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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:


Michela Redoano

Co-ordinator

Helios Herrera

Deputy Co-ordinator

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Mon 4 Dec, '23
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Econometrics - Ashesh Rambachan (MIT)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Tue 5 Dec, '23
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Winnie Van Dijk (Yale)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 6 Dec, '23
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CAGE-AMES Workshop
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 6 Dec, '23
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CRETA Theory Seminar - Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 7 Dec, '23
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Teaching & Learning Seminar - Simon Halliday (Bristol)
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Simon 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

Thu 7 Dec, '23
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Macro/International Seminar - Elisa Keller (Exeter)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 14 Feb, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Alex Frankel (Chicago)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Tue 20 Feb, '24
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CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Subhasish Dey (Warwick)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 21 Feb, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Joao Thereze (Duke)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 26 Feb, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Jonathan Chapman (UoBologna)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 26 Feb, '24
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Econometrics - Morten Orregaard Nielsen (Aarhus)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 28 Feb, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Immanuel Feld (PGR, Warwick)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 28 Feb, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Matthew Elliott (Cambridge)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 4 Mar, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 4 Mar, '24
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Econometrics - Xun Tang (Rice)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 6 Mar, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Jinlin Wei (PGR, Warwick)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 6 Mar, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Omer Tamuz (Caltech)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 7 Mar, '24
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PEPE Seminar - Milena Djourelova (Cornell)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 7 Mar, '24
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Macro/International Seminar -- Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Fri 8 Mar, '24 - Sun 10 Mar, '24
9am - 2pm
CRETA Conference

Runs from Friday, March 08 to Sunday, March 10.

Hosted by Herakles Polemarchakis

Mon 11 Mar, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Jordi Llorens Terrazas (Surrey)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 13 Mar, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Carmen Villa (PGR, Warwick)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 13 Mar, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Roberto Serrano (Brown)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 14 Mar, '24
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PEPE Seminar - Lena Song (UIUC)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 14 Mar, '24
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Macro/International Seminar - Marta Morazzoni (UCL)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 25 Apr, '24
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Macro/International Seminar - to be advised.
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 29 Apr, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Katherine Eriksson (UC Davis)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 29 Apr, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Tim Christensen (UCL)
S2.79
Wed 1 May, '24
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CRETA Theory Seminar - Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 2 May, '24
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PEPE Seminar - Jon Eguia (Michigan State)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

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