ALUMNI CONFERENCE
SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2024
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Breakfast and Registration |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Alexandra Benham, Mary Shirley, Lee Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | Conveying Your Research |
| Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | I. Current Research by Alumni |
| Strategic State Building: The Balancing Act of Indirect and Direct Rule in the Qing Empire | |
| Jun Fang, University of Michigan, USA | |
| Reforming Regulatory Governance in an Unfit Frame | |
| Paulo Furquim de Azevedo, Insper, Brazil | |
| Where Trolls Run Free: Propaganda in State-Owned Social Networks | |
| Sergey Sanovich, Sanford University, USA | |
| How Does Drought Affect Corruption Over Time? An Empirical Analysis of Brazilian Cities | |
| Francisco Lima Cavalcanti, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | II. Current Research by Alumni |
| Why Did the US Support the Coffee Cartel Between the 1960s and 1989? | |
| Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland, USA | |
| Green Gold: Avocado Production and Conflict in Mexico | |
| Juan Carlos Angulo Santacruz, University of Maryland, USA | |
| China's Economic Outlook and Its 4D Challenges | |
| Yue Su, The Economist Intelligence Unit, UK | |
| Trade Sanctions | |
| Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Local Politics in Nations and Empires |
| Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, USA | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Authors' Perspectives on Their New Books |
| Alumni and Faculty | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | III. Current Research by Alumni |
| A Theory of Democratic Consolidation | |
| Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University, USA (and Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago, USA) | |
| Research Collaborations in Public and Private Universsities in Europe: Do They Differ and Why? | |
| Maria Yudkevich, University of Haifa, Israel | |
| Informal Institutions, Indigenous Territory Identity, and Collective Property Rights | |
| Flavianne Fernanda Bitencourt Nobrega, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil | |
| Politicized Asset Prices: Evidence from the 2019 Hong Kong Social Movement | |
| Derek Huo, The University of Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Wrap-up Discussion |
| New directions and tools in research, evolving career paths, more | |
| 18:00 | Festive dinner |