Subject: Call for Papers, NBER Political Economy Program Meetings
From: Brett Maranjian (maranjian@nber.org)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 09:55:47 EST
Call for Papers, NBER Political Economy Program Meetings, Cambridge, MA
May 4, 2007 and July 17, 2007
We are soliciting papers for upcoming National Bureau of Economic Research
Program
Meetings on the Political Economy. The meetings will be held in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on May 4 and July 17, 2007.
The program 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 upcoming meetings, the group is interested in any papers which
relate to the
topics above. If you are interested in presenting a paper at one of the
meetings, please e-mail
a version to Alberto Alesina aalesina@harvard.edu and Yvonne Zinfon
yzinfon@harvard.edu
The deadline for submission is March 1, 2007. Authors should indicate when
sending
their submissions whether it can be considered for both meetings or for
only one of the
two.
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.
