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Princeton Conference on Political Economy
April 29-30, 2011
Program
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Sponsored by the Research Program in Political Economy, Economic Theory Center and the National Science Foundation
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Friday, April 29th
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| 11:30-1:30 | Lunch |
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2:00-3:15
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Rani Spiegler (University College London),"Placebo Reforms” Discussant: Santiago Oliveros (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business) |
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3:15-4:30
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Thomas Palfrey (Caltech),"Competitive Equilibrium in a Market for Votes" (co-authored with Alessandra Casella and Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
Discussant: Laurent Bouton (Boston University)
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4:30-4:45
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Break
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4:45-6:00
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Brian Knight (Brown University), "Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? An Empirical Welfare Analysis"
Discussant: Nageeb Ali (University of California, San Diego) |
| 7:00 | Dinner |
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Saturday, April 30th
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| 9:00 | Breakfast |
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9:30-10:45
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Bard Harstad (Kellogg School of Management), “The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages”
Discussant: Manuel Amador (Stanford University)
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10:45-11:00
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Break
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11:00-12:15
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Rohini Pande (Harvard Kennedy School), "Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India", (co-authored with Abhijit V. Banerjee, Selvan Kumar, and Felix Su)
Discussant: David Strömberg (Stockholm University, IIES)
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| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
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1:30-2:45
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Vijay Krishna (Penn State),"Overcoming Ideological Bias in Elections", (co-authored with John Morgan)
Discussant: David Myatt (University of Oxford)
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2:45-3:00
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Break
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3:00-4:15
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Andrea Prat (London School of Economics), "On the Political Economy of Urban Growth: Homeownership versus Affordability", (co-authored with François Ortalo-Magné)
Discussant: Thomas Romer (Princeton University)
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