The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PECR) Summer School is aimed at young reasearchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the filed of Economics and Political Science.

Dominic Rohner will present his paper (joint work with Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti and Mathias Thoenig).

Stefano Barbieri will present his paper (joint work with Marco Serena - Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) titled "Momentum and Heterogeneity in Contests".

Philipp Denter will present his paper titled "Competency and Policy in Electoral Contests".

Yan Chen will present her paper titled "Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy".

Mikhail Drugov will present his paper titled "Optimal prizes in tournaments under nonseparable preferences" (joint with Dmitry Ryvkin).

Galina Zudenkova will present her paper titled "Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship" (joint with Maxim Ananyev, Dimitrios Xefteris, and Maria Petrova).

Catherine C. Eckel will present her paper titled "An experiment on the political economy of extreme intergroup punishment" (joint with Enrique Fatas and Malcolm J. Kass).

Zenan Wu will present his paper titled "Optimal Bid Caps in Noisy Contests" (joint work with Qiang Fu and Yuxuan Zhu).

Petra Nieken will present her paper titled "Moral Transgression: The Impact of Competition" (joint work with Simon Dato and Eberhard Feess).

Arzu Kibris will present her paper titled "The Impact of Exposure to Political Violence on Risk and Ambiguity Attitudes" (joint work with Neslihan Uler)

Mohamed Mostagir will present his paper titled "Strategic Experimentation and Information Design in Dynamic Contests" (joint work with Yan Chen and Iman Yeckehzaare).

Mattias Polborn will present his paper titled "Sequential Blotto and Gerrymandering".

Marc Möller will present his paper titled "Fighting for Lemons: The Encouragement Effect in Dynamic Competition with Private Information" (joint work with Juan Beccuti).

Dmitry Ryvkin will present his paper titled "To fight or to give up? Dynamic contests with a deadline".

Iryna Topolyan will present her paper titled "Correlated Play in Group Contests" (joint work with Stefano Barbieri).

Jie Zheng will present his paper titled "How do Alliances Grow and Conflict Ensue? An Experiment on Conflict Network Formation" (joint work with Lu Dong, Lingbo Huang, and Jaimie W. Lien).

Oliver Guertler will present his paper titled "Simple Equilibria in General Contests" (joint work with Spencer Bastani and Thomas Giebe).

The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2021 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution.

Kris De Jaegher will present his paper titled "Threat of sabotage as a driver of collective action".

Jun Zhang will present his paper titled "Nonparametric Identification of Bayesian Games (Tullock Contest under Incomplete Information) under Exclusion Restrictions".

Sebastián Cortés-Corrales will present his paper titled "How does the network structure affect connection-specific choices? An experiment on the competitive allocation of resources in weighted networks" (joint work with David Rojo Arjona).

Han Dorussen will present his paper titled "Peacebuilding and political trust: a survey experiment on political trust in Haiti" (joint work with Zorzeta Bakaki).

Jun Xiao will present his paper titled "Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Prizes in Innovation Contests" (joint work with Nisvan Erkal).

Luke Boosey will present his paper titled "Contests with Network Externalities: Theory & Evidence" (joint work with Christopher Brown).

Hannes Rusch will present his paper titled "On the effectiveness of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment" (joint work with Luke Glowacki and Florian Morath).

Philipp Strack will present his paper titled "Competing for Grades" (joint work with Dawei Fang, and Thomas Noe).

Jordan Adamson will present his paper titled "The Geography of Resources, Conflict, and Territory in Hominids" (joint work with Bart J. Wilson).

Stephen Chaudoin will present his paper titled "The Election Effect: Democracy in Inter-Group Contests" (joint work with Yon Soo Park, and Sarah Hummel).

Felix Várdy will present his paper titled "The Limits of Meritocracy" (joint work with John Morgan, and Justin Tumlinson).

Kfir Eliaz will present his paper titled "Collective information acquisition" (joint work with Ran Eilat).

Marina Henke will present her paper titled "The Psychology of Limited Nuclear War: Experimental evidence on public emotions after an escalate to de-escalate strike".

Zhi Chen will present the paper titled "When Does Data Sharing Promote Innovation?" (joint work with Jussi Keppo).

Dong Quan Vu will present the paper titled "General Lotto Games with Favoritism: Competitions with Pre-allocations and Asymmetric Effectiveness" (joint work with Patrick Loiseau).

Victoire Girard will present the paper titled "Sexual violence as a weapon of war" (joint work with Maleke Fourati and Jeremy Laurent-Lucchetti).

