SI 2015 Political Economy Public Finance

Michael_Golosov, Mikhail Golosov, Stephen Coate, Amy Finkelstein, and Raj Chetty, Organizers

July 15, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 15
9:00 am
9:00 am
Santiago Oliveros, University of Bristol
Matias Iaryczower, Princeton University and NBER

Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Rallying Support
10:00 am
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago

Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization
11:20 am
11:20 am
Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University

Winning by Default: Why is There So Little Competition in Government Procurement?
1:20 pm
1:20 pm
Jessica Leight, International Food Policy Research Institute
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Laura Ralston, Amazon

Value for Money in Purchasing Votes? Vote-buying and Voting Behavior in the Laboratory
2:20 pm
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Queen Mary, University of London
Frederic Malherbe, London Business School

Get Rid of Unanimity: The Superiority of Majority Rule with Veto Power
3:40 pm
3:40 pm
Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano
Amedeo Piolatto, Autonomous U. Barcelona, BSE, IEB, MOVE
Giacomo Ponzetto, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Political Centralization and Government Accountability
4:40 pm