The Political Economy + AI seminar is an online seminar focused on political economy research using AI and computational methods. We welcome work in progress and methods talks on these topics.
Formerly the Public Governance working group, the seminar is organized jointly by King's College London and Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL.
More information can be found on the website of the Political Economy + AI seminar.
Periodicity: Mondays from 17h30 to 18h30 (Paris time).
If you would like to present, attend, or have any question about seminar, please contact Vladimir Avetian (vladimir.avetian@kcl.ac.uk) or Edgar Jimenez Bedolla (edgar.jimenez-bedolla@dauphine.psl.eu)
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Upcoming sessions
Andreu Casas Salleras (University of Oxford)
Large Language Models as Lab Agents: Transfer Learning for Building Generalizable Automatic In-House Annotators
Christian Arnold (University of Birmingham)
Invisibilization as a Source of Probability Bias in Language Models
Camille Urvoy (University of Mannheim)
TBA
Mathias Bühler (LMU Munich)
TBA
Oliver Rittmann (London School of Economics)
TBA
Past sessions
Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)
Concealed Repression and Conflict (with Nico Voigtländer)
Philine Widmer (UniDistance Suisse, PSE)
The Slant of Large Language Models: Evidence from a Persuasion Experiment (with Tiffany Kreutschy)
Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam)
The Asking Price of Incorporation: State Leverage and the Evolution of Corporate Purpose
Masahiro Kubo (Clermont Aubergne University)
“Regime Change and Local Industrialization: Evidence from the Meiji Restoration”
Alexander Katsaitis (Stockholm University)
RESCHEDULED
Sophie Suda (University of Basel)
Measuring the quality of politicians
Martin Koenen (IIES at Stockholm University)
TBA (Rescheduled)
Anjali Adukia (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)
Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks
Olimpia Cutinelli-Rendina (Sciences Po - Strasbourg)
Environmentally-Responsible Households : Irresponsible Corporate Lobbying ?
Victor Gay (Toulouse School of Economics)
Weapons of Mass Production. World War I and the Modernization of the French Economy
Clémence Tricaud (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Do Public Goods Actually Reduce Inequality?
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)
Firm responses to legislation on workplace sexual harassment (with Medha Chatterjee, Kanika Mahajan, Daksh Walia, Fan Wang)
Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
On the Origins of Modern East Asia: Knowledge and the Economic Transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century.
Yajna Govind (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Migration policy backlash, identity, and integration of second-generation migrants in France
Constantine Boussalis (Trinity College Dublin)
Climate Persuasion Dynamics in Generative Agent Populations
Luca Bragghieri (Bocconi University)
Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media
Seyhun Orcan Sakalli (King's Business School, KCL)
Uprootedness, Human Capital, and Skill Transferability
Melanie Xue (London School of Economics)
Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China
James P. Cross (University College Dublin)
Fair Representation in Parliamentary Summaries: Measuring and Mitigating Inclusion Bias
Vitalia Eliseva (Paris School of Economics)
The Market for Stories: How Market Consolidation Shaped Narratives in US History Textbooks [with Pedro Aldighieri]
Roman Senninger (Aarhus University)
The Politics of Evidence Selection
Dastan Jasim, ACSS Institutite (PSL University)
The Kurdish Case for Democracy - Political Culture in the Absence of a State
Avaro La Parra-Pérez (Weber State University)
Revolving Doors Under Democracy and Autocracy
Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics)
Moral Force, Contagious Force: Partisanship, Populist Leadership, and Public Health Compliance during COVID-19
Joseph Emmens (MIT)
Teams and Text: Disentangling Team Knowledge Production
Giuseppe Musillo (Tilburg University)
State Repression, Memory, and Social Capital (by Capozza, Giugovaz, and Musillo)
Ali Bakhtawar (Aix Marseille School of Economics)
Lawfare in Action: Evidence from Anti-Corruption Trials in Pakistan
Natalia Vasilenok (Stanford University)
Reading Orwell in Moscow
Alena Gorbuntsova (University of Chicago)
Nation Building or Empire Building? Evidence from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Prashant Garg (Imperial College Business School)
Retrieving and Generating Data using LLMs
Carlos Molina (University of South Carolina)
Social Influence and News Consumption (joint with Alex Moehring)
Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego)
Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China (w. Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang)
Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)
“Behavioral and Information Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media” Rescheduled date TBA
Nathan Canen (University of Warwick)
Multidimensional Learning in Committee Deliberations (joint work with Perry Carter and Matias Iaryczower)
Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern)
Censorship in Democracy (with Marcel Caesman, Janis Goldzycher and Lorenz Gschwent)
Adriana Bunea (University of Bergen)
Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach.
