The Political Economy Workshop meets Mondays, 4:30-5:45pm in Corwin 127. If you have questions, please contact the workshop organizers: Gleason Judd, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Matias Iaryczower. To join the PEW-RPPE listserve for weekly announcements, please email Lindsay Woodrick.
Upcoming Speaker Series Events
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more likely to employ…
Past Events
"Have Online Networks Undermined Local Communities? Evidence from Facebook"
Wioletta is Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Her main interests lie in applied game theory, political economy and economics of information. Her current research focuses on analyzing how legislative bargaining affects the nature and the efficiency of policies. She is also…
"Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization"
"Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty"
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a positive theory of this situation and shows when a small change in parameter values has a multiplier effect on exploitation. The multiplier…