1st IGIER Political Economics Workshop

Monday, June 14th 2010
9.00 – 17.00

Via Roentgen, 1

Room AS01 (Floor -2)

Please confirm your attendance through email by June 7th : igier@unibocconi.it

09.00 – 10.00

Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU), “Fiscal Constitutions with Behavioral Voters”

 

Discussant: Matthias Messner (IGIER and Department of Economics,Università Bocconi)

10.00 – 11.00

Andrea Mattozzi (Caltech) and Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania),

“Mediocracy”

 

Discussant: Paolo Balduzzi (Università Cattolica)

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30

Alberto Alesina (Harvard and IGIER) and Eliana La Ferrara (IGIER and Department of Economics, Università Bocconi), “A Test for Racial Bias in the Death Penalty”

Discussant: Francesco Billari (IGIER, Dondena and Department of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi)

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 14.30

Daniela Iorio (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), “Market Structure Matters: Explaining Why Politicians 'Go Negative' ” (joint with A. Gandhi and C. Urban)

Discussant: Riccardo Puglisi (Università degli Studi di Pavia)

14.30 – 15.30

Vincenzo Galasso (IGIER and Department of Economics, Università Bocconi) and Tommaso Nannicini (IGIER and Department of Economics, Università Bocconi), “Competing on Good Politicians”

 

Discussant: Marco Leonardi (Università degli Studi di Milano)

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00

Massimo Bordignon (Università Cattolica), Tommaso Nannicini (IGIER and Department of Economics, Università Bocconi) and Guido Tabellini (IGIER and Department of Economics, Università Bocconi), “Moderating Political Extremism”

Discussant: Pierre Boyer (Toulouse University)