Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 03/Apr/2024 | |||
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Candidates & Candidate Selection Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Jumping without parachutes. Revolving doors and political incentives Is the time right? The effect of meeting times on political representation and selection Populist policy makers Vote Maximization and Discrimination by Political Elites Field Experimental Evidence from the 2021 German Federal Elections |
Constitutional Political Economy II Location: TC.5.03 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor The Growth Consequences of Socialism “One Person, One Vote”: the Effect of Direct Elections on Political Discourse Beyond the Last Term: Analyzing Legislator Engagement in a No-Term-Limit Context The Successor's Dilemma: When Do Incumbent Leaders Designate Successors? |
Crime II Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing contracts When the State Does Not Do Remote Workers Deter Neighborhood Crime? Evidence from the Rise of Working from Home Breaking the Waves: The impact of anti-mafia guidelines on anti-smuggling prosecutions |
| Economic Freedom Location: TC.5.14 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Goldilocks Legislatures: Are Hybrid Legislatures Ideal for Getting Economic Freedom Just Right Economic Freedom and Individualism The Impact of Economic Freedom on Inequality |
Female Politicians Location: TC.5.05 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Managing Migration: Female Mayors and the Intake of Asylum Seekers Substantive Representation of Women Gender Gaps in Political Seniority Systems Female Suffrage and Political Competition |
Fiscal Policy Location: TC.5.13 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Fiscal Policy in Monetary Unions: Central Bank Independence, Country Size, and Economic Conditions Growth Effects of Public Investment and Public Consumption: The Role of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, and Efficiency Growth of public consumption in Austria: Testing Wagner’s Law and Baumol’s Cost Disease Bailouts, Fiscal Austerity, And Consolidation Strategies |
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| Media I Location: TC.5.15 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Terrorism, Media Attitudes Towards Migration and Votes: Evidence from France Don't think twice, it's allright Round Numbers, Household Inflation Expectations, and the Media Too Hot to Play It Cool? Temperature and Media Bias |
Political Economy of Innovation Policy Location: TC.5.27 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways The Long-term Effect of Western Customs Institution on Firm Innovation Investment Screening and Venture Capital |
Taxation Location: TC.5.16 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Fiscal Capacity with Accumulating Defense Activities I am a Taxpayer ... Get Me Out of Here?!? Evidence on Attitudes Towards Simplifying the Tax Jungle Costly, but (Relatively) Ineffective? An Assessment of Germany’s Temporary VAT Rate Reduction During the Covid-19 Pandemic The effects of corporate taxes on business entry and exit |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Teaching Center, 5th Floor |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Keynote Speech: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Location: CEREMONIAL HALL 1, Library & Learning Center |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
EPCS Board Meeting Location: CEREMONIAL HALL 2, Library & Learning Center |
Light Lunch Location: FORUM, Library & Learning Center |
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| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Conflict II Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor The political economy of the original “Thucydides’ Trap”: A Conflict Economics Perspective on The Peloponnesian War Commodity Prices, Financial Trading and Conflict The Effect of the Violent “Woman Life Freedom” Protests on Life Satisfaction in Iran: Evidence from Survey Data |
Constitutional Political Economy III Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Determining the size of jurisdictions for implementing language rights Natural Disasters and Sharia Laws Direct Democracy and Political Extremism Turnout and non-conventional voting options in Brazilian municipal elections: First versus second round |
Economic Development Location: TC.5.03 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor “Monopolistic” vs. “Cooperative” State in the Institutional and Economic Modelling of Antonio De Viti De Marco Structural funds and beta-convergence of German counties Out of the Dark into the Light? Impact of EU Eastern Enlargements on Development of Border Municipalities Historical GDP per capita estimates for European and North American countries and regions |
| Education Location: TC.5.05 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Publish under Pressure – Analysing Academics’ Strategic Behavior Preschool duration, family background and long-term outcomes: Evidence from the expansion of Ecole Maternelle in France Does education affect religiosity? Causal evidence from a conservative emerging economy Caste flight from public schools |
Electoral Rules & Voting Location: TC.5.13 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Seating Proximity and Common Voting Behaviour at the United Nations General Assembly How Do People Vote Under Instant Runoff Voting? An Experiment on Complexity and Voting Behavior Caring for Minorities: The Flexible Decision Rule Incumbents elected in proportional elections struggle in plurality elections. Quasi-experimental evidence from electoral reforms |
Fiscal Rules & Sustainability Location: TC.5.14 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor A New Fiscal Rule Index for Swiss Cantons High on Fiscal Drugs? Empirical Evidence on Fiscal Equalization Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability of Swiss Cantons Distance matters: The Impact of Geographical and Political Proximity on Fiscal Rules Enforcement |
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| Lobbying Location: TC.5.27 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Lobbying under conflicting interests Does Access Mean Success? Connection to Policy-Makers and Lobbying Success of Political Actors Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence The Power of the Pen: Influences of Lobbying on Legislative Procedures in Europe |
Media II Location: TC.5.16 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor The Media-Morphosis of Science Communication during Crises: Evidence from a Large Survey Consolidating an Autocracy: The effect of state media on electoral outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela Hey, pandemic’s out, now we’ve got a war: The health consequences of shifting media attention Social Media campaigning and voter behavior – evidence for the German Federal election 2021 |
Migration Location: TC.5.15 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Do immigrants hurt local public finances? Evidence from Italy Income and Migration: Evidence from a Century of Windfall Income Shocks The Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Migration The Effect of Immigration on the German Housing Market |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: Teaching Center, 5th Floor |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Conflict III Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor The Role of Droughts and Religious Cleavages in Pastoralist Conflict in Nigeria How Do Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices? Economic Knock-On Effects of Russia’s Geopolitical Risk on Advanced Economies: A Global VAR Approach |
Economic Voting Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Economic Voting in Electoral Precincts: Evidence from Germany’s 400 Largest Cities Roads and Votes Forecasting Opinion Polls using Economic Variables and Uncertainty Indices The effects of fiscal policy management, candidacy of previous mayors, and illiteracy on mayoral reelection in Brazil |
Fake News & Disinformation Location: TC.5.03 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Troll Farms and Voter Disinformation Accountability despite misinformation Information Sharing with Social Image Concerns and the Spread of Fake News Combating fake news in health: an online survey |
| Female Politicians & Elections Location: TC.5.05 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Limited Effects of Gender Quota in Local Elections: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment Impact of a High-Rank Female Politician on Women's Participation in Politics: Evidence from Poland's Local Mayoral and Council Elections. Does partisanship matter? Gender Bias in the Reelection of Politicians (When a Crisis Strikes) Integration among municipalities and voter turnout: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in France |
Foreign Aid Location: TC.5.14 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Growth in the Aftermath of War: Aid Effectiveness in Post-Conflict Locations Competent-looking dictators attract more foreign aid Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism |
Institutions & Governnance I Location: TC.5.13 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Polycentric Governance in Collusive Agreements: A New Rationale for Cartel Duration and Sanctions after Detection Institutional Change and Persistence: What does the long–run evidence tell us? Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies State-Owned Suppliers, Political Connections, and Performance of Privately-held Firms |
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| International Political Economy Location: TC.5.15 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Caste Based Occupational Rigidity in the Context of Trade Liberalization in India Political instability, international trade, and government spending in the European Union: A network-based approach Collusion and the Prolongation of Trade Protection Political Risk Contributes to Post-Crisis Violations of Covered Interest Parity |
Local Public Finance Location: TC.5.27 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Local Finance and Job Creation: Examining Local Fiscal Multipliers on Private Employment A spatial panel analysis of expenditure functions of municipalities in France Local Fiscal Policy Announcements and Firm Expectations: Evidence from Switzerland Decomposing the local public fiscal response to resource windfalls: Fracking in Texas |
Political Economy & Climate Change I Location: TC.5.16 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor Political backlash against climate policy: The electoral costs of renewable energy in a multilayer government Motivated Reasoning, and the Political Economy of Ignoring Climate Change Narrative Intervention: The Case of Production Technology for Gold-Mining in Peru |
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| 6:00pm - 8:30pm |
EPCS Members Meeting & In memoriam: Charles Beat Blankart (Friedrich Schneider & Christoph Schaltegger) Location: AUDIMAX, Teaching Center |
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