Conference Program

Location:

Conference Room Andres Bello 2, 9th floor

Inter-American Development Bank

1300 New York Ave. NW Washington DC 20577

THURSDAY, MAY 16

12:00-14:00 LUNCH AND REGISTRATION

14:00-15:00 Edoardo Grillo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

Dynamic Campaign Spending (joint with Avidit Acharya, Takuo Sugaya, and Eray Turkel)

Discussant: Allan Drazen (University of Maryland)

15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:30-16:30 Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University)

Electoral Systems, Taxation and Immigration Policies (joint with Margherita Negri)

Discussant: Nicola Persico (Northwestern University)

16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00-18:00 Rebecca Morton (New York University)

Ideology and Multilateral Legislative Bargaining (with Andrzej Baranski and Nicholas Haas)

Discussant: Segvi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)

19:00 Conference Dinner at Zaytinya

FRIDAY, MAY 17

9:00:-10:00 BREAKFAST

10:00-11:00 Alexander Fouirnaies (University of Chicago)

How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior (joint with Andrew Hall)

Discussant: Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins University)

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30 Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University)

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration (joint with Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini)

Discussant: Bryan Stuart (George Washington University)

12:30-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:00 Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)

Games Played by Teams of Players

Discussant: Erkut Ozbay (University of Maryland)

15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:30-16:30 Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)

The Geography of Repression and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Pinochet Dictatorship

(joint with Maria Angelica Bautista, Felipe Gonzalez, Pablo Munoz, and Mounu Prem)

Discussant: John Londregan (Princeton University)