Zhaotian Luo
@luozhaotian.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science @UChicago
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Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday.
@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.
@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.
1st Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago | Becker Friedman Institute
bfi.uchicago.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Really looking forward to the first annual Workshop on Organizational and Political Economics in Chicago (OPEC!) this coming Saturday.
@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.
@luozhaotian.bsky.social has done fabulous work pulling this together.
Reposted by Zhaotian Luo
New paper alert! 📣
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
Details👇 1/X
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
Details👇 1/X
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New paper alert! 📣
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
Details👇 1/X
@chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth.
TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies.
Details👇 1/X
New Working Paper:
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New Working Paper:
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Zhaotian Luo
This year we will be in Michigan in August. Apply if you are midway through your PhD program in the social sciences to learn from the best in the discipline how theory and empirical methods come together!
Applications for the 2025 EITM Summer Institute are now open! Program dates: Aug 4-15. Program location: University of Michigan. Deadline: April 15. eitminstitute.org/institute/20...
2025 – Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Institute
eitminstitute.org
April 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This year we will be in Michigan in August. Apply if you are midway through your PhD program in the social sciences to learn from the best in the discipline how theory and empirical methods come together!
Reposted by Zhaotian Luo
Somebody at @ajpseditor.bsky.social has a great sense of humor, having accepted our paper on the “dictator’s dilemma” the very day that Bashar al-Assad fled Syria.
Joint with @luozhaotian.bsky.social, @antonshirikov.bsky.social, and Dmitriy Vorobyev.
https://osf.io/b94fc
Joint with @luozhaotian.bsky.social, @antonshirikov.bsky.social, and Dmitriy Vorobyev.
https://osf.io/b94fc
December 9, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Somebody at @ajpseditor.bsky.social has a great sense of humor, having accepted our paper on the “dictator’s dilemma” the very day that Bashar al-Assad fled Syria.
Joint with @luozhaotian.bsky.social, @antonshirikov.bsky.social, and Dmitriy Vorobyev.
https://osf.io/b94fc
Joint with @luozhaotian.bsky.social, @antonshirikov.bsky.social, and Dmitriy Vorobyev.
https://osf.io/b94fc