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W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

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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'

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