| October 19 | Cesar Martinelli (ITAM) |
| October 26 | Claudio Ferraz (PUC-Rio) |
| November 30 | Philip Arena (SUNY-Buffalo) |
| February 1 | Nicola Persico (NWU-Kellogg) |
| February 15 | Navin Karnik (Columbia) |
| February 29 | Maggie Penn (Washington University) |
| March 14 | Radha K. Iyengar (LSE) |
| April 4 | Torun Dewan (LSE) |
| April 11 | Francesco Squintani (Warwick) |
| May 2 | Eric Weese (Yale) |
| May 16 | Yosh Halberstam (Toronto) |
| May 23 | Antonio Nicolò (Università degli Studi di Padova) |
| April 27 | Jon Eguia (NYU) |
| May 11 | Sean Gailmard (UC Berkeley) |
| May 25 | Ali Cheema (International Growth Centre) |
| June 1 | Moses Shayo (Hebrew University) |
| June 8 | Sureish Naidu (Columbia) |
March 31 - Ana De La O (Yale)
"Information Dissemination and Local Governments' Electoral Returns, Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico"
April 14 - Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law)
"Judicial Review and Democratic Failure"
April 21 - Jacob Shapiro (Princeton)
"The Roots of Militancy: Explaining Support for Political Violence in Pakistan"
May 12 - Scott Gehlbach (Wisconsin)
"The Institutional Basis of Successful Economic Reform: Privatization Effectiveness and Regime Change After Ukraine's Orange Revolution"
May 19 - Frederico Finan (Berkeley)
"Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance"
June 1 - Elisabeth Gerber (University of Michigan)
"Political Geography, Campaign Contributions, and Representation"
June 2 - Jim Robinson (Harvard)
"The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Columbia"
January 27 - Jim Snyder (MIT)
February 17 - Konstantin Sonin (Northwestern)
"A Model of Balance of Power with N>2"
February 24 - Eli Berman (UC San Diego)
"Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq"
March 3 - Claire Lim (Standford GSB)
"Measuring Media Influences on U.S. State Courts"
March 10 - Nolan McCarty (Princeton)
"Welfare and Paternalism"
September 30 - Chris Edmond, New York University
"Information Manipulation, Coordination and Regime Change"
October 21 - Tom Palfrey, Caltech
"Political Institutions and Investment in Public Infrastructure"
October 28 - David Myatt, University of Oxford
"On the Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Speaking Clearly, Standing Back, and Stepping Down"
November 18 - Maggie Penn, Washington University
"Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions"
December 9 - Alex Debs, Yale University
"Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships"
April 8 - Mathew McCubbins, University of California at San Diego
"Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination"
Supplemental Paper: "Good Edge, Bad Edge: How Network Structure Affects a Group's Ability to Coordinate"
April 22 - Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago
"Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs"
May 6 - Esteban Klor, Hebrew University
"Does Terrorism Work?"
May 20 - Leeat Yariv, Caltech
"Similarity and Polarization in Groups"
May 27 - Ken Shotts, Stanford University
"Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power"
January 14 - Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University
"School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race"
January 21 - Steve Callander, Northwestern University
"Searching for Good Policies"
February 4 - Charles Manski, Northwestern University
"Actualist Rationality"
February 11 - Stephan Whitaker, University of Chicago
"Constituencies and the Allocation of Private Activity Municipal Bond Cap Authority" (presentation)
February 25 - Salvador Barbera
"Individual Versus Group Strategy Proofness: When Do They Coincide?"
