Models and Data Group

Schedule, 2010–2011 Academic Year

Fourth Meeting:

• MADtime: Thursday, April 14^th, 7:30 pm
• MADplace: Alex’s place, 335 West Doty Street #304
• MADreadings: “Endogenous Power Shifts, Weapons Development, and Costly Reassurance Signaling,” by Mert Kartal and Dave Ohls, available here.

Third Meeting:

• MADtime: Tuesday, March 22^nd, 7:30 pm
• MADplace: Mark and Beth’s place, 2703 Mason Street
• MADreadings: “Do Political Boundaries Matter? The Spatial Distribution of Migration Dependence in Mexico,” by Emily Sellars, available here.

Second Meeting:

• MADtime: Thursday, February 17^th, 7:30 pm
• MADplace: Melanie and Dave’s place, 3930 Plymouth Circle (follow Regent past West High School and the cemetery, two blocks past the cemetery turn left on Larkin Street, take the first right off Larkin onto Plymouth Circle)
• MADreadings: “Spatial Effects in Dyadic Data,” by Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper, available here, and “Exploring Spatial Dependence in Bi- and Multilateral Aid Giving Patterns,” by Fabian Barthel, available here.

First Meeting:

• MADtime: Monday, November 15^th, 7:30 pm
• MADplace: Scott and Masha’s place on the Square, 123 West Washington Avenue #710
• MADreadings: “Global Games: Theory and Applications,” by Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin, available here, and “The Foundations of Limited Authoritarian Government: Institutions and Power-Sharing in Dictatorships,” by Carles Boix and Milan Svolik, available here.