2006 PIER Conference on Political Economy

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Conference
University of Pennsylvania

3620 Locust Walk
1206 Steinberg-Dietrich Hall

Philadelphia, PA
19104

United States

Program

Friday, September 15
2:30-3:30pm Torsten Persson (Stockholm) and Guido Tabellini (Bocconi) "Democratic capital: The nexus of political and economic change" 
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:00pm Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown) "Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions"
5:00-5:30pm Coffee break
5:30-6:30pm Daron Acemoglu  (MIT), Georgy Egorov (Harvard), and Konstantin Sonin (NES) "Coalition Formation in Political Games"
7:00-9:30pm Reception and Dinner at La Terresse Restaurant
Saturday, September 16
10:00-11:00am Dan Bernhardt (Illinois), Stefan Krasa (Illinois) and Mattias Polborn (Illinois) “Political Polarization and the Electoral Effect of Media Bias” 
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm Navin Kartik (San Diego) and Preston McAfee (Caltech) “Signaling Character in Electoral Competition.”
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:00pm Alessandra Casella (Columbia) and Andrew Gelman (Columbia) “A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda.”
3:00-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:30pm John Morgan (Berkeley) and Vijay Krishna (Penn State) “Efficient Information Aggregation with Costly Voting.”
4:30-5:00pm Coffee break
5:00-6:00pm Gilat Levy (LSE) and Ronny Razin (LSE) “A Theory of Religion: Linking Individual Beliefs, Rituals, and Social Cohesion”
6:30-9:30pm Conference Dinner at Mezza Luna
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