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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Political Economy Public Finance Workshop

 

Michael Golosov, Organizer

 

July 17, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Room Charles B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 17:

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

SESSION 1

 

 

 8:30 am

ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam

 

ARMIN SCHWIENBACHER, University of Amsterdam

 

The Political Origin of Pension Funding

 

 

 9:15 am

NICOLA PERSICO, New York University and NBER

 

J.C. RODRIGUEZ-PUEBLITA, Ministry of Finance, Mexico

 

DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Factions and Political Competition

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

 

SESSION 2

 

 

10:30 am

MARCO BASSETTO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

Public Investment and Budget Rules for State vs. Local Governments

 

 

11:15 am

EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER

 

IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

 

The Political Economy of Non-Linear Capital Taxation

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

SESSION 3

 

 

 1:00 pm

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

GEORGY EGOROV, Harvard University

 

KONSTANTIN SONIN, The New Economic School

 

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments

 

 

 1:45 pm

MARINA AZZIMONTI, University of Texas, Austin

 

Barriers to investment in polarized societies

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 

SESSION 4

 

 

 3:00 pm

RICARDO CABALLERO, MIT and NBER

 

PIERRE YARED, Columbia University and NBER

 

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings

 

 

 3:45 pm

MARINA AZZIMONTI, University of Texas, Austin

 

MARCO BATTAGLINI, Princeton University and NBER

 

STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER

 

On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/29/09