Political Economy Program Meeting
Ernesto Dal Bó and Francesco Trebbi, Organizers
October 11, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Thursday, October 10 | ||||
| 7:00 pm | Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) | |||
| Friday, October 11 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am |
Avinash Dixit, Princeton University “We haven’t got but one more day” - The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Dynamic Chicken Game
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER Abou Bakarr Kamara, International Growth Centre Niccoló Meriggi, International Growth Centre An Experiment in Candidate Selection
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| 11:15 am |
Michael Callen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Saad Gulzar, University of Notre Dame Soledad A. Prillaman, Stanford University Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER Does Revolution Work? Post-Revolutionary Evolution of Nepal’s Political Classes
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch - Charles Room | |||
| 1:15 pm | Ernesto Dal Bo - Short Update: Political Economy as a Field | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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| 2:30 pm |
Camilo García-Jimeno, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Alberto Ciancio, University of Glasgow The Political Economy of Immigration Enforcement: Conflict and Cooperation under Federalism
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:45 pm |
Meera Mahadevan, University of California, San Diego The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity
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| 4:45 pm | Adjourn | |||