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Political Economy: Workshop Archive
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Fall 2001 |
Spring 2001
January 22 |
Shanna Rose, New York University, Wagner
"Accountability, Selection, and Term Limits: Theory and Evidence from U.S. State Elections" (with James Alt and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita) |
February 5 |
Alberto Simpser, University of Chicago, Political Science
"A Theory of Corrupt Elections" |
February 19 |
Navin Kartik, University of California at San Diego, Economics
"A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting" (with Nageeb Ali) |
March 5 |
Steve Callander, Northwestern University, Economics
"A Theory of Policy Expertise" |
April 4 |
Amrita Dhillon, Economics, University of Warwick
"Enforcing Contracts" |
April 18 |
Dimitri Landa, NYU
"Challenger Entry and Voter Learning" |
April 25 |
Christian Ponce de Leon, University of Chicago
"Distributive Politics and the Poor" |
May 9 |
Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
"Rethinking Jackson’s Bank War: Party Politics and American Monetary Union in the Antebellum Period" |
May 16 |
Chris Berry, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"The Life and Death of Federal Domestic Programs, 1970- 2004" |
May 23 |
Tim Groseclose, UCLA
"A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument for the Inexistence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures" |
May 30 |
Ken Shepsle, Harvard University
"Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate: Strategic Aspects of Supreme Court Appointments" |
January 17 |
Boris Shor, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Testing Partisan Theories of Defense Procurement 1983-1992" |
January 24 |
Milan Svolik, Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"A Theory of Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes" |
February 7 |
Zahi Ben-David, Business School, University of Chicago
"Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies" (with John Graham and Campbell Harvey) |
February 21 |
Jeff Jenkins, Political Science, Northwestern University
"Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate" (with Sean Gailmard) |
March 7 |
Roger Myerson, Economics, University of Chicago
"Leadership, Trust and Constitutions" |
October 4 |
Daniel Chen, Political Science, University of Chicago
"The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Do Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand?" |
October 11 |
Stephanie Waldhoff, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Economic and Political Determinants of
Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Reexamining the Environmental Kuznets
Curve" |
October 18 |
Scott Basinger, Political Science & Public Policy, Stony Brook University
"Congressional Campaigns and Voter Choice: A New Framework for Analyzing Aggregate Electoral Behavior" |
October 25 |
William Bianco, Political Science, Penn State University
"The Art of the Possible: Majority Rule, the Uncovered Set, and the Limits of Legislative Action" |
November 1 |
Omar Al-Ubaydli, Economics, University of Chicago
"Diamonds are a dictator's best friend: natural resources and the tradeoff between development and authoritarianism" |
November 8 |
Brian Knight, Economics, Brown University
"The Political Economy of School District Mergers" |
November 15 |
Mike Munger, Political Science, Duke University
"Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of insurgent recruitment: the role of culture" |
December 6 |
Adrian Vermeule, Law School, University of Chicago
"Absolute Voting Rules" |
March 29 |
Jon Caverley, University of Chicago
"Blood and Treasure: Testing a Theory of Democratic Defense Production"
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April 12 |
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
"Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities" |
April 26 |
John Duggan, University of Rochester
"Private Polling in Elections and Voter Welfare" |
May 5 |
John Roedden, MIT co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Workshop |
May 10 |
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
"Regime Type and Immigration" |
May 24 |
Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago |
May 31 |
Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
"Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches" |
January 4 |
Pedro Vicente
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Does Oil Corrupt? Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment
in West Africa" |
January 18 |
Daniel Chen
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Does Religious Intensity
Cause Social Violence?" |
February 1 |
Chris Rohlfs
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"How Much did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in WWII? Evidence from Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles" |
February 15 |
Sandy Gordon
Department of Political Science, NYU
"Consumption or Investment? Campaign Contributions and the Structure of Executive Copensation" |
February 22 |
Gary Cox
Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
"The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre-election Coalitions and Portfolio Distributions" |
March 1 |
George Tsebelis
Department of Political Science, UCLA |
March 8 |
Milan Svolik
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago |
October 5 |
Valentin Estevez
Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
October 19 |
John Binder
Department of Finance, University of Illinois Chicago |
October 26 |
Merri Rolfe
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago |
November 2 |
David Austen-Smith
Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Northwestern
University |
November 16 |
session cancelled |
November 23 |
Cathy Hafer
Department of Political Science, New York University |
November 30 |
Seung Jung Lee
Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
December 7 |
Chris Berry
Harris School, University of Chicago |
March 30 |
Joan Serra, Department
of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Informative Dimensions:
A New Model for Electoral Choice Under Uncertainty" |
April 6 |
Casey Mulligan, Department
of Economics, University of Chicago
"Causes and Consequences
of Political Competitiveness" |
April 20 |
Luis Fernando Medina,
