The Vancouver School of Economics is pleased to host in collaboration with UC Berkeley a two day conference on Political Economics. The program includes theoretical and empirical research at the frontier of this field and brings together an international group of economists and political scientists active in this area.
CfPE Conference Agenda
Friday September 16th, 2016 (Iona 533)
| 09:00am – 10:00am | Breakfast |
| 10:00am – 11:00am | Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, and Johanna Rickne, “Who becomes a politician?“ |
| 11:00am – 11:20am | Coffee Break |
| 11:20am – 12:20pm | Marina Agranov, “Dynamic Multilateral Bargaining” |
| 12:20pm – 13:20pm | Lunch |
| 13:20pm – 14:20pm | Pierre Yared, “Fiscal Rules & Discretion in a World Economy” |
| 14:20pm – 14:40pm | Coffee Break |
| 14:40pm – 15:40pm | Saumitra Jha, “Valuing Peace: The Effects of Stock Market Exposure on Votes & Political Attitudes” |
| 15:40pm – 16:00pm | Coffee Break |
| 16:00pm – 17:00pm | Maria Petrova, “Social Media & Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia” |
| 17:30pm – 19:00pm | Reception & Poster Session |
| 19:00pm – 21:30pm | Dinner |
Saturday September 17th, 2016 (Iona 533)
| 08:00am – 09:00am | Breakfast |
| 09:00am – 10:00am | Brian Knight, “The limits of propaganda; Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela” |
| 10:00am – 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30am – 11:30am | Oeindrila Dube, “Queens” |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Matt Gentzkow, “Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional speech“ |
| 12:30pm – 14:00pm | Lunch & Adjourn |