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Political Economy Workshop

Spring 2004


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

Monday, February 9 at 4:30 PM in 015 Robertson Hall
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Inst. for Advanced Study
"Decentralization and Political Institutions" Download paper

Thursday, February 12 at noon in 300 Wallace Hall (joint with CSDP)
Scott Ashworth, Harvard and Princeton
"Campaign Effects with Uncertainty-Averse Voters"

Monday, February 23 at 4:30 PM
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Washington University
"The Quality of Terror" Download paper

Monday, March 1 at 4:30 PM
Ernesto dal Bó, UC Berkeley
"'Plata o Plomo?': Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence" Download paper

Monday, March 22 at 4:30 PM
Jeffrey Lewis, UCLA
"A Study of the Partisanship of Presidential Undervoters, Overvoters, and Third Party Voters"

Monday, March 29 at 4:30 PM
John Matsusaka, U. of Southern California
"For the Many or the Few: How the Initiative Process Changes American Government" Download paper

Monday, April 12 at 4:30 PM
Adam Meirowitz, Princeton U.
"In Defense of Exclusionary Deliberation: Communication and Voting with Private Beliefs and Values" Download paper

Monday, April 19 at 4:30 PM
Anders Olofsgård, Georgetown U.
"Politicians as Biased Experts: Secessions, Political Extremism, and Referenda" Download paper

Monday, April 26 at 4:30 PM
John Duggan, U. of Rochester
"Mixed Strategy Equilibrium and Deep Covering in Multidimensional Electoral Competition" Download paper

Monday, May 3 at 4:30 PM
Alessandro Lizzeri, NYU
"Transparency and Economic Policy"


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Fall 2003

Monday, September 22 at 4:30 PM
Steven Callander, Northwestern University
"Candidate Flexibility" Download paper

Monday, September 29 at 4:30 PM
Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago
"Testing Proposer Pivot Models" Download paper

Wednesday, October 8 at noon in 015 Robertson Hall (Joint with CSDP Seminar)
Alessandra Casella, Columbia University
"An Experimental Study of Storable Votes" Download paper

Monday, October 13 at 4:30 PM
Susan Stokes, University of Chicago
"Vote Buying and Democracy" Download paper

Monday, October 20 at 4:30 PM (Joint with International Relations Seminar)
Robert Powell, UC Berkeley
"The Inefficient Use of Power: Costly Conflict with Complete Information" Download paper

Monday, November 3 at 4:30 PM
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
"Bureaucrats or Politicians?" Download paper

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