SI 2018 Political Economy
Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer
July 16-17, 2018
Parkview Room
| Monday, July 16 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, CREI Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER Moral Values and Voting
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| 11:30 am |
Alex W. Cappelen Ingar K. Haaland, Norwegian School of Economics Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics Beliefs about Behavioral Responses to Taxation
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Roland Bénabou, Princeton University and NBER Armin Falk, University of Bonn Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
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| 2:20 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University and NBER Shom Mazumder, Harvard University Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER From Immigrants to Americans: Race, Status, and Assimilation During the Great Migration
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| 4:00 pm |
Bruno Caprettini, University of St Gallen Fabio S. Schmidt-Fischbach, University of Oxford Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich From Welfare To Warfare: New Deal Spending and Patriotism During World War Ii
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 17 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna Sara Lazzaroni, University of Bologna Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna Paolo Vanin, University of Bologna Sovereign Polities and Pre-Industrial Development: Theory and Evidence for Europe 1000-1850
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| 11:30 am |
Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets: A Study of Institutional Drift
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon session joint with the Income Distribution and Macroeconomics group | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Sebastian Hohmann, Stockholm School of Economics SITE Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Elias Papaioannou, London Business School Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
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| 4:00 pm |
Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||