My great friend Nicolas Riquelme (Nicolas Riquelme) and I are happy to share that our article has just been accepted at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science! We formally study the ability of International Organizations to solve coordination problems: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Very excited to share our new NBER paper “Keep your Enemies Closer” w/ Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti & Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury ! ⬇️⬇️ We test the key mechanism behind the Median Voter Theorem: strategic platform adjustments by politicians. A 🧵 (1/11).

In his job market paper, Joe Ruggiero studies the strategic decisions of many interdependent countries to start and join wars. He connects the model to data on international disputes, estimating the effects of the economic network and power advantages on equilibrium behavior.

Read Vanderbilt University Political Science & Vanderbilt Economics Prof Chris Li (& Germán Gieczewski) new article in QJPS Editors: Incumbent Performance and Electoral Control: A Comment nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

From the latest issue of the QJPS, "Incumbent Performance and Electoral Control: A Comment" by Chris Li and Germán Gieczewski. A thread.

Elaine Yao studies how groups make decisions in weakly institutionalized environments. Her job market paper studies why, without formal rules to guide collective action, some internecine conflicts resolve in a united front, while others end in mutually harmful stalemates.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

Our next seminar is on Monday, 19 May 2025. We welcome Germán Gieczewski (Princeton Politics), who will present "Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship." On Thursday, we will send the usual email with the Zoom link. Germán Gieczewski