On June 2 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Rafael Hortala-Vallve (London School of Economics and Political Science) spoke on 'Team of Rivals: Learning about a Cabinet and its Shadow'. The report was co-authored by Torun Dewan (London School of Economics and Political Science).
On May 26 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Franziska Keller (New York University) spoke on 'Farewell Comrades! Power Struggle and Elite Removal in Single-Party Authoritarian Regimes'. The report was co-authored by Wang Yuhua (University of Pennsylvania)
On May 19 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston college) spoke on 'Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation'. The report is co-authored by Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn).
On May 14 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Eric Alstom (Charles Koch Institute) delivered a report on 'Demand for Constitutional Decentralization'.
On April 28 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.
On April 21 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.
On April 14 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.
In his honorary lecture Twilight of an Empire, at the HSE April International Conference, Professor Guillermo Owen, Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, considers the case of the late Roman Empire - a once-powerful incumbent state which is beginning to lose its power - and compares it with examples nearer our own time. Professor Owen is a member of the Colombian Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona, and the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World. He is associate editor of the International Game Theory Review. In an interview with the HSE English News service Professor Owen made comparisons in a game theory approach to the behaviour of the late Roman Empire and the Soviet Empire of the 1980s and 1990s.
On March 24 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.