March 4 - Jim Alt, Harvard University
"Inequality and the Political Economy of Corruption: Evidence from US States"
October 1 - Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
"A Field Manual for the Cradle of Civilization"
October 8 - Yong Wang, University of Chicago
"Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI"
October 15 - Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University
"Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century"
October 22 - Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University
"Measuring Legislative Effectiveness in Congress"
November 5 - Scott Ashworth, Princeton University
"Sanctioning and Learning in Elections"
November 12 - Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
"The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design"
November 19 - Richard Holden, University of Chicago (GSB)
"Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans"
December 3 - Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
"The Economic Effects of Gerrymandering"
April 9 - Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago (SSA)
"Anti-Depressants, Suicide, and Drug Regulation"
April 16 - Jorge Fabrega, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Petty Corruption and Social Networks: An Exploration with Data from Sub-Saharan Africa"
April 23 - Jessica Trounstine, Princeton University
"Modern Machines: Information, Patronage, and Incumbency in Local Elections"
April 30 - Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Some Initial Facts and Sketch of a Theory about Economic Conditions and Voting Behavior"
May 7 - Ebonya Washington, Yale University
"Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Income on Support for Redistribution and Other Proposals"
May 14 - Masataka Harada, University of Chicago (Harris School)
"Testing Strategic Use of Public Debts: A Natural Experimental Approach Using the 1965 Voting Rights Act"
May 21 - Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan
"Balancing Regionalism and Localism: Political Representation in American Transportation Policy"
May 28 - Laurent Bouton, University of Chicago (Program on Political Institutions Fellow)
"One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation"
June 4 - Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
"External Validation by Parameter Recovery: An Application to Voter Turnout Models"
June 11 - John Balz, University of Chicago
"Beyond Margaret Sanger: Commercial Interests in Early U.S. Birth Control Policy"
January 23 - John Patty, Harvard University
"On the Basis and Measurement of Power in Congress"
Papers:
"Amendments, Covering, and Agenda Control: The Politics of Open Rules" (w/ Elizabeth Maggie Penn)
"Equilibrium Party Government"
February 6 - Shigeo Hirano, Columbia University
"Direct and Indirect Representation"
February 20 - Craig Volden, Ohio State University
"Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations" (w/ Vanessa Bouché)
March 5 - Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia
"Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy"
September 26 - Nicola Persico, New York University
"Factions and Political Competition" (w/ José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita & Dan Silverman)
October 3 - Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago
"What Drives Media Slant?" (with Matthew Gentzkow)
October 10 - John Matsusaka, University of Southern California
"Institutions and Popular Control of Public Policy"
October 31 - Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
"Long Term Persistence" (w/ Luigi Guiso & Paola Sapienza)
November 7 - Bard Harstad, Northwestern University
"Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules"
Supplemental paper:
"Do Side Payments Help? Collective Decisions and Strategic Delegation"
November 14 - David Baron, Stanford University
"Morally-Motivated Self-Regulation"
December 6 - Author Roundtable
Chris Berry, University of Chicago
Imperfect Union: Representation and Taxation in Multi-Level Governments
March 26 - Sarah Anzia, University of Chicago
"She Works Hard for Your Money: Congresswomen and Federal Domestic Spending" (with Christopher Berry)
April 9 - Jeffrey Grynaviski, Political Science, University of Chicago
"Entrenching the Machine: Political Defenses to Reform Party Challenges"
April 23 - Pedro Camarinha Vicente, Oxford University
"Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in West Africa"
May 7 - Avinash Dixit, Princeton University
"Predatory states and failing states - An agency perspective"
May 21 - Steve Ansolabehere, MIT
"Constituents' Policy Perceptions and Approval of their Members of Congress"
January 22 - Shanna Rose, New York University, Wagner
"Accountability, Selection, and Term Limits: Theory and Evidence from U.S. State Elections" (with James Alt and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
February 5 - Alberto Simpser, University of Chicago, Political Science
"A Theory of Corrupt Elections"
February 19 - Navin Kartik, University of California at San Diego, Economics
"A Theory of Momentum in Sequential Voting" (with Nageeb Ali)
March 5 - Steve Callander, Northwestern University, Economics
"A Theory of Policy Expertise"
October 2 - No regular meeting. Tim Groseclose, UCLA talks at Noon in Harris School Room 140C
"A Rational-Choice, Format-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"
October 16 - Randall Calvert, Washington University
"Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"
October 30 - Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan
"The Robust Federation"
November 13 - Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago
"Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress"
November 27 - Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
"Regime Type and Immigration"
April 4 - Amrita Dhillon, Economics, University of Warwick
"Enforcing Contracts"
April 18 - Dimitri Landa, NYU
"Challenger Entry and Voter Learning"
April 25 - Christian Ponce de Leon, University of Chicago
"Distributive Politics and the Poor"
May 9 - Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
"Rethinking Jackson’s Bank War: Party Politics and American Monetary Union in the Antebellum Period"
May 16 - Chris Berry, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"The Life and Death of Federal Domestic Programs, 1970- 2004"
May 23 - Tim Groseclose, UCLA
"A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument for the Inexistence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures"
May 30 - Ken Shepsle, Harvard University
"Advising and Consenting in the 60-Vote Senate: Strategic Aspects of Supreme Court Appointments"
January 17 - Boris Shor, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Testing Partisan Theories of Defense Procurement 1983-1992"
January 24 - Milan Svolik, Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"A Theory of Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes"
February 7 - Zahi Ben-David, Business School, University of Chicago
"Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies" (with John Graham and Campbell Harvey)
February 21 - Jeff Jenkins, Political Science, Northwestern University
"Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate" (with Sean Gailmard)
March 7 - Roger Myerson, Economics, University of Chicago
"Leadership, Trust and Constitutions"
October 4 - Daniel Chen, Political Science, University of Chicago
"The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Do Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand?"
