Location:
Georgetown University Main Campus
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057
12:00-14:00 LUNCH AND REGISTRATION
14:00-15:00 Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)
Delegation under Liquid Democracy (joint with Joseph Campbell, Lucas de Lara, Victoria Mooers, and Dilip Ravindran)
Discussant: Richard Van Weelden (University of Pittsburgh)
15:00-16:00 David Yang (Harvard University)
Persistence Despite Revolutions (joint with Alberto Alesina, Marlon Seror, Yang You, Weihong Zeng)
Discussant: Gerard Padró i Miquel (Yale University)
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30 Ed Glaeser (Harvard University)
Procurement in Law and Practice (joint with Erica Bosio, Simeon Djankov, Andrei Shleifer)
Discussant: Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University)
19:00 Conference Dinner
9:00:-10:00 BREAKFAST
10:00-11:00 David Broockman (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Gregory Martin (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20-12:20 Catherine Hafer (New York University)
Competence and Advice (joint with Anna Denisenko and Dimitri Landa)
Discussant: Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)
12:20-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:00 Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework (joint with James A. Robinson)
Discussant: Enrico Spolaore (Tufts University)
15:00-15:20 COFFEE BREAK
15:20-16:20 Pia Raffler (Harvard University)
Party Nominations and Female Electoral Performance: Evidence from Germany (joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Hanno Hilbig)
Discussant: Kate Casey (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Glover Park Hotel for the duration of the conference. Attendants can book from 1 to 3 nights from May 11th to May 14th at the guaranteed rate of $229 per night (excluding taxes).
To book a room, you need to take either one of the following actions before the cut-off date of April 15th (after which the reserved rooms will be released):
- go to the following link: https://bit.ly/Glover-WPEC and select the nights you wish to book.
OR
- Call 202-337-9700 and identify yourself as a member of the Washington Political Economy Conference in order to obtain the group rate.