Bray Seminar in Political Economy |
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Organized in 2006-09 by Andrea Mattozzi and Matias Iaryczower. See All Talks 2006/08 (papers available for download).
Fall 2008
Gilat Levy, Department of Economics, LSEAttention for Sale: Endogenous Agenda Formation in Sequential vs Simultaneous Debates
Date: Sep.9, 2008, 4 P.M.
Keith Poole, Department of Political Science, UCSD
A Method of Linking Surveys Using Affective "Signatures"
Date: Oct. 21, 2008, 4 P.M.
Kristopher Ramsay, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Uncertainty about Relative Power and War
Date: Oct. 28, 2008, 4 P.M.
Ken Shotts, GSB, Stanford University
Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power
Date: Nov. 4, 2008, 4 P.M.
Michael Chwe, Department of Political Science, UCLA
Statistical Game Theory
Date: Nov. 19, 2008, 4 P.M.
Massimo Morelli, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Turn Out and Majority Power
Date: Dec. 2, 2008, 4 P.M.
Bard Harstad, MEDS, Northwestern University
The Dynamics of Climate Agreements
Date: Dec. 9, 2008, 4 P.M.
Scheduled Talks: Winter-Spring 09
Steve Callander, MEDS, Northwestern UniversitySearching for Good Policies
Date: Mar. 3, 2009, 4 P.M.
Andrew Gelman, Departments of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do
Date: Mar. 17, 2009, 4 P.M.
Torsten Persson, Institute for International Economic Studies
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
Date: Mar. 31, 2009, 4 P.M.
Melvin Hinich, Departments of Government and Economics, University of Texas at Austin
The Disaster of Derivatives: Thermodynamics comes to Wall Street
Date: Apr. 14, 2009, 4 P.M.
James Fowler, Department of Political Science, UCSD
Games, Genes and Politics
Date: Apr. 21, 2009, 4 P.M.
Shanto Iyengar, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Absence of Prejudice or Political Correctness? Comparing Explicit and Implicit Racial Attitudes
Date: May 5, 2009, 4 P.M.
Daron Acemoglu, Department of Economics, MIT
Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
Date: May 19, 2009, 4 P.M.