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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth

 

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop

 

July 14-16, 2009

 

Daron Acemoglu, Roland Benabou, and Oded Galor, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Rooms University B and C

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 Family, Community and Inequality

 

 9:00 am

RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER

 

Women’s Rights: Development, Selfish Husbands, and Altruistic Fathers

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

OMER MOAV, Hebrew University

 

ZVIKA NEEMAN, Tel-Aviv University

 

Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

 

Can Networks Reduce the Persistence of Inequality?

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

Geography, Trade and Development

 

 1:30 pm

JAMES FEYRER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Distance, Trade, and Income - The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

STELIOS MICHALOPOULOS, Tufts University

 

ALIREZA NAGHAVI and GIOVANNI PRAROLO, University of Bologna

 

The Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

JOSEPH ZEIRA, Hebew University

 

Globalization and Divergence

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 7:00 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge ,MA

(across the street from the Sonesta)

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Political Economy

 

 

 9:00 am

ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER

 

DAVIDE TICCHI, University of Urbino

 

ANDREA VINDIGNI, Princeton University

 

The Political Economy of Science, Religion and Growth

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

RAFAEL SANTOS VIALLAGRAN, Yale University

 

The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

BEN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

 

MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University andNBER

 

Informal Taxation

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 Technology and Growth

 

 

 1:30 pm

THOMAS B. ANDERSEN, JEANET BENTZEN, CARL-JOHAN DALGAARD andPABLO SELAYA, University of Copenhagen

 

Lightning, IT Diffusion and Economic Growth across US States

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

THOMAS GALL University of Bonn

 

PATRICK LEGROS, ECARES

 

ANDREW NEWMAN, Boston University

 

Mis-match, Re-match, and Investment

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

FRANCISCO BUERA, UC, Los Angeles

 

BENJAMIN MOLL, University of Chicago

 

Dynastic Capital Misallocation

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Innovations and Wage Inequality

 

 9:00 am

OMER TUGRUL ACKGOZ, University of Rochester

 

BARIS KAYMAK, University of Montreal

 

Rising Skill Premium and the Deunionization in the United States

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

RETO FOELLMI, Bern University

 

TOBIAS WUERGLER and JOSEF ZWEIMÜLLER, University of Zurich

 

The Macroeconomics of Model T

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

THOMAS PHILIPPON, New York University and NBER

 

ARIELL RESHEF, University of Virginia

 

Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Sector: 1909-2006

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/30/09