Political Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Melissa Dell, Pedro Dal Bó, and Bård Harstad
November 13, 2026
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Five Embarcadero Center, Room Waterfront CDE, San Francisco, CA, Zoom
Thursday, November 12
6:00 pm
Reception and Group Dinner at the hotel, Upper Atrium
Friday, November 13
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Policy Voting and the New Deal Realignment

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Carlo Medici, University of California, Los Angeles
James M. Snyder Jr., Harvard University and NBER
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Nicolas Longuet-Marx, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

The Curse of the Silent Majority

Marco Battaglini, Cornell University and NBER
Thomas R. Palfrey, California Institute of Technology and NBER
Gabriel L. Sekeres, Cornell University

Discussant:
David Martimort, Toulouse School of Economics
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

The Anatomy of Censorship and Propaganda: Evidence from Russian Wikipedias

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
Ulrich Matter, University of St. Gallen
Ruben Durante, National University of Singapore
Vladimir Avetian, King's College London

Discussant:
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:30 pm
Lunch - Lower Atrium
1:30 pm

Purges and Predictability

Samuel Kapon, University of California, Berkeley
Matteo Camboni, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Candidate Entry Into Local Government

Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER
Andres F. Rodriguez, Stanford University
Abou Bakarr Kamara, International Growth Centre (IGC)
Niccoló F. Meriggi, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Great Game: A Model of Geoeconomic Competition

Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn