All Activities

2025/26 events

NICEP Seminar: Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 02 October 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The international transmission of democratic values: Evidence from African migration to Europe (A45,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Emilie Sartre (University of Nottingham)

Date: 09 October 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Sources and extent of rising partisan segregation in the U.S. — Evidence from 143 million voters (A45, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Andrea Papadia (University of York)

Date: 16 October 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: What did the Romans ever do for them? Aqueducts and the administration of the Empire (A40,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Jesus Rodriguez (Nottingham)

Date: 23 October 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Political competition and tax expenditures: A machine learning approach to 121 years of U.S. laws (A40,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Camille Urvoy (University of Mannheim)

Date: 30 October 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Entertainment or slant? Media demand and the effects of channel closures in France (A40,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Lou Henderson (LSE)

Date: 06 November 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Endogenous fertility in pre-transition England (A40,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University)

Date: 13 November 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The financial drivers of populism in Europe (A40,SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Björn Brey (Norwegian School of Economics)

Date: 20 November 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: (A40,SCGB)

2024/25 events

NICEP Seminar: Adam Brzezinski (LSE)

Date: 03 October 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The political economy of neoliberal narratives (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Sophie Hatte (ENS Lyon)

Date: 17 October 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Dear brothers and sisters - Pope's speeches and the dynamics of conflict in Africa (A45, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)

Date: 24 October 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: How does social protection affect local politics? (A45, SCGB)

Cancelled NICEP Seminar: Andrea Papadia (University of York)

Date: 31 October 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: What did the Romans ever do for them? Aqueducts and the administration of the Empire (A45, SCBG)

NICEP Seminar: Chen Shuai (University of Leicester)

Date: 07 November 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The #MeToo movement and judges' gender gap in decisions (A45)

NICEP Seminar: David Coluccia (University of Bristol)

Date: 14 November 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Racial discrimination and innovation

NICEP Seminar: Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London)

Date: 28 November 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Weighting votes: Rule complexity and information aggregation (A45, SCGB)

Postponed NICEP Seminar: Melissa Sands (LSE)

Date: 06 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Generative Artificial Intelligence reflects national, not local, perceptions (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Thiago de Lucena Coelho (San Diego State University)

Date: 13 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The woman in the arena: Evidence of nonsexual harassment on a male-dominated field (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Melissa Dell (Harvard)

Date: 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Deep learning for economists (zoom)

NICEP Seminar: Nektarios Aslanidis (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Date: 06 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Latin America's experience with the Gold Standard, 1867-1931 (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)

Date: 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The political economy of stimulus transfers (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Conference 2025

Date: 12 (09:00) - 13 May 2025 (16:30)

2023/24 events

NICEP Seminar: Eugenia Nazrullaeva (LSE)

Date: 12 October 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Discrimination, market entry barriers, and corporations in Imperial Russia (A39, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Bruno Caprettini (University of St Gallen)

Date: 26 October 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: You only weave twice: Industrial espionage and growth in XIX century France (A39, SCGB)

NICEP Informal Seminar: Oliver Morrissey

Date: 02 November 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Taxation and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa (A42, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Guo Xu (UC Berkeley)

Date: 23 November 2023 (16:00-17:00)
Description: The rise of women in the civil service: Evidence from the Great War (zoom)

NICEP Seminar: Lydia Assouad (LSE)

Date: 30 November 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Charismatic leaders and nation-building (A39, SCGB)

NICEP Informal Seminar: Daniel Seidmann

Date: 15 February 2024 (15:15-16:15)
Description: Apology laws (A02, Highfield House)

NICEP Informal Seminar: Abigail Barr

Date: 29 February 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Revolutions in the lab: An experimental identification of the effect of inequality on social instability (C27 Coates)

NICEP Seminar: Jean-Paul Carvalho (Oxford University)

Date: 14 March 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Zero-sum thinking, the evolution of effort-suppressing beliefs and economic development (A02, Highfield House)

NICEP Seminar: Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv University)

Date: 21 March 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The politics of using AI in policy implementation: Evidence from a field experiment (E07 Monica Partridge Building)

NICEP Seminar: Enrico Cantoni (University of Bologna)

Date: 28 March 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The effect of childhood environment on political behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992-2021

Joint GEP/NICEP: Seminar: Mine Senses (John Hopkins University)

Date: 09 May 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Description: Immigration and provision of public goods: Evidence at the local level in the US. (B1 Physics)

NICEP Conference 2024

Date: 13 (09:00) - 14 May 2024 (16:30)

NICEP Seminar: Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois and University of Warwick)

Date: 23 May 2024 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Political Competition and Strategic Voting in Multi-Candidate Elections (A40)

2022/23 events

NICEP Seminar: Eric Melander (University of Birmingham)

