Program
Friday 23.2
| 10.00-11.00 | Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene, Oslo: 'King of the Hill' |
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| 11.15-12.15 | Branislav L. Slantchev, UC. San Diego, 'The Armed Peace' |
| 12.15-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.30 | Silje Aslaksen, Trondheim: 'Corruption and Natural Resources: Evidence from Panel Data' |
| 14.45-15.45 | Gerard Padró i Miquel, Stanford Business School: 'Strategic Risk, Civil War and Intervention' (with Sylvain Chassang) |
| 16.00-17.00 | Suresh Naidu, Berkeley: 'Occupational Choices. Economic Determinants of Land Invasions' |
| 17.15-18.15 | Daniel Arce and Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas: 'Fitting In Group Effects and the Evolution of Fundamentalism' |
Saturday 24.2
| 09.00-10.00 | Pierre Yared, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 'The Efficient Use of Violence' |
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| 10.00- 11.00 |
Joan Esteban,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Debraj Ray, NYU: 'On the Salience of Ethnic Conflict' |
| 11.15- 12.15 |
Jim Robinson, Harvard: 'Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions'(with Daron Acemoglu) |
| 12.15-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30- 14.30 |
Ethan Kaplan, Stockholm U. (with Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu): 'Coups, Corporations and Common Knowledge’ |
| 14.45- 15.45 |
Oeindrila Dube and Juan Vargas, Harvard: 'Are all resources cursed?' |
| 16.00- 17.00 |
Stergios Skaperdas, UC Irvine: 'Socio-political conflict and economic performance in Bolivia' (with Jose Luis Evia and Roberto Laserna) |
| 17.15- 18.15 |
Dominic Rohner, Cambridge: 'Information, Reputation and Ethnic Conflict' |
