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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Political Economy Public Finance

Stephen Coate and Mikhail Golosov, Organizers

July 17, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline AB Meeting Room
40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

David Baron, Stanford University,
Renee Bowen, Stanford University,
Dynamic Coalitions

Discussant: Tom Palfrey, California Institute of Technology and NBER


10:00 am


Madhav S. Aney, Singapore Management University
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Massimo Morelli, Columbia University,
Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure

Discussant:
Matias Iaryczower, Princeton University

11:00 am

Break


11:20 am


Simeon Alder, University of Notre Dame
Guillermo Ordonez, University of Pennsylvania
Deceptive Redistribution

Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER

12:20 pm

Lunch


1:20 pm


Monica Martinez-Bravo, CEMFI
The Role of Local Officials in New Democracies: Evidence from Indonesia

Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra


2:20 pm


Andrew Beath, The World Bank
Christia Fotini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University
Ruben Enikolopov, NES
Electoral Rules and the Quality of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Discussant: Hulya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University


3:20 pm


Break


3:40 pm


Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University,
Rodrigo Harrison, Universidad Catolica de Chile
Dynamic Mechanism Design for a Global Commons

Discussant: Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University


4:40 pm


Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Boulevard, Cambridge, MA