NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Evolution of the Global Economy Meeting

Kevin H. O’Rourke and Alan M. Taylor, Organizers

March 2, 2007

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 2:
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
8:45 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	MAURICIO DRELICHMAN, University of British Columbia
	HANS-JOACHIM VOTH, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: Revenues, Expenditures and Primary Surplus in Habsburg Spain, 1560-1598
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	MARK DINCECCO, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
	Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Finances in Europe, 1650-1913
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	CLAUDIA REI, Boston University
	The Organization of Merchant Empires: A Case Study of Portugal and England
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	DIEGO COMIN, New York University and NBER
	WILLIAM EASTERLY, New York University
	ERICK GONG, University of California, Berkeley
	Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	ENRICO SPOLAORE, Tufts University and NBER
	ROMAIN WACZIARG, Stanford University and NBER
	The Diffusion of Development
3:45 pm	KEVIN H. O’ROURKE, Trinity College Dublin and NBER
	AHMED S. RAHMAN, United States Naval Academy
	ALAN M. TAYLOR, University of California, Davis and NBER
	Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
4:45 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	Shuttle Van Departs 1050 Mass. Avenue for Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm	Group Dinner (joint with DAE)
	Dante Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, MARCH 3:
DAE Program Meeting at 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
2/6/07