Workshop Program
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September 13th, 2016
09:00-09:15 Registration – Welcome address by
Walter A. Lorenz, Rectorof the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Oswin Maurer, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management
Federico Boffa, Local Organizer, Faculty of Economics and Management
09:15-10:15 Julien Labonne (University of Oxford), “Family Networks and Distributive Politics”, with Marcel Fafchamps
10:15-10:45 Andrea Di Miceli (University of California, Los Angeles), “Chasing the Key Player: a Network Approach to Myanmar Civil War”
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Johannes Urpelainen (Columbia University), “Partisan Alignment and Development Initiatives in a Federal System: Evidence from India’s Rural Electrification, 2001-2011”, with Meir Alkon and Ryan Kennedy
12:15 -12:45 Francisco de Lima Cavalcanti (University of Barcelona), “The Brazilian ‘Drought Industry’ Revisited”
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:15 Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University), “Priors Rule: When Do Malfeasance Revelations Help and Hurt Incumbent Parties?”, with Eric Arias, John Marshall and Pablo Querubin
15:15-15:45 Alessandro Fedele (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), “Wrong Politicians”, with Pierpaolo Giannoccolo
15:45-16:15 Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University), “The Determinants of Secessions”, with Joan Esteban, Sabine Flamand and Dominic Rohner
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:45 Keynote address: Bård Harstad (University of Oslo), “The Political Economy of Weak Treaties”, with Marco Battaglini
20:00-22:00 Dinner
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September 14th, 2016
09:00-09:15 Registration
09:15-10:15 Jon Fiva (BI Norwegian Business School), “Popular, but not Powerful: Local Candidates under Closed-List Proportional Representation”, with Askill Halse and Daniel Smith
10:15-11:15 Albert Solé-Ollé (University of Barcelona), “Housing Booms, Fiscal Policy and Voter Information”, with Elisabet Viladecans Marsal
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Silvia Marchesi (University of Milan – Bicocca), “Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures: Theory and Evidence”, with Axel Dreher, Kai Gehring and Christos Kotsogiannis
12:30-13:00 Helia Costa (London School of Economics), “Pork Barrel as a Signaling Tool: the Case of US Environmental Policy”
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Quoc-Anh Do (Sciences Po, Paris), “Capital Cities, Conflict and Misgovernance”, with Filipe Campante and Bernardo Guimaraes
15:30-16:00 Boaz Abramson (Stanford University), “Grexit vs. Brexit: Economic Integration Under Endogenous Social Identities”, with Moses Shayo
16:00-16:30 Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI and Pompeu Fabra University), “Globalization and Political Structure”, with Gino Gancia and Jaume Ventura