Activities - Conferences
The Political Economy of Economic Development
April 30 - May 1, 2010
The " The Political Economy of Economic Development" conference was organized with financial support from CREI and Caixa Manresa. The members of the organizing committee Francesco Caselli (LSE, CREI), Antonio Ciccone (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE), Rafael DiTella (Harvard University), Gerard Padró i Miquel (LSE). Keynote addresses were delivered by Timothy Besley (LSE) and James Robinson (Harvard University).
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Papers
- Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability Paola Conconi (ECARES and CEPR) , Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montréal and CEPR) , Maurizo Zanardi (ECARES) (01/03/2010)
- Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious Erik Meyersson (IIES, Stockholm University) (01/03/2010)
- The Institutional Causes of Famine in China, 1959-61 Xin Meng (Australian National University), Nancy Qian (Yale University), Pierre Yared (Columbia University) (03/03/2010)
- Elite Capture in the Absence of Democracy: Evidence from Backgrounds of Chinese Provincial Leaders Petra Persson (Columbia University), Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School Moscow and CEPR) (01/04/2010)
- The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia James Robinson (Harvard University and CEPR) (01/04/2010)
- War and Relatedness Enrico Spolaore (Tufts University NBER and CESIfo), Romain Wacziarg (UCLA, NBER and CEPR) (01/04/2010)
- Keynote Speaker's background reading Timothy Besley (LSE and CEPR) (13/04/2010)
- Equilibrium Government Bernardo Guimarães (LSE and CEPR), Kevin Sheedy (LSE) (22/04/2010)
- Does terrorism work? Eric D. Gould (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IZA and CEPR), Esteban F. Klor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR) (30/04/2010)
- Keynote speech James Robinson: The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Rafael J. Santos-Villagran (01/05/2010)
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