Workshop on The Political Economy of Democracy
Barcelona, June 5 – 7, 2008

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PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 5

WELCOMING SESSION. 9:45h

SESSION 1. 10h – 11h
Chair: Helios HERRERA (Columbia University)

  • Enriqueta ARAGONÈS (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC))
    Pilar DELLUNDE (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
     “An Automated Model of Government Formation”

11h. – 11:15h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2. 11:15h – 1:15h
Chair: Santiago SANCHEZ-PAGÉS  (University of Edinburgh)

  • Gilat LEVY (London School of economics)
     “Bidding for attention and competing for votes in political debates”
  • Jon EGUIA (New York University)
     “A Spatial Theory of Party Formation”

13:15h – 14:15h. LUNCH

SESSION 3. 14:15h – 16:15h
Chair: Daniela IORIO  (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  •  John PATTY (Harvard University)
     “Representation through institutions”
  • Nicola PERSICO (New York University)
     “Factions and Political Competition”

16:15h – 16:30h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4. 16:30h – 18:30h
Chair: Salvador BARBERÀ (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • John ROEMER (Yale University)
    “A positive theory of income taxation when parties focus upon core and swing voters”
  • Josep M. COLOMER (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    “The Invisible Hand in Institutional Design

FRIDAY, JUNE 6

SESSION 1. 10h– 11h
Chair:  Gerard PADRO (London School of Economics)

  • Carmen, BEVIÁ (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    ”Peace Agreements without Commitment” 

11:00h – 11:15h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2. 11:15h– 13:15h
Chair: Joaquim SILVESTRE (Universitat de California-Davis)

  • Andrea MATTOZZI (California Institute of Technology)
     “Few Enemies, Much Honor: On the Competitiveness of Electoral Systems”
  • Clara PONSATÍ (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC))
     “Efficient and stable majority rules for one-dimensional collective choices”

13:15h – 14:15h. LUNCH

SESSION 3. 14:15h – 16:15h
Chair: Galina ZUDENKOVA (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Micael CASTANHEIRA  (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
     “The Condorcet-Duverger trade-off: information aggregation in multicandidate elections”
  • Guillermo ROSAS  (Washington University)
     “Non-ignorable abstentions in roll-call data analysis”

16:15h – 16:30h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4. 16:30h – 18:30h
Chair: Patricia FUNK (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  • Jim SNYDER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
     “Political Rents”
  • Carles BOIX (Princeton University)
    "The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions and Power-sharing in Dictatorships"

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

SESSION 1. 10h– 11h
Chair: Oriol CARBONELL (Rutgers University)

  • Humberto LLAVADOR (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    "An Agenda-Setting Model of Electoral Competition"

11h – 11:30h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2. 11:30h – 13:30h
Chair: Hannes MUELLER (London School of Economics)

  • Thomas PALFREY (California Institute of Technology)
     “A Citizen Candidate Model with Private Information”
  • Francesco SQUINTANI (Universita degli Studi di Brescia)
     “A Vindication of Responsible Parties”

13:30h – 14:30h. LUNCH

SESSION 3. 14:30h – 16:30h
Chair: Daniel CARDONA (Universitat de les Iles Balears)

  • David EPSTEIN (Columbia University)
    "Caucuses and Primaries Under Proportional Representation"
  • Andrei GOMBERG (ITAM)
    "An experimental study of the citizen-candidate model"

16:30h – 17:00h. COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4. 17h – 18h
Chair: Luis CORCHÓN (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Norman SCHOFIELD (Washington University) 
     “An activist model of democracy”

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