Workshop Program

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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