Faculty Coordinators: Mark Dincecco, Mai Hassan, Iain Osgood, Ugo Troiano, Scott Tyson

Fall 2017

9/19: Joe Ornstein, "Municipal Election Timing and Local Growth Controls"

9/26: Jason Davis, "War as an Internal Indivisibility Problem"

10/5: Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania, "They Could Have Been Contenders: A Power-Sharing Explanation for Central Bank Independence"

10/5 (Joint with CPRD): Jake Shapiro, Princeton University, "Building Connections: Political Corruption and Road Construction in India"

10/13 (Joint with CPRD): Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University, "From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Rise of an Inefficient Bureaucracy"

10/24: Blake Miller, "The Limits of Commercialized Censorship in China"

11/3 (Joint with CPW and Economic History): Stephen Haber, Stanford University

11/7: Jane Kitaevich and Albana Shehaj, "Bullets and Blessings: Do Protracted Conflicts Render States Less Accountable?"

11/28: Nicole Wu, "Misattributed Blame? Attitudes Towards Globalization in the Age of Automation"

12/5: Taha Rauf, "The Long-Term Impact of Religious Institutions on Development"

12/11: Cathrin Mohr, University of Munich and Harvard University, "Carrots or Sticks? Protests and Construction in the German Democratic Republic"

Winter 2018

1/16: Vera Troeger, University of Warwick, "Budget Cycles, Fiscal Transparency, and Compositional Spending"

1/23: Arthur Lupia and Daniel Magleby, "Why Do Politicians Pay for Your Research? The Political Economy of Science Funding"

2/2 (Joint with CPW): Dan Honig, Johns Hopkins, "Navigation by Judgement: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work"

2/6: Carly Wayne, "The Goldilocks Problem of Counter-Terrorism: Why Governments Over- and Under-Invest in Counter-Terror"

3/6: Diogo Ferrari, "A Hierarchical Non-Parametric Mixture Model to Detect Heterogeneity in Preferences for Redistribution"

3/13: Jieun Lee, "Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence"

3/20 (Joint with EHLM): Volha Charnysh, Princeton University, "Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Activity: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland"

3/27: Reuben Hurst, "Polemical Identities and Electoral Rules: Strategic Identity-Signaling by Evangelical Candidates in Brazilian Municipal Elections"

4/3: Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), “Authoritarian Legacies: Persistent Patronage Networks and the Erosion of Merit-Based Judicial Selection in Mexico"

4/10 (Joint with Economic History): Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

4/13: Jason Brownlee, University of Texas, "Domestic Preferences and Strategic Contexts: Why America Fights 'Dumb Wars’”

4/20 (Joint with EHLM): End-of-Year Mini-Conference featuring Yuhua Wang, Harvard University, "Historical Institutions, Social Esteem, and Bureaucratic Capacity in China"