Politics and infrastructure policy
Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto develop a model of the political economy of transportation investments.
Topic Archive: Political Economy
Video: Independence and Quality of Mass Media in the Internet Age (ERC Starting Grant)
Ruben Durante discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
The survival and demise of the State
Joan-Maria Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner build a theoretical model to shed light on the dynamics and incentives at play among disputing groups in a State.
Can machine learning help policymakers detect conflict?
Hannes Mueller and Christopher Rauh present a new method of predicting conflict through news topics which are generated automatically from a topic model.
