Program

Day 1: January 25th

Chair: Giacomo Gallegati 

8:30 – 8:55

Registration

8:55 – 9:00

Opening Speech

9:00 – 9:40

Francesco Barilari (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

“Shooting Political Polarization”

Discussant: Jean Lacroix (Université Paris-Saclay)

9:40 – 10:20

Tobias Großbölting (University of Mannheim)

“The Power of Politician's Migration Narratives”

Discussant: Morgane Laouénan (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)

10:20 – 11:20

Keynote Lecture: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

“Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth”

11:20 – 11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:20

Andrea Marcucci (University of Lausanne)

“Water Wars”

Discussant: Olivier Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics)

12:20 – 13:00

Nourhan Hashish (Sciences Po)

“Droughts, Drought Declaration Removal and Voting Outcomes: Evidence from Tunisia”

Discussant: François Libois (Paris School of Economics)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40

Federica Braccioli (Barcelona School of Economics)

“The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing Contracts When the State Does Not”

Discussant: Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)

14:40 – 15:40

Keynote Lecture: Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

"Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US."

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee Break 

16:00 – 16:40

Vincent Verger (École Polytechnique)

“Emotional Rhetoric and Populist Politicians Entry in the European Parliament"

Discussant: Thomas Renault (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)

16:40 – 17:20

Hugo Subtil (PSL; École Polytechnique)

“Social Learning of Political Elites: Peer Effects in Legislators’ Political Speech”

Discussant: Francois Facchini (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne) 

17:20 – 18:00

Luis Menéndez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

“Decoding the News: A Supply-Demand Analysis of Spanish TV News Content and Audience Preferences” 

Discussant: Ruben Enikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Day 2: January 26th

9:00 – 9:40

Praachi Kumar (UNU-MERIT)

“Mind the App: Gender Norms and Social Media”

Discussant: Giulia Briselli (ESCP Business School)

9:40 – 10:20

Prashant Garg (Imperial College London)

“Who influences whom about what?”

Discussant: Clément Gorin (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)

10:20 – 11:20

Keynote Lecture: David Chavalarias (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

11:20 – 11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:20

Gísli Gylfason (Paris School of Economics)

“From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States”

Discussant: Alessandro Riboni (École Polytechnique)

12:20 – 13:00

Iacopo Monterosa (Collegio Carlo Alberto; University of Turin)

“Environmental Degradation and Activism: an Analysis of Open-Air Waste Burning in Italy”

Discussant: Julieta Peveri (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40

Christian Höhne (University of Cambridge)

“Effectiveness of Information Manipulation - An Experimental Investigation of Informational Autocracies”

Discussant: Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)

14:40 – 15:40

Keynote Lecture: Alan Kirman (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

“Some Lessons from looking at Economic Networks for Fifty years”

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:40

Eleonora Brandimarti (Harvard Business School)

“Credit and Voting”

Discussant: Elena Stancanelli (Paris School of Economics)

16:40 – 17:20

Yuting Wang (Queen Mary University of London)

“City's Soft Power: Political Networks and Financial Allocation in China” 

Discussant: Andrea Martinangeli (Burgundy School of Business)

17:20 

Closing Remarks