Seminars 2013-2014
Mondays 12:00-1:30pm - Room 203 Luce Hall
Fall 2013
September 9 - Guillem Riambau (Yale NUS) “The Effects of District Magnitude on Voting Behavior”
September 16 - Cameron Ballard-Rosa (Yale), “Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and the Political Economy of Autocratic Sovereign Debt Default”
September 23 - David Rueda (Oxford), “Equality or Crime? Redistribution Preferences in Western Europe (and the US)”
September 30 - Rick Bond (Vanderbilt, visiting Yale), “Cap and Escape in Trade Agreements”
October 7 - Scott Baker (Wash U), “Managing Reputation with Litigation: Why Legal Sanctions Can Work Better than Market Sanctions” (w/ Albert Choi)
October 14 - Mircea Popa (Yale), “The Political Causes of Real Estate Bubbles”
October 21 - Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham U), “The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration”
(Special Session Held Jointly with the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series)
October 28 - Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business), “Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?”
November 4 - Katherine Casey (Stanford GSB), “Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information on Redistributive Politics”
November 11 - Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) - “Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Evidence from a Large-Scale Sanitation Intervention”
November 18 - Stergios Skaperdas (UC-Irvine), “Nation-Building through War: Military Victory and Social Identification after the Franco-Prussian War”, (Special Session Held Jointly with the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series)
December 2 - Melissa Dell (Harvard University), “Path Dependence in Development: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution”
December 9 - Layna Mosley (UNC-Chapel Hill), “Categories, Creditworthiness and Contagion: Investors’ Shortcuts and Sovereign Debt Markets”
(Special Session Held Jointly with the MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series)
Spring 2014
January 13 - Alison Post, UC‐Berkeley, “Revisiting the Obsolescing Bargain in Post-Crisis Argentina: Investor Portfolios
and RegulatoryOutcomes”
January 27 - David Samuels, University of Minnesota, “Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach”
February 3 - Avidit Acharya, University of Rochester, “The Political Legacy of American Slavery”
February 10 - Alex Debs & Nuno Monteiro, Yale University, “A Theory of Economic Interdependence and War”
(joint workshop with IR)
February 24 - Stephanie Rickard, London School of Economics, “Policy Targeting: Special Interest Politics, Geography and Electoral Institutions”
(joint workshop with IR)
March 3 - Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University, “Compliance and Resistance in Iraq under Saddam Hussein: Evidence from the Files of the Ba`th Party”
March 24 - Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University, “Policy-Bundling: An Experimental Approach”
March 31 - Ruben Durante, Yale University, “Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy”
April 7 - Ray Fisman, Columbia Business School, “The Mortality Costs of Political Connections”
April 14 - Giacomo Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics—CREI, “Heterogeneous Information and Trade Policy”
April 21 - John McLaren, University of Virginia, “Fast-Track Authority: A Hold-Up Interpretation”
April 28 - Tim Buthe, Duke University, “The Politics of Market Competition: Trade and Antitrust in a Global Economy”
(joint workshop with IR)
April 30 - Milan Svolik, “Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud” (joint workshop with IR)
May 5 - Andrea Vindigni, IMT Lucca, “Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion and Growth” with Roland Benabou, Princeton and Davide Ticchi, IMT Lucca (joint workshop with the Religion and Politics Colloquium)