Political Economy Workshop

The Political Economy Workshop meets Mondays, 4:30-6:00pm.  All sessions will meet in 127 Corwin Hall, unless otherwise noted. If you have questions, please contact the workshop organizers: Thomas Fujiwara and Matias Iaryczower. 

To join the PEW-RPPE list serve for weekly announcements, please email Lindsay Woodrick lwtwo@princeton.edu. 

Upcoming Speaker Series Events

PEW: Gerard Padro-i-Miquel

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PEW: Gerard Padro-i-Miquel
Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 4:30 pm

 We propose a simple informational theory to explain why autocratic regimes introduce local elections. Because citizens have better information on local officials than the distant central government, delegation of authority via local elections improves selection and performance of local officials.

Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Gerard Padro-i-Miquel
Yale
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off

PEW: Sergio Montero

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PEW: Sergio Montero
Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Sergio Montero
Rochester
Learning about Growth and Democracy

PEW: Laurent Bouton

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PEW: Laurent Bouton
Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Laurent Bouton
Georgetown University
TBA

PEW: Alessandra Casella

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PEW: Alessandra Casella
Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Alessandra Casella
Columbia University
TBA

PEW: Edward Glaeser

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PEW: Edward Glaeser
Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Edward Glaeser
Harvard University
TBA

PEW: Monica Martinez-Bravo

Monica Martinez-Bravo
PEW: Monica Martinez-Bravo
Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Monica Martinez-Bravo
CEMFI
TBA

PEW: Juan Ortner

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PEW: Juan Ortner
Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Juan Ortner
Boston University
TBA

PEW: Gilat Levy

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PEW: Gilat Levy
Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Gilat Levy
LSE
TBA

PEW: Guido Tabellni

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PEW: Guido Tabellni
Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Guido Tabellini
Bocconi University
TBA

PEW: Dorothy Kronick

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PEW: Dorothy Kronick
Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Dorothy Kronick
U Penn
TBA

PEW: Melissa Dell

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PEW: Melissa Dell
Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Melissa Dell
Harvard University
TBA

PEW: Erik Snowberg

Erik Snowberg
PEW: Erik Snowberg
Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Erik Snowberg
Caltech
TBA

PEW: Horacio Larreguy

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PEW: Horacio Larreguy
Mon, May 6, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Horacio Larreguy
Harvard University
TBA
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Past Events

PEW: Steven Callander

PEW: Steven Callander
Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 4:30 pm

PEW: Georgy Egorov

PEW: Georgy Egorov
Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 4:30 pm

A receiver wants to learn multidimensional information from a sender, but she has capacity to verify only one dimension. The sender’s payoff depends on the belief he induces, via an exogenously given monotone function. We show that by using a randomized verification strategy, the receiver can learn the sender’s information fully if the...

PEW: Cesi Cruz

PEW: Cesi Cruz
Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:30 pm

In this paper we show that social fragmentation can trigger increased electoral competition and improved provision of public goods. We test this using large-scale data on family networks from over 20 million individuals in 15,000 villages of the Philippines.

PEW: Bard Harstad

PEW: Bard Harstad
Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 4:30 pm

Inspired by the Paris Agreement on climate change, this paper analyzes a novel bargaining game in which each party quantifies its own contribution (to a public good, for example), before the set of pledges must be accepted. I first show that, if the tolerance for delay is uncertain, each equilibrium pledge coincides with an asymmetric Nash...

Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia

Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia
Mon, May 7, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Making Policy Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises

Didac Queralt, Yale University

Didac Queralt, Yale University
Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

The Legacy of War on Fiscal Capacity
queralt_war_legacy_jan18_20.pdf

Garance Genicot, Georgetown University

Garance Genicot, Georgetown University
Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Shedding New Light on the Economic Effects of Constitutions

Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics

Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics
Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Are Biased Media Bad for Democracy?

biased-media-bad-february-2018.pdf

Marina Agranov, Caltech Institute of Technology

Marina Agranov, Caltech Institute of Technology (CANCELED)
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Marina Agranov, Caltech Institute of Technology

Marco Battaglini, Cornell University

Marco Battaglini, Cornell University
Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Public Protests and Policy Making: An Experimental Analysis

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