Political Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Alberto F. Alesina
October 23, 2015
The Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, October 23
1

Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Filip Matějka, CERGE-EI
Guido Tabellini, IGIER
2

On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions

Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER
Thierry Verdier, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
3

Roots of Autocracy

Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Marc Klemp, Brown University
4

Determinants and Consequences of Bureaucrat Effectiveness: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Arunish Chawla, Government of India
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5

From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Emergence of an Inefficient Bureaucracy

Gabriele Gratton, University of New South Wales
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Claudio Michelacci, EIEF
Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University