker: Bard Harstad (University of Oslo)
October 8
"Searching for Policy Reforms"
Speaker: Juan Ortner (Boston University)
October 22
"The Long-Lasting Effects of Living Under Communism on Financial Risk-Taking"
Speaker: Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
November 5
"Lobbying as Cooperative Policy Development"
Speaker: Ian Turner (Yale University)
December 3
"Decentralization and the Gamble for Unity"
Speaker: Mike Gibilisco (Cal Tech)
January 15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 29
"Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence"
Speaker: Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia)
Joint with International Economics
February 12
Speaker: Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley
February 26
"Politics from the Bench? Evidence from SCOTUS"
Speaker: Jörg Spenkuch (Northwestern University)
March 12
Ben Olken, MIT
Joint with Development Seminar. LOCATION: Evans hall 648 4:00pm-5:30pm
March 26
SPRING BREAK
April 2
Speaker: Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia)
Joint with Development Seminar. LOCATION: Evans hall 648 4:00pm-5:30pm
April 23
Speaker: Sebastian Siegloch (Universität Mannheim)
September 11
Speaker: Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU)
September 18
PERL
September 25
Speaker: Paul Novosad (Dartmouth)
October 2
PERL
October 9
Columbus Day
October 16
Speaker: Na'ama Shenhav (Dartmouth)
October 23
PERL
October 30
Speaker: Bill Easterly (NYU)
November 6
PERL
November 13
Speaker: Saad Gulzar (Stanford)
November 20
PERL
December 4
PERL
February 6
Speaker: Andrea Matranga (New Economic School, Russia)
February 20
Speaker: Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)
March 6
Speaker: Antonin Macé (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
March 20
Speaker: Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics)
April 3
Speaker: Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)
April 17
Speaker: Dana Foarta (Stanford University)
September 12
“Valence Candidates and Ambiguous Platforms in Policy Announcement Games”
Speaker: Yuichiro Kamada (UC Berkeley Haas)
September 26
“Policy Advice in a Complicated World”
Speaker: Steve Callander (Stanford GSB)
October 10
Speaker: Mike Ting (Columbia Poli Sci)
October 24
Speaker: Pierre Yared (Columbia GSB)
November 7
Speaker: Aniol Llorente Saguer (Queen Mary University of London)
November 21
Speaker: Sean Gailmard (UC Berkeley, Political Science)
"Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations"
Speaker: Bernardo Santos Da Silveira (Washington University)
Monday, March 14
"A Principal-Agent Theory of Progressive Learning and Path Dependence"
Speaker: Avi Acharya (Stanford)