The First Political Economy Workshop will be held at Department of Economics (Room S2.79), University of Warwick on Friday 9^th March 2012.

Draft Programme

Thursday 8^th March 2012

18:30-19:30: Drinks
19:30-21:30: Conference dinner

Friday 9^th March 2012

9.30 - 10.00: Coffee and Registration (Room S2.77)

10:00-10.55: Balazs Szentes (discussant: Karine Van Der Straeten)
“Spontaneous Discrimination” (with Marcin Peski)

11:05-12:00: Tommaso Nannicini (discussant: TBA)
“How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign" (with Francesco Trebbi, UBC)

12:00-13:00: Lunch

13:00-13:55: Andrea Mattozzi (discussant: Stefano Gagliarducci)
“Choosing Policy-Makers: Learning from Past Decisions in a Changing Environment” (with Matias Iaryczower)

14.05-15:00: Francesco Squintani (discussant: Enriqueta Aragones)
“Information Aggregation and Optimal Selection of the Executive” (with Torun Dewan, Andrea Galeotti and Christian Ghiglino)

15.00-15.30: Tea break

15:30-16:25: Gilat Levy (discussant: Vincenzo Galasso)
"Rituals or Good Works: Social Signalling in Religious Organizations" (with Ronny Razin)

16:35-17:30: David Myatt (discussant: Micael Castanheira)
“A Rational-Choice Theory of Voter Turnout”

The format of each talk is 45 minutes presentation followed by 10 minutes discussion.

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Programme