Political Economy Program Meeting

Hülya Eraslan, James M. Snyder Jr., and Thomas Fujiwara, Organizers

October 20-21, 2022

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suite, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 20
6:00 pm
Group Dinner
Friday, October 21
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford
Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham

Black Empowerment and Whites’ Backlash: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
Discussant: Sebastian Ottinger, CERGE-EI
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER

Competitive Media Capture
Discussant: Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Oren Danieli, Tel-Aviv University
Shinnosuke Kikuchi, University of California, San Diego
Noam Gidron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University

Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right (slides)
Discussant: Jeffry Frieden, Columbia University
12:30 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:30 pm
Juan Pablo Chauvin, Inter-American Development Bank
Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response
Discussant: Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER
Joseph Campbell, Columbia University
Lucas de Lara, Columbia University
Victoria R. Mooers, Columbia University
Dilip Ravindran, Humboldt University of Berlin

Delegation under Liquid Democracy: Two Experiments (slides)
Discussant: Chloe Tergiman, Pennsylvania State University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Jaya Wen, Harvard University

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China
Discussant: Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn