Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 04/Apr/2024
9:00am
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11:00am
Corruption
Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Beyond the Negative: Exploring the Varied Impacts of Local Corruption on Subnational Growth

Lamar Crombach



The Causal Impact of Electoral Rules on Corruption

Abel François, Nicolas Lagios, Pierre-Guillaume Méon



Why votes are (not) for Sale: Empirical Evidence from a Political Discontinuity Design in India

Anand Murugesan, Jean-Robert Tyran



Reassessing the impact of corruption on income inequality: An Extreme Bounds Analysis using worldwide data

Jochen Hartwig, Jan-Egbert Sturm

Development Economics I
Location: TC.5.03 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Gender equality and globalization: New international evidence

Niklas Potrafke, Ramona Schmid, Jan-Egbert Sturm



Government ideology and financial crises in developing countries: panel VAR approach

Federico Martin Giesenow, Jakob de Haan, Jan P.A.M. Jacobs



Where Is Poverty Concentrated? New Evidence Based on Internationally Consistent Urban and Poverty Measurements

Robin Moellerherm, Shohei Nakamura, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Charlotte Robert, Mark Roberts, Benjamin Stewart, Slava Yakubenko



Subnational border reforms in Africa

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse

Extremism I
Location: TC.5.05 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

On the drivers of extremist voting: economic and cultural dimensions

Lorenzo Catalano, Kristof De Witte



Gender after war: Casualties, nation building and extremism after the collapse of Habsburg

Sinara Gharibyan, Monika Köppl-Turyna, Christian Ochsner



Identity, Polarization, and Extreme Right Voting: Evidence from Francoist Street Names

Iker Arregui Alegria



Attack on climate: The persistent effects of authoritarianism on the demand for climate policy

Vlad Surdea-Hernea, Michael T Dorsch

Institutions & Governance II
Location: TC.5.13 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Digital Transformation, Quality of Government and Productivity Growth in European Regions

Nadia Fiorino, Marco Amendola, Maria Gabriela Ladu, Antonio Pacifico



Reassessing the migration-inequality debate through rent-seeking theory: an empirical investigation

louis Jaeck, Francois Facchini, Hajer Kratou



Institutional Hierarchies and Economic Growth. A Bundled Approach

Helena Helfer



Skyfull : A Survival Analysis of The IMF Executive Board Members

Elie Israël

Migration & Voting Preferences
Location: TC.5.15 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Globalization, income inequality and political realignment: the transition from a two-party to a multi-party electoral system in Costa Rica

Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero, Ronald Alfaro-Redondo



Populist propaganda and anti-migration stances: An experimental investigation

Christian Koch, Jean-Robert Tyran



Can Minority Representation Promote Social Cohesion between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants? An Analysis of Local Governments in England

Sugata Ghosh, Anirban Mitra, Sarmistha Pal



Immigrant narratives in the media

Joop Adema, Kai Gehring, Panu Poutvaara

Political Economy & Climate Change II
Location: TC.5.27 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Broadband internet and fact-resistant beliefs: The case of climate change skepticism

Matthias Roesti



Pollution, traffic reduction and electoral outcomes

Francesco Nicolini, Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi



Wind Power and Veto Power

Stephan A. Schneider, Mattias Folkestad



Trade-offs in policy making: Economists’ vs. peoples’ beliefs

Sarah Necker, Sebastian Blesse, Andreas Peichl, Lisa Windsteiger, Mathias Dolls

Regime Changes & Revolutions
Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

A Model of Civil Disobedience

Doron Klunover



Historical Paths into Democracy and Back

Thomas Apolte



Social Mobility in Times of Revolutions and Regime Changes. Persistence of Elites in 20th Century Russia

Tom Eeckhout, Andrei Markevich, Koen Schoors



Can democratic reforms promote political activism? Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832

Toke S Aidt, Gabriel Leon-Ablan

Social Media
Location: TC.5.14 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Fueling Divisions? The Arrival of Fast Internet to Indian Villages

Johannes Matzat



Disconnecting Dissent: The Effect of Internet Shutdowns on Protests

Thomas Schiller



Social media attention and politicians’ voting behavior: Evidence from the European Parliament

Lukas Möller, Kim Leonie Kellermann, Jonas Klärchen, Felix Hoch

Trust
Location: TC.5.16 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Climate Variability and Horizontal Trust – Econometric Evidence from an Ethnolinguistic Panel in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lara Bieske, David Stadelmann



Local spending on global public goods: The impact of trust in government, government commitment, and government spending priorities on productivity and convergence

Ingrid Ott, Susanne Soretz



Do trusting people vote for Green parties? Evidence from the European regions

Ludek Kouba, Michal Madr



Civil strife, interstate war, and the evolution of social trust: Ukrainian state formation in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict

Christian Bjoernskov, Miguel Ángel Borrella-Más, Martin Rode

11:00am
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11:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Teaching Center, 5th Floor
11:30am
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1:30pm
Climate Policy
Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

"Target-Consistent" Climate Policies

Renaud Bourles, Jeremy Laurent-Lucchetti, Jean-Charles Rochet



Curbing Energy Consumption through Voluntary Quotas: Experimental Evidence

Nicola Campigotto, Marco Catola, Simone D'Alessandro, Pietro Guarnieri, Lorenzo Spadoni



Anti-Environmental Behavior: Disregard or Lack of Information ?

Morgane Tanvé, Michela Limardi



Establishing a Global Emission Trading Scheme as development and climate tool. A design proposal and assessment of welfare effects

Andreas Freytag, Philipp Lamprecht, Matthias Menter, Sebastian Schuhmann

Democracy
Location: TC.5.03 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Defending Democracy: The Effects of Censorship on Propaganda

Matteo Grigoletto, Marcel Caesmann, Janis Goldzycher, Lorenz Gschwent



Democracies are immune to governments of losers

Pilar Sorribas-Navarro



Fleeing freedom: effects of emigration on democracy

Viacheslav Yakubenko, Leonid Azarnert



Do relatively democratic countries grow faster?

Martin Paldam

Development Economics II
Location: TC.5.05 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

On and Off the Rails: Transport, Reallocation and Bankruptcies in 19th Century England and Wales

Tobias Korn, Jean Lacroix



Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth in North Africa

Ikraan Hassan, Khali Mohamed, Klaas Staal



Exposure to Shocks, Social Interactions, and Households’ Financial Health in Kenya

Kefa Maunda Simiyu, Beatrice Mbinya, Moses Muchiri Mwangi



Regional Market Integration and Household Welfare: Spatial Evidence from the East African Community

Frederik Wild

Extremism II
Location: TC.5.13 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

The Political Consequences of Mass Repatriation

Edoardo Cefala



Radicalization of Islam or Peddling Radicalism? Lessons from the French Experience

Jean-Paul Azam, Jérôme Ferret



The Decline of Manufacturing Employment and the Rise of the Far-Right in Austria

Karim Bekhtiar

Monetary Economics I
Location: TC.5.15 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

The climate-induced monetary stress in the euro area

Hamza Bennani, Etienne Farvaque



Price Stability, Financial Stability, and Common–Agency

Georgios Chortareas, Riccardo Russo



Climate Change Risks and Municipal Borrowing Costs: Evidence from Flood Exposure and the US Municipal Bond Market

Frederic Grueninger



DOES CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE LEAD TO MORE MONETARY DISCIPLINE?

Etienne Farvaque, Alexander Jung, Davide Romelli

Political Cycles I
Location: TC.5.27 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Political Legislation Cycles in Ukraine

Fabio Padovano, Olga Veselova



Political Cycles of Media Repression

Nikita Zakharov, Günther Schulze

Political Economy of Fiscal Policy
Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Does the popularity of the incumbent mayor matter for investment activity? Evidence from Polish municipalities

Monika Banaszewska



Electoral Incentives and Efforts to Obtain EU Grants

Francisco José Veiga, Linda Gonçalves Veiga, Otto Swank



Legislature Size and Public Spending: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms investigations

Abel François, Touria Jaaidane, Larribeau Sophie



Disciplining Ballots? – (Un-intended) Effects of Voter Engagement on the Fiscal Sustainability of Swiss Cantons

Yannick Bury, Lars P Feld, Ekkehard Köhler

Political Parties
Location: TC.5.14 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

A century of partisanship in Finnish political speech

Salla Simola, Jeremias Nieminen, Janne Tukiainen



Intra-Party Powersharing: Theory and Evidence from Norway

Christine Terjesdotter Bangum, Jon Hernes Fiva, Giovanna Invernizzi, Carlo Prato, Janne Tukiainen



Political Parties’ Ideological Bias and Economic Policy Convergence

Zeeshan Hashim, Jan Fidrmuc, Sugata Ghosh



Gambling for Re-election

Alastair Langtry, Niklas Potrafke, Marcel Schlepper, Timo Wochner

Social Norms & Culture
Location: TC.5.16 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
 

Arab Spring and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Candan Erdemli, Daniel Montolio, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Judit Vall Castello



Does value transmission affect the efficiency of social policy? Evidence from Germany

Kim Leonie Kellermann, Lena Gerling



Risk of Sexual Violence and Son Preference: How Norms Interact in a Patriarchal Society?

Tista Mukherjee, Sukanta Bhattacharya, Ishita Mukhopadhyay



Opposing one’s government: Are there cultures of civil disobedience?

Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt

1:30pm
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2:30pm
Austrian Micro Data Center Presentation (Statistik Austria)
Location: TC.5.01 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
EJPE Editorial Board Meeting
Location: TC.5.12 - Teaching Center, 5th Floor
Lunch Break
Location: MENSA
2:30pm
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5:30pm
Social Program (cultural visits and tours)
6:00pm
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10:30pm
Conference Dinner (Rathaus)

 
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