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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Political Economy Program Meeting

 

November 19, 2010

 

Matthew Gentzkow and Francesco Trebbi, Organizers

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18:

 

 

7:00 pm 

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University

Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University

 

Torture

 

 

 

Discussant:  Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University

 

 

10:00 am

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER

Selvan Kumar, Yale University

Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER

Felix Su, Harvard University

 

Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India

 

 

 

Discussant:  Alan Gerber, Yale University

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am1

Yosh Halberstam, University of Toronto

Pablo Montagnes, University of Chicago

Information Contagion in Coelection Environments: Theory and Evidence from Entry and Exit of Senators

 

 

 

Discussant:  Greg Huber, Yale University

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

2:00 pm

Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER

Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Max Planck Institute

Thomas Palfrey, Caltech

Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes

 

 

 

Discussant:  Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University and NBER

 

 

3:00 pm 

Break

 

 

3:30 pm 

 

Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER

Claude Berrebi, Hebrew University

Esteban Klor, Hebrew University

Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions

 

 

 

Discussant: David Jaeger, CUNY and University of Cologne

 

 

4:15 pm

David Jaeger, CUNY and University of Cologne

Esteban Klor, Hebrew University

Sami Miaari, European University Institute

Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER

 

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

 

 

 

Discussant:  Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn