Lisbon Meeting on Economics and Political Science

CLEAN went at the The Lisbon Meeting on Economics and Political Science which took place in Lisbon on September 19th-20th! It is a joint organization of the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE-UNL), the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) and the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG-UL). 

Giovanna Marcolongo presented an ongoing project with Paolo Pinotti and Thea How Choon (St. Lawrence). The work tries to address important questions such us "How do pressure groups affect politics?", "Do they use more carrots (bribes) or sticks (violence)?". In her presentation, Giovanna Marcolongo showed how the answers may depend on the type of regime: in autocracies pressure groups rely more on bribes, while in democracies they rely on violence relatively more. 

Finally we are very happy to announce that the paper "Polarization in Trust", by Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli, Willem Sas and Lisa Windsteiger won The Bank of Portugal Best Paper Prize. In this work, Gianmarco Daniele and his coauthors showed that polarisation in trust dynamics comes to the surface when policy issues are highly salient and mired in coordination failures. These can be acute crises such as a pandemic -- which is the focus of the online survey experiment in four European countries with over 8000 respondents -- or more drawn out processes such as climate change.