2:22 pm
Lightning Round on the Media
2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Social gathering on Wonder
Thursday, October 14
1:30 pm

AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
Lightning Round on the Media
2:45 pm

Social Media and Newsroom Production Decisions

Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
Nicolas Hervé, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Béatrice Mazoyer, CentraleSupélec
3:05 pm

Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News

Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
3:25 pm

Social Media and Xenophobia: Theory and Evidence from Russia

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
3:45 pm
Social gathering online
Friday, October 15
1:30 pm

Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach

Steven Callander, Stanford University
Dana Foarta, Stanford University
Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University

Discussant:
Juan M. Ortner, Boston University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations

Jorg L. Spenkuch, Northwestern University and NBER
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER
4:00 pm
Panel Discussion: The State of Liberal Democracy
Panelists:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
Moderator: Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn