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The Department of Economics and Management of the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ (Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance) is proud to host the inaugural Benelux Political Economy Conference (PECO) on June, 15-16, 2023. This cross-disciplinary conference, co-organised with the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversité Libre du Bruxelles and the Erasmus ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity Rotterdam, will bring together a community of top economists and political scientists from the world’s leading universities (Chicago, Harvard, New York, Princeton, and Stockholm ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversities, to name a few), and provide an opportunity for them to discuss cutting-edge research in political economy.

How do government institutions shape economic policy? How can they help, or hamper, policymakers in facing the many challenges and uncertainties of a rapidly changing world (political polarisation, conflicts, climate change, technological progress, inequality,…)? And how could those institutions be improved?

These are pressing questions that scholars of government from economics and political science are well suited to answer. Initiated by Professor Vincent Anesi (FDEF), the aim of Benelux PECO is to create a European counterpart to the existing Washington PECO, in facilitating stronger interdisciplinary cooperations among the world’s leading experts on government and public policy to make progress on such issues.

Conference programme

Thursday, June 15

• 12.30 – 13.55

  Lunch and registration
  JKF Building 29, avenue Kennedy Luxembourg Ground Floor -Room 004

• 14.00 – 16.20

  Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D 

  Noisy Sequential Screening with Positive Selection (14.00 – 15.10)
  Germán Gieczewski (Princeton ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity)
  Discussant: Sinem Hidir (³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Warwick)

  Gerrymandering when Turnout Rates Differ (joint with Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot, and Allison Stashko) (15.10 – 16.20)
  Discussant: Andrea Mattozzi (³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Bologna) 

• 16.20 – 16.50

  Main Building, Ground Floor -Room 10F 

  Coffee break

• 16.50 – 18.00

  Main Building, 6 rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi Ground Floor -Room 10D

  The Class Ceiling in Politics (joint with Olle Folke)
  Johanna Rickne (Stockholm ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity)
  Discussant: Irma Clots-Figueras (³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõversity of Kent) 

• 19.00

  Conference dinner