Political Economy Program Meeting

Katherine Casey, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Pierre Yared, Organizers

October 14-15, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

2:22 pm
Lightning Round on the Media
2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Social gathering on Wonder
Thursday, October 14
1:30 pm
Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford

AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators
Discussant: Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
Lightning Round on the Media
2:45 pm
Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
Nicolas Hervé, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Béatrice Mazoyer, CentraleSupélec

Social Media and Newsroom Production Decisions
3:05 pm
Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER

Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News
3:25 pm
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Social Media and Xenophobia: Theory and Evidence from Russia
3:45 pm
Social gathering online
Friday, October 15
1:30 pm
Steven Callander, Stanford University
Dana Foarta, Stanford University
Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University

Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
Discussant: Juan M. Ortner, Boston University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Jorg L. Spenkuch, Northwestern University and NBER
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and Bocconi University and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
Discussant: John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER
4:00 pm
Panel Discussion: The State of Liberal Democracy
Panelists:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
Moderator: Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn