Saturday, August 8 | |
9:30 a.m. |
Continental breakfast |
9:45 a.m. | Welcoming remarks: Arthur Rolnick |
10:00 a.m. | Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson “Income Distribution, Communities and the Quality of Public Education: A Policy Analysis” |
11:00 a.m. | Break |
11:15 a.m. | James A. Kahn and Jong-Soo Lim “Finite Horizons, Political Economy, and Growth” |
12:15 p.m. | Break for lunch |
12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
2:00 p.m. | Jeffrey Liang and Allan H. Meltzer “A Rational Theory of Income Inequality and the Size of Government in a Dynamic Model of Kuznets’ Hypothesis” |
3:00 p.m. | Break |
3:15 p.m. | Roberto Chang “Political Party Negotiations, Income Distribution, and Endogenous Growth” |
4:15 p.m. | Break |
4:30 p.m. | Per Krusell and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull “Choosing Not to Grow: How Bad Policies Can Be Outcomes of Dynamic Voting Equilibria” |
5:30 p.m. | Cocktail reception |
7:00 p.m. | Dinner |
Sunday, August 9 | |
9:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
10:00 a.m. | V. V. Chari and Hal Cole “A Contribution to the Theory of Pork Barrel Spending” |
11:00 a.m. | Break |
11:15 a.m. | David Austen-Smith “Information and Influence: Lobbying for Agendas and Votes” |
12:15 p.m. | Break for lunch |
12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
2:00 p.m. |
Jon Faust |
3:00 p.m. | Break |
3:15 p.m. | A. S. Pinto Barbosa, Boyan Jovanovic, and Mark M. Spiegel “An Optimal Constitution in a Stochastic Environment” |
4:15 p.m. | Break |
4:30 p.m. | Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini “Federal Fiscal Constitutions. Part I: Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard” |
5:30 p.m. | Closing remarks: Rao Aiyagari and Hal Cole |