CEPR Political Economy Symposium 2026

CEPR Political Economy Symposium 2026

Friday 12 Dec 2025

The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, along with Northwestern University, University of Utah, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitá Bocconi, SciencesPo and the host institution Nova School of Business and Economics are organising the CEPR Political Economy Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal, on 20-21 March 2026.

Date: Friday 20 – Saturday 21 March 2026
Venue: Nova SBE in Lisbon, Portugal

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

Friday, 20 March

9.00 – 10.00	Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks from the Organisers
Session 1
10:00 – 10.50	Lucy Page (University of Pittsburg) Title: 'Reaching across the aisle: Polarization and grassroots climate mobilization' Discussant: Mateusz Stalinski (University of Warwick)
10.50 – 11.40	Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi Univ and CEPR) Title: 'Do Political Representation Gaps Cause Populism? Evidence from the 2025 German Election' Discussant: Francesco Capozza (UB and IEB)
11.40 – 12.10	Coffee Break
12.10 – 13.00	Laura Karpuska (INSPER) Title: 'Mass Protests' Discussant: Gabriel Leon (Kings College London)
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
Session 2
14.30 – 15.20	Sergei Guriev (LBS and CEPR) Title: 'Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage' Discussant: Andrea Tesei (QMUL and CEPR)
15.20 – 16.10	Benjamin Marx (BU and CEPR) Title: 'The Incumbency Advantage at the National Level' Discussant: Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi Univ and CEPR)
16.10 – 16.40	Coffee break
16.40 – 17.30	Adelina Barbalau (Univ of Alberta) Title: 'Firms as Electoral Monopsonies' Discussant: Thomas Lambert (Erasmus Univ Rotterdam)
19:00 onwards	Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday, 21 March

Session 3
10.00 – 10:50	Alessia Russo (Univ of Padova and CEPR) Title: 'Sustainable Social Security' Discussant: Facundo Piguillem (EIEF and CEPR)
10.50 – 11.40	Jeffrey Yusof (Univ of Stuttgart) Title: 'Billionaire Superstar: Public Image and Demand for Taxation' Discussant: Egon Tripodi (Hertie Berlin)
11.40 – 12.10	Coffee Break
12.10 – 13.00	Stefano Gagliarducci (Univ Roma Tor Vergata and EIEF) Title: 'The New Deal Realignment Revisited' Discussant: Cecilia Testa (Univ of Nottingham)
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
Session 4
14:30 – 15:20	Jens Oehlen (Stockhom Univ) Title: 'Enigma' Discussant: Gerard Padró (Yale Univ and CEPR)
15:20 – 16.10	Enrichetta Ravina (Northwestern Univ and CEPR) Title: 'ESG Choice with Polarized Investors' Discussant: Magdalena Rola-Janika (Imperial College London)
16.10 – 16.40	Coffee break
16.40 – 17.30	Claudio Ferraz (UBC) Title: 'Voting for Quality?' Discussant: Maria Carreri (Bocconi Univ and CEPR)

Organisers

Helios Herrera (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Mateusz Stalinski (University of Warwick)
Erika Deserranno (Bocconi, Northwestern and CEPR)
Ruben Durante* (NUS, UPF and CEPR)
Edoardo Teso (Bocconi, Northwestern, NBER and CEPR)
Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University, SciencesPo, CEPR and NBER)
Alex Armand* (Nova SBE and CEPR)
Pedro Vicente (Nova SBE and CEPR)
Nikita Melnikov (Nova SBE and CEPR)
Erik Snowberg (University of Utah and NBER)

*Ruben Durante and Alex Armand acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101125953 and no. 101039532)