October 11 - Stephanie Waldhoff, Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Economic and Political Determinants of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Reexamining the Environmental Kuznets Curve"
October 18 - Scott Basinger, Political Science & Public Policy, Stony Brook University
"Congressional Campaigns and Voter Choice: A New Framework for Analyzing Aggregate Electoral Behavior"
October 25 - William Bianco, Political Science, Penn State University
"The Art of the Possible: Majority Rule, the Uncovered Set, and the Limits of Legislative Action"
November 1 - Omar Al-Ubaydli, Economics, University of Chicago
"Diamonds are a dictator's best friend: natural resources and the tradeoff between development and authoritarianism"
November 8 - Brian Knight, Economics, Brown University
"The Political Economy of School District Mergers"
November 15 - Mike Munger, Political Science, Duke University
"Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of insurgent recruitment: the role of culture"
December 6 - Adrian Vermeule, Law School, University of Chicago
"Absolute Voting Rules"
March 29 - Jon Caverley, University of Chicago
"Blood and Treasure: Testing a Theory of Democratic Defense Production"
April 12 - Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
"Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities"
April 26 - John Duggan, University of Rochester
"Private Polling in Elections and Voter Welfare"
May 5 - John Roedden, MIT
co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Workshop
May 10 - Nikola Mirilovic, University of Chicago
"Regime Type and Immigration"
May 24 - Jeff Grynaviski, University of Chicago
May 31 - Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
"Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches"
January 4 - Pedro Vicente
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Does Oil Corrupt? Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa"
January 18 - Daniel Chen
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Does Religious Intensity Cause Social Violence?"
February 1 - Chris Rohlfs
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"How Much did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in WWII? Evidence from Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles"
February 15 - Sandy Gordon
Department of Political Science, NYU
"Consumption or Investment? Campaign Contributions and the Structure of Executive Copensation"
February 22 - Gary Cox
Department of Political Science, UC San Diego
"The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre-election Coalitions and Portfolio Distributions"
March 1 - George Tsebelis
Department of Political Science, UCLA
March 8 - Milan Svolik
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
October 5 - Valentin Estevez
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
October 19 - John Binder
Department of Finance, University of Illinois Chicago
October 26 - Merri Rolfe
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
November 2 -David Austen-Smith
Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
November 23 - Cathy Hafer
Department of Political Science, New York University
November 30 - Seung Jung Lee
Department of Economics, University of Chicago
December 7 - Chris Berry
Harris School, University of Chicago
March 30 - Joan Serra, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Informative Dimensions: A New Model for Electoral Choice Under Uncertainty"
April 6 - Casey Mulligan, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"Causes and Consequences of Political Competitiveness"
April 20 - Luis Fernando Medina, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Toward an Operational Theory of Collective Action"
April 27 - Dali Ma, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
"Blocked Mobility and Crosscutting Social Circles in the Creation of Entrepreneurship"
May 11 - Michael Chwe, Department of Political Science, UCLA
"Statistical Game Theory"
May 18 - Adam Meirowitz, Department of Political Science, Princeton University
"In Defense of Exclusionary Deliberation: Communication and Voting With Private Beliefs and Values"
June 2 - Nikola Mirilovic, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Regime Type and Population Growth"
January 13 - Thomas Stratmann, Stigler Center, University of Chicago; Department of Economics, George Mason University
"The Returns to Campaign Spending"
January 27 - Shang Ha, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Party Activists and the Ideological Polarization of American Parties"
February 10 - Sven Feldmann, Harris School, University of Chicago
"Lobbying Bureaucrats: Influence and Delegation Under Alternative Political Structures"
February 24 - Milan Svolik, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
