Agenda

Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy
PIEP XLI
 

Cambridge, December 2, 2023

CGIS SOUTH, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
 

Sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

8:30 – 9:00 am Continental breakfast and introductions
 

9:00 -11:00 am / Stefanie Walter (Zurich)

"The Accommodation Dilemma: Balancing reputational and material concerns when responding to non-cooperative behavior."

• Discussants: Pol Antràs (Harvard) and Arthur Silve (Université Laval)

11:00 - 11.30 am Coffee break
 

11:30 AM –1.30 pm / David Baron (Stanford)
“Natural Polarization, Sorting, and Gridlock”

• Discussants: David Austen-Smith (Northwestern) and Kathleen Bawn (UCLA)

1.30 – 3.00 pm Lunch
 

3.00 – 5.00 pm / David Stasavage (NYU), Cheng Cheng (NYU), and Yuhua Wang (Harvard).
“The Written Word and the Development of the State in China and Europe”

• Discussants: James Alt (Harvard) and Nancy Qian (Northwestern)