Workshop Program
Thursday, 9th November, 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, 10th November, 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
