Fall 2003 Political Economy Workshop

Seminars are held Fridays from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in Room 747 in the Politics Department at 726 Broadway.

Coordinators:
Prof. Rebecca Morton @ (212) 998-3706 or rebecca.morton@nyu.edu
Prof. Ronny Razin @ (212) 998-8904 or ronny.razin@nyu.edu

Date Speaker Title
5-Sep Sophie Bade, New York U. Multidimensional Voting under Uncertainty
12-Sep Kfir Eliaz, New York U. Group Decision-Making in the Shadow of Disagreement
(with Debraj Ray and Ronny Razin)
19-Sep Muhamet Yildiz, MIT Moderation of an Ideological Party
26-Sep Sean Gailmard, U. of Chicago Testing Proposer Pivot Models (with Daniel Diermeier)
3-Oct Steven Brams, NYU Voter Sovereignty and Election Outcomes (with M. Remzi Sanver)
10-Oct Ariel Rubinstein, Princeton & NYU On Optimal Rules of Persuasion (with Jacob Glazer)
Please play the Persuasion game by clicking here.
17-Oct Robert Powell, U of California Berkeley The Inefficient Use of Power: Costly Conflict with Complete Information
24-Oct Andrea Prat, London School of Economics The Wrong Kind of Transparency
31-Oct Cathy Hafer, NYU Public Goods and Political Unions
7-Nov Allan Drazen, Tel Aviv U.  "Where Does the Political Budget Cycle Really Come From?" (with Adi Brender)
14-Nov Walter Mebane, Cornell U. Imitative and Evolutionary Processes that Produce Coordination Among American Voters [pdf] [ps]
21-Nov Andy Hanssen, Montana The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece
28-Nov Thanksgiving  
5-Dec Roland Benabou, Princeton U. Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics