EIEF, Rome — June 25–26, 2026
Program
Thursday, June 25
Chair: Andrea Prat
- 09.30 – 10.00Registration & welcoming coffee
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10.00 – 10.50
“Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood”
DiscussantCharles Angelucci (MIT)
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10.50 – 11.40
“Frictions in News Consumption: Evidence from Social Media”
DiscussantAndrey Simonov (Columbia University)
- 11.40 – 12.10Coffee break
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12.10 – 13.00
“The Joe Rogan Effect: Politicized Podcasts and the Youth Gender Gap”
DiscussantHeyu Xiong (Case Western Reserve University)
- 13.00 – 14.30Lunch
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14.30 – 15.20
“Algorithms and Parasitic Content”
DiscussantRafael Jiménez-Durán (Università Bocconi)
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15.20 – 16.10
“The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care”
DiscussantMatthew Ridley (University of Warwick)
- 16.10 – 16.40Coffee break
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16.40 – 17.30
“An Image is Worth 40.38 Words: Partisanship and Attention in Videos”
DiscussantGiulia Caprini (Sciences Po)
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17.30 – 18.20
“Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage”
DiscussantMarkus Prior (Princeton University)
- 19.45 –Dinner (by invitation only)
Friday, June 26
Chairs: Alexey Makarin (morning) · Francesco Sobbrio (afternoon)
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10.00 – 10.50
“What Motivates Partisan Selective Exposure? Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election”
DiscussantRo’ee Levy (Tel Aviv University)
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10.50 – 11.40
“Media Education, Access to News and Information Inequality: Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools”
DiscussantMatthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)
- 11.40 – 12.10Coffee break
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12.10 – 13.00
“Ambiguous Attribution: Theory and Evidence from Public Service Provision”
DiscussantMaria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- 13.00 – 14.30Lunch
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14.30 – 15.20
“GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
DiscussantAndrew M. Guess (Princeton University)
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15.20 – 16.10
“Identity in Journalism: Evidence from News Reporting of Violence against Women”
DiscussantSilvia Vannutelli (Sciences Po and Northwestern)
- 16.10 – 16.40Coffee break
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16.40 – 17.30
“Polarization and Exposure to Cross-Partisan Media in an Electoral Autocracy”
DiscussantRuben Enikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- 19.45 –Optional dinner (non-sponsored)
* Ruben Durante gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 101125953).
Participants
- Serhii Abramenko — RED
- Luca Anderlini — Georgetown University
- Charles Angelucci — MIT
- Manuela Angelucci — University of Texas at Austin
- Shaghayegh Asady — Tor Vergata University of Rome
- Francesco Barilari — Bocconi University and IGIER
- Alexander Basov — Bocconi University
- Anna Bayona — ESADE Business School
- Dzerassa Bazoeva — MSU
- Manuel Blasco — University of Bologna
- Giulia Bondatti — RoME
- Raphael Boulat — Bocconi University
- Luca Braghieri — Bocconi University
- Berkeren Buyukeren — RED
- Julia Cagé — Sciences Po
- Renata Canini — RED
- Giulia Caprini — Sciences Po
- Flavia Cavallini — Banca d’Italia
- Andrea Ciccarone — Columbia University
- Valentina D’Anna — RED
- Luca De Benedictis — UniMercatorum
- Adriano De Ruvo — Brown University
- Francisco Di Biase — University of Naples Federico II
- Ruben Durante — National University of Singapore and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Sarah Eichmeyer — Bocconi University and IGIER
- Ruben Enikolopov — Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Pablo Fiorentini — RED
- Stefano Gagliarducci — Tor Vergata University of Rome and EIEF
- Sergio Galletta — Sapienza University of Rome
- Matthew Gentzkow — Stanford University
- Gabriele Gratton — UNSW Sydney
- Veronica Grembi — MEF
- Andrew M. Guess — Princeton University
- Giorgio Gulino — Tor Vergata University of Rome
- Helios Herrera — University of Warwick
- Rafael Jiménez-Durán — Bocconi University
- Horacio Larreguy — ITAM
- Ro’ee Levy — Tel Aviv University
- Gabriele Licata — RoME
- Anastasiia Lisovaia — LUISS
- Matteo Machiorlatti — University of Zurich
- Alexey Makarin — MIT
- Claudia Marangon — Harvard University
- Federico Masera — UNSW Sydney
- Jonathan Mason — RoME
- Nicola Mastrorocco — University of Bologna
- Andrea Mattozzi — University of Bologna
- Nikita Melnikov — Nova School of Business & Economics
- Claudio Michelacci — EIEF
- Joana Monteiro — FGV
- Elliot Motte — Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Andrea Orsenigo — RoME
- Gerard Padró i Miquel — Yale University
- Elena Parisi — RED
- Maria Petrova — Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Wei Pin — ETH Zurich
- Carlo Poggi — RoME
- Andrea Prat — Columbia University
- Mounu Prem — EIEF
- Markus Prior — Princeton University
- Nancy Qian — Northwestern University
- Sivan Rabi Rafaeli — Tel Aviv University
- Matthew Ridley — University of Warwick
- Russell Leonard — University of California, Irvine
- Andrey Samarskiy — RoME
- Carlo Schwarz — Bocconi University and IGIER
- Timofey Shvaya — RoME
- Lea Silbernagl — RoME
- Andrey Simonov — Columbia University
- Francesco Sobbrio — Tor Vergata University of Rome
- Lena Song — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Karthik Srinivasan — University of Michigan
- Mateusz Stalinski — University of Warwick
- David Strömberg — Stockholm University
- Pablo Suarez Sucunza — RED
- Daniele Terlizzese — EIEF
- Andrea Tesei — Queen Mary University of London
- Michael Thaler — University College London
- Gianmarco Torchetti — ETH Zurich
- Giulia Tura — LUISS
- Silvia Vannutelli — Sciences Po and Northwestern University
- Aleksandr Vedishchev — RoME
- Anna Vitali — NYU
- Liangnan Wang — RED
- Nancy Wang — MIT
- Heyu Xiong — Case Western Reserve University
- Olga Yastrzhembskaya — RoME
- Uri Zamir — Tel Aviv University
- Lehan Zhang — ETH Zurich
- Sen Zhang — RED
- Shuman Zhao — RoME
- Ekaterina Zhuravskaya — Paris School of Economics
Affiliations as of June 2026.
Photos
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