Past Events

8:45-9:25 Registration 9:25-9:30 Introductions 9:30-10:35 Ray Fisman (Boston), "Tax-Exempt Lobbying" (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi) Discussion by Hye Young You (NYU) 10:35-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:55 Pierre Yared (Columbia), "Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Self-Enforcement" (with Marina Halac) Discussion by Dana Foarta (Stanford) 11:55-1:00 Vincent Pons (Harvard), "Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates" (with Clémence Tricaud) Discussion by Marc Meredith (Penn) 1:00-2:15 Lunch 2:15-3:20 Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (Penn), "Women, Rails, and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion, Social Learning, and Collective Action" (with Angel Iglesias and Pinar Yildirim) Discussion…