Organizer: Marina Azzimonti (Stony Brook University).

The Stony Brook Center for Game Theory will host a Workshop on Political Economy as part of the 2015 Stony Brook Game Theory Festival. The workshop will focus on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest include: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and monetary policy, social insurance, taxation, transfer programs, public investment, public employment, regulation, education, and health); (ii) the effects of political reforms; (iii) inefficiencies arising from lack of commitment, private information, the bargaining process, and political failure; (iv) the impact of budgeting rules; (v) political polarization and partisan conflict; (vi) the political determinants of economic policy uncertainty; among others.

Confirmed Speakers: Daniel Dieremeir (Chicago), Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown University), Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University), Brian Knight (Brown University), Georgy Egorov (Kellog), Renee Bowen (Stanford GSB), Florian Scheuer (Stanford), Ali Shourideh (Wharton), Arpad Abraham (EUI), Dana Foarta (Stanford GSB), Fernando Martin (FRB St Louis), Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE), Gherard Glomm (Indiana), and Satyajit Chatterjee (FRB of Philadelphia).

For further information, please contact the conference organizer: Marina Azzimonti (Stony Brook University; marina.azzimonti@gmail.com).
To learn about the center, visit http://gtcenter.org/

You are invited to submit a complete paper or extended abstract by Friday, April 24, 2015. Submissions should be sent by e-mail as a PDF file to the organizer (marina.azzimonti@gmail.com). Contributors will receive e-mail notification as to whether their paper has been accepted for presentation before Friday, May 15, 2015.