SI 2025 Political Economy
Organized by Filipe R. Campante, Karam Kang, Nancy Qian, and Romain Wacziarg
July 15-16, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and Zoom
Format: 25 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants, remaining 20 minutes will be left for authors to respond to discussants and Q&A
Tuesday, July 15
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Missionaries and the Birth of International Development

Youn Baek, New York University

Discussant:
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China

Ying Bai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Jiaojiao Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Discussant:
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Decoding China's Industrial Policies

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ming Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ)
Guangli Lu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ)

Discussant:
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Consolidation and Political Influence in the Auto Retail Industry

Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Realignment

Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Stanford University

Discussant:
Kei Kawai, The University of Tokyo
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

A Theory of Electoral Turnout Based on Free-Riding Aversion

Dan M. Bernhardt, University of Warwick
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Stefan Krasa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick

Discussant:
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Emotions and Policy Views (slides)

Yann Algan, HEC Paris
Eva Davoine, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Renault, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Pedro Bordalo, University of Oxford
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics

Kirill Chmel, Columbia University
Eunji Kim, Columbia University
John Marshall, Columbia University

Discussant:
Milena Djourelova, University of Southern California
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Spheres of Influence

Michael F. Porcellacchia, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Matteo Camboni, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

A Second Soul: Age at Immigration, Language, and Cultural Assimilation

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Yale University
Kobi Mizrahi, Princeton University
Shmuel San, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussant:
M. Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Constituent-Representative Interaction Outside of Elections: Theory and Evidence from the Early U.K. Women's Rights Movement

Grant Goehring, Boston University
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Leander Heldring, Northwestern University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Political Costs of Taxation

Eva Davoine, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Enguehard, University of Bologna
Igor Kolesnikov, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Mara P. Squicciarini, Bocconi University
5:00 pm
Adjourn