THE HARRIS SCHOOL - Programs - Beyond the Classroom - Workshops - Political Economy

Workshops

American Politics

Health Economics

Political Economy Lunch

PIPES

PISP

Public Policy & Economics

Political Economy: Workshop Archive

Spring 2011 Workshops

April 27	Jon Eguia (NYU)
May 11	Sean Gailmard (UC Berkeley)
May 25	Ali Cheema (International Growth Centre)
June 1	Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)
June 8	Sureish Naidu (Columbia)

Spring 2010 Workshops

March 31	Ana De La O (Yale) "Information Dissemination and Local Governments' Electoral Returns, Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico"
April 14	Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) "Judicial Review and Democratic Failure"
April 21	Jacob Shapiro (Princeton) "The Roots of Militancy: Explaining Support for Political Violence in Pakistan"
May 12	Scott Gehlbach (Wisconsin) "The Institutional Basis of Successful Economic Reform: Privatization Effectiveness and Regime Change After Ukraine's Orange Revolution"
May 19	Frederico Finan (Berkeley) "Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance"
June 1	Elisabeth Gerber (University of Michigan) "Political Geography, Campaign Contributions, and Representation"
June 2	Jim Robinson (Harvard) "The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Columbia"

Winter 2010 Workshops

January 27	Jim Snyder (MIT)
February 17	Konstantin Sonin (Northwestern) "A Model of Balance of Power with N>2"
February 24	Eli Berman (UC San Diego) "Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq"
March 3	Claire Lim (Standford GSB) "Measuring Media Influences on U.S. State Courts"
March 10	Nolan McCarty (Princeton) "Welfare and Paternalism"

Fall 2009 Workshops

September 30	Chris Edmond, New York University "Information Manipulation, Coordination and Regime Change"
October 7	TBA
October 21	Tom Palfrey, Caltech "Political Institutions and Investment in Public Infrastructure"
October 28	David Myatt, University of Oxford "On the Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down"
November 18	Maggie Penn, Washington University "Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions"
December 9	Alex Debs, Yale University "Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships"

Spring 2009 Workshops

April 8	Mathew McCubbins, University of California at San Diego "Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination" Supplemental Paper: "Good Edge, Bad Edge: How Network Structure Affects a Group's Ability to Coordinate"
April 22	Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago "Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs"
May 6	Esteban Klor, Hebrew University "Does Terrorism Work?"
May 20	Leeat Yariv, Caltech "Similarity and Polarization in Groups"
May 27	Ken Shotts, Stanford University "Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power"

January 14	Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University "School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race"
January 21	Steve Callander, Northwestern University "Searching for Good Policies"
January 28	TBA
February 4	Charles Manski, Northwestern University "Actualist Rationality"
February 11	Stephan Whitaker, University of Chicago "Constituencies and the Allocation of Private Activity Municipal Bond Cap Authority" (presentation)
February 18	TBA
February 25	Salvador Barbera "Individual Versus Group Strategy Proofness: When Do They Coincide?"
March 4	Jim Alt, Harvard University "Inequality and the Political Economy of Corruption: Evidence from US States"

Paper titles will be updated throughout the quarter.

October 1	Roger Myerson, University of Chicago "A Field Manual for the Cradle of Civilization"
October 8	Yong Wang, University of Chicago "Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI"
October 15	Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University "Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century"
October 22	Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University "Measuring Legislative Effectiveness in Congress"
October 29	no meeting
November 5	Scott Ashworth, Princeton University "Sanctioning and Learning in Elections"
November 12	Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) "The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design"
November 19	Richard Holden, University of Chicago (GSB) "Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans"
December 3	Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, California Institute of Technology "The Economic Effects of Gerrymandering"

April 9	Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago (SSA) "Anti-Depressants, Suicide, and Drug Regulation"
April 16	Jorge Fabrega, University of Chicago (Harris School) "Petty Corruption and Social Networks: An Exploration with Data from Sub-Saharan Africa"
April 23	Jessica Trounstine, Princeton University "Modern Machines: Information, Patronage, and Incumbency in Local Elections"
April 30	Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago (Harris School) "Some Initial Facts and Sketch of a Theory about Economic Conditions and Voting Behavior"
May 7	Ebonya Washington, Yale University "Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Income on Support for Redistribution and Other Proposals"
May 14	Masataka Harada, University of Chicago (Harris School) "Testing Strategic Use of Public Debts: A Natural Experimental Approach Using the 1965 Voting Rights Act"
May 21	Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan "Balancing Regionalism and Localism: Political Representation in American Transportation Policy"
May 28	Laurent Bouton, University of Chicago (Program on Political Institutions Fellow) "One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation"
June 4	Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania "External Validation by Parameter Recovery: An Application to Voter Turnout Models"
June 11	John Balz, University of Chicago "Beyond Margaret Sanger: Commercial Interests in Early U.S. Birth Control Policy"

January 23	John Patty, Harvard University "On the Basis and Measurement of Power in Congress" Papers: "Amendments, Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules" (w/ Elizabeth Maggie Penn) "Equilibrium Party Government"
February 6	Shigeo Hirano, Columbia University "Direct and Indirect Representation"
February 20	Craig Volden, Ohio State University "Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations" (w/ Vanessa Bouché)
March 5	Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia "Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy"

September 26	Nicola Persico, New York University "Factions and Political Competition" (w/ José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita & Dan Silverman)
October 3	Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago "What Drives Media Slant?" (with Matthew Gentzkow)
October 10	John Matsusaka, University of Southern California "Institutions and Popular Control of Public Policy"
October 31	Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago "Long Term Persistence" (w/ Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza)
November 7	Bard Harstad, Northwestern University "Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules" Supplemental paper: Do Side Payments Help? Collective Decisions and Strategic Delegation"
November 14	David Baron, Stanford University "Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation"
December 6	Author Roundtable Chris Berry, University of Chicago Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multi-Level Governments

March 26	Sarah Anzia, University of Chicago "She Works Hard for Your Money: Congresswomen and Federal Domestic Spending" (with Christopher Berry)
April 9	Jeffrey Grynaviski, Political Science, University of Chicago "Entrenching the Machine: Political Defenses to Reform Party Challenges"
April 23	Pedro Camarinha Vicente, Oxford University "Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in West Africa"
May 7	Avinash Dixit, Princeton University "Predatory states and failing states - An agency perspective"
May 21	Steve Ansolabehere, MIT "Constituents' Policy Perceptions and Approval of their Members of Congress"

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"

October 2	No regular meeting. Tim Groseclose, UCLA talks at Noon in Harris School Room 140C "A Rational-Choice, Format-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"
October 16	Randall Calvert, Washington University "Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"
October 30	Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan "The Robust Federation"
November 13	Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago "Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress"
November 27	Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago "Regime Type and Immigration"

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"
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
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"

Contact Information
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Harris School, Room 140B
1155 East 60th Street
Faculty Organizer: Chris Berry
Student Coordinator: CC Dubois
E-mail: ccdubois@uchicago.edu