The course is to introduce the students to the current state of political economy. We will discuss the theoretical models of voting, electoral competition, interest group politics, non-democratic politics, political transition. The goal is to provide the students with the understanding of the main theoretical models and of the recent empirical research testing these models.
Rémi HANNOTEL,Sergei GURIEV
Cours magistral seul
English
Basic command of econometrics and game theory.
Students should have taken one of the two courses below:
AECO 25A11 Microeconomics: Information, Design and Institutions
DECO 27A08 Behavioural Game Theory
Autumn 2021-2022
Comments on research papers (45%): three times during the semester, the students will have one week to write 1000 words critical essays on assigned research papers. These will be take-home assignments.
Final exam (55%) will be also a one-week take-home exam where the students will write similar essays on two research papers they would be able to choose from a list of four papers.
Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2014) Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University Press