NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

Corruption and Reform Pre-conference

Claudia Goldin and Edward Glaeser, Organizers

July 13, 2003

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

SUNDAY, JULY 13:

8:15 AM Coffee and Pastries

8:45 AM Overview: When Good Government Goes Bad, When it Does Not, and Why

EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
Notes on a Timeline of American Political Corruption

MATTHEW GENTZKOW, Harvard University
EDWARD GLAESER and CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Harvard University and NBER
Mass Circulation, the Independent Press, and Corruption

JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
Systematic and Venal Corruption in American Politics or
Big C (= Political Control) and Small c (= Personal Gain) Corruption


10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM Antebellum Corruption and Reform

HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College and NBER
Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York:
The Iron Glove Falls from the Invisible Hand

STANLEY ENGERMAN, University of Rochester and NBER
KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Digging the Dirt at Public Expense:
Corruption in the Building of the Erie and Other New York Canals

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM Progressive Era: Cities and Corruption

DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER
GRANT MILLER, Harvard University
Water, Water Everywhere: Water Reforms in American Cities

REBECCA MENES, George Mason University and NBER
Political Reform in Cities

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM Progressive Era: Corruption and Regulation

PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
Corruption, Capture, and the Development of Workplace Safety Regulations
through the Progressive Era

GARY LIBECAP, University of Arizona and NBER
MARC LAW, Washington University in St. Louis
Corruption and Reform? The Emergence of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act

1:45 PM Progressive Era: Corruption and the Rule of Law

WILLIAM NOVAK, University of Chicago
The Problem of the Rule of Law in the Progressive Era

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM The New Deal

PRICE FISHBACK and SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER
JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
Politics, Relief, and Reform:
The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System During the New Deal

3:00 PM Corporate Governance and the Role of the Government

NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Corporate Governance and the Problem of Corruption in the U.S.
before the S.E.C.

WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Competition and Corruption: Lessons from 150 Years of Industrial Governance

4:00 PM Lessons for and from Developing Countries and Transition Economies

LEE J. ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER
KARA GORSKI, Analysis Group-Economics
Voters and Corruption in Brazil:
Implications for the Historical U.S. Experience and Lessons for Developing Countries

4:30 PM Adjourn



6/26/03