Warwick/Princeton/Utah Political Economy Conference 2019

Warwick/Princeton/Utah Political Economy Conference 2019

Monday 1 Apr 2019

The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick along with the Department of Politics at Princeton University and the Department of Finance at University of Utah will be hosting the Political Economy Conference 2019 in Venice on 23 - 24 March 2019.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. The workshop builds on previous successful meetings held annually since 2013.

Programme

The Conference will feature a range of academics from across the world presenting papers on a number of topics.

Saturday, 23 March

9.15 – 10.00	Arrival: Registration, Coffee and Welcome from the Organisers
Session 1
10:00 – 11.00	Lydia Mechtenberg, Universität Hamburg 'The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks'
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 12.15	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago 'Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia'
12.15 - 14.00	Lunch I Crociferi
Session 2
14.00 – 15.00	Sophie Bade, Royal Holloway 'Cooperative Implementation'
15.00 – 16.00	Andrea Prat, Columbia University 'Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats'
16.00 – 16.15	Coffee break
16.15 – 17.15	Wioletta Dziuda, University of Chicago 'Political Scandal: A Theory'
19.30 onwards	Dinner Laguna Libre

Sunday, 24 March

Session 3
10.00 – 11.00	Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po 'Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change'
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 12.15	Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton 'Competing Models'
12.15 - 14.00	Lunch I Crociferi
Session 4
14:00 – 15:00	Paola Giuliano, UCLA 'Immigration in Schools: Foreign-born Sudents and the Performance of Natives'
15:00 – 16.00	Kristof Madarasz, LSE 'Private Goods in Public Context'
16.00 – 16.15	Coffee break
16.15 – 17.15	Frederico Finan, Berkeley 'Economics Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right'