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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014
Political Economy Workshop
Alberto Alesina, Organizer
July 14 and 15, 2014
Syline Rooms A and B
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Monday, July 14:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Erik Meyersson (SITE) Political Man on Horseback - Military Coups and Development Discussant: Christian Dippel, University of California at Los Angeles
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:15 am	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Amir Kermani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Kwak, University of Connecticut Todd Mitton, Brigham Young University The Value of Connections in Turbulent Times: Evidence from the United States Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER
11:15 am	Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Ruben Durante, Sciences Po Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University Market-based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy Discussant: Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, Universidad Carlos III Romain Wacziarg, University of California at Los Angeles Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2:15 pm	Coffee Break
2:30 pm	Ilyana Kuziemko, Columbia University and NBER Michael I. Norton, Harvard University Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley Stephanie Stantcheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments. Discussant: Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology and NBER
3:30 pm	Pauline Grosjean, UNSW Australia Rose Khattar, UNSW Australia It's Raining Men! Hallelujah? Discussant: Raquel Fernandez, New York University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn

Tuesday, July 15:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, London School of Economics Nancy Qian, Yale University Yiging Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yang Yao, China Center for Economic Research at Peking University Making Democracy Work: the Effects of Social Capital and Elections on Public Goods in China Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:15 am	Carmine Guerriero, University of Amsterdam Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes. Discussant: Melissa Dell  Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am	Moses Shayo, Hebrew University Asaf Zussman, Hebrew University Courts after Conflict Discussant: Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon session joint with Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Organizers : Roland Benabou, Oded Galor and Fabrizio Zilibotti
2:00 pm	Gino Gancia, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona GSE Giacomo Ponzetto, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona GSE Jaume Ventura, CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Barcelona GSE Globalization and Political Structure
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Michael Koenig, University of Zurich Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne Mathias Thoenig, University of Lausanne Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich Zurich "Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
4:15 pm	Ying Bai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ruixie Jia, University of California San Diego Social Mobility and Revolution: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service Exam System
5:15 pm	Adjourn