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, University of California, Los Angeles
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, Princeton University 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