FRIDAY, MARCH 5:
6:30 PM Dinner
Davio's Restaurant
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
SATURDAY, MARCH 6:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM ZORINA KHAN, Bowdoin College and NBER
KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th Century :
Evidence from the Great Inventors' of the United States, 1790-1930
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National
Government Financed Infrastructure Investment in the Antebellum Era
(Joint with Barry Weingast)
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM PRICE FISHBACK and SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER
TODD NEUMANN, University of Arizona
New Deal Work Relief and Private Wages
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM ERIC HILT, Wellesley College and NBER
Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry
Development of the American Economy Program, Page 2:
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara University and NBER
MARC WEIDENMIER, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
3:45 PM Adjourn
2/20/04