Bray Seminar in Political Economy |
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Organized in 2006-09 by Andrea Mattozzi and Matias Iaryczower
Fall
2006/07
Ronny
Razin, Department of Economics, LSEA Theory of Religion: Linking Individual Beliefs, Rituals, and Social Cohesion
Date: Sep.19, 2006, 4 P.M.
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Department of Political Science, Wash. U. Saint Louis
Terrorist Factions
Date: Oct. 4, 2006, 4 P.M.
Andrea Prat, Department of Economics, LSE
How Much Public Money is Wasted, and why? Evidence from a Change in Procurement Law
Date: Oct. 10, 2006, 4 P.M.
Ernesto Dal Bo, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Political Dynasties
Date: Oct. 17, 2006, 4 P.M.
Nicola Persico, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Political Cycles in Water Provision in Mexico
Date: Oct. 31,2006, 4 P.M.
Antonio Merlo, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Do Voters Vote Sincerely?
Date: Nov. 7, 2006, 4 P.M.
Alessandra Casella, Department of Economics, Columbia University
A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda
Date: Nov. 14, 2006, 4 P.M.
Alessandro Lizzeri, Department of Economics, New York University
Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning
Date: Nov. 21, 2006, 4 P.M.
Gary Cox, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre-election Coalitions and Portfolio Allocations
Date: Dec. 5, 2006, 4 P.M.
Winter
- Spring 2006/07
John
Morgan, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, UC BerkeleyEfficient Information Aggregation with Costly Voting
Date: Mar. 6, 2007, 4 P.M.
Simon Jackman, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Analyzing Voting Data from Small Deliberative Bodies
Date: April 3, 2007, 4 P.M.
Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Department of Economics, Princeton University
Competitive Redistricting
Date: April 17, 2007, 4 P.M.
Larry Neal, Department of Economics, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Networks and Market Makers in the First emerging Market: Bank of England Shares, London 1720
Date: April 20, 2007, 4 P.M.
Norman Schofield, Department of Political Science, Wash.U. Saint Louis
Activist Coalitions and Elections in the United States
Date: April 24, 2007, 4 P.M.
John Ferejohn, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
The Citizens' Assembly Model
Date: May 1, 2007, 4 P.M.
Frances Rosenbluth, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Comparative Judicial Politics
Date: May 15, 2007, 4 P.M.
Fall 2007/08
Santiago Oliveros, Haas School of Business, U.C. BerkeleyWho Abstains in Equilibrium?
Date: Oct. 9, 2007, 4 P.M.
Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University
How to Read 100 Million Blogs (& Classify Deaths Without Physicians)
Date: Oct. 23, 2007, 4 P.M.
Nolan McCarty, Department of Political Science, Princeton University
Does Gerrymandering Cause Polarization?
Date: Oct. 30, 2007, 4 P.M.
Scott Page, Departments of Political Science and Economics, U. of Michigan
Interpreted and Generated Signals
Date: Nov. 6, 2007, 4 P.M.
Tasos Kalandrakis, Department of Political Science, U. of Rochester
Rationalizable Voting
Date: Nov. 20, 2007, 4 P.M.
Barry Weingast, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Distributive and Ideological Policies in the U.S. House
Date: Dec. 4, 2007, 4 P.M.
Sean Gailmard, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the U.S. Senate
Date: Dec. 18, 2007, 4 P.M.
Winter - Spring 2007/08
James Snyder, Department of Political Science, MITCongressional Rents
Date: Mar. 11, 2008, 4 P.M.
Adam Meirowitz, Department of Political Science, Princeton University
Pivots vs Signals in Elections
Date: Mar. 25, 2008, 4 P.M.
Leonardo Felli, Department of Economics, LSE
Statute Law or Case Law?
Date: Apr. 1, 2008, 4 P.M.
Raquel Fernandez, Department of Economics, NYU
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century
Date: Apr. 9, 2008, 4 P.M.
Guido Tabellini, Department of Economics, Bocconi University
The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives.
Date: Apr. 14, 2008, 4 P.M.
Alberto Alesina, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Gender Based Taxation
Date: Apr. 29, 2008, 4 P.M.
Michael Ting, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Distributive Politics with Primaries
Date: May. 13 2008, 4 P.M.