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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Political Economy Program Meeting

 

April 4, 2014

 

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Friday, April 4

8:15 am

Shuttles (2) depart from the Sonesta for the NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Partisan Conflict

 

Discussant: Rafael DiTella, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Roland Benabou, Princeton University and NBER

Davide Ticchi, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Andrea Vindigni, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

 

Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

Joan Esteban, Institut dÂ’Analisis Economica, CSIC

Massimo Morelli, Columbia University

Dominic Rohner, University of Zurich

Strategic Mass Killings

 

Discussant: Gerard Roland, University of California at Berkeley

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Pedro Bordalo, University of London

Nicola Gennaioli, UniversitĂ  Bocconi

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Stereotypes

 

Discussant: Roland Benabou, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Francesco Giavazzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Ivan Petkov, Boston College

Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College

Culture: Persistence and Evolution

 

Discussant: Paola Giuliano, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Amine Ouaza, INSEAD

Romain Ranciere, International Monetary Fund

Credit Standards and Segregation

 

Discussant: Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

4:45 pm

Shuttles (2) depart from the NBER for the Sonesta

6:00 pm

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