2017 Workshop on Conflict

 May 4th

14:00-15:00 Hannes Mueller (IAE(CSIC) and Barcelona GSE)
“Reading between the Lines: prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text” discussant: Vincenzo Galasso (IGIER-Bocconi)

15:00-16:00 Micael Castanheira (ULB)
“On the economics of civil wars: a tale of two elasticities”
discussant: Massimo Morelli (IGIER-Bocconi)

16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-17:30 Francesco Squintani (Warwick University)
“Third party intervention and militarization incentives”
discussant: Sarah Auster (IGIER-Bocconi)

17:30-18:30 Laura Mayoral (Barcelona GSE)
“Groups in Conflict: Size matters, but not in the way you think,”
discussant: Laura Ogliari (Bocconi)
 

May 5th

09:00-10:00 Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge University)
“The Strategy of Conquest”
discussant : Paolo Pin (IGIER-Bocconi)

10:00-11:00 Salvatore Modica (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
“Intervention and Peace”
discussant: Nenad Kos (IGIER-Bocconi)

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30 Sandeep Baliga (Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management)
“The Strategy of Conflict”
discussant Andrea Mattozzi (EUI)
 

12:30-13:30 Dominic Rohner (Lausanne)
“The Violent Legacy of Victimization: Post-Conflict Evidence on
Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland”
discussant: Antonio Nicolò (Università di Padova)

13:30 LUNCH