Conference Program

Venue: Inter-American Development Bank - 1300 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20577.

Thursday, May 10

12:00-14:00 Lunch and Registration

14:00-15:00 Alberto Bisin (NYU)

Topic: Dynamic Linear Economies with Social Interactions (joint with Onur Ozgur and Yann Bramoulle)

Discussant: Larry Blume (Cornell University)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto)

Topic: Vulnerability and Clientelism (joint with Paul J. Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Simeon Nichter)

Discussant: Samuel Berlinski (Inter-American Development Bank)

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Dana Foarta (Stanford University)

Topic: The Dynamics of Optimal Responses to Early Warnings (joint with Takuo Sugaya)

Discussant: Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburgh)

19:00 Conference Dinner at The Hamilton

Friday, May 11

9:00:-10:00 Breakfast

10:00-11:00 Scott Ashworth (University of Chicago)

Topic: Informativeness and the Incumbency Advantage (joint with Ethan Bueno De Mesquita and Amanda Friedenberg)

Discussant: Navin Kartik (Columbia University)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 James Fearon (Stanford University)

Topic: The Arms Trade, International Alignments, and International Conflict

Discussant: Bob Powell (UC-Berkeley)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Carlo Prato (Columbia University)

Topic: Wisdom of the Crowd? Information Aggregation and Electoral Incentives (joint with Stephane Wolton)

Discussant: Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Phil Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank)

Topic: Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises (joint with C. Cruz, J. Labonne, F. Trebbi)

Discussant: Marko Klasnja (Georgetown University)