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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy Program Meeting

November 13, 2009

Pedro Dal Bo and Romain Wacziarg, Organizers

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12:
7:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Dante Restaurant, Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13:
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER
	Joshua Coval, Harvard University and NBER
	Christopher Malloy, Harvard University
	Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
	Discussant: Stephen Ansolabehere, MIT
10:00 am	Bard Harstad, Northwestern University
	The Dynamics of Climate Agreements
	Discussant: Marco Battaglini, Princeton University and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Kaivan Munshi, Brown University and NBER
	Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
	The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
	Discussant: Robin Burgess, London School of Economics and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Raquel Fernandez, New York University and NBER
	Women’s Rights and Development
	Discussant: Nico Voigtlaender, UC, Los Angeles
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Fernanda Brollo, Bocconi University
	Tommaso Nannicini, Bocconi University
	Roberto Perotti, Bocconi University and NBER
	Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University
	The Political Resource Curse
	Discussant: Frederico Finan, UC, Berkeley and NBER
4:00 pm	Jeffrey Butler, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
	Paola Giuliano, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Luigi Guiso, European University Institute
	The Right Amount of Trust
	Discussant: Erzo Luttmer, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn

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