• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Feeding the Tigers: Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka
  Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
• 15:30 - Strategic Storytelling
  Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 24 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)

Monday 10 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 29 April 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)

Wednesday 14 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 2 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Rachel Kranton (Duke University)

Monday 9 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management)