Location:
Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh
230 S Bouquet St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Room 4940
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Breakfast
Economics Department (4900 Area)
9:00-10:00 Laurent Bouton (Georgetown) “A Group Based Theory of Electoral Turnout” (joint with Dan Bernhardt, Stefan Krasa, and Francesco Squintani)
Discussant: Mark Fey (Rochester)
10:00-11:00 John Duggan (Rochester) “A Model of Candidate Location: Asymmetric Elections with Costly Valence”
Discussant: Stefan Krasa (Illinois)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Sergio Montero (Rochester) “Are Women Better Politicians? Discrimination, Gender Quotas, and Electoral Accountability” (joint with Zuheir Desai and Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra)
Discussant: Kristy Buzard (Syracuse)
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Enrichetta Ravina (Chicago Fed) “ESG Choice with Polarized Investors” (joint with Nicola Persico)
Discussant: Davin Raiha (Notre Dame)
3:00-4:00 Zhaotian Luo (Chicago) “Norms and Dynamics of Power Alternation” (joint with Zanhui Liu, Yucheng Qiu and Shuyi Yu)
Discussant: Jean Guillaume Forand (Waterloo)
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Beixi Zhou (Pittsburgh) “Optimal Disclosure Windows”
Discussant: Pablo Montagnes (Emory)
6:00- Dinner