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Political Economy Program Meeting Alberto Alesina, Organizer April 27, 2012 NBER Feldstein Conference Room Second Floor 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA PROGRAM
Thursday, April 26:
6:30 pm	Group Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel – Room University A
Friday, April 27:
8:00 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago David Lucca, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia and NBER Discussant: Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy Pietro Ortoleva, California Institute of Technology Erik Snowberg, California Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University
11:15 am	Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral Resources Foster Individualism Mathieu Couttenier, Paris School of Economics Marc Sangnier, Sciences Po Discussant: Romain Wacziarg, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics and NBER Massimo Morelli, Columbia University Dominc Rohner, University of Zurich Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	State Capacity and Military Conflict Nicola Gennaioli, UPF Hans-Joachim Voth, ICREA Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
3:30 pm	Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Esther Duflo, MIT and NBER Daniel Keniston, MIT Nina Singh, Inspector General of Police - Rajasthan Discussant: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
4:30 pm	Adjourn