Conferences & Seminars

Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics

Seminars - SPRING 2018

Time and place: Mondays 12:30 to 2pm. Room 223, Moses Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Political Economy Seminar

The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.

January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 29: Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia (Joint with International Economics) "Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence"
February 12: Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley "Ties that bind? Social proximity and bureaucrat performance: Evidence from India"
February 26: Jörg Spenkuch, Northwestern "Politics from the Bench? Evidence from SCOTUS"
March 12: Ben Olken, MIT (Joint with Development Seminar. LOCATION: Evans hall 648 4:00pm-5:30pm) Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings.
March 26: SPRING BREAK
April 2: Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia (Joint with Development Seminar. LOCATION: Evans hall 648 4:00pm-5:30pm) "Making Policy Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises"
April 23: Sebastian Siegloch, Universität Mannheim. "The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany"

For more information, including how to receive regular notifications of Political Economy Seminar events, please email Ernesto Dal Bó or Robert Powell.

Political Economy Research Lunch (PERL)

PERL is an opportunity for PhD students to present work in progress and receive valuable feedback from faculty and peers. The Seminar will be held from 12:40pm to 1:30pm in Moses Hall, room 223

PERL is sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics

February 5: Kate Pennington (ARE). "Poisoned by Policy: The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Political Participation"
February 22: Yasmine Bekkouche (Paris School of Economics). "The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014" (with Julia Cagé)
March 5: Nicholas Li (Econ). "Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity" (with Ernesto Dal Bo, Frederico Finan and Laura Schechter)
March 19: Johannes Hermle (Econ). "How Strategic are Political Activists? Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment" (with Lukas Hensel, Anselm Rink and Christopher Roth)
April 9: CANCELLED
April 16: CANCELLED