Columbia Political Economy Seminar

Spring 2011

 

Time: Tuesdays 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 707
Chairs: Mike Ting and Navin Kartik
Organizer/Contact: Kelly Rader
Sponsor: ISERP

Mar 1 Rebecca Morton (New York University)
Income and Ideology: How Personality Traits, Cognitive Abilities, and Education Shape Political Attitudes
Mar 8 Tim Groseclose (UCLA)
Bias in a Laboratory Simulation of a Signaling Game with Implications for the Influence of the News Media
Mar 15 Spring Break
Mar 22 Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)
Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes
Mar 29 Pedro Bal Bo (Brown University)
Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
Apr 5 Francesco Squintani (University of Essex)
Information Aggregation and Optimal Structure of the Executive
Apr 7 James Robinson (Harvard University), joint with the Development Seminar, IAB 1101, 4:15 - 5:45
Equilibrium Checks and Balances
Apr 12 Seok-ju Cho (Yale University)
The Dynamics of Parliamentary Bargaining and the Vote of Confidence
Apr 19 Mariano Tommasi (Visiting Columbia University, University of San Andrés)
Veto Players and Policy Trade-offs: An Intertemporal Approach to Study the Effects of Political Institutions on Policy
Apr 26 Brandice Canes-Wrone (Princeton University)
Reverse Electoral Business Cycles

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