We are looking for profs, post-docs and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge at University of Toronto in Canada. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, American Politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

Nauro Campos (University College London) will present his research co-authored with Fabrizio Coricelli (University of Siena, Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Marco Frigerio (University of Siena) entitled The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin...

The governance of almost all complex social or natural resource systems is polycentric: it involves distributed, nested and partially overlapping patterns of competitive and cooperative relationships among relatively autonomous private and public actors, operating at different levels, within a...

This workshop will focus on the political economy of policies that promote economic development. We are particularly interested in understanding the following questions: Why are growth-conductive policies or regulations adopted in some regions but not in others? What is the role of capture by...

We investigate whether the occurrence of elections affect access to credit for firms. We perform an investigation using firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. We find that elections have a detrimental influence on access to credit: firms are more credit-constrained in...

ACES Sessions: - Protest in China and Hong Kong; - The Political Economy of China’s Development; - Political Economy and Public Policy in the Emerging Age of AI; - Human and Social Capital in Turbulent Times; - Narratives and Behavior ; - Organizing for Political Change; - Assessing the...

Cato’s 39th Annual Monetary Conference—Populism and the Future of the Fed—will bring together leading scholars and policymakers to explore the risks that populism poses to the conduct of monetary policy. As the bright line between monetary and fiscal policy fades, and the threat of fiscal...

Conference topics: This year’s Historical Materialism online conference seeks proposals for papers and panels on the following area: - the impact of the pandemic on the right to protest; - the rise of social movements against the state and state institutions; - the relation between the...

We welcome submissions that support the enhanced use of such analysis to promote evidence-based decision making. We welcome submissions on multiple methods used to assist public sector decision making, including benefit cost analysis, cost analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit...