Thursday, October 10

7:00 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

Friday, October 11

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

“We haven’t got but one more day” - The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Dynamic Chicken Game

Avinash Dixit, Princeton University

Discussant:
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

An Experiment in Candidate Selection

Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER
Abou Bakarr Kamara, International Growth Centre
Niccoló Meriggi, International Growth Centre

Discussant:
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:15 am

Does Revolution Work? Post-Revolutionary Evolution of Nepal’s Political Classes

Michael Callen, London School of Economics
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
Soledad A. Prillaman, Stanford University
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
tba

12:15 pm

Lunch - Charles Room

1:15 pm

Ernesto Dal Bo - Short Update: Political Economy as a Field

1:30 pm

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley
Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego

Discussant:
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER

2:30 pm

The Political Economy of Immigration Enforcement: Conflict and Cooperation under Federalism

Camilo García-Jimeno, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Alberto Ciancio, University of Glasgow

Discussant:
Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity (slides)

Meera Mahadevan, University of California, San Diego

Discussant:
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER

4:45 pm

Adjourn