MOVE - Urrutia Elejalde Workshop on Information, Dynamics and Political Decisions Making
MOVE - Urrutia Elejalde Workshop on Information, Dynamics and Political Decisions Making
Date: December 13-14, 2010
Venue: Casa Convalescència, Barcelona
Organizers: Salvador Barberà, Jon X.Eguia and Matthew O. Jackson
Sponsors: MOVE, Urrutia Elejalde, UAB, Generalitat de Catalunya (DIUE), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Program: pdf version
Presentation: Political decision making involves constraints that make the process more complicated than merely identifying the best policy. For instance, imperfectly informed citizens may not always reward leaders who enact good policies, particularly if these policies deliver observable hardship today, and defer satisfaction to the future. Moreover, agents with diverging preferences often disagree about which policies are best. We seek to understand how things such as accountability, limited information and dynamic trade-offs influence policy-making in a diverse society, with the ultimate goal of designing institutions that create incentives to pursue policies that generate greater aggregate welfare.
MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics) is a brand new Economics research institute in the Barcelona area, engaged in high quality economic analysis research. Its objectives are to push the frontiers of knowledge in its three broad areas of expertise, to attract the best junior and senior researchers, and to promote scientific collaboration and exchange through events such as this Workshop.
