Workshop on Political Economy

Stony Brook, NY, July 25-27, 2010

Schedule of Talks

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Sunday, July 25
9:00 - 9:45	Hulya Eraslan (Johns Hopkins University) Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information
9:45 - 10:30	Renee Bowen (Stanford University) On Dynamic Compromise
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Pierre Yared withdraw
11:45 - 12:30	Levon Barseghyan (Cornell University) Institutions and Growth in Limited Access Societies
12:30 - 14:25	Lunch Break
14:25 - 14:50	Qiang Fu (National University of Singapore) Policy Making with Reputation Concerns
14:50 - 15:15	Matias Nunez (CNRS-Cergy) Political Competition over Distortionary Taxation
15:15 - 15:40	Rohit Parikh (City University of New York) The Logic of Campaigning
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45	Francesco Squintani Mediation and Peace

Monday, July 26
9:00 - 9:45	Santiago Oliveros (Haas School of Business-University of California, Berkeley) Combinatorial Voting
9:45 - 10:30	Peter Coughlin (University of Maryland) Probabilistic and Spatial Models of Voting
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Helios Herrera (Columbia) Turnout and Power Sharing
11:45 - 12:30	Rainer Schwabe (Princeton University) Reputation and Accountability in Repeated Elections
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25	Pei-yu (Melody) Lo (The University of Hong Kong) Why Vote First --- Simultaneous v.s. Sequential Primary
14:25 - 14:50	Eduardo Perez (Ecole Polytechnique) Choosing Choices: Agenda Selection with Uncertain Issues
14:50 - 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:40	Uliana Popova Makarov (Princeton University) Cheap talk with multiple audiences: an experimental analysis
15:40 - 16:05	Gabriele Gratton (Boston University) The Demagogue's Curse: Information Aggregation and Endogenous Platforms
16:05 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15	Marco Battaglini (Princeton University) Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design
18:00 - 21:30	Reception Dinner at Three Village Inn

Tuesday, July 27
9:00 - 9:45	Ken Shotts (Stanford GSB) Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power
9:45 - 10:30	Lydia Mechtenberg (TU, Berlin) Winners and Losers of Early Elections: On the Welfare Implications of Political Blockades and Early Elections
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Sambuddha Ghosh (Boston University) Ideologues Beat Idealists
11:45 - 12:30	Jon Eguia (New York University) Voting Blocs, Party Discipline and Party Formation
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25	Ming Li (Concordia University) Fuzzy Political Campaigns
14:25 - 14:50	Doru Cojoc (Stanford University) Policies or Values? The Choice of Rhetoric in Electoral Competitions
14:50 - 15:15	Joseph McMurray (Brigham Young University) A Spatial Model of Common-value Elections: Electoral Mandates, Minor-Party Candidates, and the Signaling Voter's Curse
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30	Georgy Egorov (Kellogg School of Management) Why Great Minds Think Alike: A Theory of Strategic Information Dissemination and Demand for News

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