PROGRAM

9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

9:30-10:15 Ricardo Dahis (Monash) Reelection Incentives and Corruption: Revisiting the Evidence with LLM-Classified Audit Reports (with Martin Mattsson and Nathalia Sales)

10:15-11:00 Prasad Bhattacharya (Deakin) The Naxalite Conflict in India: Does Ethnic Distance Matter?

11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-12:00 David Strömberg (Stockholm) Scientific Isolation? The Consequences of Trump’s China Initiative on Chinese Research (with Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, Xueping Sun, Raphaël Wargon and Karolina Westin)

12:00-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:45 Anja Prummer (FU Berlin) An Organizational Theory of Unionization (with Francesco Squintani)

2:45-3:30 Lukas Althoff (Stanford) Race-Blind Policy and Racial Inequality: Long-Run Effects of the GI Bill (with Christiane Szerman)

3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK

3:45-4:30 Kathryn Baragwanath (Melbourne) Divide and Deforest: The Perverse Incentives of Land Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon (with Nilesh Shinde)

4:30-5:15 Lukas Wellner (Monash) War and Structural Change: Evidence from post-WWI Germany (with Tobias Korn and Matthias Quinckhardt)

Dinner: by invitation.