Hosted by the Center for Political Economy, the objective of this one-day workshop is to convene scholars from diverse disciplines who are exploring economic narratives. These narratives represent collective explanations that individuals create to interpret complex scenarios. There is a growing recognition that narratives play a pivotal role in elucidating several significant phenomena across macroeconomics, political economy, organizational economics, behavioral economics, and other related fields. This event seeks to facilitate a rich intellectual exchange in this area.
Please email [email protected] to express your interest in attending. The CPE team will be in touch to confirm your participation.
Workshop Organizers:
- Suresh Naidu, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics; CoDirector of the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects, Columbia University
- Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy; Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University
- Andrea Prat, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, Columbia University
- Mark Dean, Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Workshop Speakers/Schedule:
- 9.30am: Arrival / breakfast
- 10.00-10.50am: “News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)” | Kfir Eliaz, Amnon Ben Natan Professor of Economics, Tel-Aviv University
- 10.50-11.10am: Break
- 11.10am-12.00pm: “The Macroeconomics of Narratives” | Karthik Sastry, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
- 12.00-12.50pm: “Narratives about the Macroeconomy” | Mirko Wiederholt, Professor of Economics, LMU Munich
- 12.50-1.40pm: Lunch
- 1.40-2.30pm: “A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice” | Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- 2.30-3.20pm: “Sharing Models to Interpret Data” | Joshua Schwarzstein, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- 3.20-3.40pm: Break
- 3.40-4.30pm: “Copaganda: The Reinforcing Spirals of Policing Attitudes” | Eunji Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
- 4.30-5.20pm: “Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States” | Vincent Pons, Byron Wien Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
