During his keynote address at the EPCS Annual Meeting, Jean-Robert Tyran discussed selected laboratory experiments to demonstrate that social preferences and limited rationality are important to understanding voting behavior. He urged especially young scholars to explore the “exciting field” of behavioral economics.
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May 7, 2017
May 2, 2017
Second-year MPA students Sebastian Soto and Aron Suba recently returned from an extended trip to India where they conducted fieldwork for their Applied Policy Project (APP), a nine-month capstone project in which teams of students work for an external client on a defined project. “The trip to India was an extraordinary opportunity,” remembers Soto, “and also invaluable in terms of the data we were able to collect for our project,” adds Suba.
April 29, 2017
Catherine De Vries opened her keynote lecture at the EPCS Annual Meeting by noting that 6 out of 7.4 billion people lived in a country with a serious corruption problem in 2015. When asked, people say that they are concerned about corruption. Conventional wisdom suggests that elections curb corruption because these same people will vote against corrupt candidates. There is evidence, however, that voters tolerate – even condone – corruption when it is practiced by candidates with whom they share a group identity.
April 26, 2017
During its annual meeting at CEU in Budapest, Hungary on April 19-22, the European Public Choice Society (EPCS) expressed its solidarity with Central European University.
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