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

Dates: June 20-21, 2024

Location:  Institute of European Studies (Spaak room),

Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 39/41, 1000 Brussels

** Getting there: Tram #8 stop "Solbosch" (Google maps)

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

Alice Restaurant & Cocktail Bar 

Av. Louise 190, 1050 Bruxelles

** Getting there: Tram #8 or #93 stop "Defacqz" (Google maps)

Friday, June 21

09:00 – 09:30: Coffee and breakfast

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

"Two-dimensional information acquisition in committees"

Discussant: Helios Herrera (University of Warwick)

10:40 – 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 – 12:20: 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)

12:20 – 13:50: Lunch

13:50 – 15:00: 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)

15:00 – 16:10: Ilyana Kuziemko  (Princeton University)

"The Cold War and US Labor Markets" 

Discussant: Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po)

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of FNRS (CDR J.0026.24) and ERC (H2020 IDED).