Wallis Institute Annual Conference

23^rd Annual Conference

September 23^rd and 24^th, 2016

held at the Schlegel Hall, Wm. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, UR

Detailed Schedule

Program:

• Jörg Spenkuch, Northwestern University, (with David Toniatti), "Political Advertising and Election Outcomes"
  Discussant: Alan Gerber, Yale University
• Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago, (with Navin Kartik and Stephane Wolton), "Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation"
  Discussant: Adam Meirowitz, University of Utah
• Alexander Hirsch, California Institute of Technology, "Policy Contests"
  Discussant: Vijay Kirshna, Penn State University
• Sergio Montero, University of Rochester, "Going It Alone? An Empirical Study of Coalition Formation in Elections"
  Discussant: Camilo Garcia-Jimeno, University of Pennsylvania
• Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston, (with Somdeep Chatterjee and Andrea Szabó), " 'None of the Above' Votes in India and the Consumption Utility of Voting."
  Discussant: Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University
• Attila Ambrus, Duke University, (with Volodymyr Baranovskyi and Aaron Kolb), "A Delegation-based Theory of Expertise"
  Discussant: Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University
• Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, (with Salvador Barbera), "A Model of Protests, Revolution, and Information"
  Discussant: Santiago Oliveros, University of Essex