Keynote Speaker: Nico Voigtländer (UCLA), Chief Moderator: Gedeon Lim (HKU)

• 9:30 am Tokyo Time (8:30 am for others): 75 mins Keynote Seminar: "History’s Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance," with Sebastian Ottinger. (slides)

• 10:45 am Tokyo Time (9:45 am for others): 30 mins AEW Working Paper Discussion: "The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India," presented by Siddharth George, with Abhishek Arora, Vijayendra Rao, and MR Sharan.

Meeting Recording (uJbMdSh3)