Date: 29 September 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Title: Voting power and the press: Evidence from US newspapers (A39, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Clara Martinez-Toledano (Imperial College)

Date: 06 October 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Wealth tax mobility and tax coordination (A42, SCGB)

Joint NICEP / CeDEx Seminar: Stefania Paredes Fuentes (Warwick University)

Date: 19 October 2022 (14:00-15:00)
Description: (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Devesh Rustagi (University of Nottingham)

Date: 03 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Markets, civic values, and rules (A40 SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Maria Petrova (Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 10 November 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Have online social networks undermined local communities? Evidence from Facebook (zoom)

NICEP Seminar: Diego Fages Marino

Date: 01 December 2022 (12:30-14:00)
Description: Migration and trust: Evidence on assimilation from internal migrants (C43, SCGB)

Cancelled NICEP Seminar: Ruben Durante (Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 08 December 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: (A41, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Noam Yuchtman (LSE)

Date: 23 February 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Lucie Gadenne (University of Warwick)

Date: 02 March 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Community networks and trade (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

Date: 09 March 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Nation-building and mass migration: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine (A40, SCGB)

Cancelled NICEP Seminar: Libertad Gonzales (UPF)

Date: 23 March 2023 (15:00-16:00)

NICEP Conference 2023

Date: 15 (09:00) - 16 May 2023 (16:30)

NICEP Seminar: Martin Fiszbein (Boston University)

Date: 25 May 2023 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Frontier history and gender norms in the United States (A40, SCGB)

2021/22 events

NICEP Seminar: Mattia Bertazzini (University of Oxford)

Date: 16 September 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The economic origins of government

NICEP work in progress seminar: Markus Eberhardt

Date: 07 October 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Which institutions rule? Tracing the roots of the liberal democracy-growth nexus (A39, SCGB and MS Teams)

NICEP Seminar: Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)

Date: 14 October 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The impact of diversity on distributive perceptions and preferences for redistribution

NICEP work in progress seminars: Valeria Rueda and Ling Zhou

Date: 21 October 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The suffrage movement and women's mobilisation into politics. Lessons from the 1913 women's suffrage pilgrimage (Valeria) and Revealed preference or forced leave: Migration response to pollution information disclosure (Ling)

Joint NICEP / CeDEx Seminar: Amma Panin (University of Louvain)

Date: 27 October 2021 (14:00-15:00)
Description: Why money can't buy you political love: Lab experiments on bribery and reciprocity in Ghana and Uganda

Joint NICEP /CREDIT Seminar: Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)

Date: 04 November 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Disguising prejudice: Popular rationales as excuses for intolerant expression

NICEP Seminar: Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)

Date: 11 November 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Citizen participation and government accountability: National-scale experimental evidence from pollution appeals in China

NICEP work in progress seminar: Edoardo Cefala

Date: 18 November 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The political consequences of mass repatriation (A100, L&SS)

NICEP work in progress seminar: Diego Marino Fages

Date: 25 November 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Migration and trust (C14, Monica Partridge Building)

NICEP work in progress Seminar: Bjoern Brey

Date: 02 December 2021 (15:00-15:30)
Description: Panic politics on the US West Coast (A39, SCGB)

NICEP work in progress seminar: Dario Tortarolo

Date: 09 December 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: How to reveal 21% of GDP in hidden assets: Evidence from Argentina's tax amnesty (A39, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury (HEC Montréal)

Date: 16 December 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Money and ideology: Evidence from candidate manifestos

NICEP Seminar: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE)

Date: 10 February 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: Web 2.0 and traditional-media reporting of conflicts

NICEP Seminar: Mazhar Waseem (University of Manchester)

Date: 17 February 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: Evidence from administrative tax records

NICEP Seminar: Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

Date: 31 March 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The perils of friendly oversight

NICEP Seminar: Desmond Ang (Kennedy School)

Date: 05 May 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The birth of a nation: Media and racial hate

Cancelled - NICEP Seminar: Noam Yuchtman (LSE)

Date: 12 May 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: *Cancelled* AI-tocracy

NICEP Seminar: Mario Carillo (Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 26 May 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The Fascist roots of migrant labour exploitation (A40, SCGB)

NICEP Seminar: Monika Nalepa (Chicago)

Date: 31 May 2022 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Clean sweep or picking out the `bad apples': the logic of secret police purges with evidence from post-communist Poland

2020/21 events

NICEP Seminar: Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)

Date: 01 October 2020 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Political economy of crisis response (via zoom)

NICEP Seminar: Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago)

Date: 19 November 2020 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The oligarch vanishes: Defensive ownership, property rights, and political connections

NICEP Seminar: Mona Morgan-Collins (Durham University)

Date: 03 December 2020 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Competing for new votes: Mobilization of women in the wake of democratization

NICEP Seminar: Juan Vargas (Universidad del Rosario)

Date: 25 February 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Peaceful entry: The dynamics of entrepreneurship during the Colombian post conflict.

