NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH |
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Summer Institute 2010 |
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Income Distribution
and Macroeconomics |
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July 20-22, 2010 |
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Daron Acemoglu, Roland Benabou, and Oded Galor, Organizers |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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40 Edwin H. Land
Boulevard |
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Cambridge, MA |
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PROGRAM |
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TUESDAY,
JULY 20: |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Inequality, Politics and Growth |
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1:30 pm |
Alexandre Debs, Yale University |
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Living by the
Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of
Dictatorships |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Raghuram Rajan,
University of Chicago and NBER |
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Rodney Ramcharan,
IMF |
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Constituencies
and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927 |
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3:45
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Makoto Nirei, Hitotsubashi University |
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4:45 pm |
Adjourn |
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Wednesday, July 21: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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Market
and Coerced Interactions |
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9:00 am |
Daron Acemoglu, MIT and
NBER |
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Alexander Wolitzky, MIT |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Xin Meng, ANU |
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Nancy Qian, Yale University and
NBER |
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Pierre Yared,
Columbia University |
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The
Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine (1959-1961) |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
Dominic Rohner,
Mathias Thoenig, and |
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Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of
Zurich |
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War Signals: A Theory of Trade,
Trust and Conflict |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Culture,
Beliefs and Trust |
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1:30 pm |
Alberto Alesina,
Harvard University and NBER |
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Guido Cozzi, University of
Durham |
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Noemi Mantovan, University of
Glasgow |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Jeffrey Butler, EIEF |
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Paola Giuliano, UC,
Los Angeles and NBER |
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Luigi Guiso, European University
Institute |
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3:45 pm |
Pauline Grosjean, UC, Berkeley |
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A History
of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US
South |
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4:45 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:00
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Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA |
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Thursday, July 22: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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Persistence
of Historical Factors |
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9:00 am |
Thomas Andersen, Jeanet
Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and |
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Paul Sharp, University of Copenhagen |
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Religious
Orders and Growth Through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Graziella Bertocchi, University
of Modena |
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Arcangelo Dimico, University of Nottingham |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
Elias Papaioannou,
Dartmouth College |
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Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts
University |
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Divide
and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Inequality, Incomplete Market and Policies |
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1:30 pm |
Philippe Aghion,
Harvard University and NBER |
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David Hemous, Harvard
University |
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Enisse Kharroubi, Bank of
France |
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Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Credit
Constraints, and Industry Growth |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Jonathan Heathcote,
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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Kjetil Storesletten, Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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Giovanni Violante, New
York University and NBER |
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Redistributive
Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy |
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3:45 pm |
Liam Malloy, University of Maryland |
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4:45 pm |
Adjourn |