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IOG-BFI Conference 2022

Agenda

Friday, April 8, 2022
08:30:00–09:00:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00:00–10:30:00

Transhuman Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

Eoin McGuirk, Tufts University

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University

10:30:00–11:00:00

Break

11:00:00–12:30:00

Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago

Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley

Raymond Fisman, Boston University

Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley

Eyub Yegen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

First Floor Dining Room

14:00:00–15:30:00

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations

Jörg Spenkuch, Northwestern University

Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University

Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley

15:30:00–16:30:00

Reception

16:30:00

Conference Adjourns

Saturday, April 9, 2022
08:30:00–09:00:00

Continental Breakfast

09:00:00–10:30:00

A Theory of Propaganda and Repression

Arda Gitmez, Harvard University

Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago

10:30:00–11:00:00

Break

11:00:00–12:30:00

Hidden Hostility: Donor Attention and Political Violence

Siwan Anderson, Vancouver School of Economics

Patrick Francois, Vancouver School of Economics

Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne

Rogerio Santarrosa, INSPER Institute of Education and Research

12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

First Floor Dining Room

14:00:00–15:30:00

Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequity

Kristoffer Hvidberg, University of Copenhagen

Claus Kreiner, University of Copenhagen

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University

15:30:00–16:00:00

Break

16:00:00

Conference Concludes

19:00:00

Conference Dinner

TBD

Sunday, April 10, 2022
08:00:00–08:30:00

Continental Breakfast

08:30:00–09:00:00

IOG Business Meeting

Program Members and BFI Senior Staff

09:00:00–10:30:00

The Economic Origins of Territorial Control

María Ballesteros, Harvard University

Christopher Blair, University of Pennsylvania

Austin Wright, University of Chicago

10:30:00–10:45:00

Break

10:45:00–12:15:00

The Political Economics of Green Transitions

Tim Besley, London School of Economics

Torsten Persson, Institute for International Economic Studies

12:15:00

Conference Adjourns