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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop

 

Roland Benabou, Oded Galor and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers

 

July 19 - 22, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, July 19:

12:30 pm

Lunch

Income Distribution, Financial Markets and Redistributive Policies

 

 

1:30 pm

Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Julia Cagé, Harvard University
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

 

Taxation, Corruption, and Growth

 

 

2:30 pm

Russell Cooper, European University Institute and NBER
Hubert Kempf, Banque de France

 

Deposit Insurance without Commitment: Wall St. Versus Main St.

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Hans A. Holter, University of Pennsylvania

 

Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earning Persistence

 

 

4:45 pm

Farzad Saidi, New York University

 

Networks, Finance, and Development: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers

 

 

5:45 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 20: 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Culture and Human Capital

9:00 am

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
Paola Giuliano, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Origins of Gender Role: Women and the Plough

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Pierre Cahuc, Ecole Polytechnique
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

 

Teaching practices and Social Capital

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Eugenio Proto, Warwick University
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota

 

The Hump-Shaped Relation Between Income and Life Satisfaction

12:30 pm

Lunch

Trade, Technology and Matching

 

 

1:30 pm

Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Network Structure of International Trade

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Robert E. Lucas, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University

 

Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University

 

Endogenous Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Among (ex-ante) Identical Countries

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake - Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

Thursday, July 21:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

Long-Run Development

 

 

9:00 am

Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna
Uwe Sunde, University of St. Gallen

 

Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble of Africa

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Omer Ozak, Brown University

 

Distance to the Technological Frontier and Economic Development

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

Dynamic Political Economy

 

 

1:30 pm

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mikhail Golosov, Yale University and NBER
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
Pierre Yared, Columbia University

 

A Dynamic Theory of Resource War

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Vincenzo Galasso, Universitá Bocconi
Paola Profeta,  Universitá Bocconi

 

When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Francesco Lancia, University of Bologna
Alessia Russo, University of Modena

 

A Dynamic Politico-Economic Model of Intergenerational Contracts

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn