Institutions, Organizations, and Growth Program

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.

Conference Organizers

Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
Torsten Persson, Stockholm University
Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley

Conference Members

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
Roland Benabou, Princeton University
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
Tim Besley, London School of Economics
Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley
Rob Boyd, Arizona State University
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago
Melissa Dell, Harvard University
Daniel Diermeier, Vanderbilt University
Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago
James Fearon, Stanford University
Patrick Francois, University of British Colombia
Joe Henrich, Harvard University
Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia
Torsten Persson, Stockholm University
James Robinson, University of Chicago
Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago
Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University
Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago

Mark Your Calendars

The next IOG-BFI conferences will be held on March 28-30, 2025 (Chicago), June 6-8, 2025 (Berkeley), and October 3-5, 2025 (Chicago).