May 9-10 2024

Co-Organizers

Laurent Bouton, Filipe Campante,  Jenny Guardado and Juan Felipe Riaño

Conference Program

Each presentation will consist of a 60-minute session, comprising a 35-minute presentation by the speaker, followed by a 15-minute discussion by the discussant, and concluding with a 10-minute question and answer period. 

Thursday May 9th

12:00-14:00 - Lunch & Registration

14:00-15:00 - Andrew Eggers (University of Chicago)

Ranked-Choice Voting in the US

Discussant: Allison Stashko (Emory University)

15:00-16:00 - Ruixue Jia (University of California, San Diego)

Ideas Mobilize Leaders: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China

Discussant: Maria Carreri (University of California, Berkeley)

16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 - Bård Harstad (Stanford University)

Conservation by Lending

Discussant: Olivier Jeanne (Johns Hopkins University)

19:00 - Conference Dinner

Friday May 10th

9:00-10:00 - Breakfast

10:00-11:00 - Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis)

State Paralysis: The Effect of Compliance Uncertainty on Government Effectiveness

Discussant: Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)

11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break

11:20-12:20 - James Robinson (University of Chicago)

Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-institutional Sources of Leader Strategy

Discussant: Renee Bowen (University of California, San Diego)

12:20-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:00 - Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

The Cold War and U.S. Labor

Discussant: Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

15:00-15:20 - Coffee Break

15:20-16:20 - Tara Slough (New York University)

Oversight, Capacity and Inequality

Discussant: Chad Kendall (University of Southern California)

Location

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center

555 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, D.C.