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

The Political Economy of Transition Economies

September 10-11, 2004

PROGRAM

CERGE-EI
Prague, Czech Republic


Thursday, September 9

Hotel Diplomat, Evropska 15 CZ - 160 41 Praha 1

8:00 PM

Group dinner at Hotel Diplomat's Loreta restaurant

Friday, September 10

CERGE-EI Building, Room 8
Politických vìzòù 7, 111 21 Praha 1

9:15 - 9:30

Introductions

9:30 - 11:00

Barry Ickes (coauthor: Clifford Gaddy)
"Market-Impeding Federalism"

Coffee break

 

11:15 - 12:45

Katherine Terrell and Stepan Jurajda
"What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation during Episodes of Massive Adjustment?"

Lunch
Room 6

 

2:15 - 3:45

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (coauthors: Irina Slinko, Evgeny Yakovlev)
"Laws for Sale: Evidence from Russia"

Coffee break

 

4:00 - 5:30

Karla Hoff, Shale Horowitz (coauthor: Branko Milanovic)
"Political Alternation as a Restraint on Investing in Influence:
Evidence from Transition Economies"

6:30

Group dinner at Bredovsky dvur restaurant
[Politickych veznu 14, Praha 1, a 3-minute walk from CERGE]

Saturday, September 11

CERGE-EI Building, Room 8
Politických vìzòù 7, 111 21 Praha 1

9:00 - 10:30

Serguey Braguinsky and Roger B. Myerson
"Oligarchic Property Rights and Investment"

Coffee break

 

10:45 - 11:30

Erik Berglof: Discussion of oligarchic property rights

11:30 - 12:15

An Overview of the MacArthur Inequality Network Research
Sam Bowles, Karla Hoff, and Dilip Mookherjee

Lunch
Room 6

 

1:45 - 3:45

Roundtable on Institutions and History
Marshall Goldman, Arnold Harberger, Adam Przeworski, and Gerard Roland

Coffee break

 

4:00 - 6:15

Roundtable on Corruption
Virginie Coulloudon, Paolo Mauro, and Christof Ruehl

6:40 PM

Group dinner at Zahrada v Opere restaurant
[Legerova 75, Praha 1, a 10-minute walk from CERGE]


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