Transcript The Political Economy of Federalism and Local Development

Tentative Program
First Bruneck Workshop on:
“The Political Economy of Federalism and Local
Development”
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Campus Bruneck-Brunico
September 13th
09:00-09:15
Registration
09:15-10:15
Julien Labonne, "Family Network and Distributive Politics", with
Marcel Fafchamps
10:15-10:45
Andrea Di Miceli, “Chasing the Key Player: a Network Approach to
Myanmar Civil War"
10:45-11:15
Coffee
11:15-12:15
Johannes Urpelainen, "Partisan Alignment and Development
Initiatives in a Federal System: Evidence from India's Rural
Electrification, 2001-2011", with Meir Alkon and Ryan Kennedy
12:15 -12:45 Francisco De Lima Cavalcanti, “The Brazilian drought industry
revisited"
12:45-14:15
Lunch
14:15-15:15
Horacio Larreguy, “Prios Rule: When do Malfeasance Revelations Help
and Hurt Incumbent Parties?”,with Eric Arias, John Marshall and Pablo
Querubin
15:15-15:45
Alessandro Fedele, “Wrong Politicians”, with Pierpaolo Giannoccolo.
15:45-16:15
Massimo Morelli, “Determinants of secessions”.
16:15-16:45 Coffee
16:45-17:45 Keynote address, Bård Harstad
20:00-22:00 Dinner
September 14th
09:00-09:15 Registration
09:15-10:15
Jon Fiva, "A bridge too far? The political economy of local road
investments in Norway", with Daniel Smith and Askill Halse.
10:15-11:15
Albert Solé Ollé, "Housing Booms, Fiscal Policy and Voter's
Information", with Elisabet VIladecans Marsal.
11:15-11:30
Coffee
11:30-12:30
Silvia Marchesi, “Information transmission within federal fiscal
architectures: Theory and evidence”, with Axel Dreher, Kai Gehring and
Christos Kotsogiannis.
12:30-13:00
Helia Costa, "Pork barrel as a signaling tool: the case of US
environmental policy"
13:00-14:15
Lunch
14:15-15:15
Quoc-Anh Do, "Capital Cities, Conflict and Misgovernance", with Felipe
Campante and Bernardo Guimares
15:15-16:15
Moses Shayo, "Grexit vs. Brexit: Economic Integration Under
Endogenous Social Identities”, with Boaz Abramson