CEPR/Warwick/Princeton/Yale Polecon Symposium 2023

CEPR/Warwick/Princeton/Yale Polecon Symposium 2023

Wednesday 8 Mar 2023

The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick along with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Department of Politics at Princeton University, the Department of Political Science at Yale University and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) are organising a symposium on Political Economy in Rome, Italy, in March 2023.

Date: Friday 10 – Saturday 11 March 2023
Venue: EIEF- Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance,
Address: Via Sallustiana 62 - 00187 in Rome, Italy.

The aim of the symposium is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. A limited number of papers will be presented (10 over two days) to allow maximum time for discussion. The workshop will be held in Rome this year, building on previous successful meetings held at the Warwick in Venice Palazzo since 2013.

Programme

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

Friday, 10 March

9.30 – 10.00	Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks from the Organisers
Session 1
10:00 – 11.00	Matthias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Gravity of Violence'
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30	Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University and UCL)Link opens in a new window Title: 'False narratives and political mobilization'
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
Session 2
14.00 – 15.00	Gleason Judd (Princeton University)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Representation in Legislatures: Moderation’s Appeal'
15.00 – 16.00	Maria Petrova (Barcelona School of Economics)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Have Online Networks Undermined Local Communities? Evidence from Facebook'
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30	Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020'
19:00 onwards	Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday, 11 March

Session 3
10.00 – 11.00	Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Trust and Accountability in Times of Pandemic'
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30	Ying Chen (John Hopkins University)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Strategic Investment in Technology and the Dynamics of Public Good Provision'
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
Session 4
14:00 – 15:00	Nicolás Ajzenman (McGill University)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties'
15:00 – 16.00	Melis Kartal (Vienna University of Economics and Business)Link opens in a new window Title: 'Institutional competence and factual belief polarization'
16.00 – 16.30	Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30	Michael Gibilisco (California Institute of Technology)Link opens in a new window Title: Tug of War: 'The Heterogeneous Effects of Outbidding between Terrorist Groups'

Organisers

Helios Herrera & Andreas Stegmann (University of Warwick),
Adam H. Meirowitz (Yale University)
Matias Iaryczower & Kristopher Ramsay (Princeton).