NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Political Economy Program Meeting
Romain Wacziarg, Organizer
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
30:
7:00 pm Group Dinner
Dante Restaurant, Royal
Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, OCTOBER
31:
8:15 am Shuttle van departs Royal
Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Pedro Dal Bó, Brown University and NBER
Andrew Foster and
Louis Putterman,
Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
Discussant: Alan Gerber, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am Verónica Amarante, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo
Marco Manacorda, Queen Mary University of London
Edward Miguel, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Andrea
Vigorito, Universidad de la Republica,
Government Transfers and Political Support
Discussant: Rohini Pande,
11:00 am Break
11:30 am Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Gerard Padró i Miquel, London School of Economics and NBER
Discussant: Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, New Economic School
Segregation and the
Quality of Government in a Cross-Section
Discussant: Benjamin Olken, MIT and NBER
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
Leonard
Wantchekon,
The
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust within Africa
Discussant: William Easterly, New York University and NBER
4:00 pm Adam
Meirowitz,
Kenneth
Shotts,
Pivots Versus Signals
in Elections
Discussant: Steven Callander, Northwestern University
5:00 pm Adjourn