Wallis Seminar Series on Political Economy

The Seminar Series brings outside speakers to Rochester to discuss their research in the field of political economy. Faculty members and graduate students in the Departments of Political Science and Economics are invited to attend. Seminars run on Thursday, from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in Harkness Hall 112. The Series is organized by John Duggan (john.duggan@rochester.edu) and Tasos Kalandrakis (Kalandrakis@rochester.edu).

Spring 2012

• April 19th
  Arkadi Predtetchinski, Maastricht University
  TBA

Fall 2011

• September 15th
  Cesar Martinelli, ITAM
  “Ignorance and Naivete in Large Elections”
• October 13th
  Michel Le Breton, Toulouse School of Economics
  TBA
• October 20th
  Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick
  “Information Revelation and (Anti-)Pandering in Elections”
• December 1st
  John Roemer, Yale
  TBA

Spring 2011

• Feb 17th
  Adam Meirowitz, Princeton University
  TBA
  
  
• April 21st
  Arkadi Predtetchinski, Maastricht University
  TBA

Fall 2010

• Oct. 7th
  Hulya Eraslan (eraslan@jhu.edu)
  "Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information" (with Ying Chen)



• Nov. 4th
  Tim Feddersen (tfed@kellogg.northwestern.edu)
  "Revealed Preferences and Aspirations in Warm Glow Theory*" (with Vadim Cherepanov and Alvaro Sandroni)

Spring 2010

• April 29th:
  David Epstein (Columbia University)
  

Fall 2009

• October 1st:
  Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago)
  'Foreign Influence and Welfare' (joint with Emir Kamenica)



• October 15th:
  Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois)
  'A political-economy model of taxation and government expenditures with differentiated candidates' (joint with Stefan Krasa)

Spring 2009

• January 21st:
  Gerard Padro-i-Miquel (London School of Economics)
  'Foreign Influence and Welfare' (joint with Pol Antras)



• March 18th:
  Nolan McCarty (Princeton)
  'Welfare and Paternalism' (joint with Stu Jordan)



• April 15th:
  Bahar Leventoglu (Duke)
  'Bargaining and Signaling in International Crises' (joint with Ahmer Tarar)

Fall 2008

• September 25th:
  Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
  "Government Control of the Media" (joint with Konstantin Sonin)



• October 16th:
  Michiko Ueda (Caltech)
  "The Economic Effects of Gerrymandering" (joint with Salvatore Nunnari)



• November 13th:
  Justin Fox (Yale)
  "Partisanship and the Effectiveness of Oversight" (joint with Richard Van Weelden)



• December 11th:
  Ernesto Dal Bo (University of California at Berkeley)
  "Term length and political performance" (joint with Martín Rossi)

Spring 2008

• January 31st:
  Andrea Vindigni (Princeton University)
  *special time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm in Harkness Hall 329*
  'A Theory of Military Dictatorships'



• February 7th:
  James M. Snyder, Jr. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  'Congressional Rents, 1840-1870'



• March 6th:
  Sourav Bhattacharya (University of Pittsburgh)
  'Preference Monotonicity and Information Aggregation in Elections'



• April 24th:
  Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School/CEFIR - Moscow)
  'Coalition Formation in Nondemocracies'

Fall 2007

• October 18th:
  Thad Dunning (Yale University)
  'Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes'



• November 1st:
  John Roemer (Yale University)
  'The Political Economy of Income Taxation'