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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2012 Political Economy Public Finance

Mikhail Golosov, Organizer

July 18, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A/B

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Marco Battaglini, Princeton University and NBER Levon Barseghyan, Cornell University Growth and Fiscal Policy: A Positive Theory Discussant: Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
9:50 am	Marina Halac, Columbia University Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks Discussant: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Francesco Passarelli, Universit༯span> Bocconi Risky Political Changes: Rational Choice versus Prospect Theory Discussant: Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Patrick Hummel, Yahoo! Research Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER Sequential or Simultaneous Elections: A Welfare Analysis Discussant: Gerard Padr󼯳pan> i Miquel, LSE
1:50 pm	Facundo Piguillem, EIEF Alessandro Riboni, University of Montreal Dynamic Bargaining over Redistribution in Legislatures Discussant: Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER Why do we Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Discussant: Ali Shourideh, University of Pennsylvania
3:50 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA