QAPEC - dev
Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre
QAPEC provides a framework to coordinate collaborative research in quantitative and analytical political economy within the University of Warwick as well as with the Centre’s UK and international networks and partners (PolEconUK, EPEC, PSPE-LSE, QAPS at Princeton), through the organisation of informal meetings, research seminars and international conferences.
QAPEC provides a context to pursue research excellence in quantitative and analytical political economy combined with impactful and interdisciplinary collaborations. QAPEC is a founding member of the UK consortium of researchers in quantitative and analytical political economy (PolEconUK), of the European Political Economy Consortium (EPEC), and a partner of the Quantitative and Analytical Political Science program at Princeton University (QAPS), and the Political Science and Political Economy group at the London School of Economics.
Specifically. QAPEC aims to:
- Further establish our international reputation for research excellence and impact in quantitative and analytical political economy.
- Engage with the research community in quantitative and analytical political economy within and beyond the university, with the objectives of enhancing exposure and dissemination of research.
- Supporting collaborations with UK and international research networks and partners (PolEconUK, EPEC, QAPS), to engage with research questions and challenges in quantitative and analytical political economy, and to increase chances of raising research income.
- Provide a positive and supportive work ethos, training, environment to promote personal development and opportunity for all members of the centre.
- Organise weekly seminars, regular workshops and conferences in the field of quantitative and analytical political economy – interdisciplinary events which bring together economists, political scientists and academics in related disciplines.
People
QAPEC Director / QAPEC Administration
Francesco Squintani
DirectorBen Lockwood
Management CommitteeHelios Herrera
Management CommitteeMirko Draca
Management CommitteeSharun Mukand
Management CommitteeFetzer Thiemo
Management CommitteeMichela Redoano
Management CommitteeVincenzo Bove
Management CommitteeFrancesco Squintani
Management CommitteeQAPEC Resident Fellows
| Sonia Bhalotra | University of Warwick |
| Ben Lockwood | University of Warwick |
| Helios Herrera | University of Warwick |
| Dan Bernhardt | University of Warwick |
| Mirko Draca | University of Warwick |
| Peter Hammond | University of Warwick |
| Omer Moav | University of Warwick |
| Sharun Mukand | University of Warwick |
| Daniel Sgroi | University of Warwick |
| Thiemo Fetzer | University of Warwick |
| Sinem Hidir | University of Warwick |
| Kirill Pogorelskiy | University of Warwick |
| Michela Redoano | University of Warwick |
| Christopher Roth | University of Warwick |
| Andreas Stegmann | University of Warwick |
| Claudia Rei | University of Warwick |
| Christian Soegaard | University of Warwick |
| Arianna Ornaghi | University of Warwick |
| Vicenzo Bove | University of Warwick |
| Arzu Kibris | University of Warwick |
| Andreas Murr | University of Warwick |
| Jessica Di Salvatore | University of Warwick |
| Andreas Isoni | University of Warwick |
| Andrea Gamba | University of Warwick |
| Abhinay Muthoo | University of Warwick |
QAPEC Associate Fellows
| Prof. Enriqueta Aragones | Institut d'Analisi Economica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| Prof. Marco Battaglini | Cornell University, Economics Department |
| Prof. Renee Bowen, | UCSD, Economics Department |
| Prof. Alessandra Casella | Columbia University, Economics Department |
| Prof. Oeindrila Dube | University of Chicago, Harris School of Policy |
| Prof. John Duggan | University of Rochester, Political Science Department |
| Prof. Dana Foarta | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
| Prof. Sean Gailmard | Berkeley University, Political Science Department |
| Prof. Paola Giuliano | UCLA, Anderson School of Business |
| Prof. Adam Meirowitz | University of Utah, Eccles School of Business |
| Prof. Massimo Morelli | Universita' Bocconi, Social and Political Science Department |
| Prof. Thomas Palfrey | Caltech, Humanities and Social Sciences Division |
| Prof. Maggie Penn | Emory University, Political Science Department |
| Prof. Maria Petrova | Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Prof. Robert Powell | Berkeley University, Political Science Department |
| Prof. Ronny Razin | London School of Economics, Economics Department |
| Prof. Alessandro Riboni | Ecole Polytechnique, Economics Department |
| Prof. Erik Snowberg | University of British Columbia, Economics Department |
| Prof. Ken Shotts | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
| Prof. Milan Svolik | Yale, Political Science |
| Prof. Peter Buisseret | Harvard University, Government Department |
| Dimitri Migrow | University of Calgary |
| Prof. David Myatt | London Business School |
| Prof. Stephane Wolton | London School of Economics |
| Prof. John Patty | Emory University, Political Science |
| Prof. Shanker Satyanath | New York University, Political Science Department |
| Federica Liberini | University of Bath, Department of Economics |
| Antonio Russo | Loughborough University, School of Business and Economics |
| Federico Trombetta | Catholic University of Milan |
QAPEC Research Fellows
| Apurav Yash Bhatiya | University of Warwick |
| Song Yuan | University of Warwick |
Activities
QAPEC organises the annual CEPR Conference in Political Economy, jointly with the QAPS group of Princeton University and with Eccles School of Business of the University of Utah. The conference, held at the University of Warwick in Venice venue, brings together the top theoretical and empirical economists and political scientists across Europe and North America. The conference builds on the experience of the previous successful meetings organized annually since 2013.
