Political Economy Program Meeting
Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer
November 3, 2017
Cambridge
| Thursday, November 2 | ||||
| 7:00 pm |
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) |
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| Friday, November 3 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am |
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Folklore
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
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| 11:15 am |
Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Bryony Reich, Northwestern University Alessandro Riboni, École Polytechnique Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch - Skyline Room DE | |||
| 1:15 pm |
Julia Cage, Sciences Po Yasmine Bekkouche, Paris School of Economics The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014
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| 2:15 pm | Break | |||
| 2:30 pm |
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
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| 3:30 pm |
James E. Alt, Harvard University Sebastian Barfort, London School of Economics David Lassen, University of Copenhagen The Effect of Income and Unemployment Shocks on Political Preferences
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| 4:45 pm | Adjourn | |||