The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) at the University of Chicago and the University of Stockholm, 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 are invited.
CONFERENCE PHOTOS
Agenda
Breakfast
Does Chinese Research Hinge on US Coauthors? Evidence from the China Initiative
David Strömberg, Stockholm University
Break
Spontaneous Inferences: Variability and Asymmetry in Social Inferences from Norm Information
Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
Lunch
Ph.D. Research in Progress
Each presentation will last 40 minutes.
Enigma
Jens Oehlen, Stockholm University
Lethal Effects of Pesticide Exposure
Thomas Mikaelsen, Stockholm University
Female Teachers: The Roots of Women’s Emancipation
Monir Bounadi, Stockholm University
Mattias Folkestad, Stockholm University
Break
Followed by networking
Dinner
Breakfast
How Political Institutions Shape Education Spending: Supermajority Requirements in U.S. School Capital Investments
David Schönholzer, Stockholm University
Break
Transition to Green Technology along the Supply Chain
Philippe Aghion, College de France
Lunch
Climate Politics in the United States
Matilde Bombardini, University of California Berkeley
Break
Followed by networking
Boat Ride and Dinner
On board M/S Strömma
Breakfast
IOG Business Meeting
Program members and BFI senior staff only
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago
Break
Neighborhood Choice, Intergenerational Transmission of Social Capital, and Economic Mobility
Matt Jackson, Stanford University