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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Political Economy Program Meeting

Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer

October 23, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 22:
7:00 pm	Group Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, October 23:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER Marc Klemp, Brown University Roots of Autocracy Discussant: David Yanagizawa-Drott, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Filip Matějka, CERGE-EI Guido Tabellini, IGIER Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters Discussant: Leeat Yariv, California Institute of Technology
11:15 am	Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Arunish Chawla, Government of India Guo Xu, London School of Economics Determinants and Consequences of Bureaucrat Effectiveness: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service Discussant: Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER Thierry Verdier, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions Discussant: Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Gabriele Gratton, University of New South Wales Claudio Michelacci, CEMFI Massimo Morelli, Columbia University and NBER From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Emergence of an Inefficient Bureaucracy Discussant: Jesse Shapiro, Brown University and NBER
3:30 pm	Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and NBER The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy Discussant: Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University
4:30 pm	Adjourn