Sara Mitchell will present this paper.

Mengxi Zhang will present this paper.

Stergios Skaperdas will present this paper, a joint work with Samarth Vaidya.

Marco Serena will present this paper, a joint work with Stefano Barbieri.

Lingbo Huang will present this paper, a joint work with Tracy Xiao Liu and Jun Zhang.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero will present the paper titled "Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? The role of oil theft and narcocracy" (joint work with Nayely Iturbe).

This talk is part of the Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict, a bi-weekly online seminar series with researchers from across the world. You can sign up to the Global Network to get information and invitations (including the Zoom Link for each event) about the Global Seminar here: Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen: Global Seminar on Contests & Conflict (mpg.de).