Student Political Economics Conference

NBER center, Thursday May 3rd 2007

1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA  02138, 3rd floor

Organizers: Leopoldo Fergusson, Marcello Miccoli, Pablo Querubín 

Program of the conference

 8:45am       Registration

 9:00am        Breakfast

 9:15am        Introductory Speech

                     ALBERTO ALESINA, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy,

                     Harvard University

 9:30am        GEORGY EGOROV, Harvard University

                      SERGEI GURIEV, New Economic School

                      KONSTANTIN SONIN, New Economic School 

                       Media Freedom, Bureaucratic  Incentives, and the Resource Curse

 10:30am       YONG WANG, University of Chicago

   A Theory of Social Infrastructure and Economic Development

 11:30am       Coffee Break

 11:45am       PATRICK WARREN, MIT

  Of Servants and Reformers: The Roles of Appointees under Separation of       Powers

 12:45pm      Lunch

 2:00pm        KEISUKE NAKAO, Boston University

 Creation of Social Orders in Ethnic Conflict

 3:00 pm       F. DANIEL HIDALGO, UC Berkeley

                      SURESH NAIDU, UC Berkeley

                      SIMEON NICHTER, UC Berkeley

                      NEAL RICHARDSON, UC Berkeley

  Occupational Choices: Economic Determinants of Land Invasions