Political Economy Workshop

Every three years EIEF hosts “The Summer Workshop in Political Economy”, The aim is to analyze topics related to the institutional underpinning of fiscal policies. The workshop focuses on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest included: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and monetary policy, social insurance, taxation, transfer programs, public investment, public employment, regulation, education, and health); (ii) the effects of political reforms; (iv) the impact of budgeting rules; (v) political polarization and partisan conflict; (vi) economic policy uncertainty and its determinants. The years that the workshop does not take place in Rome is either in Paris (CREST and Ecole Polytechnique) or New York (Stony Brook University)

Organizers: Marina Azzimonti (Stony Brook), Facundo Piguilem (EIEF) and Alessandro Riboni (Ecole Polytechnique)

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5th Workshop: 24-25 June 2019 (in Rome)

Andrea Prat (Columbia University). “Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats”, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Adnan Khan (LSE).
Charles Angelucci (Columbia University). “News Absorption and Voter Information”, joint with Andrea Prat (Columbia University).
Sinem Hidir (University of Warwick) “The Race to the Base”, joint with Dan Bernhardt (University of Warwick) and Peter Buisseret (University of Chicago).
Helios Herrera (University of Warwick) “The Market for Product Reviews”, joint with Kobi Glazer (University of Warwick) and Motty Perry (University of Warwick).
Dana Foarta (Stanford University) “The Good, the Bad and the Complex: Product Design with Imperfect Information”, joint with Vladimir Asriyan (UPF and CREi) and Victoria Vanasco (CREi).
Micael Castanheira (Ecares) “The Liquidity of Allegiance”, joint with Scott Tyson (University of Rochester).
Juan Ortner (Boston University) “Paths to the Frontier”, joint with Avidit Acharya (Stanford University).
Allan Drazen (University of Maryland) “Reciprocity versus Reelection”, joint with Prateik Dalmia (University of Maryland) and Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland).
Nicolas Werquin (Toulouse School of Economics) “Taxes and Turnout”, joint with Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne) and Aleh Tsyvinski (Yale University).
Pierre Yared (Columbia University) “Instrument-Based vs. Target-Based Rules”, joint with Marina Halac (Yale University).
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) “Fiscal Rules: Debt versus Pensions”, joint with Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University) and Nicola Persico (Kellogg School of Management)

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4th Workshop: June 7, 2019 (in Paris)

Stephane Wolton (LSE) “A Political Economy of Social Discrimination,” joint with Torun Dewan (LSE).
Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) “The Refugee’s Dilemma- Jewish Outmigration from Nazi Germany,” joint with Johannes C. Buggle (University of Lausanne), Thierry Mayer (Sciences-po), and Seyhun Orcan Sakalli (University of Lausanne).
Jacopo Perego (Columbia University) “Belief Meddling in Social Networks: an Information-Design Approach,” joint with Simone Galperti (UCSD).
Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago) “Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia,” joint with Alessandra L. González (University of Chicago), and David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich).
Clemence Tricaud (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST) “Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation.”
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (Berkeley) “Hierarchical Corruption,” joint with Kristof Titeca (University of Antwerp).
Robert Ulbricht (Toulouse School of Economics) “Dynamics of Political Systems," joint with Lukas Buchheim (LMU Munich).
Antoine Loeper (University Carlos III) “Policy Responsiveness versus Stability: the Role of Political Institutions,” joint with Wioletta Dzuida (University of Chicago).
David K. Levine (EUI) “Special Interests in Politics and Markets,” joint with Andrea Mattozzi (EUI) and Salvatore Modica (University of Palermo)

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3rd Workshop: 10-17 July 2017 (in New York).

Saltuk Ozerturk (Rice University) “Information Gatekeeping, Access Control and Media Bias,” joint with Hulya Eraslan.
Carlo Prato (Columbia) “The Wisdom of the Crowd? Information Aggregation and Electoral Incentives.”
Syed Nageeb Ali (Penn State) “The Perverse Politics of Polarization,” joint with Maximilian Mihm, and Lucas Siga.
Matias Iaryczower (Princeton) “Collective Hold-up,” joint with Santiago Oliveros.
Renee Bowen (UC San Diego) “Legislative Policy Experimentation and Redistribution,” joint with Vincent Anesi (Nottingham).
Satyajit Chatterjee (Philadelphia Fed): “Incumbency Disadvantage in US National Politics,” joint with Burcu Eyigungor.
Wioletta Dziuda (Chicago-Harris) “Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments,” joint with David Austen-Smith, Bard Harstad, and Antoine Loeper.
Dana Foarta (Stanford GSB) “Unification vs Separation of Regulatory Institutions,” joint with Takuo Sugaya.
Alessandro Dovis (U Penn) “Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments,” joint with Rishabh Kirpalani.
Pierre Yared (Columbia University) “Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification”, joint with Marina Halac.
Ivan Werning (MIT) “Saving and Dissaving with Hyperbolic Discounting,” joint with Dan Cao.

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2nd Workshop: 4-5 July 2016 (in Rome)

Shanker Satyanath (NYU) “ Social Networks and the Targeting of Violence: The Logic of Union Leader Disappearances During Argentina's Last Dictatorship”, joint with Esteban Klor (Hebrew University) and Sebastian Saiegh (UCSD).
Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi University) “Dynamic Coalitions and Communication: Public versus Private Negotiations”, joint with David Baron (Stanford GSB) and Renee Bowen (Stanford GSB).
Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University) “Elections and Divisiness: Theory and Evidence”, joint with Elliott Ash (Columbia University) and Richard Van Weelden (University of Chicago).
Helios Herrera (University of Warwick) “Marginal Voter Curse”, joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London) and Joseph C. McMurray (Brigham Young University).
Pierre Yared (University of Columbia) “Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy”, joint with Marina Halac (Columbia University).
Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick) “Network and Ideology”, joint with Torun Dewan (LSE).
Vincent Anesi (University of Nottingham) “Existence and Indeterminacy of Markovian Equilibria in Dynamic Bargaining Games”, joint with John Duggan (University of Rochester).
Nicola Persico (Northwestern University) “Firm-Level Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from Italy's Stability Pact”, joint with Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal), Immacolata Marino (Federico II) and Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University).
Francesco Sobbrio (LUISS) “Voters' Response to Public Policies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, joint with Francesco Drago (Messina, CSEF) and Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po).
Andreas Müller (University of Oslo) “Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms”, joint with Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo) and Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich).
Giacomo Ponzetto (UPF-CREI) “Globalization and Political Structure”, joint with Gino Gancia (UPF-CREI) and Jaume Ventura (UPF-CREI).

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1st Workshop: June 20, 2014 (in Paris)

Marco Bassetto (University College London) "On the Relationship between Mobility, Population Growth and Capital Spending in the US," joint with L. McGranahan.
Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics) "Internet and Politics: Evidence from UK Local Elections and Local Government Policies," with Mattia Nardotto and Tommaso Valletti.
Pierre Yared (Columbia) "Optimal Government Debt Maturity," with D. Debortoli and R Nunes.
Pierre Boyer (Mannheim University) "Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition," with F. Bierbrauer.
Renee Bowen (Stanford University) "Efficiency of Mandatory and Discretionary Spending," with Y. Chen, H. Eraslan and J. Zapal.
Etham Ilsetzki (London School of Economics) "A Positive Theory of Tax Reform."
Galina Zudenkova (Mannheim University) "Persistence of Large Majorities in a Parliamentary Democracy."
Andrea Mattozzi (European University Institute) "The Right Type of Legislator," with E. Snowberg.
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) "Collective Self Control," with L. Yariv.

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