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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Political Economy Public Finance Workshop

 

Michael Golosov, Organizer

 

Friday, July 22, 2011

 

Skyline DE, West Tower

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 22:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Marco Battaglini, Princeton University and NBER

 

Stephen Coate, Cornell University and NBER

 

Fiscal Policy and Unemployment

 

 

 

Discussant: Facundo Piguillem, EIEF

 

 

 

Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 

 

Eva de Francisco, Towson University 

 

Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California and NBER

 

Financial Globalization and the Raising of Public Debt

 

 

 

Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Konstantin Sonin, NES  

 

A Political Theory of Populism

 

 

 

Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Monica Martinez-Bravo, John Hopkins University

 

Gerard Padro i Miquel, London School of Economics and NBER

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

 

Yang Yao, Pennsylvania State University

 

The Impact of Limited Democracy in Rural China

 

 

 

Discussant: Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University and NBER

 

 

 

Eric Weese, Yale University 

 

Inefficient Boundaries

 

 

 

Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States

 

 

 

Discussant: Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER

 

 

3:50 pm

Adjourn