Max Planck Summer School on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) 2021

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Welcome and Round of Introduction

Breakout discussions

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Brainstorming in Subgroups

Session ONE

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4 Things Nobody tells you about Online News: a Model with Social Networks and Competition

A Flag to Wave: Status-Seeking Behavior in Groups

After-Dinner Speech - On the Proper Use of Game-Theoretic Models in Conflict Studies

After-Dinner Speech - Short Term Political Memory and the Inevitability of Polarisation

Growth and Inequality:Exponential Growth Bias Distorts Preferences for Redistribution

Identity and the Intrinsic Value of Independence

Lecture (virtual) - Deterrable Opponents and Unattainable Peace: Balance of Threats, Peace Costs, and War

Lecture (virtual) - Group biases and ethnic conflicts

Lecture (virtual) - Heterogeneity, Leveling the Playing Field, and Affirmative Action in Contests

Lecture (virtual) - Nastiness in Groups

Lecture (virtual) - The Economics of Identity and Conflict

Lecture - Alliances in Contests

Lecture - Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields and Colonel Blotto Games

Lecture - Dynamic Contests and the Discouragement Effekt

Lecture - Experiments on Colonel Blotto Games

Lecture - Reputation for Toughness

Lecture -Temporal Structures in Contests

Living in the caliphate: the impact of exposure to Boko Haram's ideology on school attendance

Official Round of Introduction

Polarization in a multidimensional political space

Political Power Sharing with the Young: The Role of Direct Democracy

Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Polarization (virtual)

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Re-examining Voting Behavior and Federal Aid: A Formal Approach

Sabotage in Contests with Group Size Uncertainty (Experimental Design)

Taxing moral agents

The emergence of conflict between groups

Using Machine Learning to Improve Conflict Predictions in a Changing Climate

Violence and black markets: Evidence from the Niger Delta conflict (virtual)

Welcome/Introduction

When populists deliver on their promises: the electoral effects of a large cash transfer program in Poland

Work in progress - the topic will be an experimental design for the study of study of policies in the context of an extraction game

Wrap up

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