NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Corruption and Reform Pre-conference

 

Claudia Goldin and Edward Glaeser, Organizers

 

July 13, 2003

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

SUNDAY, JULY 13:

 

 

 8:15 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 AM

Overview: When Good Government Goes Bad, When it Does Not, and Why

 

 

 

EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Notes on a Timeline of American Political Corruption

 

 

 

MATTHEW GENTZKOW, Harvard University

 

EDWARD GLAESER and CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Mass Circulation, the Independent Press, and Corruption

 

 

 

JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Big C (= Political Control) and Small c (= Personal Gain) Corruption

 

 

10:00 AM

Break

 

 

10:15 AM

Antebellum Corruption and Reform

 

 

 

HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College and NBER

 

Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York

 

 

 

STANLEY ENGERMAN, University of Rochester and NBER

 

KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Antebellum Corruption

 

 

11:00 AM

Break

 

 

11:15 AM

Progressive Era:  Cities and Corruption

 

 

 

DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

 

GRANT MILLER, Harvard University

 

The Health of Urban Public Health

 

 

 

REBECCA MENES, George Mason University and NBER

 

Political Reform in Cities

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 PM

Progressive Era:  Corruption and Regulation

 

 

 

PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER

 

Corruption, Capture, and the Development of Workplace Safety

 

Legislation through the Progressive Era

 

 

 

GARY LIBECAP, University of Arizona and NBER

 

MARC LAW, Washington University in St. Louis

 

The Political Economy of the Pure Food and Drug Act

 

 

 1:45 PM

Progressive Era:  Corruption and the Rule of Law

 

 

 

WILLIAM NOVAK, University of Chicago

 

The Problem of the Rule of Law in the Progressive Era

 

 

 2:15 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

The New Deal

 

 

 

PRICE FISHBACK and SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER

 

JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Institutional Designs and the Problem of Corruption during the New Deal

 

 

 3:00 PM

Corporate Governance and the Role of the Government

 

 

 

NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Corporate Governance and the Problem of Corruption in the U.S.

 

before the S.E.C.

 

 

 

WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

Corruption and Governance in Public Utility Industries

 

 

 4:00 PM

Lessons for and from Developing Countries and Transition Economies

 

 

 

LEE J. ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER

 

KARA GORSKI, Analysis Group-Economics

 

Voters, Corruption and Reform: Lessons from U.S. History

 

 

 4:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/23/03