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Research Group on
Political Institutions and Economic Policy
Princeton, May 7, 2005

Sponsored by the Research Program in Political Economy, the Center for Globalization
and Governance, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Organizers: Helen Milner and Thomas Romer

***Please note: This conference is by invitation only***

Conference sessions will be held in Room 300 Wallace Hall

Participant List

8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast and Introduction
9:00-11:00 Carles Boix (Chicago) and Frances Rosenbluth (Yale)
"Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality"
     Discussants: Philip Keefer (World Bank) and David Laitin (Stanford)
11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-1:30

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (Stanford)
"Fiscal Centralization, Political Institutions, and the Territoriality of Local Public Goods Provision in Europe in the 20th Century"
     Discussants: Jonathan Rodden (MIT) and Robert Inman (Penn)

1:30-3:00

Lunch

3:00-5:00

Gene Grossman (Princeton) and Elhanan Helpman (Harvard)
"Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics"
 Related background paper: "A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics"
     Discussants: Kenneth Shepsle (Harvard) and Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon)

5:00-6:00 General Discussion and Refreshments