Conference Program

Venue: Healy Hall, Georgetown University

March 21 (all talks in room 103)

12:00-13:30 Lunch (at the Leavey Center).

13:30-14:00 Registration (Healy Hall Foyer)

14:00-14:50 Leeat Yariv, California Institute of Technology

Topic: What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs (joint with Marina Agranov, Jacob Goeree, and Julian Romero)

14:50-15:40 Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, University of Chicago

Topic: Factional Conflict and Local Rents

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:20-17:10 Helen Milner, Princeton University

Topic: International Trade Agreements in Hard Times

19:00 Conference Dinner (Cafe Milano)

March 22 (all talks in room 104)

9:00-9:50 Breakfast (Healy Foyer)

9:50-10:40 Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Topic: Political Economy in a Changing World (joint with Daron Acemoglu and Konstantin Sonin)

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:00 Tim Feddersen, Northwestern University (Kellogg)

Topic: Polarization and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Model of Unequal Democracy (joint with Faruk Gul)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:50 Salvatore Nunnari, Columbia University

Topic: A Theory of Power Wars (joint with Helios Herrera and Massimo Morelli)

14:50-15:20 Coffee Break

15:10-16:10 Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University

Topic: The Runner-up Effect (joint with Santosh Anagol)