Anticipating disaster: Preparing for political shocks

• In Event: EITM Summer Institute Research Panel

Brief Overview

Using formal theory this project aims to understand the conditions under which politicians are willing to pay the costs to create policies in anticipation of probabilistic political shocks.

Authors

• Talbot M Andrews, Stony Brook University

• Gloria Gennaro, Bocconi University

• Eli Gavin Rau, Yale University