Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Economy
Monday 16th April to Friday 20th April 2012
CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Schedule
Monday 16th April
9.00
Welcome & Registration
9.15
The Political Economy of Violent Conflict
Dr David Hugh-Jones (Warwick)
11.00
Morning Coffee
11.30
A Rational Choice Theory of Voter Turnout
Professor David Myatt (Oxford)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Student Presentations
Andreia Guerra de Amorim
Behaviour Based Price Discrimination
Galit Eizman
Brain Drain: A Scale of Signalling Gaps? Lessons from the US-Israeli Case
3.30
Afternoon Tea
4.00
Student Presentations
Victoria Brosi
The German Parliamentary Election System and Social Choice Theory
Chatchi Kongaut
The Impacts of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Prices: The Implication of Regulators
Dominic Spengler
Endogenising Detection in a Corruption Game
5.30
Close
Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Economy
Monday 16th April to Friday 20th April 2012
CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Tuesday 17th April
9.00
Experimental Research in Political Science & Political Economy: Examples & Applications
Professor Christoph Vanberg (Heidelberg)
11.00
Morning Coffee
11.30
Identifying Effects of Rarely Changing and Slowly Moving Variables in PCSTS Data with Applications to
Comparative Political Economy.
Vera Troeger (Warwick)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Student Presentations
Marco Giani
Electoral Competition through Issue Selection
Niall Hughes
A Model of Strategic Voting in Legislative Elections
3.30
Afternoon Tea
4.00
Student Presentations
Adriaan Luyten
Aggregate Partisanship in Germany: The Effects of Consumer Confidence and Government Approval
Konstantinos Matakos
The Impacts of Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Prices: The Implication of Regulators
Artyom Jelnov
Voting Power and Proportional Representation of Voters
5.30
Close
Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Economy
Monday 16th April to Friday 20th April 2012
CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Wednesday 18th April
9.00
Spatial Econometrics in Comparative Political Economy: Detecting Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
Professor Jude Hays (Pittsburg)
11.00
Morning Coffee
11.30
The Political Economy of Terrorism
Professor Thomas Plümper (Essex)
1.00
Lunch
2.00
Student Presentations
Wilfred Chow
Leadership Survival in Autocracies: Why Violent Dictators Actually Care about the Public
Oliver Latham
Politicization of Intelligence Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War
Piotr Lis
Armed Conflict and Terrorism as Determinants of Foreign Aid
4.00
Theatre Trip
Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Economy
Monday 16th April to Friday 20th April 2012
CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Thursday 19th April
9.00
Behavioural Political Economy
Professor Sharun Mukand (Warwick)
11.00
Morning Coffee
11.30
TBA
Dr Andrea Isoni (Warwick)
1.00
Lunch
2.30
Student Presentations
Jeanine Bezuijen
Explaining Variation in IGO Dispute Settlement
Federica Genovese
States’ Interest and Bargaining Positions at the UN Climate Negotiations: Exploring a new dataset
3.30
Afternoon Tea
4.00
Student Presentations
Sven Kerckhoven
The WTO Dispute Settlement: Are All (In)Equal?
Racha Ramadan
Rethinking Global Poverty Measurement
Constantin Ruhe
Predicting One-Sided Violence in Civil Wars
5.30
Close
Methodological Advances in the Study of Political Economy
Monday 16th April to Friday 20th April 2012
CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Friday 20th April
9.00
Student Presentations
Alvin Camba
Assessing the Impact of Globalisation and Europeanisation on Public Utilities: A Stepwise
Comparison of Estonian and Polish Telecommunications and Energy, 1990 -2011
Helia de Costa e Silva
Policy Uncertainty and Investment in Low-Carbon Technology
Maurizio Intartaglia
Determinants of CO2 and SO2 emissions: Empitical Evidence for Different Political Regimes
Frederik Toscani
The Role of Middle Classes in Democratisation
11.00
Morning Coffee
11.30
Closing remarks
12.00
Optional Drinks and Lunch at Gusto Oven and Bar