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 October 5, 2018 (Iona 533)
| 10:00am – 10:30am | Breakfast |
| 10:30am – 11:30am | Gerard Padro “Doing Business in China: the interplay between parental and governmental influence” |
| 11:30am – noon | Coffee Break |
| noon – 13:00 pm | Monica Martinez-Bravo “Reversal of Power: State Centralization, Elite Control and Development in Brazil” (joint with Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan) |
| 13:00pm – 14:30pm | Lunch |
| 14:30pm – 15:30pm | Juan Ortner “Searching for Policy Reforms” (joint with Avidit Acharya) |
| 15:30pm – 16:00pm | Coffee Break |
| 16:00pm – 17:00pm | Renee Bowen “Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules“ |
| 17:30pm – 19:00pm | Reception & Poster Session |
| 19:00pm – 21:30pm | Dinner |
Saturday October 6, 2018 (Iona 533)
| 08:00am – 09:00am | Breakfast |
| 09:00am – 10:00am | Leeat Yariv “Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab” (joint with Ahrash Dianat and Federico Echenique) |
| 10:00am – 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30am – 11:30am | Sara Lowes “The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa” |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Jim Fearon “The arms trade, international alignments, and international conflict” |
| 12:30pm – 14:00pm | Lunch & Adjourn |