Political Economy of Ideas & Ideology Conference | Kellogg School of Management

8:30 am — 9:25 am

Breakfast and Registration

9:25 am — 9:30 am

WELCOME: Georgy Egorov

James Farley/Booz, Allen & Hamilton Research Professor

Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

9:30 am – 10:30 am

Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am – 12:00pm

Decentralized Propaganda in the Era of Digital Media: The Massive Presence of the Chinese State on Douyin

Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom

Jaakko Meriläinen, Stockholm School of Economics

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Rise of the Religious Right: Evidence from the Moral Majority and the Jimmy Carter Presidency

Brian Knight, Brown University

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Break

4:30 pm – 5:30pm

Polarization and Public Policy: Political Adverse Selection under Obamacare

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Dinner & Drinks
By invitation only
8:00 am – 8:55 am

Breakfast and Registration

8:55 am – 9:00 am

WELCOME: Georgy Egorov

James Farley/Booz, Allen & Hamilton Research Professor

Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

9:00 am – 10:00 am

The Lifecyle of Protests in the Digital Age

Pierre Boyer, Ecole Polytechnique

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am

Policy Deterrence: Strategic Investment in U.S. Broadband

Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

AI Customization and the Market for News

Christopher Roth, University of Cologne

1:00 pm

Lunch & Closing Remarks