Huseyin Yildirim will present the paper titled "Multiple Prizes in Tournaments with Career Concerns" (joint work with Alvaro J. Name-Correa).

Prof. Kai A. Konrad / Vorlesung im Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft an der FU Berlin.

Ron Siegel will present the paper titled "Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions" (joint work with Wojciech Olszewski, Chloe Tergiman, Sergey Lychagin, and Kala Krishna).

Georg Thunecke M.Sc./

University of Tübingen

Nicholas Sambanis will present work on "Parochialism, Social Norms, and Discrimination Against Immigrants" from the forthcoming book called "Native Bias, Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants" (joint work with Donghyun Danny Choi and Mathias Poertner).

Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen will present the paper titled "Know Thy Enemy: Information Acquisition in Contests".

Seth Benzell will present the paper titled "A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495-1918" (joint work with Kevin Cooke).

Carsten K.W. De Dreu will present the paper titled "On Being Unpredictable and Winning" (joint work with Andrea Arciniegas, Jörg Gross, Laura C. Hoenig, Michael Rojek-Giffin, and Daan T. Scheepers).

Qian Jiao will present the paper titled "Optimal Contest Design with Tree Architecture" (joint work with Zhonghong Kuang, Yiran Liu, and Yang Yu).

Scott Gates will present the paper titled "Forces of Darkness: The Strategic Dynamics of Territorial Control and Resource Allocation during Civil War" (joint work with Siri Aas Rustad, and Christopher Butler).

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).

Feng Zhu will present the paper titled "Creative Contests - Theory and Experiment".

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).

Research oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs.

Brian Roberson will present the paper titled "Large Innovation Contests with Cognitively Diverse Teams" (joint work with Mouli Modak).

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).

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).

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

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

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

Mengxi Zhang will present this paper.

Sara Mitchell will present this paper.

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together researchers interested in paternalism, broadly defined, from theoretical, applied, and experimental perspectives.

Indraneel Dasgupta will present this paper.

Igor Letina will present this paper.

block course consisting of lectures and classes on a graduate level aiming at Master and PhD students.

Paan Jindapon (University of Alabama) is going to present this paper (joint work with Tigran Melkonyan). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Anqi Li (Virginia Polytechnic and State University) is going to present this paper (joint work with Federico Echenique). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Mouno Prem (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) is going to present this paper (joint work with Juan F. Vargas, Miguel E. Purroy, Felipe Coy, and Sergio Perilla). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Christian Ewerhart (University of Zurich) is going to present this paper (joint work with Leopold Aspect). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Zhewei Wang (Shandong University) is going to present this paper (joint work with Lei Gao and Jingfeng Lu). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Todd Sandler (University of Texas at Dallas) is going to present this paper (joint work with Khusrav Gaibulloev and James A. Piazza). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Research oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs.

Laura Liu (University of Melbourne) is going to present this paper (joint work with Dawei Fang, Changxia Ke, Greg Kubitz, Thomas Noe, and Lionel Page). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Anastasia Antsygina (HSE, Moscow) is going to present this paper (joint work with Mariya Teteryatnikova). Click below for the Zoom Link.

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Erasmus Center for Economic and Financial Governance, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Norwegian Centre for Taxation, and University of Notre Dame. Funding from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies   at the University of Notre Dame. 

Changxia Ke (Queensland University of Technology) will present this paper (joint work with Florian Morath and Sophia Seelos). Click below for the Zoom Link.

November 8, 14:00 - 18:00

Colonel Blotto prepares for war: infrastructure as defence / A Banking ACE / A Spatial Economic Model of War between Great Powers

November 9, 9:15 - 12:45

Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan / Is there a trade-off between efficiency and visibility in pro-environmental behaviours? / Felt Age – an Empirical Analysis

J. Atsu Amegashie (University of Guelph, Guelph) is going to present this paper. Click below for the Zoom Link.

Ella Segev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem) is going to present this paper (joint work with Lior Fink and Sharon Rabinovitch). Click below for the Zoom Link.

Block course consisting of lectures and classes on a graduate level aiming at Master and PhD students.

Research oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs.

Harnack House Berlin

A Max-Min Two-Group Contest with Binary Actions and Incomplete Information à la Global Games

Andrea Sorrentino, University of Milano-Bicocca

Investing in Getting Ahead

Derek J. Clark, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Tore Nilssen, University of Oslo

Queuing Time Problem as Negative Externality in Waste Management. Case of Istanbul Metropolitan City

Cumhur Dülger, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences