Workshop Program
Monday, 21st October 2019
09:00 – 09:15 Registration and Opening Remarks
09:15 – 10:00 Davin Chor (Dartmouth College): “The Political Economy Consequences of China’s Export Slowdown”, with Filipe R. Campante and Bingjing Li
10:00 – 10:45 Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI): “A Theory of Economic Unions”, with Gino Gancia and Jaume Ventura
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Mirko Draca (University of Warwick): “How Polarized Are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground Up”, with Carlo Schwarz
12:00 – 12:45 Kirill Pogorelskiy (University of Warwick): “News We Like to Share: How News Sharing on Social Networks Influences Voting Outcomes”, with Matthew Shum
12:45 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Keynote Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University): “Memory, Attention and Choice”, with Pedro Bordalo and Nicola Gennaioli
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin): “Random Auditor Selection”, with Guglielmo Barone, Laura Conti and Marco Tonello
16:45 – 17:30 Ferenc Szucs (Stockholm University): “Media Capture through Favor Exchange”, with Adam Szeidl
17:30 – 18:15 Davide Cantoni (LMU Munich): “Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements”, with Leonardo Bursztyn, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman and Y. Jane Zhang
20:00 Dinner at Oberraut Restaurant
Tuesay, 22nd October 2019
09:00 – 09:45 Roland Hodler (University of St. Gallen): “Voting or Abstaining in ‘Managed’ Elections? An RCT in Bangladesh”, with Firoz Ahmed and Asadul Islam
09:45 – 10:30 Andreas Madestam (Stockholm University): “State Repression, Exit, and Voice: Living in the Shadow of Cambodia’s Killing Fields”, with Mathias Iwanowsky
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Gianmarco Daniele (Bocconi University): “Fighting Corruption with Fiscal Rules”, with Tommaso Giommoni and Tommaso Orlando
11:45 – 12:30 Per Pettersson-Lidbom (Stockholm University): “The Political Economics of Growth, Labor Control and Coercion: Evidence from a Suffrage Reform”, with Erik Lindgren and Björn Tyrefors
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00– 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Albert Solé-Ollé (University of Barcelona): “The Political Economy of Coastal Destruction”, with Pierre Magontier and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
14:45 – 15:30 Paola Bertoli (University of Economics, Prague): “The Political Cycle of Road Traffic Accidents”, with Veronica Grembi
15:30 – 16:15 Gloria Gennaro (Bocconi University): “Banlieue at the Ballot Box: A Natural Experiment on Immigration and Political Outcomes”
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:30 Steven Stillman (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano): “Can Political Parties Change People’s Perceptions and Ideology?”
17:30 – 18:15 Giacomo Battiston (Bocconi University): “Rescue on Stage: Border Enforcement and Public Attention in the Mediterranean”
