May 12-13 2022

Co-Organizers

Laurent Bouton, Filipe Campante, and Jenny Guardado

Conference Program

Location:

Dahlgren Quad

Georgetown University Main Campus

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057

THURSDAY, MAY 12

12:00-14:00 LUNCH AND REGISTRATION

14:00-15:00 Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)

Delegation under Liquid Democracy (joint with Joseph Campbell, Lucas de Lara, Victoria Mooers, and Dilip Ravindran)

Discussant: Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburgh)

15:00-16:00 David Yang (Harvard University)

Persistence Despite Revolutions (joint with Alberto Alesina, Marlon Seror, Yang You, Weihong Zeng)

Discussant: Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale University)

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-17:30 Ed Glaeser (Harvard University)

Procurement in Law and Practice (joint with Erica Bosio, Simeon Djankov, Andrei Shleifer)

Discussant: Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)

19:00 Conference Dinner

FRIDAY, MAY 13

9:00:-10:00 BREAKFAST

10:00-11:00 David Broockman (University of California, Berkeley)

The manifold effects of partisan media on viewers’ beliefs and attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers

Discussant: Gregory Martin (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20-12:20 Catherine Hafer (New York University)

Competence and Advice (joint with Anna Denisenko and Dimitri Landa)

Discussant: Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)

12:20-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:00 Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework (joint with James A. Robinson)

Discussant: Enrico Spolaore (Tufts University)

15:00-15:20 COFFEE BREAK

15:20-16:20 Pia Raffler (Harvard University)

Party Nominations and Female Electoral Performance: Evidence from Germany (joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Hanno Hilbig)

Discussant: Kate Casey (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Conference Hotel

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Glover Park Hotel for the duration of the conference. Attendants can book from 1 to 3 nights from May 11th to May 14th at the guaranteed rate of $229 per night (excluding taxes).

To book a room, you need to take either one of the following actions before the cut-off date of April 15th (after which the reserved rooms will be released):

- go to the following link: https://bit.ly/Glover-WPEC and select the nights you wish to book.

OR

- Call 202-337-9700 and identify yourself as a member of the Washington Political Economy Conference in order to obtain the group rate.