The Department of Economics and Management of the University of Luxembourg (Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance) is proud to host the inaugural Benelux Political Economy Conference (PECO) on June, 15-16, 2023. This cross-disciplinary conference, co-organised with the Université Libre du Bruxelles and the Erasmus University Rotterdam, will bring together a community of top economists and political scientists from the world’s leading universities (Chicago, Harvard, New York, Princeton, and Stockholm Universities, to name a few), and provide an opportunity for them to discuss cutting-edge research in political economy.
How do government institutions shape economic policy? How can they help, or hamper, policymakers in facing the many challenges and uncertainties of a rapidly changing world (political polarisation, conflicts, climate change, technological progress, inequality,…)? And how could those institutions be improved?
These are pressing questions that scholars of government from economics and political science are well suited to answer. Initiated by Professor Vincent Anesi (FDEF), the aim of Benelux PECO is to create a European counterpart to the existing Washington PECO, in facilitating stronger interdisciplinary cooperations among the world’s leading experts on government and public policy to make progress on such issues.
Conference programme
Thursday, June 15
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12.30 – 13.55
Lunch and registration
JKF Building 29, avenue Kennedy Luxembourg Ground Floor -Room 004 -
14.00 – 16.20
Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D
Noisy Sequential Screening with Positive Selection (14.00 – 15.10)
Germán Gieczewski (Princeton University)
Discussant: Sinem Hidir (University of Warwick)Gerrymandering when Turnout Rates Differ (joint with Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot, and Allison Stashko) (15.10 – 16.20)
Discussant: Andrea Mattozzi (University of Bologna) -
16.20 – 16.50
Main Building, Ground Floor -Room 10F
Coffee break
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16.50 – 18.00
Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D
The Class Ceiling in Politics (joint with Olle Folke)
Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University)
Discussant: Irma Clots-Figueras (University of Kent) -
19.00
Conference dinner
Friday, June 16
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9.55 – 11.05
Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D
Modes of Thinking in a Complex Game. Some Methodological Notes and an Experiment (joint with Olivier Compte and Shuhua Si)
Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)
Discussant: Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi University) -
11.05 – 11.35
Main Building, Ground Floor -Room 10F
Coffee break
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11:35 – 12:45
Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D
Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation (joint with Eran Shmaya and Leeat Yariv)
Alessandro Lizzeri (Princeton University)
Discussant: Santiago Oliveros (University of Bristol) -
12:45 – 14:00
JKF Building 29, avenue Kennedy Luxembourg Ground Floor -Room 004
Lunch
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14:00 – 15:10
Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D
Partisan Traps (joint with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita)
Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Galina Zudenkova (Dortmund University
The conference will be hosted by the Université Libre du Bruxelles next year, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2025.
Attendance is by invitation only.