Political Economy Program Meeting/Econ of Culture & Institutions

Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer

April 10, 2015

The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 10
1
Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po
Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

How Modern Dictators Survive
2
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER

Media Power
3
Thomas Dohmen, University of Bonn
Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER
Armin Falk, University of Bonn
David Huffman, University of Pittsburgh
Uwe Sunde, University of Munich

Patience and The Wealth of Nations
4
Michael J. Callen, London School of Economics
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
Syed Ali Hasanain, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Bruno Ferman, Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV

Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
5
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating de Tocqueville