Co-Organizers

Laurent Bouton, Allan Drazen, Roger Lagunoff, Fabiana Machado and Carlo Prato

Conference Program

Venue: Inter-American Development Bank (1300 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005)

May 19

12:00-14:00 Lunch and Registration

14:00-15:00 Ugo Troiano, University of Michigan

Topic: Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design (joint with Veronica Grembi and Tommaso Nannicini)

Discussant: Claire Lim, Cornell University

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Ernesto Dal Bo, UC-Berkeley

Topic: Consolidating Order and Prosperity: State Formation with Endogenous Military and Productive Capabilities (joint with Pablo Hernandez and Sebastian Mazzuca)

Discussant: Alvaro Sandroni, Northwestern University (Kellogg)

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Maggie Penn, Washington University in Saint Louis

Topic: Inequality and Social Comparisons

Discussant: Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University

19:00 Conference Dinner

May 20

8:45-9:45 Breakfast

9:45-10:45 Daniel Diermeier, University of Chicago (Harris)

Topic: Private Politics and Public Interest: NGOs, Corporate Campaigns, and Social Welfare (joint with Jose Miguel Abito and David Besanko)

Discussant: Ken Shotts, Stanford University (GSB)

10:45-11:05 Coffee Break

11:05-12:05 Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University

Topic: Entitlements (joint with Laurent Bouton and Nicola Persico)

Discussant: Marina Azzimonti, Stony Brook University

12:05-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Navin Kartik, Columbia University

Topic: Informative Cheap Talk in Elections (joint with Richard Van Weelden)

Discussant: Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University (Kellogg)

15:00-15:20 Coffee Break

15:20-16:20 Jim Snyder, Harvard University

Topic: Using Newspapers To Measure Power, With an Application to U.S. State Parties, 1877-1977 (joint with Pamela Ban, Alexander Fouirnaies, and Andrew Hall)

Discussant: Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland

16:20-16:40 Coffee Break

16:40-17:40 Neil Malhotra, Stanford University (GSB)

Topic: Economic Spillovers of Political Polarization

Discussant: Philip Keefer, Inter-American Development Bank