NICEP Seminar: Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham)

Date: 04 March 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Democracy doesn't always happen over night: Regime change in stages and economic growth

The Price of Democracy - Julia Cagé

Date: 18 March 2021 (17:00-18:00)
Description: The School of Economics will welcome Julia Cagé, Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris.

NICEP Seminar: Alexey Makarin (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)

Date: 22 April 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Conflict and inter-group trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine crisis

NICEP Seminar: Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University)

Date: 06 May 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: The political economic causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33

NICEP Seminar: Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School)

Date: 20 May 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description: Racial Diversity, electoral preferences, and the supply of policy: The Great Migration and civil rights

2019/20
Date/Time	Event
5 Mar 2020	Steve Callander (Stanford) C12, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
30 Jan 2020	‘Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election’ – Horacio A. Larreguy Arbesú (Harvard) C7, Trent Building, Nottingham
12 Dec 2019	Daniel Treisman (University of California, Los Angeles) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
4 Dec 2019	'The Hand-Formula Debate: A Behavioral Analysis' – Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
21 Nov 2019	‘Political Connections and White-collar Crime: Evidence from Insider Trading in France’ – Marc Sangnier (University of Namur) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
14 Nov 2019	'How Foreign Aid Crowds out Public Spending: Evidence from an Experiment in Malawi' – Ryan Jablonski (The London School of Economics and Political Science) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
17 Oct 2019	‘Is Soft News a Turn-Off? Evidence from Italian TV News Viewership’ – Valentino Larcinese (The London School of Economics and Political Science) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
10 Oct 2019	'Self-selection of Mexican Migrants in the Presence of Random Shocks. Evidence from the Panic of 1907' – David Escamilla Guerrero (Pembroke College Oxford) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham

2018/19
Date/Time	Event
2 May 2019	'The Moral Underpinnings of Social Policy Preferences: the Role of Fairness Concerns' – Charlotte Cavaille (Georgetown) C10, Teaching and Learning Building, Nottingham
3 Apr 2019	'Opinion Dynamics via Search Engines (and other Algorithmic Gatekeepers)' – Francesco Sobbrio (LUISS Guido Carli) A40 Sir Clive Granger Building, Nottingham
28 Mar 2019	NICEP Dual Seminar – Diego Canales / Dishil Shrimankar (Nottingham) B7, The Hemsley, Nottingham
14 Mar 2019	'Identity and Information in Organizations' – Maggie Penn (Emory) A02, Highfield House, Nottingham
7 Mar 2019	‘Persuasion with Correlation Neglect’ – Gilat Levy (LSE) A02, Highfield House, Nottingham
28 Feb 2019	'Demand for Redistribution and Left Parties in Industrialized Democracies: The Influence of Income and Risk on Voting' – David Rueda (Oxford) A19, Trent Building, Nottingham
13 Dec 2018	'The Value of Opposition Media: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela' – Brian Knight (Brown) B7 The Hemsley, Nottingham
29 Nov 2018	'The Strategy of Conquest' – Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge) (Co-hosted with Cedex) A21, Trent Building, Nottingham
15 Nov 2018	'Misgovernance and Human Rights…' – Chris Fariss (Michigan) (Co-hosted with the Right's Lab) A21, Trent Building, Nottingham
8 Nov 2018	'Democratic backsliding in the EU enlargement region' – Natasha Wunsch (ETH Zurich) (Co-hosted with REPRESENT) B7 The Hemsley, Nottingham
7 Nov 2018	'The rise and fall of local elections in China: Evidence on the autocrat’s trade-off' – Gerard Padro-i-Miguel (Yale) (Co-hosted with the Economics Senior Academic Seminar (SAS)) A40, Sir Clive Granger, University of Nottingham
25 Oct 2018	'The long shadow of Communism: Explaining the threat to democracy in Central-Eastern Europe' – Anja Neundorf (Nottingham) A21, Trent Building, Nottingham
18 Oct 2018	'Rethinking sovereign default in the interwar period' – David Gill / Markus Eberhardt (Nottingham) A21, Trent Building, Nottingham
4 Oct 2018	'How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration' – Henning Finseraas (Oslo) LG101, The Trent Building, Nottingham

