Columbia Political Economy Seminar
Fall 2008
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
| October 7 | Alexandre Debs (University of Rochester) War! Who is it Good For? The Relationship between Regime Type, the Fate of Leaders, and War |
| October 14 | Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) Sequential Deliberation |
| October 21 | Josep M. Colomer (Higher Council of Scientific Research) The Invisible Hand in Institutional Design |
| October 28 | Pedro Dal Bó (Brown University) Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy |
| November 11 | John Duggan and Tasos Kalandrakis (University of Rochester) Electoral and Policy Dynamics in US Politics |
| December 2 | (POSTPONED!) Nolan McCarty (Princeton University) The Political Economy of Welfare Policy |
| December 9 | Brian Knight (Brown University) Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities |