Political Economy Seminar - Oxford Talks

Political Economy Seminar

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford) , Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
Timing: Mondays 11:30am - 12:45pm
Organising department: Department of Economics

Wednesday 11 October 2023

11:00 - "Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan" (with co-authors: Joshua Blumenstock, Anastasiia Faikina, Stefano Fiorin, Tarek Ghani)
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Michael Callen (LSE)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

11:00 - Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023

12:15 - Wealth in People
James Robinson (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

11:00 - Consolidating an Autocracy: The effect of state media on electoral outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela / The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany
Abelardo De Anda Casas (University of Oxford), Björn Brey (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

11:00 - An Economic Model of Deliberative Democracy
Professor Sir Tim Besley (LSE)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

11:00 - “Politically Motivated Trade Protection” (with Chad Bown, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi)
Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

11:00 - History's Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

11:00 - “Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI" with Martin Beraja, Andrew Kao, David Y. Yang
Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 January 2024

11:00 - Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

11:00 - The Consequences of Eastern European Slavery
Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

11:00 - The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races
Kate Casey (Stanford)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

11:00 - National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development
Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

11:00 - Tailored Stories
Chiara Aina (Harvard University)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

11:00 - Zero-sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
11:00 - Strategic storytelling: the interplay of pictures and text in press coverage
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

11:00 - Individualism, Identity, and Institutional Stability: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700-1850
Davide Cantoni (University of Munich)

Wednesday 24 April 2024

11:00 - International Power
David Yang (Harvard University)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

11:00 - Religion and Rise and Fall of Islamic Science
Eric Chaney (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

15:00 - Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
Prof. Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

11:00 - Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting
Niccolò Meriggi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

11:00 - Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization
Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

11:00 - The Far-Right Donation Gap
Julia Cage (Sciences Po)

Wednesday 5 June 2024

11:00 - 100 Years of Political Selection in the U.K
Edgard Dewitte (University of Oxford)
11:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Ernesto dal Bo (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Monday 14 October 2024

11:30 - Rethinking Capitalism: The Power of Creative Destruction
Philippe Aghion (College de France)

Monday 21 October 2024

11:30 - Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act (with G. Facchini, M. Tabellini, and C. Testa)
Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 October 2024

11:30 - American Life Histories (with D. Lagakos and S. Michalopoulos)
Professor Joachim Voth (UBS Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich)

Monday 4 November 2024

11:30 - Aló Presidente: Direct Political Communication and Electoral Outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela
Abelardo De Anda Casas (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 November 2024

11:30 - A Research Program on COVID-19: Three Examples
Torsten Persson (Stockholm University)

Monday 18 November 2024

11:30 - Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China
Ruixue Jia (University of California San Diego)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

16:00 - The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from African Migration to Europe
Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 2 December 2024

11:30 - Institutions Affect Preferences: The Value of Autonomy Under Liberal and Authoritarian Regimes
Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute), Katrin Schmelz (Santa Fe institute)

Monday 20 January 2025

11:30 - A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?
Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 January 2025

11:30 - A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice
Pedro Bordalo (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2025

11:30 - Migration Policy Backlash, Identity and Integration of Second-generation Migrants in France
Yajna Govind (Copenhagen Business School)

Monday 10 February 2025

11:30 - Irrigation and Inequality
Dr Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2025

11:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Hye Young You (Princeton University)

Monday 24 February 2025

11:30 - Moral Violence
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago)
11:30 - Paying Not to Know: News Avoidance in Times of War
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)

Monday 3 March 2025

11:30 - Extreme Weather Events and the Support for Democracy
Nicolas Cerkez (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 March 2025

11:30 - Title TBC
Nancy Qian (Northwestern University)

Monday 17 March 2025

11:30 - Relationships & Responsibility
Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

11:30 - Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

11:30 - Title TBC
Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)

Monday 19 May 2025

11:30 - The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 June 2025

11:30 - Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Rachel Kranton (Duke University)

Monday 9 June 2025

11:30 - Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)

Monday 16 June 2025

11:30 - Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)

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Editors: Emma Heritage, Edward Clark

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