WORKSHOP ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
Bruneck|Brunico, 9-10th November 2023
The Sixth UniBZ Workshop on Political Economy will be held at the NOI Techpark Bruneck-Brunico on Thursday 9 November and Friday 10 November 2023.
The workshop aims at bringing together scholars studying the economic causes and consequences of political phenomena and institutions. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from economics and political science, with a particular emphasis on topics related to:
- Political economy and geography
- The political economy of transportation and infrastructure
- The political economy of populism
- The political economy of conflict
- The political economy of reforms
The keynote speaker this year will be Massimo Morelli (Bocconi).
You can find here the call for papers (PDF).
Registrations are closed.
Program
Thursday, November 9, 2023
09:00 – 09:30 Registration and opening remarks
Chair: Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI)
09:30 – 10:15 Juan Vargas (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto) “Fear to Vote: Explosions, Salience and Elections”, with Miguel E. Purroy, Felipe Coy, Sergio Perilla and Mounu Prem
10:15 – 11:00 Antoine Zerbini (LSE) “Segment and Rule: Modern Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes”, with Kun Heo
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15 Inbal Dekel (Hebrew University) “Follow the Crowd: But Who Follows, Who Counteracts, and Which Crowd?”, with Moses Shayo
12:15 – 13:00 Alex Moradi (Free University of Bolzano) “Creating Identity”, with Matteo Ploner and Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Chair: Federico Boffa (Free University of Bolzano)
14:00 – 14:45 Tommaso Giommoni (ETH Zürich) “War Violence Exposure and Tax Compliance”, with Sergio Galletta
14:45 – 15:30 Giacomo Battiston (Rockwool Foundation, Berlin) and Eugenio Levi (Free University of Bolzano) “Strategic Use of Social Media by Political Parties: Evidence from
Italy”, with Federico Boffa and Steven Stillman
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI) “Social Capital, Government Expenditures and Growth”, with Ugo Troiano
16:45 – 17:30 Federico Curci (University Carlos III) “Factory Location: Resistance to Technology Adoption and Local Institutions”, with Michele Rosenberg
17:30 – 17:45 Break
17:45 – 18:45 Keynote address: Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University)
Friday, November 10, 2023
09:15 – 09:45 Registration and opening remarks
Chair: Alberto Parmigiani (Free University of Bolzano)
09:45 – 10:30 Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University), “Fighting Populism on Its Own Turf: Experimental Evidence”, with Massimo Morelli, Tommaso Nannicini and Piero Stanig
10:30 – 11:15 Alvaro Delgado Vega (ETH Zürich) “The Politics of Repeal”, with Wioletta Dziuda and Antoine Loeper
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 Amrita Dhillon (King’s College) “Elections and Rural Road Construction: Theory and Evidence from India”, with Ahana Basistha and Arka Roy Chaudhuri
12:30 – 13:15 Carlo Gallier (Free University of Bolzano) “Enhancing the efficacy of the Paris Agreement: More frequent commitments promote cooperation”, with Axel Ockenfels and Bodo Sturm
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
Chair: Steven Stillman (Free University of Bolzano)
14:15 – 15:00 Nicola Mastrorocco (University of Bologna) “State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years”, with Edoardo Teso
15:00 – 15:45 Enrico Cantoni (University of Bologna) “Where You Grow Up Shapes Your Political Behavior: Evidence from Childhood Moves”, with Jacob R. Brown, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:00 Tuuli Pauliina Tähtinen (IFO Munich) “Making the Cut: Close Elections and Local Welfare Policy”, with Nikolaj Broberg and Thomas Walsh
17:00 – 17:45 Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham) “Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act”, with Andrea Bernini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
17:45 – 18:15 Discussion and conclusions
