SI 2017 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Organized by Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti
July 18-20, 2017
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Tuesday, July 18
12:30 pm
Lunch
Tuesday afternoon joint with Political Economy (Charles Suites)
1:30 pm

Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Quamrul Ashraf, Williams College
Francesco Cinnirella, University of Bergamo
Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Boris Gershman, American University
Erik Hornung, University of Cologne

Discussant:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Medieval Roots of Inclusive Institutions: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simone Meraglia, University of Exeter
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm

The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Marco Battaglini, Cornell University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Historical Roots of Preferences over Political Institutions: Monarchy vs Republic in 1946 Italy

Paolo Buonanno, University of Bergamo
Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna
Sara Lazzaroni, University of Bologna
Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Durham University
Gunes Gokmen, Lund University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China

Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Origins and Long-Run Consequences of the Division of Labor

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century

Matthew Smith, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
David Hemous, University of Zurich
Morten G. Olsen, University of Copenhagen
5:00 pm

Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2013

Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Ulrike I. Steins, University of Bonn
6:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 20
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Stefano Fiorin, Bocconi University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Of Cities and Slums

Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER
Shengxing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

College Pricing and Income Inequality

Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
zhifeng cai, Rutgers University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Innovation, Firm and Wage Inequality

Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Richard Blundell, University College London and IFS
Rachel Griffith, Institute for Fiscal Studies: IFS
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel