May 10, 2008 PIEP Conference

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Research Group on
Political Institutions and Economic Policy
Princeton, May 10, 2008

Sponsored by the Research Program in Political Economy, the Niehaus 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	Gretchen Helmke (Rochester) and Bonnie Meguid (Rochester) "Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Compulsory Voting Laws" Discussants: Alessandra Casella (Columbia) and Carles Boix (Princeton)
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-1:30	Massimo Morelli (Columbia), Huanxing Yang (Ohio State), and Lixin Ye (Ohio State) "Competitive Nonlinear Taxation and Constitutional Choice" Discussants: Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon) and Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau (Rutgers)
1:30-3:00	Lunch
3:00-5:00	Pranab Bardhan (Berkeley) and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U.) "Ideology vs. Competition in Redistributive Politics: Land Reforms in West Bengal" Discussants: Nolan McCarty (Princeton) and Saumitra Jha (Harvard)
5:00-6:00	General Discussion and Refreshments