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My paper "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" has been accepted for publication at the AEJ: Micro 🥳 Ungated version here: osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.

FT Editorial: "Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government." www.ft.com/content/69d5...

🚨 New paper with Jie Ma and @keithschnak.bsky.social: Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction As always: read it, cite it, love it! Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928

This recent EJ Virtual Issue on Accountability and Electoral Selection features my (not-so-recent) JMP. A great opportunity to revisit an old thread!

Great workshop on Democracy at @ethz.ch in collaboration with the @cepr.org. Food for thoughts with a view! @bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social @bartonelee2.bsky.social

The latest econ scandal is another opportunity for non-econ people to smugly assert that econ is not, in fact, a rigorous endeavour; that it's merely about repeating what others have said; or giving ideological arguments a veneer of rigour. I suppose it's good to see that some things don’t change.

The abandonment of all moral principles in the pursuit of a good publication should lead us to reflect much more deeply on how the discipline functions, rather than focusing excessively on an individual's failings.

Forthcoming article by Charles Louis-Sidois "Both Judge and Party? Investigating the Political Unbiasedness of Fact-checkers" @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Hilarious to see Macron once again trying to pretend that working conditions for researchers in France have not (further) worsened under his presidency. Europe -- and France in particular -- should get their act together on research rather than launch glossy but empty schemes.

Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be held in London on Nov 6-7, 2025. Organized by @nicolasajz.bsky.social, Cevat Aksoy and myself. The submission deadline is July 4. Apply here (and share widely): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.

among the best interactions I’ve had in an interview: a *game theorist* asking me whether we do not already have *too many* models, before asking me about the possibility of designing *new* mechanism design/voting procedures for political inefficiencies.

Policymaking under Influence is now online (doi.org/10.1093/jleo...) at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization! 🙂

r&r 🥳

Dark Money and Politician Learning (w/ @keithschnak.bsky.social) now online at @thejop.bsky.social: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

It is very funny to see various European countries talking about schemes to attract US researchers to Europe, when the situation for so many academics on the Old Continent is so bad.

🚨 Deadline in two weeks 🚨

Some implications of the model for the empirical literature on environmental politics: (1) Voters can use policy outcomes to determine which policies they want to see implemented in the future *and* which politicians they trust to do so.

I've just posted a revised version of "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning" (osf.io/preprints/so...). Comments welcome! 🤗

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

🎓Do you work on taxes? Consider submitting to the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation 🗓️ 3-4 June 📍 Barcelona 🗣️ Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UCLA) DEADLINE: March 14th 👉 t.co/oeVJ5kR0GJ

If you're a US-based formal theorist/econ theorist working on political economy, do not miss this opportunity. WashU is home to some of the best, most thoughtful & kindest formal theorists in the profession!

very exciting to have a paper once again spend over 4 months under review. good thing people are not evaluated on the basis of their publications, otherwise the sluggishness of the publication process could be problematic!

economics should probably stop rewarding the use of "creative" data sources with top publications when the creative data sources in question are plagued by all possible kinds of issues.

🚨🔢 New data alert! If you are curious about people's attitudes towards climate change and related policies, check out this large-scale survey data from 20 countries from our paper. Publicly available with codes here socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub... 🚨🔢

Boris Johnson blaming the failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit on the *snow* in *Copenhagen* in *December* is, even by his standards, quite something.

Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. Deadline is coming up soon -- send us your papers before January 10, 2025. Link: sites.google.com/view/bcegero...

📢In this @thejop.bsky.social blog post, @bartonelee2.bsky.social argues that some politicians will “feign” support for policies that voters demand: proposing & publicly endorsing such policies but then exerting little effort toward their adoption. Why? Read⬇️ jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/politicians-...

this interesting quote from an article in the FT on the new regime in Syria meeting with bureaucrats from the previous regime is the opportunity to bring back this nice Robinson and Verdier paper from 2013 on The Political Economy of Clientelism (doi.org/10.1111/sjoe...)

On Monday, you are cordially invited to this timely talk by Arianna Ornaghi ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I'm on the Econ Job Market this year 🤓 I am an applied economic theorist, with a focus on political economy and information economics. My JMP, "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning", is available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... #econsky #polisky #econjmp

For polecon people (and others!) that have just arrived on bsky, I’ve put together a starting pack mixing empiricists and theorists on the topic: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Tried to put together a list of pol econ people (both theory and empirics) on bsky: go.bsky.app/UhWxdmh Probably missing a lot of names: let me know who I should add!

A reminder that @bnjmnblmnthl.bsky.social presents this Monday. The Zoom link has already been sent to our subscribers. #EconSky

me: can you hold this paper on my fridge? magnet: hell yeah easy me: what about 2 papers magnet: do i look like a fucking gorilla to you