Mikhail Galashin (UCLA)
Market for Answers: Integrating Сommunity Information in Survey Design (with Alena Buinskaya)
Desmond Ang (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan (with Sahil Chinoy)
Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern)
Censorship in Democracy (with Marcel Caesman, Janis Goldzycher and Lorenz Gschwent)
Hannes Mueller (Barcelona School of Economics)
Breaking the Echo-chamber: Social Media Networks and Political Conflict
Emily Silcock (Harvard University)
The effect of policy narratives on economic outcomes: The case of welfare stigma
Aakaash Rao (Harvard University)
Politicians, News Media, and the Culture War (with Shakked Noy)
Chloe Ahn (University of Pennsylvania)
[Study 1] International Source of Hostility Toward Refugees, & [Study 2] Cultural Backlash to Globalization: Evidence from K-Pop
Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich)
Going Viral: Protests and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg (joint with Bruno Caprettini, Joachim Voth and David Yanagizawa-Drott)
Eleonora Alabrese (University of Bath)
Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter (joint with Francesco Capozza and Prashant Garg)
Viktor Malein (Lund University)
Economic Modernisation and Democratization: Evidence from 1917 Russian Revolution
Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam)
Refraiming Corporate Purpose: A Historical Perspective
Yaroslav Prokhorskoy (ESSEC)
Beneath the Ban of Abortion: Evidence from the USSR (with Sultan Mehmood and Hosny Zoabi)
Berkeren Büyükeren (EIEF and LUISS)
Endogenous Local Government Formation and Nation Building (joint with Serhii Abramenko)
Lena Song (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Making Public Law (joint with Elliott Ash, Aniket Kesari, Suresh Naidu, and Dominik Stammbach)
Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School)
The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions (with Johannes Böken, Mirko Draca, and Nicola Mastrorocco)
Gísli Gylfason (Paris School of Economics)
From Tweets to the Streets: Twitter and Extremist Protests in the United States
Rosanne Logeart (Paris School of Economics)
Does Access Mean Success? Connection to Policy-Makers and Lobbying Success of Political Actors
Kai Gehring (University of Bern)
Analyzing Climate Change Policy Narratives with the Character-Role Narrative Framework (with Matteo Grigoletto)
Jaime Marques Pereira (Lancaster University)
Trumping the News: A High-Frequency Analysis
Masahiro Kubo (Brown University)
French (with Guillaume Blanc)
Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University)
Public Signal and Private Action: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes against Refugees (joint with Annalí Casanueva Artís)
Agustina Martínez (University of Leicester)
Hate in the Tropics. Bolsonaro's Triumph and the Surge of Online Hate Speech in Brazil (with Diego Marino Fages)
Alexey Makarin (MIT Sloan)
The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power Investment: Evidence from Chernobyl (with Nancy Qian and Shaoda Wang)
Ulrich Matter (University of St. Gallen's SEPS-HSG)
Who Owns the Online Media (with Philine Widmer)
Joao Pereira dos Santos (ISEG & Queen Mary University of London)
The Electoral Impact of a Large Return Migration Shock in a Nascent Democracy (with Miguel Fonseca and Susana Peralta)
Florencia Hnilo (Stanford University)
Scars of the Gestapo: Remembrance and Privacy Concerns
Alexander Yarkin (LISER & UC Davis)
Lobbying for Industrialization
Kritika Saxena (University of Groningen)
Religiously-Inspired Baby Boom: Evidence from Georgia
Milena Djourelova (University of Chicago)
Experience, Narratives and Climate Change Beliefs
Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University)
The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany's NetzDG
Julian Dyer (University of Exeter Business School)
Words as Data: Evidence on Cultural Convergence and Change
Apurav Bhatiya (University of Birmingham)
Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Politicians' Behaviour?
Clément Gorin (University of Toronto)
The Emergence, Growth, and Stagnation of Cities: France 1760-2020
Léo Picard (University of Basel)
Political Metaphors in U.S. Governor Speeches (with Dominik Stammbach)
Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)
Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
Peiyuan Li (University of Colorado Boulder)
Who Lost (or Won) China? Land Reform and War Mobilization
Miao Ben Zhang (University of Southern California)
The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States (with Francesco Trebbi)
Nikita Melnikov (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Mobile Internet and Political Polarization
Annalí Casanueva Artís (PSE)
Can chants in the street change politics’ tune? Evidence from the 15M movement in Spain
Gloria Gennaro (UCL)
Immigration and Social Distance: Evidence from Newspapers during the Age of Mass Migration
Christina J Schneider (UC San Diego)
Globalization and Promissory Representation