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

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Events


Wed 1 May, '24 9am - 12pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Nathan Canen S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Wed 1 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	Teaching & Learning Seminar - Rebecca Wilde (WMG) S0.13 Title : Immersive learning: 4-week block teaching. Speaker: Rebecca Wilde (WMG) Abstract: Immersive learning has recently gained attention within the higher education sector. Current publications reflect heavily around the benefits gained from block teaching. A significant caveat within the existing body of literature is around how 4-week block teaching and immersive learning is operationalised in terms of curriculum design; and how this is cascaded to a course and module level. The focus of the session will be upon WMG’s experience of moving from a one-week block to a four-week block teaching model. More information \| Tags: Teaching and Learning Seminar
Wed 1 May, '24 2pm - 5pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Nathan Canen S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Wed 1 May, '24 4pm - 5:30pm Export as iCalendar	CRETA Theory Seminar - Jakub Steiner (Zurich) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: CRETA Seminar
Thu 2 May, '24 11:15am - 12:30pm Export as iCalendar	PEPE Seminar - Jon Eguia (Michigan State) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Political Economy and Public Economics Seminar
Thu 2 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	Applied Economics Reading Group S2.77 Cowling Room Gokul Gopalan Ramachandran will discuss IV with multiple treatment margins (author: Jack Mountjoy; journal: AER 2022; paper title: "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility" https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20181756) (supervisor: Dita Eckardt) More information \| Tags: Workshop
Thu 2 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Peter Hammond (Warwick) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress)
Tue 7 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Subhasish Dey (Warwick) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: CWIP Workshop
Tue 7 May, '24 1pm - 2:15pm Export as iCalendar	MIWP Seminar - Kevin He (UPenn) S0.09 More information \| Tags: MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress)
Tue 7 May, '24 2:15pm - 3:30pm Export as iCalendar	Applied Economics/ Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Heather Sarsons (UBC) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Applied Economics / Econometrics and Public Policy seminars (CAGE)
Tue 7 May, '24 4pm - 5:30pm Export as iCalendar	Econometrics Seminar - Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Econometrics Workshop
Wed 8 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	CAGE-AMES Workshop - to be advised S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: CAGE-AMES Workshop
Wed 8 May, '24 4pm - 5:30pm Export as iCalendar	CRETA Seminar - Rahul Deb (Toronto) S2.79 Title: Statistical Discrimination and the Distribution of Wages More information \| Tags: CRETA Seminar
Thu 9 May, '24 11:15am - 12:30pm Export as iCalendar	PEPE Seminar - Nina Bobkova (Rice) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Political Economy and Public Economics Seminar
Thu 9 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Workshop - Joel Watson (UCSD) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress)
Thu 9 May, '24 2pm - 3:30pm Export as iCalendar	Macro/International Seminar - Yue Yu (Toronto) S2.79 Title: National Road Upgrading and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ugandan Households (with Ian Herzog and Siyuan Liu) Abstract: Structural transformation, typically characterized by labor transitioning from agriculture to a diverse industrial economy, has been slow in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the region is urbanizing, a significant portion of the urban population continues to depend on agriculture. We argue that this is because smaller cities are isolated from national markets and trade. We test this claim using granular individual panel data and Uganda's doubling of paved roads, which improved remote areas' market access. We find that market access causes workers to quit family farms and take specialized paid work. Effects concentrate in peripheral areas, households with a comparative advantage in off-farm work and reflect off-farm opportunities rather than reduced demand for farm output. In addition, market access causes remote households to simplify farming techniques and scale back farming. Findings are consistent with reliable transport allowing trade with urban areas, creating opportunities to specialize according to individual comparative advantage. More information \| Tags: Macro/International Seminar
Mon 13 May, '24 2pm - 3:30pm Export as iCalendar	Econometrics Seminar - to be advised S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Econometrics Seminar
Tue 14 May, '24 12pm - 1pm Export as iCalendar	MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - to be advised S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Macro/International Workshop
Tue 14 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Matthew S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: CWIP Workshop
Tue 14 May, '24 2:15pm - 3:30pm Export as iCalendar	Applied Economics/Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Seth Zimmerman (Yale) S2.79 Title : Parents’ Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten. More information \| Tags: Applied Economics / Econometrics and Public Policy seminars (CAGE)
Wed 15 May, '24 9am - 12pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi) S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Wed 15 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	Teaching & Learning Seminar - William Taylor (Lancaster) A0.23 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Teaching and Learning Seminar
Wed 15 May, '24 2pm - 5pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi) S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Wed 15 May, '24 4pm - 5:30pm Export as iCalendar	CRETA Seminar - Miaomiao Dong (Penn State) S0.08 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: CRETA Seminar
Thu 16 May, '24 11:15am - 12:30pm Export as iCalendar	PEPE Seminar - Ben Marx (Boston University) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Political Economy and Public Economics Seminar
Thu 16 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	Applied Economics Reading Group S2.77 Cowling Room Lily Shevchenko will discuss "Genome-wide association studies" by Uffelman et al (2021), published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-021-00056-9) (supervisor: Mirko Draka) More information \| Tags: Workshop
Thu 16 May, '24 2pm - 3:30pm Export as iCalendar	Macro/International Seminar - Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin) S2.79 Title to be advised. More information \| Tags: Macro/International Seminar
Fri 17 May, '24 9am - 12pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi) S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Fri 17 May, '24 2pm - 5pm Export as iCalendar	Data Science Workshop - Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi) S2.79 More information \| Tags: Workshop
Mon 20 May, '24 1pm - 2pm Export as iCalendar	Economic History Seminar - Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) S2.79 Title: The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets. More information \| Tags: Economic History Seminar

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