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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.
Tue 7 May, '24- |
MIEW (Macroeconomics/International Economics Workshop) - Alperen TosunS2.79Title: Optimally informative monetary policy |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
MIWP Seminar - Kevin He (UPenn)S0.09Title: Learning from Viral Content Here is a link to the paper: https://kevinhe.net/papers/viral.pdfLink opens in a new window |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Subhasish Dey (Warwick)S2.79Title: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: EDUCATION-OCCUPATION MISMATCH FOR SECOND-GENERATION IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK Authors Subhasish Dey, University of Warwick Mahima Kapoor, University of Warwick Anirban Mukherjee, University of Calcutta
Abstract: This study assesses the quality of occupations that second-generation immigrants are employed in relative to natives in the UK. Based on the concept of education-occupation mismatch, we investigate whether the utilization of workers’ skills is commensurate with those required under the job. Using the multinomial logistic regression model to fit data from the Understanding Society: UK Household Longitudinal Study, we show that second-generation immigrants have a higher probability of being over-educated than natives and evaluate the mechanisms driving the results. We further explore the presence of double penalty along the overlap of legal and social identities. The findings direct attention towards the unique context of second-generation immigrants and inform policy efforts. |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
Applied Economics/ Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Heather Sarsons (UBC)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt)S2.79Title: On the Inconsistency of Cluster-Robust Inference and How Subsampling Can Fix It Abstract: Conventional methods of cluster-robust inference are inconsistent in the presence of unignorably large clusters. We formalize this claim by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for the consistency of the conventional methods. We find that this condition for the consistency is rejected for a majority of empirical research papers. In this light, we propose a novel score subsampling method that achieves uniform size control over a broad class of data generating processes, covering that fails the conventional method. Simulation studies support these claims. With real data used by an empirical paper, we showcase that the conventional methods conclude significance while our proposed method concludes insignificance. |
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Wed 8 May, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Adam Di Lizia (PGR)S2.79Title: Social Influence in Online Reviews: Evidence from the Steam Store Abstract: How good are reviews as signals of product quality for consumers? Using a data-set derived from the popular Steam gaming platform I investigate the ‘priming’ of quality judgements as based on pre-existing consumer assessments. A policy reform on Steam in 2019 changed the average level of exposure to previous consumer quality ratings, with this randomly occurring within a game and reviewer’s life cycle. I find that removing the exposure of a reviewer to a product’s average rating leads to a 35% drop in the dependency of their review on such a rating. This is not driven by selection effects, and is robust to a wide range of alternate specifications and measures. The effect is heavily asymmetric: negativity compounds to inflate the gap between poorly-rated and well rated games. This is driven by users who are less experienced both within and across games. Finally, using estimates of owner data, I run a simple structural model of game choice based on rating. A 1% increase to product rating is equivalent to a 2.5 dollar sale price reduction, suggesting this effect has large implications for buyers and sellers.
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Wed 8 May, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Rahul Deb (Toronto)S2.79 |
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Thu 9 May, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Nina Bobkova (Rice)S2.79Title: Two-dimensional information choice in committees |
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Thu 9 May, '24- |
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Joel Watson (UCSD)S2.79Title: Contractual Chains |
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Thu 9 May, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - Yue Yu (Toronto)S2.79Title: National Road Upgrading and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ugandan Households (with Ian Herzog and Siyuan Liu) |
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Mon 13 May, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - to be advisedS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 14 May, '24- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - to be advisedS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 14 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - MatthewS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 14 May, '24- |
Applied Economics/Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Seth Zimmerman (Yale)S2.79Title : Parents’ Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten. |
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Wed 15 May, '24- |
Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi)S2.79 |
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Wed 15 May, '24- |
Teaching & Learning Seminar - William Taylor (Lancaster)A0.23Title to be advised. |
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Wed 15 May, '24- |
Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi)S2.79 |
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Wed 15 May, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Miaomiao Dong (Penn State)S0.08Title to be advised. |
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Thu 16 May, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Ben Marx (Boston University)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 16 May, '24- |
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Raghav Malhotra (Leicester)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 16 May, '24- |
Applied Economics Reading GroupS2.77 Cowling RoomLily Shevchenko will discuss "Genome-wide association studies" by Uffelman et al (2021), published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-021-00056-9) (supervisor: Mirko Draka)
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Thu 16 May, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Fri 17 May, '24- |
Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi)S2.79 |
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Fri 17 May, '24- |
Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi)S2.79 |
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Mon 20 May, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)S2.79Title: The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets. |
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Mon 20 May, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Karim Chalak (Manchester)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 21 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Farzad Javidanrad (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 21 May, '24- |
Applied Economics/Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)S2.79Title: Regulartion by Reputatin? Intermediaries, Labor Abuses, and International Migration |
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Wed 22 May, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 23 May, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB)S2.79Title to be advised. |