NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2010

 

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

 

July 20-22, 2010

 

Daron Acemoglu, Roland Benabou, and Oded Galor, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Inequality, Politics and Growth

 

 

1:30 pm

Alexandre Debs, Yale University

 

Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Rodney Ramcharan, IMF

 

Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927

 

 

3:45 pm

Makoto Nirei, Hitotsubashi University

 

Pareto Distributions in Economic Growth Models

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Wednesday, July 21:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

Market and Coerced Interactions

 

 

9:00 am

Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER

 

Alexander Wolitzky, MIT

 

The Economics of Labor Coercion

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Xin Meng, ANU

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

 

Pierre Yared, Columbia University

 

The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine (1959-1961)

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig, and

 

Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich

 

War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Culture, Beliefs and Trust

 

 

1:30 pm

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER

 

Guido Cozzi, University of Durham

 

Noemi Mantovan, University of Glasgow

 

The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Jeffrey Butler, EIEF

 

Paola Giuliano, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Luigi Guiso, European University Institute

 

The Right Amount of Trust

 

 

3:45 pm

Pauline Grosjean, UC, Berkeley

 

A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

Thursday, July 22:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

Persistence of Historical Factors

 

 

9:00 am

Thomas Andersen, Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and

 

Paul Sharp, University of Copenhagen

 

Religious Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Graziella Bertocchi, University of Modena

 

Arcangelo Dimico, University of Nottingham

 

Slavery, Education, and Inequality

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College

 

Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University

 

Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Inequality, Incomplete Market and Policies

 

 

1:30 pm

Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER

 

David Hemous, Harvard University

 

Enisse Kharroubi, Bank of France

 

Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Credit Constraints, and Industry Growth

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Kjetil Storesletten, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Giovanni Violante, New York University and NBER

 

Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy

 

 

3:45 pm

Liam Malloy, University of Maryland

 

Loss Aversion, Education, and the Distribution of Income

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn