Political Economy and Public Economics

Political Economy and Public Economics
The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick has an active Political Economy and Public Economics (PEPE) Research Group. These two disciplines have natural complementarities. Political Economy focuses more on the political feasibility of certain policies by looking at which policies are more likely to enjoy public support and thus succeed in an electoral contest. Public economics looks more at determining which policies are optimal in every environment, but is less concerned about their political approval or feasibility.
Recent world events such as the public backlash against globalization and inequality have raised awareness for the need for more integration between these two approaches as political resistance to the adoption of potentially beneficial policies has become ever more salient. Hence by their very nature these two disciplines transcend traditional field divisions such as micro and macroeconomics: they use theoretical, empirical and experimental methods to obtain conclusions, thus generating synergies with various other groups in our department from development to experimental to history to macroeconomics to economic theory.
Our activities
PEPE Research Group Seminar
Thursday: 11.15am-12.30pm
A weekly seminar is organised that brings top economists and political scientist speakers every week for a double-feature seminar in coordination with the LSE.
For a detailed scheduled of speakers please follow the link below:
Organisers: Andreas Stegmann, Kirill Pogorelskiy and Helios Herrera
PEPE Research Group Annual Conference
In collaboration with colleagues from Princeton and Utah, the PEPE Research Group organises an annual conference which has become a central meeting of political economists in Europe. Having taken place in previous years at Warwick in Venice, it attracts over 70 delegates attending from leading institutions in the US, EU and the UK. Every year, several of our PhD students get to participate in a fully funded conference with an opportunity to engage with leading scholars.
Find out more about this year's conference which will take place 20-21 March 2020 in Rome.
Organiser: Helios Herrera
People
Academics
Academics associated with the Reseach Group Name research group are:
Research Students
Events
Mon 4 Dec, '23- |
Econometrics - Ashesh Rambachan (MIT)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 5 Dec, '23- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Winnie Van Dijk (Yale)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 6 Dec, '23- |
CAGE-AMES WorkshopS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 6 Dec, '23- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 7 Dec, '23- |
Teaching & Learning Seminar - Simon Halliday (Bristol)tbaSimon is going to give a talk on the following: "What do we think an economist should know? A Machine Learning investigation of research and intermediate-level textbooks" which is a joint paper with Sam Bowles, Wendy Carlin, and Sahana Subramanyam Link here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3kfmbr6w6s30z0sax3ch5/What_do_we_think_bchs_2023.09.pdf?rlkey=ft35knde0oqnv6zhits2uo1z1&dl=0 |
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Thu 7 Dec, '23- |
Macro/International Seminar - Elisa Keller (Exeter)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 14 Feb, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Alex Frankel (Chicago)S2.79Title to be advised |
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Tue 20 Feb, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Subhasish Dey (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 21 Feb, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Joao Thereze (Duke)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 26 Feb, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Jonathan Chapman (UoBologna)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 26 Feb, '24- |
Econometrics - Morten Orregaard Nielsen (Aarhus)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 28 Feb, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Immanuel Feld (PGR, Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 28 Feb, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Matthew Elliott (Cambridge)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 4 Mar, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 4 Mar, '24- |
Econometrics - Xun Tang (Rice)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 6 Mar, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Jinlin Wei (PGR, Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 6 Mar, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Omer Tamuz (Caltech)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 7 Mar, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Milena Djourelova (Cornell)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 7 Mar, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar -- Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Fri 8 Mar, '24 - Sun 10 Mar, '249am - 2pm |
CRETA ConferenceRuns from Friday, March 08 to Sunday, March 10. Hosted by Herakles Polemarchakis |
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Mon 11 Mar, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Jordi Llorens Terrazas (Surrey)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 13 Mar, '24- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Carmen Villa (PGR, Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Wed 13 Mar, '24- |
CRETA Seminar - Roberto Serrano (Brown)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 14 Mar, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Lena Song (UIUC)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 14 Mar, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - Marta Morazzoni (UCL)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 25 Apr, '24- |
Macro/International Seminar - to be advised.S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 29 Apr, '24- |
Economic History Seminar - Katherine Eriksson (UC Davis)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Mon 29 Apr, '24- |
Econometrics Seminar - Tim Christensen (UCL)S2.79 |
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Wed 1 May, '24- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Thu 2 May, '24- |
PEPE Seminar - Jon Eguia (Michigan State)S2.79Title to be advised. |