Professor Daniela Campello, of FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), will be participating in the Political Economy Seminar to be held by the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin on Monday, April 11. She will present the paper ?Exogenous Shocks and Misattribution of Responsibility for Economic Performance: Results From Survey Experiments.?Coauthored with another EBAPE Professor, Cesar Zucco, the paper presents three opinion poll experiments carried out in Brazil and Ecuador, using multiple strategies designed to improve the respondent´s capacity to discount the impact of international or ?random? shocks in their evaluation of government´s economic management performance.?The research demonstrates that information about external shocks (increases in the prices of oil and other commodities) effectively increases voter´s capacity to distinguish between ?luck? and ?merit? in their assessments of Government, but this effect is limited and it is restricted to ?sophisticated? voters,? Campello explains.Organized by the University?s graduate school, the seminar will bring together Professors and Researchers who specialize in political economics.