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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:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/seminars/seminars/political-economy 

Organisers: Michela Redoano and Mateusz Stalinski

PEPE Research Group Annual Conference

In collaboration with colleagues from Princeton and Yale, and with the support of CEPR, 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 in Venice and Rome, 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 26-27 April 2024 in Rome.

Organisers: Helios Herrera, Mateusz Stalinski

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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Thu 3 Oct, '24
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PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Mon 7 Oct, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Wayne Gao (UPenn)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Tue 8 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Economics Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 8 Oct, '24
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CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 8 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Max Posch (Exeter)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 9 Oct, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Thu 10 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Bernardo Silveira (UCLA)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Thu 10 Oct, '24
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MIWP Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Thu 10 Oct, '24
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EBER (DR@W) Seminar - Egon Tripodi

Title to be advised.

Mon 14 Oct, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Eleanora Guarnieri (Bristol)
S2.79

Title: Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats)

Nearly half of all known languages in the world are under threat of extinction or are already extinct. What are the determinants of language extinction? In this paper, we uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its language’s risk of extinction: languages from more gender-equal societies face a higher likelihood of extinction compared to those from male-dominant societies. We measure language status and male-dominance using the Ethnologue and the Male Dominance Index (Guarnieri and Tur-Prats, 2023), respectively, for a sample of 4,763 languages in 172 countries. Our results show that the negative relationship between male dominance and language extinction holds even after accounting for fundamental determinants of economic development and societal collapse at the language-group level, such as geography, conflict exposure, climate variability, and historical factors, as well as after the inclusion of country fixed effects. We then investigate the impact of inter-group relationships in the context of colonialism by relating each indigenous group to its colonizer in a dyadic setting. We find that societies with more gender-equal norms than those of their colonizers are significantly more prone to language extinction. Cultural distance in gender norms from the colonizer is a stronger predictor of language extinction than the characteristics of either the colonizer or the indigenous group itself.

Tue 15 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Economics Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 15 Oct, '24
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CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 15 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Mariaflavia Harari (UPenn)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 16 Oct, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Thu 17 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - Volha Charnysh (MIT)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Thu 17 Oct, '24
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MIWP Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Thu 17 Oct, '24
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PhD Behavioural Reading Group
S2.86
Mon 21 Oct, '24
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Econometrics Seminar - Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Tue 22 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Economics Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 22 Oct, '24
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CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 22 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Arold Benjamin Wilhelm
S2.79

Title to be advised.

Wed 23 Oct, '24
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Wed 23 Oct, '24
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CRETA Seminar - Philippe Jehiel (UCL)
S2.79
Thu 24 Oct, '24
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PEPE Seminar (Political Economy and Public Economics) Seminar - to be advised.
S2.79
Thu 24 Oct, '24
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MIWP Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Thu 24 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Seminar - Joan Monras (UPF)
S2.79

Title to be advised

Thu 24 Oct, '24
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PhD Behavioural Reading Group
S2.86
Mon 28 Oct, '24
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Economic History Seminar - Guillaume Blanc (Manchester)
S2.79

Title: Malthusian Migrations (with Romain Wacziarg)

We argue that societies with higher fertility experience increased levels of emigration. During the Age of Mass Migration, persistently high fertility created a large reservoir of surplus labor that could find better opportunities in the New World. We denote such migrations, from labor-abundant to land-abundant regions, as Malthusian migrations. Our results hold in a variety of datasets and specifications, across countries, regions, individuals, and periods. Using linguistic distance from French and twin births as instruments for fertility in crowdsourced genealogical data, we estimate a large effect of fertility on out-migration. Within households, later born children were more likely to migrate as fertility increased, particularly in regions with egalitarian inheritance. We develop a Malthusian model allowing for emigration as a way to escape population pressures, alleviating the negative effects of high fertility and contributing to the emergence of modern economic growth.

 

Tue 29 Oct, '24
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Macro/International Economics Workshop - to be advised
S2.79
Tue 29 Oct, '24
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Abhijeet Singh (HHS).
S2.79

Title to be advised

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