Program

The Summer School starts on Monday, June 12^th and ends on Wednesday, June 14^th in the afternoon.

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 The political economy of traditional and social media  (M. Petrova)

The series of lecture will focus the media-economics nexus. Specifically the objective is to address the question on the role of information in political and economic processes. In a first part, this course will introduce empirical methods to estimate the effects of particular types of media. Second, the objective is to adress the determinants of media bias.

 Political Economy of Opaque Autocracies: Using Theory to Understand Governance Data  (P. Francois)

The recent evidences of state repression on political opposition show growth in autocratic and authoritarian regimes in many countries. Even if theoretical models to analyze such a regime is largely developed in political economy, how to take these models to data in a structural way is an important research question. By the end of this module, students should be able to develop a suitable framework to interpret the data in a structural way.

 Models on the Joint Evolution of Institutions and Identity: Applications to Religion, and Corruption  (A. Seror)

A brief presentation on emerging theories on the joint evolution of identity and institutions will be exposed during this course. On that basis, it discusses corruption and religion, two key topics at the research frontier of the literature.

 On the political decisions makers  (M. Sangnier)

This course will review how the literature accounts for the characteristics of politicians and how these affect decisions they take while in office or when running for political positions. A particular attention will be devoted to empirical evidence that makes it possible to identify whether and how much some characteristics of politicians matter in explaining differences in observed behaviors.

 
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Students are strongly encouraged to present their research in workshop during the Summer School. This is a unique opportunity to have focused and valuable feedback from peers and from distinguished faculty. The schedule of paper presentations will be distributed in due course.

At the conclusion of the Summer School, participants will receive a certificate of attendance outlining the number of hours attended. Interested students should check with their universities to see if these hours are transferable into ECTS credits.