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. 

Upcoming Speaker Series Events

PEW: Nancy Qian

PEW: Nancy Qian
Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Nancy Qian
Northwestern
Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Goverment-Provided Public Services

PEW: Camilo García-Jimeno

PEW: Camilo García-Jimeno
Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Camilo García-Jimeno
TBA

PEW: Raquel Fernandez

PEW: Raquel Fernandez
Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: 127 Corwin Hall
Speaker(s):
Raquel Fernandez
NYU
Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

PEW: Vincent Pons

PEW: Vincent Pons
Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Vincent Pons
Harvard
TBA

PEW: Matt Gentzkow

PEW: Matt Gentzkow
Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Matt Gentzkow
Stanford
TBA

PEW: Marina Agranov

PEW: Marina Agranov
Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Marina Agranov
Caltech
TBA

PEW: Ying Chen

PEW: Ying Chen
Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Ying Chen
Johns Hopkins
TBA

PEW: Jeff Ely

PEW: Jeff Ely
Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Jeff Ely
Northwestern

PEW: Federica Izzo

PEW: Federica Izzo
Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Federica Izzo
UCSD
TBA

PEW : Jörg Spenkuch

PEW : Jörg Spenkuch
Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Jörg Spenkuch
Northwestern
TBA

Past Events

PEW: Karam Kang

PEW: Karam Kang
Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

We exploit institutional changes in the enforcement of water quality regulations in California, and study regulatory discretion by identifying and estimating a structural model of strategic interactions between a regulator and a privately-informed discharger.

Nathan Canen

Nathan Canen
Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

This paper investigates the determinants of political polarization, a phenomenon of increasing relevance in Western democracies. How much of polarization is driven by divergence in the ideologies of politicians? How much is instead the result of changes in the capacity of parties to control their members?

PEW: Sara Lowes

PEW: Sara Lowes
Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

PEW: Kristóf Madarasz

PEW: Kristóf Madarasz
Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

PEW: Matt Jackson

PEW: Matt Jackson
Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

We investigate the complementarity between informal communities and formal government enforcement of norms of reciprocation and exchange. We introduce a model in which people exchange informally within their community as well as externally on a market.

PEW: Horacio Larreguy

PEW: Horacio Larreguy
Mon, May 6, 2019, 4:30 pm

PEW: Erik Snowberg

PEW: Erik Snowberg
Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 4:30 pm

PEW: Melissa Dell

PEW: Melissa Dell
Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 4:30 pm

Colonial powers typically organized economic activity in the colonies to maximize their economic returns. While the literature has emphasized long-run negative economic impacts via institutional quality, the changes in economic organization implemented to spur production historically could also directly influence economic organization in the...

PEW: Tim Besley

PEW: Tim Besley
Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 12:45 pm

We develop a dynamic model of multi-dimensional politics to ex- plore how political cleavages, policies, and social identities interact over time. The model yields insights into the profound political changes we have witnessed around the world, as economic shocks and trend- wise breakdowns of traditional social hierarchies have reinvigorated...

PEW: Dorothy Kronick

PEW: Dorothy Kronick
Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 4:30 pm

Drug traffickers sometimes divide profits via peaceful agreement. Other times they fight. We propose a model to investigate this variation, focusing on the state’s effort to enforce prohibition. Seizing illegal goods generally increases trafficker profits, and higher profits fuel violence. Killing kingpins makes crime bosses short-sighted,...

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