By Guido Friebel
Join SIOE for three excellent sessions at the 2024 ASSA Meetings in San Antonio!
Democratic Backsliding and Autocratic Consolidation
Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)
Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 13
Chair: Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago
Self-Enforcing Power Dynamics: A Model of Power Politics in Weak States
Zhaotian Luo, University of Chicago
An Events-Based Approach to Understanding Democratic Erosion
Hannah Baron, Tulane University
Robert Blair, Brown University
Jessica Gottlieb, University of Houston
Laura Paler, American University
Shaping Institutions
William Fuchs, University of Texas-Austin
Satoshi Fukuda, Bocconi University
Revisiting State Ownership and Privatization
Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)
Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 13
Chair: Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago
The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy
Moritz Lubczyk, University of Zurich
Moritz Hennicke, Free University of Brussels
Lukas Mergele, BSS
State Ownership and Corporate Leverage around the World
Ralph De Haas, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po
Alexander Stepanov, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Revisiting the Productivity Effects of (Staggered) Privatization
Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago
John Earle, George Mason University
Solomiya Shpak, Kyiv School of Economics, National Bank of Ukraine, and George Mason University
Beliefs in Supernatural Forces and Politics
Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)
Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 21
Chair: Jared Rubin, Chapman University
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People
Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics
Supernatural Authority and Political Power in the DRC
Sara Lowes, University of California-San Diego
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago
Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law
Timur Kuran, Duke University
The Reformation, Political Legitimacy, and the Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance
Avner Greif, Stanford University
Jared Rubin, Chapman University