Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance; MacArthur Research Networks, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Meeting Agenda

May 5-9, 1998
Bellagio, Italy


 

Tuesday, May 5

picture of Bellagio Participants arrive

7:30 PM Bellagio staff welcome and introduction meeting

8:00 PM Welcome dinner

 

Wednesday, May 6

8:30 - 10:15 AM Jean-Jacques Laffont: "A Theory of Supervision with Endogenous Transaction Costs"

10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 - 12:30 Ernst Fehr: "Homo Reciprocans --The Economic Implications of Reciprocal Fairness"

12:30 - 3:30 PM Lunch break

3:30 - 5:15 PM Joseph Stiglitz: "Social Justice and Individual Responsibility"

5:15 - 5:45 PM Coffee break

5:45 - 7:30 PM John Goldthorpe: "Class Inequality and Meritocracy"

8:00 PM Dinner

 

Thursday, May 7

8:30 - 10:15 AM Roland Benabou: "Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution"

Thomas Piketty, at 27 our network's youngest member... 10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 - 12:30 Adam Przeworski: "The Effect of Income Distribution on the Dynamics of Political Regimes"

12:30 - 3:00 PM Lunch break

3:00 - 5:00 PM Short presentations by network members

5:00 - 5:30 PM Coffee break

5:30 - 7:30 PM Research Network Members Only Meeting (Agenda for future research)

8:00 PM Dinner

 

Friday, May 8

8:30 - 10:15 AM Dominique Goux: "Educational Opportunity and Social Mobility in France and the U.S."

10:15 - 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 - 12:30 Andrea Ichino and Daniel Checchi: "More Equal but Less Mobile Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and the U.S."

Aperitivas on the patio with Bellagio residents 12:30 - 3:30 PM Lunch break

3:30 - 5:15 PM John Roemer: "Equality of Opportunity"

5:15 - 5:45 PM Coffee break

5:45 - 7:30 PM Members Only Meeting II

8:00 PM Dinner

 

Saturday, May 9

Free day at Bellagio

 

Sunday, May 10

AM departure


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