
	Thursday, November 2
7:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Friday, November 3
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Folklore Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Discussant: Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER Discussant: Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:15 am	Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Bryony Reich, Northwestern University Alessandro Riboni, École Polytechnique Discussant: Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch - Skyline Room DE
1:15 pm	The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014 Julia Cage, Sciences Po Yasmine Bekkouche, Paris School of Economics Discussant: Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy Discussant: Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
3:30 pm	The Effect of Income and Unemployment Shocks on Political Preferences James E. Alt, Harvard University Sebastian Barfort, London School of Economics David Lassen, University of Copenhagen Discussant: Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
4:45 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
James E. Alt, Harvard University
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Renee Bowen, Georgetown University and NBER
Johannes C. Buggle, University of Lausanne
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Quoc-Anh Do, Monash University
Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER
Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Camilo García-Jimeno, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Pablo I. Hernandez-Lagos, Yeshiva University, Sy Syms School of Business
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Horacio Larreguy, ITAM
Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER

Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Omer Ozak, Southern Methodist University
M. Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
Ivan Petkov, Boston College
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Alessandro Riboni, École Polytechnique
Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College
Jonathan Schulz, George Mason University
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University
Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER