Political Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Political Economy Program met April 29 in Cambridge and online. Research Associates Oeindrila Dube of the University of Chicago and Leeat Yariv of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Eoin F. McGuirk, Tufts University, and Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER, "Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa" (NBER Working Paper 28243)

* Saumitra Jha and Marcos Manuel Salgado, Stanford University, and Peter Koudijs, University of Rotterdam, "Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets"

* Kei Kawai, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Takeaki Sunada, University of Rochester, "Estimating Candidate Valence" (NBER Working Paper 29681)

* Cedric Chambru, University of Zurich, and Emeric Henry and Benjamin Marx, Sciences Po, "The Dynamic Consequences of State Building...