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Toward an Operational
Theory of Collective Action" |
April 27 |
Dali Ma, Department
of Sociology, University of Chicago
"Blocked Mobility and Crosscutting Social Circles in the Creation of Entrepreneurship" |
May 11 |
Michael Chwe, Department
of Political Science, UCLA
"Statistical Game Theory" |
May 18 |
Adam Meirowitz, Department
of Political Science, Princeton University
"In Defense of
Exclusionary Deliberation: Communication and Voting With
Private Beliefs and Values" |
June 2 |
Nikola Mirilovic,
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Regime Type
and Population Growth" |
January 13 |
Thomas Stratmann, Stigler Center, University of Chicago; Department of Economics, George Mason University
"The Returns to Campaign Spending" |
January 27 |
Shang Ha, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Party Activists and the Ideological Polarization of American Parties" |
February 10 |
Sven Feldmann, Harris School, University of Chicago
"Lobbying Bureaucrats: Influence and Delegation Under Alternative Political Structures" |
February 24 |
Milan Svolik, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
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March 2 |
Leonid Polishchuk, Department of Economics and Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland
"Distribution of Assets and Credibility of Property Rights" |
March 9 |
Lindsey Leininger, Harris School, University of Chicago |
March 16 |
Lars Frisell, Sveriges Riksbank
"Populism" |
April 1 |
Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School and CEFIR, Moscow, and CEPR |
April 8 |
Richard Boylan, University of Alabama, Department of Economics and Finance |
April 15 |
Rafeal Ditella, Harvard Business School |
April 22 |
Milan Svolik, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science |
April 29 |
Tim Feddersen, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences |
May 13 |
Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences |
May 20 |
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science |
May 27 |
Michael Herron, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science |
January 21 |
Eric Helland, Claremont Graduate School, Dept. of Economics, and the Stigler Center, Chicago GSB |
January 28 |
David Figlio, University of Florida, Dept. of Economics |
February 4 |
Mike Ensly, Indiana University, Dept. of Political Science |
February 11 |
Barbara Kormenos, UCLA, Dept. of Political Science |
February 18 |
John Griffin, University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Political Science |
February 25 |
John Lott, American Enterprise Institute |
March 4 |
Charles Shippan, University of Iowa, Dept. of Political Science |
March 11 |
Susan Stokes, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science |
October 1 |
Steve Callander, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Simon Wilke, Caltech "Candidate Motivation and Electoral Competition" |
October 15 |
John Brehm, Dept. of Poltical Science, University of Chicago
"Using Mixture Models as a Means to Ascertain 'Type.'" |
October 29 |
Joan Serra, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Vote Choice and Economic Interest" |
November 19 |
Steve Ansolabehere, Dept. of Political Science, MIT
"Distributive Politics in the American States" |
December 3 |
Jeff Grynavisky, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago |
December 6 |
Gary King, Harvard University
"Enhancing the Validity and Cross Cultural Comparability of Survey Research" |
December 10 |
Libor Dusek, Dept. of Economics, University of Chicago
"Do governments grow when they become more efficient? Evidence from tax withholding" |
April 2 |
John Patty, Carnegie-Mellon University |
April 9 |
Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago |
April 16 |
Kate Baicker, Dartmouth College and CEA
"The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions" |
April 23 |
Phillippe Aghion, Harvard University |
April 30 |
Jim Snyder, MIT |
May 7 |
Ken Schotts, Northwestern University
"A Time to Lead and a Time to Pander: The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion" |
May 14 |
Ken Williams, Michigan State University
"Sequential and Strategic Voting in Collegial Courts: An Experimental Design" |
May 21 |
John de Figueiredo, MIT
"Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying" |
May 28 |
Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago |
June 4 |
Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago
"An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable
Public Goods" |
January 15 |
Sharun Mukand, Tufts University |
January 29 |
Fred Boehmke, University of Iowa |
February 12 |
Lisa George, Michigan State University |
February 26 |
Serguey Braguinsky, Stigler Center Roger Myerson, University of Chicago |
March 12 |
Ken Shotts, Northwestern University |
October 16 |
Koleman Strumpf, University of North Carolina and the Stigler Center
"Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990" |
October 30 |
Casey Mulligan , University of Chicago
"Economic Limits to 'Rational'
Democratic Redistribution" |
November 13 |
Mike Ting, University of North Carolina
"A Strategic Theory of Bureaucratic Redundancy" |
November 27 |
Mike Bailey, Georgetown University
"Campaign Contributions
and Responsive Democracy: A Neo-Pluralist Approach" |
December 11 |
Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago |
March 28 |
Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago
"Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms" |
April 4 |
Christopher Berry, University of Chicago
"Political Institutions and Public Finance: Some Preliminary Results" |
April 18 |
Gregory Wawro, Columbia University
"Is All Political-Economics Local? National Elections and Local Economic Conditions; or 'It's the (Local) Economy, Stupid'" |
April 26 |
John Ferejohn, Stanford University
"Institutionalizing Judicial Independence" |
May 2 |
Arthur Lupia, University of California, San Diego
"Private Interventions and Public Competence: What citizens learned from election-oriented web sites" |
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4:00-5:30 p.m.
Harris School, Room 140B
1155 East 60th Street
Faculty Organizer: Chris Berry
Student Coordinator: Sarah Lee
E-mail: sllee@uchicago.edu
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