SI 2017 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers
July 18-20, 2017
Parkview Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Tuesday, July 18 | ||||
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Tuesday afternoon joint with Political Economy (Charles Suites) | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Quamrul Ashraf, Williams College Francesco Cinnirella, University of Bergamo Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER Boris Gershman, American University Erik Hornung, University of Cologne Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Simone Meraglia, University of Exeter Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER The Medieval Roots of Inclusive Institutions: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act
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| 4:00 pm |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 19 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Paolo Buonanno, University of Bergamo Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna Sara Lazzaroni, University of Bologna Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna Historical Roots of Preferences over Political Institutions: Monarchy vs Republic in 1946 Italy |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Cemal Eren Arbatli, Durham University Gunes Gokmen, Lund University Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Mark Koyama, George Mason University Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University The Origins and Long-Run Consequences of the Division of Labor |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER David Hemous, University of Zurich Morten G. Olsen, University of Copenhagen The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality |
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| 5:00 pm |
Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po Ulrike I. Steins, University of Bonn Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2013 |
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| 6:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Thursday, July 20 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER Stefano Fiorin, Bocconi University From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute Of Cities and Slums |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER Shengxing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis zhifeng cai, Rutgers University College Pricing and Income Inequality |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris Richard Blundell, University College London and IFS Rachel Griffith, Institute for Fiscal Studies Innovation, Firm and Wage Inequality |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |||