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 Saad Gulzar, Princeton University 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 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 | |||