Leitner Program: “Engineering Crises: Favoritism and Strategic Fiscal Indiscipline”

Event time: 
Thursday, February 8, 2018 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Leitner Program presents:

Andrea Vindigni, Professor of Political Economy at IMT Lucca:  “Engineering Crises: Favoritism and Strategic Fiscal Indiscipline.”

He was previously Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toulouse, and has been a post-doctoral fellow at MIT, and a visiting professor of political science at Stanford University. His research interests focus on the political economy of a broad class of institutions.

In particular, he has written on the political determinants of job protection legislation, on the political economy of democratic constitutional choice, on the effects of wars on political institutions and democratic transitions. More recently he has also written on the political and economic origins of state capacity, of state power and of military dictatorships, and on the political economy of religiosity, redistribution and economic growth.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public