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NBER Summer Institute in Political Economy – 2010
July 19 and 20, 2010
Organizers: Ernesto Dal Bó and Paola Giuliano
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY JULY 19:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pasteries
9:00 am	Gèrard Roland, UC, Berkeley
	Culture Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
	Discussant: TBD
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School
	Elite Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
	Discussant: TBD
11:30 am	Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, New Economic School
	Elite Capture in the Absence of Democracy: Evidence from Backgrounds of Chinese Provincial Leaders
	Discussant: TBD
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Santiago Oliveros, UC, Berkeley
	Combinatorial Voting
	Discussant: TBD
2:30 pm	Paola Conconi, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
	Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability
	Discussant: TBD
3:30 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Paolo Pinotti, Bank of Italy
	Politicians at Work. The Private Returns and Social Costs of Political Connections
	Discussant: TBD
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	Claire Lim, Stanford University
	Measuring Media Influence on U.S. State Courts
	Discussant: TBD
11:30 am	Ignacio Esponda, New York University
	Information Aggregation  Learning  and Non-Strategic Behavior in Voting Environments
	Discussant: TBD
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Chris Edmond, New York University
	Information Manipulation  Coordination and Regime Change
	Discussant: TBD
2:30 pm	Peter Murrell, University of Maryland
	Design and Evolution in Institutional Development:  The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights
	Discussant: TBD
3:30 pm	Adjourn