QAPEC runs a weekly seminar series at the University of Warwick main campus, jointly organized with the PSPE group at the London School of Economics. QAPEC participates in the organization of the bi-weekly PolEconUK webinar series. In these seminar series, international speakers present their work in quantitative and analytical political economy, and interact with the QAPEC group of academics.
Wed 11 Feb, '26- |
ERG (Econometrics Reading Group) - Gokul Gopalan Ramachandran (PGR)S2.86Gokul is presenting work-in-progress on granular instrumental variables. |
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Thu 12 Feb, '26- |
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Shaofei Jiang (Bath)S2.79Title: Persuasion via Sequentially Acquired Evidence Abstract: I study a sender who can privately acquire and partially disclose hard evidence to persuade a receiver about a binary state of the world. The sender sequentially acquires noisy binary signals. Signals are time-stamped and costly to acquire. When she stops, the sender discloses a left truncation of the signals. That is, it is possible to omit most dated signals. The receiver, uncertain of how many signals the sender acquires, takes an action based on the difference between the number of good and bad signals in the disclosure. If the cost of acquiring each signal is not too high, there are multiple persuasion equilibria. In every equilibrium, the receiver's posterior belief is supported on two points. This is akin to Bayesian persuasion. If full disclosure of signals is mandatory, the game is equivalent to costly Bayesian persuasion. Mandating full disclosure benefits the sender and hurts the receiver. |
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Thu 12 Feb, '26- |
BERG (Behavioural Economics Reading Group)S2.86 |
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Mon 16 Feb, '26- |
Economic History Seminar - Allison Green (LSE)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 17 Feb, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Victor Lavy (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 17 Feb, '26- |
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Eve Kolson-Shira (Hebrew)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 18 Feb, '26- |
PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Reading Group - Anisha Garg and Luc Paluskiewicz (PGRs)S2.86Two 30 minutes presentations. Title to be advised. |
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Wed 18 Feb, '26- |
AMES (Applied Microeconomics Early Stage) Workshop - Yanjun Gao (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised |
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Wed 18 Feb, '26- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - Thomas MariottiS2.79 |
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Thu 19 Feb, '26- |
Political Economy Seminar - Paola Moscanello (Yale)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 19 Feb, '26- |
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Youngji Sohn (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 19 Feb, '26- |
AMRG (Applied Microeconomics Reading Group)S2.86 |
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Thu 19 Feb, '26- |
BERG (Behavioural Economics Reading Group)S2.86 |
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Mon 23 Feb, '26- |
Economic History Seminar - Jeff Lin (Philadelphia Fed)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 23 Feb, '26- |
Econometrics Seminar - Francis J. Di Tragilia (Oxford)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 24 Feb, '26- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - David Boll (PGR)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 24 Feb, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Anant Sudarshan (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 24 Feb, '26- |
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 25 Feb, '26- |
AMES (Applied Microeconomics Early Stage) Workshop - Anisha Garg and Kaveendra Vasuthevan (PGRs)S2.79Two 30 minutes presentations. Titles to be advised. |
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Wed 25 Feb, '26- |
Teaching & Learning Seminar - Jana Sadeh (Southampton)S0.10Title: We're writing what? A meta analysis on economics scholarship. Joint work with Annika Johnson (Bristol) |
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Wed 25 Feb, '26- |
Econometrics Seminar - Tymon Sloczynski (Brandeis)S0.20Title: Quantifying the Internal Validity of Weighted Estimands (with Alexandre Poirier), The paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14603. |
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Wed 25 Feb, '26- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - to be confirmedS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 26 Feb, '26- |
Political Seminar - Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 26 Feb, '26- |
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Edward Plumb (LSE)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 26 Feb, '26- |
BERG (Behavioural Economics Reading Group)S2.86 |
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Mon 2 Mar, '26- |
Econometrics Seminar - Kirill Pomaranev (Chicago)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 3 Mar, '26- |
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Luigi Guiso (Einaudi)TBATitle to be advised. |
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Tue 3 Mar, '26- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - Nurlan Lalayev (PGR)S2.79Title: Credit Spreads, Financial Development and Growth |
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Tue 3 Mar, '26- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Peter Lambert (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 4 Mar, '26- |
PEPE (Political Economy and Public Economics) Reading Group - Enver Ferit Akin and Lily Shevchenko (PGRs)S2.86Two 30minutes presentations. Title to be advised. |
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