Events calendar

1 Mar

Michela Boldrini: Scapegoating migrants during a crisis can be socially and politically ineffective or even counterproductive (MUES seminar)

4:00 PM

During economic, health, or political hardships, politicians often leverage citizens’ discontent and scapegoat minorities to obtain political support. This paper tests whether political campaigns scapegoating...

23 Mar

Zach Porreca: The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Exploiting a novel data set of criminal trials in 19th century London, we evaluate the impact of an accused’s right to counsel on convictions. While lower-level crimes had an established history of professional...

27 Mar

Sorath Shah: Willingness to use application-based taxi pooling services: Impacts of fare, route matching, detour time, and waiting time (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

The rapid development of information technology and smartphone applications has introduced new and unique transportation services. This article introduces one of these recently established systems in South...

29 Mar

Michal Biron: Crafting telework: A conceptual process model and some empirical evidence among individuals and teams (MUES seminar)

9:00 AM

In this talk, I will describe a model explicating telework as a dynamic process, theorizing that teleworkers continuously adjust – their identities, boundaries, and relationships – to meet needs for competence,...

29 Mar

Tom Broekel: News and regional development (MUES seminar)

10:00 AM

It is well-recognized that news coverage varies significantly between countries. The differences include what events are reported at what frequencies and in what tones. It is also well established that...