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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011 |
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Income Distribution
and Macroeconomics Workshop |
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Roland Benabou, Oded
Galor and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers |
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July 19 - 22, 2011 |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
40 Edwin H. Land
Boulevard |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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PROGRAM |
Tuesday, July 19: |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
Income
Distribution, Financial Markets and Redistributive Policies |
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1:30 pm |
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER |
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Taxation, Corruption, and Growth |
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2:30 pm |
Russell Cooper, European University Institute and NBER |
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Deposit Insurance without Commitment:
Wall St. Versus Main St. |
3:30 pm |
Break |
3:45 pm |
Hans A. Holter, University of Pennsylvania |
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Accounting for Cross-Country
Differences in Intergenerational Earning Persistence |
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4:45 pm |
Farzad Saidi, New York University |
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Networks,
Finance, and Development: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers |
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5:45 pm |
Adjourn |
Wednesday, July 20: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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Culture and Human Capital |
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9:00 am |
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Break |
10:15 am |
Yann Algan, Sciences Po |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
Eugenio Proto,
Warwick University |
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The
Hump-Shaped Relation Between Income and Life Satisfaction |
12:30 pm |
Lunch |
Trade, Technology and Matching |
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1:30 pm |
Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago and NBER |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
2:45 pm |
Robert E. Lucas, University of Chicago and NBER |
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Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time |
3:45 pm |
Break |
4:00 pm |
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University |
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Endogenous
Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Among (ex-ante) Identical Countries |
5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
6:00 pm |
Clambake - Harvard
Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA |
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Thursday, July 21: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and
Pastries |
Long-Run
Development |
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9:00 am |
Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna |
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10:00 am |
Break |
10:15 am |
Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University |
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11:15 am |
Break |
11:30 am |
Omer Ozak, Brown University |
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Distance to
the Technological Frontier and Economic Development |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Dynamic Political
Economy |
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1:30 pm |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER |
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A Dynamic Theory of Resource War |
2:30 pm |
Break |
2:45 pm |
Vincenzo Galasso, Universitá Bocconi |
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of
Pension Systems |
3:45 pm |
Break |
4:00 pm |
Francesco Lancia, University of Bologna |
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A
Dynamic Politico-Economic Model of Intergenerational Contracts |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |