Political Economy Program Meeting

Ernesto Dal Bó and Francesco Trebbi, Organizers

October 11, 2019

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

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
Discussant: Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
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
Discussant: Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:15 am
Michael Callen, London School of Economics
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
Soledad A. Prillaman, University of Oxford
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER

Does Revolution Work? Post-Revolutionary Evolution of Nepal’s Political Classes
Discussant: tba
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
Discussant: Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
2:30 pm
Camilo García-Jimeno, Emory University
Alberto Ciancio, University of Glasgow

The Political Economy of Immigration Enforcement: Conflict and Cooperation under Federalism
Discussant: Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Meera Mahadevan, University of California at Irvine

The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity (slides)
Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
4:45 pm
Adjourn