
XV Workshop on
INSTITUTIONS, INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
Alghero provisional program 2026
Political economy
JUNE 29
8:50 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 – 10:00 | Session 1
9:00 – 9:30 | Massimo Morelli | Railroads and the Silver Shoes of Populism: The Rise and Fall
of the People’s Party in 19th-Century America
9:30 – 10:00 | Hye Young You | Protection by Covariance
10:00 – 11:00 | Session 2
10:00 – 10:30 | Alessandra Nicolò | Climate Matching, European Settlements, and Long-Run
Development
10:30 – 11:00 | Piera Bello | Do Politicians Misread the Climate Consensus? Correcting
Misperceptions with Social Norm Information
11:00 – 11:30 | Break
11:30 – 13:00 | Session 3
11:30 – 12:00 | Torun Dewan | Playing Away: Selection in Competing Teams
12:00 – 12:30 | Luca Braghieri | Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media
12:30 – 13:00 | Francesco Squintani | Information Transmission and Commitment in Alliances
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 | Session 4
14:00 – 14:30 | Carlo Schwarz | The Staff that Makes Politics
14:30 – 15:00 | Gabriele Gratton | Market Power Is Power
JUNE 30
9:00 – 10:00 | Session 5
9:00 – 9:30 | Edo Grillo | Vertical and Horizontal Restrainers: Discretion, Intransigency, and
Authoritarian Drifts
9:30 – 10:00 | Matteo Camboni | The Dynamics of Random Purges
10:00 – 11:00 | Session 6
10:00 – 10:30 | Elisa Muscarella | Masculinity Norms and the Far-Right Backlash Against
Female Leadership
10:30 – 11:00 | Margherita Negri | Backlash in the Backyard: Female Representation and
Gender Attitudes in the UK
11:00 – 11:30 | Break
11:30 – 13:00 | Session 7
11:30 – 12:00 | Kostas Matakos | The Slippery Slope of Internal Democracy: Nomination
Delegation and Long-Run Leadership Selection
12:00 – 12:30 | Sarah Eichmeyer | Article-Level Slant and Polarization of News Consumption on
Social Media
12:30 – 13:00 | Margot Belguise | The Normalization of the Far-Right: When the Salience of
Victories Matters
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 | Session 8
14:00 – 14:30 | Francesco Capozza | Majority Lost: Global Evidence and Field Experiments on
Voters’ Miscoordination
14:30 – 15:00 | Livio Di Lonardo | An Embarrassment of Riches: Deterrence with Multiple Options