Conference on Empirical and Formal Models of Politics:

15-16 March 2004

Center in Political Economy Washington University

 

Location

Monday Morning, Elliot 200

thereafter Elliot 300

Sunday March 14 Dinner at Squires in Lafayette Square

Monday, March 15th 

10:00-11:00

 Norman Schofield and Itai Sened (WU),

Multiparty competition in Israel 1988-1996

11:00-11:30

coffee

11:30-12:30

Alastair Smith (NYU) (with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita , NYU & Hoover)

The Empirical Economy of Corporate Fraud:A Theory and Empirical Tests

12:30-2:00

Lunch at Blueberry Hill 6504 Delmar(727-0880)

2:00-3:00
Sebastiano Bavetta (Palermo and LSE)
Measuring Autonomy Freedom 

 3:00-3:15

Short Coffee Break

3:15-4:15
William T. Bianco(Penn)  Michael Lynch, Gary J. Miller and Itai Sened(WU)   
Using an Estimate of the Uncovered Set to Retrodict Old Experimental Results as well as some New 
Ones

 4:15-4:30
Short Coffee Break

4:30-5:30
Howard Margolis (U Chicago)
An analytical engine for data from social choice experiments

Dinner at Squirres,Lafayette Square.

Tuesday March 16th 

10:00-11:30

11:00-11:30

coffee

11:30-12.00

John Huber (Columbia) (with Nolan McCarty, Princeton)

Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform

12:30-2:00

lunch

2:00-3:00

Sunita Parikh(WU) (with Barry Weingast, Hoover)

Partisan Politics and the Structure and Stability of Federalism, Indian Style

3:00-3:20

Coffee

3:20-4:20
Jenna Bedna (UMich)
Authority Migration in Federations:A Framework for analysis

4:20-4:30
Short Coffee 

4:30-5:30
Fiona McGillivray (NYU) (with Alastair Smith, NYU)
The Impact of Leadership Turnover on Trading Relations between States

5:30

Discussion
 with smoked salmon and bagels

 Most the outside participants will be booked in at The Charles Knight Executive Center:knightcenter@olin.wustl.edu..tel:314 935 4731.

Prior Conferences:
Conference on Empirical and Formal Models of Politics Jan 16-18, 2004