Columbia Political Economy Seminar
Spring 2009
Time: Tuesdays 12:15-1:45 p.m.
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 707
Chairs: David Epstein and Navin Kartik
Organizer/Contact: Kelly Rader
Sponsor: ISERP
| February 10 | Debraj Ray (New York University) Remarks on the Initiation of Costly Conflict |
| February 24 | Vijay Krishna (Penn State) Voluntary Voting: Costs and Benefits |
| March 10 | Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex) The Law of the Few |
| March 17 | Spring Break (no seminar) |
| March 24 | Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A Political-Economy Model of Taxation and Government Expenditures with Differentiated Candidates |
| March 31 | Timur Kuran (Duke University) The Logic of Mediterranean Trade Treaties: The Middle Ages to World War I |
| April 7 | Nolan McCarty (Princeton University) Welfare and Paternalism |
| April 14 | Barry O'Neill (UCLA) What Does it Mean to Make an Agreement? |
| April 21 | Justin Fox (Yale University) Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Oversight |
| April 28 | (no seminar) |
| May 5 | Adam Meirowitz (Princeton University) The Role of International Institutions when Military Capacity is Endogenous: An Equivalence Result |