Political Economy Seminar

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton), "Party Nominations and Female Electoral Performance: Evidence from Germany." (w/Hanno Hilbig & Pia Raffler) Abstract What...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Horacio Larreguy (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM), "Accountability Under Polarization" (w/ José Ramón Enríquez, John Marshall, & Alberto...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Allan Drazen (University of Maryland), "Kosher Pork" (w/ Ethan Ilzetzki) ( Link to paper) Abstract There are two common views of pork barrel spending. One...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Adam Bonica (Stanford University), "Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States" (co-authored with Jacob M. Grumbach) Abstract...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Speaker: Edmund Malesky (Duke), "Economic Uncertainty and Willingness to Learn about Globalization: A Field Experiment on Migrants and other Disadvantaged...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Speaker: Jaya Wen (Harvard Business School), "The Party and the Firm" Abstract This project studies the rise of the Chinese Communist Party's influence over...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Bård Harstad (University of Oslo), "A Theory of Pledge-and-Review Bargaining" Abstract This paper presents a novel bargaining game where every party is...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Jörg Spenkuch (Northwestern University), “Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations" Abstract We combine personnel records of the United States...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Réka Juhász (University of British Columbia), "The Who, What, When, and How of Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach" Abstract Although questions...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Erik Snowberg (University of British Columbia), "An Organizational Theory of State Capacity" (with Mike Ting, Columbia University) Abstract A burgeoning...