Political Economy Workshop Rotterdam 2018
“Elections, Information Aggregation and the Role of (Social) Media”
Wednesday 6 June
19h30-22h00: pre-workshop dinner at O’ Pazzo (by invitation only)
Thursday 7 June
09h00: pick up at hotel lobby (by Benoit)
09h45-10h30: Subashish Chowdhury (U Bath): “The Central Influencer Theorem” (with S.H. Kim)
10h30-11h15: Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London): “The Marginal Voter’s Curse” (with Helios Herrera and Joseph McMurray)
11h15-11h45: Coffee break
11h45-12h30: Justin Valasek (WZB Berlin): “Robust Info Aggregation through Voting” (with Rune Midjord and Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer)
12h30-14h00: Lunch break
14h00-14h45: Federica Izzo (NYU): “Ideology for the Future”
14h45-15h30: Pau Balart (U de les Illes Balears): “Technological Changes, Campaign Spending and Polarization” (with Agustin Casas and Orestis Troumpounis)
15h30-16h00: Coffee break
16h00-16h45: Kirill Pogorelskiy (U Warwick): “News We Like to Share: How News Sharing on Social Networks Influences Voting Outcomes” (with Matthew Shum)
17h30-18h45: pre-dinner drinks at De Pelgrim https://www.pelgrimbier.nl
19h00-22h00: dinner in the sky
Friday 8 June
09h00: pick up at hotel lobby (by Benoit)
09h45-10h30: Patrick Le Bihan (Sciences Po Paris): “Alternative Facts and the Production of Fake News” (with Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa)
10h30-11h15: Monica Giovanniello (U Verona): “Echo Chambers: Voter-to-Voter Communication and Political Competition”
11h15-11h45: Coffee break
11h45-12h30: Johannes Münster (U Cologne): “Coverage bias on Wikipedia? Evidence from biographies of German Members of Parliament” (with Anna Kerkhof)
12h30-14h00: Lunch break
14h00-14h45: Galina Zudenkova (U Mannheim): “Information and Communication Technologies, Protests and Censorship” (with Maxim Ananyev and Maria Petrova)
14h45-15h30: Dana Sisak (U Rotterdam): “The Left Behind Voter?” (with Benoit Crutzen and Otto Swank)
15h30-16h00: Coffee break
16h00-16h45: Giovanni Andreottola (Cowles Foundation, Yale): “Scandals, Media Competition and Political Accountability” (with Antoni-Italo de Moragas)
18h00-22h00: post workshop drinks and dinner
Hotel for all workshop participants: Hampshire Hotel Savoy Rotterdam
https://www.hampshire-hotels.com/en/hampshire-hotel-savoy-rotterdam