2017/18
Date/Time	Event
10 May 2018	CANCELLED: Professor Kevin Bales and Professor Zoe Trodd, The Rights Lab A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
3 May 2018	Dr Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, University of Lisbon A3 Law and Social Sciences, University Park
22 Mar 2018	Professor Assaf Razin, Tel Aviv University A39 Clive Granger Building, University Park
15 Mar 2018	Dr Markus Eberhardt, University of Nottingham A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
7 Mar 2018	Professor Robert Margo, Boston University TBC, Nottingham
1 Mar 2018	Dr Peter Loewen, Toronto A11 Highfield House, Nottingham
15 Feb 2018	Professor Chris Hanretty, Royal Holloway A2 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
5 Feb 2018	Dr Mihaly Fazekas, University of Cambridge B55 Law and Social Sciences, University Park
7 Dec 2017	Professor Thomas Konig, Mannheim A42 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham
23 Nov 2017	Professor Carlos Boix, Princeton A19 Trent Building, Nottingham
9 Nov 2017	Dr Santiago Oliveros, University of Essex A09 Highfield House, Nottingham
2 Nov 2017	Dr Ben Lauderdale, LSE A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
19 Oct 2017	Dr Scott Moser, University of Nottingham A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
5 Oct 2017	Dr Orit Kedar, Hebrew University A19 Trent Building, Nottingham

2016/17
Date/Time	Event
7 Dec 2017	Professor Thomas Konig, Mannheim A42 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham
23 Nov 2017	Professor Carlos Boix, Princeton A19 Trent Building, Nottingham
9 Nov 2017	Dr Santiago Oliveros, University of Essex A09 Highfield House, Nottingham
2 Nov 2017	Dr Ben Lauderdale, LSE A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
19 Oct 2017	Dr Scott Moser, University of Nottingham A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
5 Oct 2017	Dr Orit Kedar, Hebrew University A19 Trent Building, Nottingham
19 Jun 2017 – 20 Jun 2017	2017 Conference Portland Building, Nottingham
4 May 2017	CANCELLED: Dr Scott Moser, Nottingham B7 The Hemsley, Nottingham
25 Apr 2017 – 30 Apr 2017	ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2017 Jubilee Campus, Nottingham
30 Mar 2017	Professor Sven Steinmo, EUI A09 Highfield House, Nottingham
23 Mar 2017	Professor Travis Ridout, Washington State A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
13 Mar 2017	Dr Xiaobo Lu, Texas at Austin A31 Sir Clive Granger Building, Nottingham
9 Mar 2017	Conference: The Gold Standard of Reproducible Research A21 Trent Building – Council Room, Nottingham
2 Mar 2017	Professor Sara Hobolt, LSE A11 Highfield House, Nottingham
16 Feb 2017	Dr Sacha Kapoor, Erasmus A4 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
9 Feb 2017	Professor Cecilia Testa, Nottingham- CANCELLED A11 Highfield House, Nottingham
8 Dec 2016	Dr Stephane Wolton, LSE B12 Engineering and Science Learning Centre, Nottingham
1 Dec 2016	CANCELLED: Professor Thomas Koenig, Mannheim B08 Engineering and Science Learning Centre, Nottingham
10 Nov 2016	Chitralekha Basu, Rochester A41 Sir Clive Granger Building, Nottingham
3 Nov 2016	Dr James Rockey, Leicester B7 The Hemsley, Nottingham
27 Oct 2016	Professor Andy Eggers, Oxford A4 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
20 Oct 2016	Professor Giovanni Facchini, Nottingham A4 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
12 Oct 2016	Professor Francesco Squintani, Warwick C4/5 Portland Building, Nottingham

2015/16
Date/Time	Event
20 Jun 2016 – 21 Jun 2016	International Conference Engineering and Science Learning Centre, Nottingham
5 May 2016	Professor Ben Ansell, University of Oxford A2 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
10 Mar 2016	Dr Simon Toubeau, Nottingham A42 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham
25 Feb 2016	Professor Staffan Lindberg, Gothenburg A45 Sir Clive Granger, Nottingham
18 Feb 2016	Dr Matthew Rendall, Nottingham A2 Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham
11 Feb 2016	Professor Avidit Acharya, Stanford University A11 Highfield House, Nottingham
3 Feb 2016	Professor Peter Rosendorff, New York University A40 Sir Clive Granger Building, Nottingham
27 Jan 2016	Professor David Austen-Smith, Northwestern University A41 Sir Clive Granger Building, Nottingham
3 Dec 2015	Professor Rebecca Morton, New York University A17 Pope Building, Nottingham
26 Nov 2015	Professor David Myatt, London Business School A11 Highfield House, Nottingham
19 Nov 2015	Dr Atsuyoshi Morozumi, Nottingham C26 Portland West Concourse Lounge, Nottingham
29 Oct 2015	Professor Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University A09 Highfield House, Nottingham
28 Oct 2015	Internal Lunch Meeting Cloisters / A02 Highfield House, Nottingham
8 Oct 2015	Professor Raymond Duch, University of Oxford A11 Highfield House, Nottingham

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