Wednesday, July 15

9:00 am

Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Rallying Support

Santiago Oliveros, University of Bristol
Matias Iaryczower, Princeton University and NBER

10:00 am

Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization

Roger Myerson, University of Chicago

11:20 am

Winning by Default: Why is There So Little Competition in Government Procurement?

Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University

1:20 pm

Value for Money in Purchasing Votes? Vote-buying and Voting Behavior in the Laboratory

Jessica Leight, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Laura Ralston, Amazon

2:20 pm

Get Rid of Unanimity: The Superiority of Majority Rule with Veto Power

Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Queen Mary, University of London
Frederic Malherbe, London Business School

3:40 pm

Political Centralization and Government Accountability

Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano
Amedeo Piolatto, Autonomous U. Barcelona, BSE, IEB, MOVE
Giacomo Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics

4:40 pm