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.
PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Reading Group - Anisha Garg and Luc Paluskiewicz (PGRs)
Two 30 minutes presentations:
i) Anisha will present Political Consequences of Urban Landscaping: Evidence from India.
Abstract - Do public goods shape political competition? We study whether urban civic infrastructure affects political mobilization. Exploiting variation from Delhi’s 1962 Master Plan, we instrument contemporary park allocation and combine it with newly assembled micro-level data on grassroots organizational presence (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) morning assemblies). Neighborhoods with more parks host greater organizational activity and deliver higher vote shares to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2020 Assembly election. Estimates are robust to extensive socioeconomic and spatial controls and closely mirror OLS. In a panel of elections from 2008–2020, areas with more parks consistently exhibit higher BJP support, except in 2013, when the association shifts toward the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) following mass anti-corruption mobilization. These findings provide causal evidence that the spatial allocation of civic infrastructure can durably shape partisan competition in dense urban environments.
ii) Luc will present How to Silence Researchers? Evidence from Illiberal Policies in Hungary.
Abstract - Since the late 1990s, a growing number of countries have shifted toward “illiberal democracy”— regimes that maintain “free but unfair” elections while systematically undermining the rule of law. In this paper, we argue that contemporary illiberal democracies have detrimental effects on innovation, and specifically on academic research. Using national and international bibliometric data, we show that academics’ research trajectories diverge sharply depending on their perceived political alignment. Researchers perceived as political opponents experience substantially larger declines in both publication output and collaboration networks, with each decreasing by about a quarter of its pre-shock level per year. At the same time, they are more likely to publicly criticize the regime. Similarly, researchers working on gender-related topics are also disproportionately affected: they experience a decrease of 10% in total publications and 30% in publications in top journals. Finally, we conduct cross-country, individual-level comparisons to estimate the broader effect of the loss of freedom on academia. We find that Hungarian researchers increasingly shift their publication efforts toward lower-quality, national-language journals and are more likely to leave the country altogether.