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Seminar series on "Polarization and Conflict" at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
Copy of some of the papers can be downloaded in pdf version by clicking on the tit
Spring 2002 April 2002 April
22th Polarization and Conflict: theory and applications:
April
29th Group Formation: Coalitions May 2002 May
15, 16, 21 and 22 Alberto Bisin (New York University): Course on
"Endogenous Preferences and Social Interactions". May 27th Luis Huesca: "Analysis of Household Polarization in Mexico during 1984-2000." June 2002 June 3rd Joan M. Esteban "Religion and Money: a model of religious conflict) June 10th Raul López: "Socialization of preferences" , Marc Vorsatz: "Identity" June
17th Matteo Cervellati "Redistributive Conflict in Unequal
Democracies: Opportunity Equalizing Government Policies and the Role of
the Middle Class". Spring 2001
April 2001 April 3rd: VINCENT BUSKENS (Utrecht University), "Social networks and Trust" April 24th: ELIANA LA FERRARA (Bocconi University and IGIER), "Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities" (joint with A. ALESINA) May 2001 May 8th: JOSEP MARIA COLOMER, (CSIC & Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Which are the best institutions for a satisfactory and durable democracy?" This talk will be based on Colomer's recently published book, 'Political Institutions. Democracy and Social Choice' (Oxford UP/Ariel, 2001) May 15th: ALBERTO BISIN, (New York University), "Advertising, Mass Consumption and capitalism" (joint with Jess Benhabib) May 22nd: JEAN-PAUL AZAM, (ARQADE, UNIVERSITY TOULOUSE), "Civil War and the Social Contract" May 29th: MARTA REYNAL-QUEROL (STICERD-LSE, IAE) "Why some Democracies fail? Political Systems, Stability and Civil Wars" SANTIAGO SÁNCHEZ-PAGÈS (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) "Coalition Formation and Exclusion from a Common Pool Resource" June 2001 June 5th: DEBRAJ RAY, (New York University and IAE) "Persistent Inequality" (joint with D. Moorherjee) June 12th: JOEL GUTTMAN, (BAR-ILAN University) "Families, Markets, and Self-Enforcing Reciprocity Norms" June 19th: ADAM PRZEWORSKY, (New York University) "Democracy as an Equilibrium" June 26th: THIERRY VERDIER, (CERAS, DELTA, CEPR) TBA Winter 2001 January 2001 January 16th: KARL WÄRNEREYD (Stockholm School of Economics), "Conflicts and Information" January 22nd: TIM BESLEY (London School of Economics), "The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India" (joint with Robin Burgess) January 30th: ANKE HOEFFLER (Oxford), "Greed and Grievance in Civil Wars"
February 2001 February 6th: ENRIQUETA ARAGONÈS (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Candidate Quality and Electoral Competition: Theory and Data" February 13th: NUNO GAROUPA (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "War and Peace: the European Decolonization Process." February 20:
HUMBERTO LLAVADOR, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Political
Compromise: Platforms and Policies" Febrary 27th: (2 SHORT SESSIONS) 1st session (5:15- 6:00): HERNANDO ZULETA (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Can Pre-donation Prevent Conflicts?" 2nd session (6:00-6:45): ALEJANDRO LUGON (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Spatial Electoral Competition with Pre-positioned Parties"
March 2001 March 6th: PIERGIUSEPPE FORTUNATO (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Bologna), "Cyclical Strikes and Human Capital Accumulation under asymmetric information" March 13th: JEAN-YVES DUCLOS (Université Laval, Quebec and Centre de Recherche en économie et finance appliquées-CRÉFA), "Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrated Approach" (joint with Vincent Jalbert and Abdelkrim Araar) March 20th: STERGIOS SKAPERDAS (University of California, Irvine), "The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State." March 27th: ABHINAY MUTHOO (Essex), "On the Foudations of Basic Property Rights, Part I: A Model of the State-of-Nature with Two Players"
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