Wallis Institute Annual Conference


33rd Annual Conference

September 25-26, 2026

The Wallis Institute Annual Conference on Political Economy will be held on September 25-26, 2026.


Conference Papers

(In alphabetical order by speaker.)

Matteo Camboni
Sam Kapon
“The Dynamics of Random Purges”
Discussant: Brenton Kenkel, Vanderbilt University

Scott Gehlbach
Zhaotian Luo
Spencer Pantoja
“A Relational Theory of Autocracy” 
Discussant: Maria “Masha” Titova, Vanderbilt University

Horacio Larreguy
Jeremy Bowles
Shelley Liu
Ahmet Akbiyik
“Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy” 
Discussant: Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto

Anqi Li
Lin Hu
Xu Tan
“Rationally Inattentive Echo Chambers”
Discussant: Peter Buisseret, Harvard University

Elliot Lipnowski
Navin Kartik
Harry Pei
“Replacement and Reputation”
Discussant: Nicolas Bonneton, Vanderbilt University

Mehdi Shadmehr
Daron Acemoglu
A. Arda Gitmez
“Automation and Repression” 
Discussant: Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University

Ernesto Tiburcio
Vasiliki Fouka
Marco Tabellini
“Immigration and the Political Behavior of Naturalized and Hispanic Americans”
Discussant:  Stephanie Zonszein Strauss, UC Berkeley


Past Conferences

Programs of past conferences: 202520242023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000,1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1993, 1992