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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economics of Culture and Institutions Meeting

 

Alberto Bisin and Paola Giuliano, Organizers

 

April 11, 2015

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, April 10:

6:00 pm

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


Saturday, April 11:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University
The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Discussant:
Uwe Sunde, University of St. Gallen

9:50 am

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws

Discussant: Michele Boldrin,
Washington University in St Louis

10:40 am

Break

11:00 am

Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich
Susan Yeh, George Mason University
How Do Rights Revolutions Occur? Free Speech and the First Amendment

Discussant:
Ilyana Kuziemko from Princeton University and NBER

11:40 am

Yihui Pan, University of Utah
Stephan Siegel, University of Washington
Tracy Yue Wang, University of Minnesota
The Cultural Origin of Preferences: CEO Cultural Heritage and Corporate Investment

Discussant:
Nico Voigtlaender, University of California and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch – Somerset Room

1:30 pm

Eugenio Proto, Warwick University
Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota

Andis Sofianos, Warwick University
Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma

Discussant: Andrew Schotter, New York University

2:20 pm

Break

2:40 pm

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Essex
Daniele Terlizzese, Bank of Italy
Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: Prison Conditions and Recidivism

 

Discussant: Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University and NBER

3:30 pm

Jeffrey Butler, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Pierluigi Conzo, University of Turin
Martin A. Leroch, University of Mainz
Social Identity and Punishment

Discussant: Pedro dal
, Brown University and NBER

4:20 pm

Adjourn