Past Seminars

• 14 Dec 2020, Florian Foos (LSE), "Tabloid media campaigns and public opinion: Quasi-experimental evidence on Euroscepticism in England" (paper), joint with Daniel Bischof

Poster artwork credit: Antony Gormley

• 30 Nov 2020, Friederike Mengel (Essex), "The Causal Effect of Inequality on Attribution and Social Trust" (paper in preparation) joint with Andrea Albertazzi and Patrick Lown.

Poster artwork credit: Pablo Picasso

• 16 Nov 2020, Pamela Campa (SITE Stockholm), "Gender and Political Coalitions" (abstract), joint with Manuel Bagues and Jan Palguta.

Poster artwork credit: Tamara de Lempicka

• 2 Nov 2020, Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale, NBER), "The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-Off" (paper), joint with Monica Martinez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao

Poster artwork credit: Stasys Eidrigevicius

• 19 Oct 2020, Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI), “Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil” (paper), with Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

Poster artwork credit: Marcel Gautherot

• 5 Oct 2020, Laurent Bouton (Georgetown), "Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions" (paper), joint with Garance Genicot and Micael Castanheira

Poster artwork credit: Roy Lichtenstein

• 21 Sep 2020, Julien Labonne (Oxford),  "Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises" (paper), joint with Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Francesco Trebbi

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Poster artwork credit: Stefan Gierwoski

• 27 July 2020: Tim Besley (LSE): "The Political Economy of Lockdown: Does Free Media Make a Difference?" (joint with Sacha Dray)

Poster artwork credit: Princejyesi

• 13 July 2020: Anja Neundorf (Glasgow): "Political Habit Formation under Democratic and Authoritarian Elections", with Ksenia Northmore-Ball

Poster artwork credit: Mark Rothko. Photo unknown. 

• 29 June 2020: Dan Bernhardt (Warwick), "Demagogues and the Fragility of Democracy" (joint with Stefan Krasa and Mehdi Shadmehr)

Poster artwork credit: Jean-Léon Gérôme

• 15 June 2020: Noam Yuchtman (LSE), "Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China" (joint with Martin Beraja and David Yang), slides.

Poster artwork credit: Banksy

• 1 June 2020: Ines Moreno de Barreda (Oxford), "Persuasion with Correlation Neglect" (joint with Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin)