2005 PIER Conference on Political Economy

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PIER Conference
University of Pennsylvania

3620 Locust Walk
1206 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall

Philadelphia, PA
19104

United States

Program

Friday, September 16
2:00-3:15pm Guillaume Frechette (NYU), Francois Maniquet (University of Namur) and Massimo Morelli (Ohio State University) “Endogenous Affirmative Action: Gender Bias Leads to Gender Quotas.”
3:15-4:30pm Roland Benabou (Princeton University) and Jean Tirole (IDEI-Toulouse and MIT) “Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics.”
4:30-5:00pm Coffee break
5:00-6:15pm Andrea Mattozzi (Caltech) and Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania) “Political Careers or Career Politicians?”
6:30-9:30pm Reception and Dinner
Saturday, September 17
9:30-10:45am Stephen Coate (Cornell University) and Brian Knight (Brown University) “Socially Optimal Districting.”
10:45-11:15am Coffee break
11:15-12:30pm Gene Grossman (Princeton University) and Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University) “Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics”
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:15pm Tim Besley (LSE) and Ian Preston (University College, London) “Electoral Bias and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence.”
3:15-4:30pm David Baron (Stanford University) and Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University) “Private Politics and Strategic Activism.”
4:30-5:00pm Coffee break
5:00-6:15pm Matthew Jackson (Caltech) and Massimo Morelli (Ohio State University) “War and Wealth.”
6:30-9:30pm Conference Dinner
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