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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop

July 17 - 19, 2012

Roland Benabou, Oded Galor and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 17:
12:30 pm	Lunch
Market Structure, Technical Change and Inequality
1:30 pm	Roland Benabou, Princeton University and NBER Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics Competitive Pay and Work Ethics
2:30 pm	Timo Boppart, University of Zurich
	Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts in a Growth Model with Relative Price Effects and Non-Gorman Preferences
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Gino Gancia, CREi and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich
	Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
4:45 pm	Emin M. Dinlersoz, Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania
	The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S..
5:45 pm	Adjourn
7:30 pm	Group Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Wednesday, July 18:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
State Capacity and Inter-State Wars
9:00 am	Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER Torsten Persson, IIES Stockholm University Dorothee Rouzet, Harvard University
	Education and Military Rivalry
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics and NBER Massimo Morelli, Columbia University Dominic Rohner, University of Zurich
	The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Nicola Gennaioli, CREi and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Hans-Joachim Voth, ICREA, CREi and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	State Capacity and Military Conflict
12:30 pm	Lunch
Policy, Institutions and Income Inequality in the United States
1:30 pm	Daniel Chen, Duke University Susan Yeh, University of Pennsylvania Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation? The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Olivier Coibion, College of William and Mary and NBER
	Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Lorenz Keung, University of California at Berkeley John Silvia, Wells Fargo
	Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
3:45 pm 4:00 pm	Break Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Board
	Income Inequality and Health Care Expenditures over the Life Cycle
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake - Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 19:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
Inequality, Mobility and Long-Run Development
9:00 am	Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University Michele Tertilt, University of Mannheim Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
	In the Name of the Father: Marriage and Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S., 1850-1930
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Joram Mayshar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Omer Moav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Zvika Neeman, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University Transparency and Institutions
12:30 pm	Lunch
Revolutions and Civil Conflicts
1:30 pm	Alessandra Cassar, University of San Francisco Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales Sam Whitt, U.S. Department of State Civil War, Trust and Market Development: Experimental and Survey Evidence on the Negative Consequences of Violence
2:30 pm	Heng Chen, University of Hong Kong Yang Lu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Wing Suen, University of Hong Kong
	The Power of Whispers: A Theory of Rumor, Communication and Revolution
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Nathan Nunn, Harvard University an NBER Nancy Qian, Yale University an NBER
	Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
4:45 pm	Maelys de La Rupelle, University of Namur Li Shi, Beijing Normal University
	Inequality Persistence and Revolution: What can we Learn from the Long March in China?
5:45 pm	Adjourn