Political Economy Program Meeting

Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer

October 23, 2015

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, October 23
1
Filip Matějka, CERGE-EI
Guido Tabellini, IGIER

Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters
2
Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER
Thierry Verdier, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques

On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions
3
Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Marc Klemp, Brown University

Roots of Autocracy
4
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Arunish Chawla, Government of India
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Determinants and Consequences of Bureaucrat Effectiveness: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service
5
Gabriele Gratton, University of New South Wales
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Claudio Michelacci, EIEF
Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University

From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Emergence of an Inefficient Bureaucracy