Warwick/Princeton/Utah Political Economy Conference 2017
Warwick/Princeton/Utah Political Economy Conference 2017
Wednesday 15 Mar 2017The University of Warwick in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, 19-20 May 2017
Programme
The Conference will feature a range of academics from across the world presenting papers on a number of topics.
Friday, 19 May
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9.15 – 10.00 |
Arrival: Registration, Coffee and Welcome from the Organisers |
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Session 1 |
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10:00 – 11.00 |
Adam Meirowitz, University of Utah, "Third Party Intervention and Strategic Militarization" |
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11.00 – 11.15 |
Coffee break |
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11.15 – 12.15 |
Daniele Paserman, Boston University, "Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability." |
| 12.15 - 14.00 | Lunch |
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Session 2 |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
Cathy Hafer, NYU, "Who Gets Credit? News-Gathering Competition and Political Accountability" |
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15.00 – 16.00 |
Jim Snyder, Harvard University, "Is Soft News a Turn-Off? Evidence from Italian TV News Viewship" |
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16.00 – 16.15 |
Coffee break |
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16.15 – 17.15 |
David Levine, European University Institute, "Voter Turnout with Peer Punishment" |
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21:00 onwards |
Dinner |
Saturday, 20 May
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Session 3 |
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10.00 – 11.00 |
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics, "Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire" |
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11.00 – 11.15 |
Coffee break |
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11.15 – 12.15 |
Thomas Palfrey, California Institue of Technology, "Candidate Entry and Political Polarization: An Experimental Study" |
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12.15 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
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Session 4 |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia, "Factions in Nondemocracies: Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party" |
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15:00 – 16.00 |
German Gieczewski, Princetown University, "Policy Persistence and Drift in Organisations" |
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16.00 – 16.15 |
Coffee break |
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16.15 – 17.15 |
Pablo Querubin, NYU, “National Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies” |