NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy Program Meeting

October 26, 2007

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 25:
7:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Dante Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, October 26:
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Long Term Persistence
	Luigi Guiso, European University Institute
	Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
	Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:15 am	Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the U.S. Congress
	Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia
	Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago and NBER
11:15 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
	Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER
	Rohini Pande, Harvard University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Momentum in Presidential Primaries
	Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER
	Nathan Schiff, Brown University
2:30 pm	Coffee Break
2:45 pm	Segregation and Black Political Efficacy
	Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Duke University and NBER
	Ebonya Washington, Yale University and NBER
3:45 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	Accountability, Selection, and Experience: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Term Limits
	James Alt, Harvard University
	Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago
	Shanna Rose, New York University
5:00 pm	Adjourn
10/12/07