March 2 - Leonid Polishchuk, Department of Economics and Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector, University of Maryland
"Distribution of Assets and Credibility of Property Rights"
March 9 - Lindsey Leininger, Harris School, University of Chicago
March 16 - Lars Frisell, Sveriges Riksbank
"Populism"
April 1 - Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School and CEFIR, Moscow, and CEPR
April 8 - Richard Boylan, University of Alabama, Department of Economics and Finance
April 15 - Rafeal Ditella, Harvard Business School
April 22 - Milan Svolik, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
April 29 - Tim Feddersen, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
May 13 - Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
May 20 - Brandice Canes-Wrone, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
May 27 - Michael Herron, Northwestern University, Department of Political Science
January 21 - Eric Helland, Claremont Graduate School, Dept. of Economics, and the Stigler Center, Chicago GSB
January 28 - David Figlio, University of Florida, Dept. of Economics
February 4 - Mike Ensly, Indiana University, Dept. of Political Science
February 11 - Barbara Kormenos, UCLA, Dept. of Political Science
February 18 - John Griffin, University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Political Science
February 25 - John Lott, American Enterprise Institute
March 4 - Charles Shippan, University of Iowa, Dept. of Political Science
March 11 - Susan Stokes, University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science
October 1 - Steve Callander, Dept. of Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Simon Wilke, Caltech
"Candidate Motivation and Electoral Competition"
October 15 - John Brehm, Dept. of Poltical Science, University of Chicago
"Using Mixture Models as a Means to Ascertain 'Type.'"
October 29 - Joan Serra, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
"Vote Choice and Economic Interest"
November 19 - Steve Ansolabehere, Dept. of Political Science, MIT
"Distributive Politics in the American States"
December 3 - Jeff Grynavisky, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago
December 6 - Gary King, Harvard University
"Enhancing the Validity and Cross Cultural Comparability of Survey Research"
December 10 - Libor Dusek, Dept. of Economics, University of Chicago
"Do governments grow when they become more efficient? Evidence from tax withholding"
April 2 - John Patty, Carnegie-Mellon University
April 9 - Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago
April 16 - Kate Baicker, Dartmouth College and CEA
"The Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions"
April 23 - Phillippe Aghion, Harvard University
April 30 - Jim Snyder, MIT
May 7 - Ken Schotts, Northwestern University
"A Time to Lead and a Time to Pander: The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion"
May 14 - Ken Williams, Michigan State University
"Sequential and Strategic Voting in Collegial Courts: An Experimental Design"
May 21 - John de Figueiredo, MIT
"Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying"
May 28 - Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago
June 4 - Sean Gailmard, University of Chicago
"An Experimental Comparison of Collective Choice Procedures for Excludable Public Goods"
January 15 - Sharun Mukand, Tufts University
January 29 - Fred Boehmke, University of Iowa
February 12 - Lisa George, Michigan State University
February 26 - Serguey Braguinsky, Stigler Center; Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
March 12 - Ken Shotts, Northwestern University
October 16 - Koleman Strumpf, University of North Carolina and the Stigler Center
"Assessing the Importance of Tiebout Sorting: Local Heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990"
October 30 - Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago
"Economic Limits to 'Rational' Democratic Redistribution"
November 13 - Mike Ting, University of North Carolina
"A Strategic Theory of Bureaucratic Redundancy"
November 27 - Mike Bailey, Georgetown University
"Campaign Contributions and Responsive Democracy: A Neo-Pluralist Approach"
December 11 - Howard Margolis, Harris School, University of Chicago
March 28 - Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago
"Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms"
April 4 - Christopher Berry, University of Chicago
"Political Institutions and Public Finance: Some Preliminary Results"
April 18 - Gregory Wawro, Columbia University
"Is All Political-Economics Local? National Elections and Local Economic Conditions; or 'It's the (Local) Economy, Stupid'"
April 26 - John Ferejohn, Stanford University
"Institutionalizing Judicial Independence"
May 2 - Arthur Lupia, University of California, San Diego
"Private Interventions and Public Competence: What citizens learned from election-oriented web sites"
