Alberto Alesina, Organizer

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5:

7:00 PM Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel-Skyline

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM TORSTEN PERSSON, Stockholm University and NBER

GUIDO TABELLINI, Università Bocconi

Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change

Discussant: RAFAEL DI TELLA, Harvard University

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM FILIPE CAMPANTE, Harvard University

Redistribution in a Model of Voting and Campaign Contributions

Discussant: ALESSANDRO S. LIZZERI, New York University

11:15 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM ERNESTO DAL BÓ, University of California-Berkeley

PEDRO DAL BÓ, Brown University

JASON SNYDER, Northwestern University

Political Dynasties

Discussant: BENJAMIN OLKEN, NBER

12:30 PM Lunch

Over, Please!

POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKING GROUP PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

1:30 PM ERIK SNOWBERG, Stanford University

JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Stanford University

Partisan Impacts on the Economy:

Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Discussant: RICHARD HOLDEN, MIT

2:30 PM Coffee Break

2:45 PM FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics and NBER

NICOLA GENNAIOLI, Stockholm University

Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reform

Discussant: NICOLA PERSICO, University of Pennsylvania

3:45 PM CHRISTINA M. FONG, Carnegie Mellon University

ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

Race and Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims:

Experimental Evidence

Discussant: ELIANA LA FERRARA, Università Bocconi

4:45 PM Adjourn

9/29/06