Faculty coordinators: Mark Dincecco, Iain Osgood

Fall 2014

9/9: Amy Pond, "Liberalization, Development, and Regime Change"

9/16: Timm Betz, "Trading Interests: Domestic Institutions, International Negotiations, and the Politics of Trade"

9/23: Trevor Johnston, "Weapons of the Marginalized: Authoritarian Bargaining, Economic Sabotage, and Regime Survival"

9/30: Maiko Heller, "Context Matters: How Outside Options Affect Common Pool Resource Problems in Government Spending"

10/7: Jason Davis, "Protection as a Commitment Problem"

11/11: Ugo Troiano, "Ghost-House Busters: The Electoral Response to a Large Anti Tax Evasion Program"

11/18: Mark Dincecco, "Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development"

11/25: Bill Clark, Texas A&M University, "Does Partisan Bias at the Fed Explain 'The Republican Advantage?'"

12/9: Nico Ravanilla, "Nudging Good Politicians: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines"

Winter 2015

1/20: Joshua Hausman, "Supply-Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France"

1/27: Iain Osgood, "Divided Industries in the Fight for US Free Trade Agreements"

2/10: Joe Ornstein, "Education and Support for Free Trade: A Comparative Analysis"

2/17: Andrew Kerner, "The Influence of Interest: Real US Interest Rates and Participation in Global Economic Institutions"

2/24: Alton Worthington, "A Typology of Trade Barriers: Understanding the Costs of 'New Protectionism'"

3/10 (Joint with Economic History): Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University, "Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin" 

3/17: Ibrahim Gunay, "Trade Costs and Independence"

3/26 (Joint with Economic Development and Public Finance): Oeindrila Dube, New York University, "Can the Wounds of War be Healed? Experimental Evidence on Reconciliation in Sierra Leone" 

3/31: George Tsebelis, "The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions: Evidence from Around the World" (4701 Haven Hall, 12 to 1:30)

4/3: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University, "Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds"

4/10: Dustin Tingley, Harvard University, "Sailing the Water’s Edge: American Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics"

4/21: Robert Franzese, "On the Insufficiency of the Non-parametric Causal-Inference Paradigm for Social Science: An Argument for Model-Based Estimation"