W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

7th Annual Conference

All Sessions at the Memorial Art Gallery.

Session I: "Campaign Rhetoric: A Model of Reputation," by Enriqueta Aragones and Andrew Postlewaite
Discussant: Ken Shotts; "Lobbying Legislatures," by Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann
Discussant: Taos Kalandrakis; "Election Timing in Majoritarian Parliaments," by Alastair Smith
Discussant: Antonio Merlo
Session II: "Conditional Political Business cycles: Theory and Evidence," by Min Shi and Jakob Svensson
Discussant: Per Petterson; "The Survival of the Welfare State," by John Hassler, Jose Rodriguez Mora, Kjetil Storesletten, and Fabrizio Zilibotti
Discussant: Thomas Renstrom; "Riot Games: A Theory of Mass Political Violence," by Charles Cameron and Sunita Parikh
Discussant: Cesar Martinelli; "A Behavioral Model of Turnout," by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, and Michael Ting
Discussant: Scott Page

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