Venue & Dates:

The Seventh Columbia University Conference in Political Economy will be held at the East Gallery of the Maison Française, Columbia University (get directions) on Friday, December 13th.

Faculty Organizers:

Alessandra Casella & John Marshall, Columbia University

Speakers & Schedule:

9:25AM Welcome and Introductions
9:30AM “Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements”
David Yang (Harvard), with Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago), Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Noam Yuchtman (UC Berkeley), and Y. Jane Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Discussant: Pia Raffler (Harvard)
10:35AM Break
10:50AM “Sequential Vote Buying”
Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins University), with Jan Zápal (CERGE-EI)
Discussant: Matias Iaryczower (Princeton)
11:55AM “Majoritarian Bargaining over Budgetary Divisions and Policy” (To access this document, please email econ-per@columbia.edu)
Rebecca Morton (NYU Abu Dhabi), with Andrzej Baranski (Ohio State University) and Nicholas Haas (New York University)
Discussant: Pedro Dal Bó (Brown)
1:00PM Break
2:15PM “Cumulative Voting in Shareholder Meetings” (To access this document, please email econ-per@columbia.edu)
Laurent Bouton (Georgetown), with Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London), Antonin Macé (Paris School of Economics), and Dimitrios Xefteris (University of Cyprus)
Discussant: German Gieczewski (Princeton)
3:20PM “The Long-Run Consequences of Racial Integration Through Busing on Partisanship and Turnout” (To access this document, please email econ-per@columbia.edu)
Ethan Kaplan (Maryland), with Jorg Spenkuch (Northwestern) and Cody Tuttle (Maryland)
Discussant: Hye Young You (NYU)
4:25PM Break
4:40PM “What is socialism today? Conceptions of a cooperative economy”
John Roemer (Yale)
Discussant: Suresh Naidu (Columbia)

* Each session includes 45 minutes of presentations, 10 minutes of discussion and 10 minutes of Q&A.

Speakers & Schedule:

Register for the conference here. Please direct all questions to econ-per@columbia.edu.

We are grateful to Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic and Research and Policy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (ISERP), Program for Economic Research (PER), Economics Department, and Political Science Department for financial support.