The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), invites 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 will be invited. For questions, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
All times are listed in CST.
Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
Room 503
Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery
Lukas Althoff, Stanford University
Break
Room 503
Paternalistic Discrimination
Nina Buchmann, Stanford University
Lunch
The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States
Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley
Reception
Room 501-502
Breakfast
The Diffusion of Ideas
Caterina Chiopris, Harvard University
Break
Room 503
The Political Economy of Neoliberal Narratives
Tim Besley, London School of Economics and Political Science
Lunch
The Cost of State-building: Germany’s Government in Historical Perspective
Leander Heldring, Northwestern University
Break
Room 503
Discussion and Conclusions
Conference Dinner
Breakfast
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy
Carlo Medici, Northwestern University
Break
Room 503
Local Politics in Nations and Empires
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago