About This Workshop

The BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Political Economy focuses on the causes and effects of political institutions, and the behavior of voters and politicians facing different constraints, incentives and information.

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from Economics and Political Science addressing questions including:

How do political institutions promote or hinder economic development?
Why do particular sets of political institutions emerge and persist?
How do transparency and accountability affect politicians’ incentives?
How do voters react to information, and to what effect?
What is the impact of different electoral systems on policy choices?

The workshop is proposed as a continuation of the workshop organized under the same title in 2024 and of the two workshops on Political Institutions and on the Economic Analysis of Electoral Politics organized within the Summer Forum in 2013-2019. Earlier editions counted with the participation of prominent scholars from all around the world, including Fernanda Brollo (IMF), Robin Burgess (LSE), Katherine Casey (Stanford), Allan Drazen (Maryland), Oeindrila Dube (Chicago), Patricia Funk (USI), Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Benjamin Olken (MIT), Gerard Padro-i-Miquel (Yale) Rohini Pande (Yale), Imran Rasul (UCL), Mark Rosenzweig (Yale), Kenneth Scheve (Stanford), James Snyder (Harvard) and Jaya Wen (HBS), among others.