Past Speaker Schedule and Paper Downloads

Fall 2007

Thursday, October 4
Menzie Chinn (webpage)
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
 University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Measuring Currency Misalignment: Theories, Models, and the Chinese Yuan"
 12 noon, 422 North Hall

Thursday, October 18
Nathan Jensen (webpage)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Washington University in St. Louis
"Where Do U.S. Multinationals Pay Taxes?"
12 noon, 422 North Hall

Thursday, December 6
Yoshikuni Ono
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Intra-Party Allocation in Japan 
12 noon, 422 North Hall

 

Spring 2007

Thursday, February 15
Timothy Fry
Professor
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
"Property Rights and Property Wrongs in Russia"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
(co-sponsored by CREECA)

Thurday, February 22
John Nye
Professor
Department of Economics
Washington University in St. Louis
"The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, March 15
Kenneth Scheve
Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University
"Political Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall
(co-sponsored by WAGE and APD Workshop)

Thursday, March 22
Ilia Murtazashvili
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Private Provision of Public Law: Contracting in the Great Society,"
Based on Chapters Two and Three of The Political Economy of Private-Order Property Systems: Informal Contracting and the Emergence of Legal Titles in the United States (dissertation)
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, April 19
Alberto Simpser
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
"A Theory of Elections with Electoral Corruption"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Thursday, May 3
Daniel Treisman
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
"Policy Decentralization and Policy Experimentation" (with Hongbin Cai)
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

 

Fall 2006

Friday, September 8
Daniel Diermeier
IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
"Bicameralism and Government Formation"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, September 29
Joshua Tucker
Associate Professor
Department of Politics
New York University
"Pathways to Partisanship: Evidence from Russia"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall
(co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science)
Addtional reading

Thursday, October 5
Monika Nalepa
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Rice University
"Why Do Post-Communist Parties in New Democracies Hurt Themselves? A Model of Strategic Preemption"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
(co-sponsored by CREECA)

Friday, October 20
Edmund Malesky
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
"Re-Thinking the Obsolescing Bargain: Do Foreign Investors Really Surrender ther Influence over Economic Reform in Transition States?"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, November 3
Henry Brady
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
"Why do the Rich Contribute so Much to Political Campaigns? Some Surprising Results from a Formal Model"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, November 17
Randall Calvert
Thomas S. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Department of Political Science
Washington University in Saint Louis
"Deliberation as Coordination through Cheap Talk"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

Friday, December 1
Justin Fox
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Yale University
"Electoral Donations and Interest Group Influence"
11:30 a.m., 422 North Hall

 

Spring 2006

Thursday, January 26
Philip Keefer
Senior Research Economist
Development Research Group
The World Bank
"Clientelism, Credibility and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, February 9
Songying Fang
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
"Electoral Incentives and the Pacific Effect of International Institutions"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, October 5
Randall Stone
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
 "Formalizing Informal Cooperation: Norm-Based Cooperation and the European Stability and Growth Pact"
9:30 a.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, March 9
Jenna Bednar
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
The Robust Federation
Chapter 7, Chapter 8
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, March 30
Santiago Oliveros
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Information Acquisition and Flexible Preferences in Committees", Appendix
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall

Thursday, April 13
Matt Dimick, Department of Sociology
Scott Gehlbach, Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Political Transitions in Warring States"
12:45 p.m., 411 North Hall