Columbia Political Economy Seminar

Spring 2008

 

Time: Tuesdays 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Chair: David Epstein
Organizer/Contact: Kelly Rader
Sponsor: ISERP

January 29 Michael Bailey (Georgetown University)
Does Legal Doctrine Matter? Unpacking Law and Policy Preferences on the U.S. Supreme Court
February 5 Navin Kartik (University of California San Diego)
Sequential Voting and Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiments
paper 1 paper 2
March 25 Tomas Sjostrom (Rutgers University)
Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation
April 1 Nicola Persico (New York University)
Factions and Political Competition
April 8 Norman Schofield (Washington University in St. Louis)
Political Bargaining under Democracy and Autocracy
April 22 Konstantin Sonin (The New Economic School)
Coalition Formation in Nondemocracies
April 29 Sanford Gordon (New York University)
Do the Advantages of Incumbency Advantage Incumbents?

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