Workshop Program
Thursday , 12th October 2017
08:00 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 10:00 Facundo Piguillem, “Fiscal Rules as Bargaining Chips”, with Alessandro Riboni
10:00 – 10:35 Melanie Ward, “Reform Reversal in Central and Eastern Europe: Areas, Circumstances and Motivations”, with István Szekely
10:35 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Gaia Narciso, “The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution”, with Battista Severgnini
11:45 – 12:20 Maria Pilar Lopez-Uribe, Ph.D. LSE, “Buying off the Revolution: Evidence from Colombian National Peasant Movement, 1957-1985”
12:20 – 13:50 Lunch break
13:50 – 14:50 Patricia Funk, “Policy Choices in Assembly versus Representative Democracy: Evidence from Swiss Communes”, with Stephan Litschig
14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 16:05 Gianmarco Leon, “Social Interactions and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay: the Role of Urbanization Patterns on the Effectiveness
of Government Campaigns”, with Alberto Chong, Vivian Roza, Martín Valdivia and Gabriela Vega
16:05 – 16:40 Cong Peng, “Colonial Legacies: Shaping African cities”, with Neeraj G. Baruah and J. Vernon Henderson
16:40 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 17:45 Dana Sisak, “Showing Off or Laying Low?”, with Philipp Denter and John Morgan
17:45 – 18:20 Sylta Cornils, “The Impact of Corruption on Firms’ Risk-Taking Behavior”
18:20 – 18:45 Final remarks
20:00 Dinner
Friday, 13th October
08:00 – 09:10 Registration
09:10 – 09:45 Sara Lazzaroni, “Deep Determinants of Preferences over Political Institutions: Monarchy vs Republic in 1946 Italy”,
with Paolo Buonanno, Matteo Cervellati and Giovanni Prarolo
09:45 – 10:30 Steven Stillman, “Can Political Parties Change People’s Perceptions and Ideology?”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Costanza Biavaschi, “Immigrant franchise and immigration policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era”, with Giovanni Facchini
11:45 – 12:30 Giovanni Facchini, “Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns”, with Yotam Margalit and Hiroyuki Nakata
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Giacomo Ponzetto, “Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth”, with Edward Glaeser
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Edoardo Grillo, “Sanctions and Incentives to Repudiate External Debt”, with Carlo de Bassa Scheresberg and Francesco Passarelli
16:15 – 16:50 Sarah Langlotz, “The (Illegal) Resource Curse? Opium and Conflict in Afghanistan”, with Kai Gehring and Stefan Kienberger
17:00 – 17:20 Break
17:20 – 19:00 Final remarks
20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 14th October
09:30 Hike to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (depending on weather)
17:00 Final remarks and conclusions