Development and Institutions Spring Seminars 2007

DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONS SPRING SEMINARS 2007
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held in ROOM 24 in Via Sarfatti 25, from 12.45 to 14.00 unless otherwise indicated.

Monday March 5th
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
"Active and Passive Waste of Public Funds: Evidence from a Policy Experiment" joint with A. Prat and T. Valletti

Monday March 19th
Rema Hanna (NYU)
"Affirmative Action in India"

WEDNESDAY MARCH 28th***OCCASIONAL
Paolo Verme (Università di Torino)
"Happiness and Freedom in a World of Heterogeneous Values"

Monday April 2nd
Enrico Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
"The Political Origin of Pension Funding" joint with A. Schwienbacher

WEDNESDAY APRIL 18th***OCCASIONAL
David Stromberg (IIES, Stockholm)
"News Droughts, News Floods, and U.S. Disaster Relief" joint with T. Eisensee

Monday April 23rd
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University)
"Financial Constraints, Innovative Investments, and Implications for Macroeconomic Policy"

The talk will be based on three papers:

1) "Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms" joint with S. Scarpetta and T. Fally

2) "Credit Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D: Evidence from France"

3) "Productivity Growth and the Cyclicality of Budgetary Policy and Productivity
Growth" joint with I. Marinescu the NBER Macro Annual 2007 website)

WEDNESDAY MAY 2nd***OCCASIONAL
Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University)
"Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines in Sri Lanka" joint with A. Lleras-Muney

Monday May 14th***TIME: 13:30
Luigi Guiso (Ente Einaudi /Tor Vergata University)
"Information Acquisition and Portfolio Performance" joint with T. Jappelli

Monday May 28th
Antonio Merlo (Penn University)
"Mediocracy" joint with A. Mattozzi

WEDNESDAY JUNE 6th, ROOM 23***OCCASIONAL
Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford University)
"Social Networks and Insurance against Transitory and Persistent Health Shocks" joint with J. de Weerdt (Abstract)

Monday June 11th (joint Development & Institutions-Microeconomics seminar)
Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)
"The De Soto Effect: Markets, Networks, and the Political Economy of Property Rights" joint with T. Besley

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20th, ROOM 23***OCCASIONAL
Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University)
"Institutions and Culture"