CREST – Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris
March 24, 2022
Workshop on Political Economy

Organizers: Pierre Boyer, Alessandro Riboni, Germain Gauthier and Héloïse Clolery
Address: CREST 5, avenue Henry Le Chatelier 91120 Palaiseau

Room 3001

12:00 – 13:30: Welcome lunch

13:30-14:00: Allan Drazen (University of Maryland) “Voting with Your Brain, Your Gut, … or Simply Holding Your Nose?”

14:00-14:30: Benoit Schmutz (CREST) “Mobilization without Consolidation: Social Media and the Yellow Vests Protests”

14:30-15:00: Alessandro Riboni (CREST) “Sticky Spending, Sequestration and Government Debt”

15:00-15:30: coffee break

15:30-16:00: Héloïse Clolery (CREST) “Legislators in the Crossfire: Strategic Non-Voting and the Effect of Transparency”

16:00-16:30: Germain Gauthier (CREST) “Sex Crimes and the Me Too Movement”

16:30-17:00: coffee break

17:00-17:30: Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE) “Bidding for roads”

17:30-18:00: Thierry Verdier (PSE) “Culture, Institutions and the Long Divergence”

End of the Workshop