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Political Economy Workshop

Spring 2003


All sessions will meet in 200 Fisher Hall, unless otherwise noted

Monday, February 10 at 4:30 PM

 Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania
"Trading and Voting"

Monday, February 24 at 4:30 PM

 Marco Battaglini, Princeton
"Trust, Coordination, and The Industrial Organization of Political Activism" Download paper

Monday, March 3 at 4:30 PM

 David Baron, Stanford University
"Competing for the Public through the News Media"

Monday, March 10 at 4:30 PM

 Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
"Bicameralism and Government Formation"

Monday, March 24 at 4:30 PM

 Giovanni Maggi, Princeton University
"Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations"

Monday, March 31 at 4:30 PM

 Michael Ting, Columbia University and CBRSS, Harvard
"Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position-Taking in Legislative Voting and Elections"

Monday, April 7 at 4:30 PM

 Larry Bartels, Princeton University
"The Politics of Economic Inequality"

Monday, April 14 at 4:30 PM

 Mark Kayser, University of Rochester and Oxford University
"Economic Interdependence and Elections"

Monday, April 28 at 4:30 PM (Joint with American Politics Colloquium)

Walter Mebane, Cornell University
"Adaptive, Imitative, and Evolutionary Processes that Produce Coordination Among American Voters"

Monday, May 5 at 4:30 PM

 Gary Cox, UC San Diego
"Majority-Party Influence over the Direction of Policy Change"



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Fall 2002

Monday, September 16 at 4:30 PM

 Torsten Persson, Stockholm University

"Economic Policy in Representative Democracies"

Monday, September 23 at 4:30 PM

 Alastair Smith, New York University

"The Timing of Parliamentary Elections"

Monday, October 7 at 4:30 PM

 Carles Boix, University of Chicago

"Democracy, Inequality, and Country-Specific Wealth"

Monday, October 14 at 4:30 PM

 Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University

"Constitutional Effects on Fiscal Policy"

Monday, October 21 at 4:30 PM

 James Robinson, UC Berkeley

"The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutions, and Growth"

Monday, November 4 at 4:30 PM

 Alessandra Casella, Columbia University

"Storable Votes"



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