IOG-BFI Conference
The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), invited leading scholars and IOG members to convene three times annually for research conferences and academic exchange. The IOG Program aims to move beyond the limits of traditional economic approaches and provide new frameworks for understanding why some nations succeed economically while others continually fail; why institutions that foster wealth and well-being in one culture, location, or historical period may be less effective in another; and what policies will create the greatest potential for progress. The IOG Program has a long tradition of fruitful interdisciplinary interactions among scholars from a wide range of analytical perspectives in the social sciences.
Participation in IOG-BFI conferences is by invitation only. Scholars who study topics related to institutions, organizations, and growth across a wide variety of disciplines were invited. For questions, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
All times are listed in CET.
Agenda
Friday, June 23, 2023
Registration and Breakfast
Built to Fail: How Institutional Legacies and Foreign Aid Undermined State Building in Afghanistan
Coffee Break
Safe Spaces: Shelters or Tribes?
Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI
Discussions and Conclusions
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Breakfast
Identity Politics
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University (Co-author)
Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University (Presenter)
Coffee Break
The Origins of Political Cleavages: Values, Education and Politics
Tim Besley, London School of Economics
Torsten Persson, Stockholm University (Presenter)
Buffet Lunch
From Public to Private: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers
Coffee Break
Discussion and Conclusions
Conference Dinner
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Breakfast
IOG Business Meeting
How Organized Crime is Organized: The Gangs of Medellin
Chris Blattman, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Gustavo Duncan, Universidad EAFIT (Co-author)
Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago (Co-author)
Felipe Martinez, University of Economics, Prague (Co-author)
Santiago Tobon, Universidad EAFIT (Co-author)
Coffee Break
Unbundling Prosociality: Inside the largest Armed Group of the Congo
Lewis Dunia Butinda, Kivu Agro Pastorale (Co-author)
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Hilary Yu, University of California, Berkeley (Co-author)