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NBER: Call for Papers, NBER Political Economy meeting
Subject: Call for Papers, NBER Political Economy meeting
From: Carl Beck (cbeck@nber.org)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 11:45:21 EST
Call for Papers, NBER Political Economy meeting, Cambridge, MA April 30, 2005
The National Bureau of Economic Research is launching a Working Group on
the Political Economy under the direction of Alberto Alesina. The first
meeting will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday, April 30, 2005.
The working group on Political Economy focuses on the interaction between
economic policies and outcomes and political institutions broadly
defined. It is by now common for economists to recognize that purely
economic forces alone cannot explain complex phenomena such as different
degrees of economic development, quality and types of economic policies,
income distribution, and quality of government organization such as
corruption, protection of property right etc. Political institutions are
important determinants of these economic outcomes. In turn, the state of
the economy affects political outcomes, both in the long run and in the
short. Economic development affects the evolution of institutions and short
run economic conditions affect political change and elections. We will
interpret political institutions in a broad sense and we will also be
interested in related issues such as the role and evolution of legal and
administrative institutions, and issues concerning social
interactions. The group focuses both on developed and developing economies
and both on macroeconomic and microeconomic issues including
international trade and international relations.
For the working group's first meeting, the group is interested in any
papers which relate to the topics above. If you are interested in
presenting a paper this year, please email a version to Alberto Alesina
<aalesina@kuznets.fas.harvard.edu>. The deadline for submission is
February 28, 2005
We will only consider papers already completed by the time of the
submission. The travel and hotel costs for the authors and discussants will
be covered by the NBER.
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