Benelux PECO is a new, joint initiative to organize an annual, political-economy conference in Brussels (in 2024), Luxembourg (2023), and Rotterdam (in 2025).

2024 Conference Program (Preliminary)

Dates: June 20-21, 2024

Location: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 39/41 - 1000, Bruxelles

ULB Solbosch Campus (getting there)

Brussels

Thursday, June 20

12:30 – 13:55: Lunch and registration

14:00 – 15:10: Clemence Tricaud (UCLA)

"Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response"

Discussant: Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)

15:10 – 16:20: Nicola Persico (Northwestern Kellogg School of Management)

"A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision" 

Discussant: Barton Lee (ETH Zurich)

16:20 – 16:50: Coffee break

16:50 – 18:00: Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)

"The Far-Right Donation Gap" (joint with Moritz Hengel and Yuchen Huang)

Discussant: Pamela Campa (Stockholm School of Economics)

19:00: Conference dinner

Friday, June 21

09:30 – 10:40: Nina Bobkova (Rice University)

"Two-dimensional information acquisition in committees"

Discussant: Helios Herrera (University of Warwick)

10:40 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 – 12:10: Etienne Le Rossignol (University of Namur)

"Private Colonialism in Africa" (joint with Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou)

Discussant: Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen)

12:10 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 14:40: Ronny Razin (LSE)

"Political Social-Learning in Polities with Selective Memory: Cycles of Polarisation and the Dynamics of Cohort Effect in Politics"

Discussant: Federica Izzo (UC San Diego)

14:40 – 15:50: Ilyana Kuziemko  (Princeton University)

"The Cold War and US Labor Markets" 

Discussant: Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po)