FRIDAY, MARCH 3:
6:30 PM Dinner
Legal Sea Foods
Kendall Square
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA
SATURDAY, MARCH 4:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM FARLEY GRUBB, University of Delware and NBER
The Net Asset Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802:
Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM DOUGLAS A. IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER
Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM PAUL RHODE, University of North Carolina and NBER
KOLEMAN STRUMPF, University of North Carolina
Manipulating Political Stock Markets:
A Field Experiment and a Century of Observational Data
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM DARON ACEMOGLU and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER
Liberty, Fraternity,Equality and Industry: The Economic Consequences of the French Revolution
2:00 PM Break
DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
2:15 PM LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, Harvard University
PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
SHAWN KANTOR, UC, Merced and NBER
The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets:
American Cities During the Great Depression
3:15 PM JOSEPH P. FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER
Wealth During Wartime: Mobility in Real and Personal Property Ownership
in the U.S., 1860-1870
4:15 PM Adjourn
2/27/06