Co-Organizers

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

Conference Program

Venue: Inter-American Development Bank - Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center (Room CR2) - 1330 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005.

Thursday, May 19

12:00-14:00 Lunch and Registration

14:00-15:00 Fred Finan (University of California, Berkeley)

Topic: Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Long-Term Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians (joint with Claudio Ferraz and Eric Avis)

Discussant: Ana de la O (Yale University)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Topic: Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-evaluating De Tocqueville (joint with Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin)

Discussant: Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown University)

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Robert Powell (University of California, Berkeley)

Topic: Taking Sides in Wars of Attrition

Discussant: Kris Ramsay (Princeton University)

19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, May 20

8:45:-10:00 Breakfast

10:00-11:00 Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago)

Topic: The Dynamic Politics of Economic Instruments (joint with David Austen-Smith, Bard Harstad, and Antoine Loeper)

Discussant: Ying Chen (Johns Hopkins University)

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 Kei Kawai (University of California at Berkeley)

Topic: Voter Turnout and Preference Aggregation

Discussant: Matias Iaryczower (Princeton University)

12:20-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:45 Pablo Montagnes (Emory University)

Topic: Mass Purges (joint with Stephane Wolton)

Discussant: Milan Svolik (Yale University)

14:45-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:15 Torsten Persson (IIES, Stockholm University)

Topic: Who Becomes a Politician? (joint with Ernesto Dal Bo, Fred Finan, Olle Folke, and Johanna Rickne)

Discussant: Ray Fisman (Boston University)

16:15-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:45 Juan Ortner (Boston University)

Topic: Making Corruption Harder: Asymmetric Information, Collusion, and Crime (joint with Sylvain Chassang)