SI 2023 Political Economy

Matilde Bombardini, Ernesto Dal Bó, Suresh Naidu, and Thomas R. Palfrey, Organizers

July 18-19, 2023

Parkview Room

Format: 30 minutes for authors, 10 minutes for discussants, remaining 20 minutes will be left for authors to respond to discussants and Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Chiara Aina, University of Zurich

Tailored Stories
Discussant: Sevgi Yuksel, University of California Santa Barbara
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Emilia Brito Rebolledo, Brown University
Jesse M. Bruhn, Brown University and NBER
Thea How Choon, St. Lawrence University
Emily Anna Weber, United States Military Academy at West Point

Is there a Critical Mass? Gender Composition and Behavior in US City Councils (slides)
Discussant: Christopher Berry, University of Chicago
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Julian Budde, University of Bonn
Thomas Dohmen, University of Bonn
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Simon Trenkle, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), IAB

Worker Representatives
Discussant: Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Songrui Liu, Peking University
Mingzhi Xu, Peking University
Haochen Zhang, Peking University

Learn, In Order to Practise: The Effect of Political Rotation on Local Comparative Advantage in China (slides)
Discussant: Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
Edgard Dewitte, University of Oxford
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER

Small Campaign Donors
Discussant: Alexander Fouirnaies, University of Chicago
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Marco Grotteria, London Business School
Max Miller, Harvard University
Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School

Foreign Influence in US Politics
Discussant: James M. Snyder Jr., Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Bocconi University
Nicolas Motz, Universidad Complutense Madrid

A Generalized Measure of Bargaining Power, with an Application to EU Law-Making
Discussant: Matias Iaryczower, Princeton University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Juan Felipe Riano, Georgetown University

Bureaucratic Nepotism
Discussant: Luis R. Martinez, Emory University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER
Mattias Polborn, Vanderbilt University
Alex A. Wu, Harvard University

Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior
Discussant: Chad W. Kendall, University of Miami and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
Sandy Jo MacArthur, University of Chicago Crime Lab
Anuj K. Shah, University of Chicago

A Cognitive View of Policing
Discussant: Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Carlos Sanz, Banco de España

Trust and Accountability in Times of Polarization
Discussant: John Marshall, Columbia University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Valdemar Pinho Neto, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER

Politics At Work
Discussant: Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn