2004 PIER Conference on Political Economy

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PIER Conference
University of Pennsylvania

249 South 36th Street
Terrace Room

Philadelphia, PA
19104

United States

Program

Saturday, September 18
9:00-10:15am Ignatius Horstmann (University of Toronto), Kimberley Scharf (University of Warwick) and Al Slivinski (University of Western Ontario) “Can Private Giving Promote Economic Segregation?”
10:15-10:45am Coffee break
10:45am-12pm Dino Gerardi (Yale University) and Leeat Yariv (UCLA) “Putting Your Ballot Where Your Mouth Is: An Analysis of Collective Choice with Communication.”
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:45pm Stephen Calabrese (University of South Florida), Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon University), Thomas Romer (Princeton University) and Holger Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University) “Local Public Good Provision, Myopic Voting and Mobility”
2:45-4:00pm Michel Le Breton (University of Toulouse) and Shlomo Weber (SMU) “On redistribution and secession-proofness in heterogeneous societies.”  [Papers: 1, 2, 3, 4]
4:00-4:30pm Coffee break 
4:30-5:45pm Thomas Palfrey (Princeton University) “Self-correcting Information Cascades.” 
6:30-9:30pm Reception and Conference Dinner at Mezza Luna Restaurant 
Sunday, September 19
9:00-10:15am Scott Ashworth (Princeton University) and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (Washington University at St. Louis) “Electoral Selection and the Incumbency Advantage”
10:15-10:45am Coffee break
10:45am-12pm Allan Drazen (Tel Aviv University) “Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence.”
12:0-1:30pm Concluding Remarks and lunch
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