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Warwick/UPF/Northwestern/CEPR Political Economy Symposium 2025

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Warwick/UPF/Northwestern/CEPR Political Economy Symposium 2025

Monday 16 Dec 2024

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, along with Northwestern University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) are organising the CEPR Political Economy Symposium in Rome, Italy, on 14-15 March 2025.

Date: Friday 14 – Saturday 15 March 2025
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 (12 over two days) to allow maximum time for discussion.

Programme

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

Friday, 14 March

9.30 – 10.00

Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks from the Organisers

Session 1

  

10:00 – 10.50

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University Of London)
Title: 'The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from African Migration to Europe'

10.50 – 11.40

Pedro Vicente (NOVA University Lisbon)

Title: 'On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique'

11.40 – 12.10

Coffee Break
12.10 – 13.00

Yameng Fan (ENSAI-CREST)

Title: Market Power and Political Connections
13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

Session 2

  

14.30 – 15.20

Marina Rizzi (University of Turin)
Title: 'Self-Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of Content: a Cross-Platform Analysis'

15.20 – 16.10

Michael Thaler (University College London)
Title: 'Numbers Tell, Words Sell'

16.10 – 16.40

Coffee break

16.40 – 17.30

Alessandro Dovis (University Of Pennsylvania)
Title: 'On the Optimal Allocation of Policy-Making'

19:00 onwards

Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday, 15 March

Session 3

  

10.00 – 10:50

Victoria Mooers (Columbia University)

Title: 'Social Networks and Voter Information'

10.50 – 11.40

Nicolas Longuet-Marx (Columbia University)
Title: 'Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Realignment'

11.40 – 12.10

 Coffee Break

12.10 – 13.00

 Giovanni Facchini (University Of Nottingham)
Title: 'The Consequences of a Trade Collapse: Economics and Politics in Weimar Germany'

13:00 - 14:30

 Lunch

Session 4

  

14:30 – 15:20

Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)

Title: 'Breeding Better Beings: Education, Progressive Reform and Eugenics in the United States'

15:20 – 16.10

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Title: 'Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions'

16.10 – 16.40

Coffee break

16.40 – 17.30

Joanne Haddad (Université Libre De Bruxelles)

Title: 'Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment'
   

Organisers