NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Summer Institute 2008

 

Microeconomics, Efficiency and Welfare: Lessons for Latin America

 

Sebastian Edwards and Alexander Galetovic, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Somerset Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 9-10, 2008

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9:

 

 

2:00 pm

CLAUDIO AGOSTINI, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

 

PHILLIP BROWN, Colby College

 

Local Distributional Effects of Government Cash Transfers in Chile

 

 

 

Discussant: RODRIGO SOARES, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

3:00 pm

DAVID LAGAKOS, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Superstores or Mom and Pops? Market Size, Technology Adoption and TFP Differences

 

 

 

Discussant: ALEXANDER GALETOVIC, Universidad de los Andes

 

 

4:00 pm

NICHOLAS BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

CHRISTOS GENAKOS, Cambridge University

 

RAFFAELLA SADUN, London School of Economics

 

JOHN VAN REENAN, London School of Economics and NBER

 

How Good is Chinese and Indian Management? New Evidence from Europe, the US and Asia

 

 

 

Discussant: PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 10:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

ERNESTO SCHARGRODSKY, Universidad di Tella

 

RAFAEL DI TELLA, Harvard University

 

Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring

 

 

 

Discussant: ILYANA KUZIEMKO, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

LEE ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER

 

MARCUS MELO, University of Pernambuco

 

BERNARDO MUELLER, University of Brasilia

 

CARLOS PEREIRA, Michigan State University

 

The Predatory and Virtuous Choices Governors Make:  The Roles of Checks and Balances and Political Competition

 

 

 

Discussant: JEFFREY FRIEDEN, Harvard University

 

 

11:00 am

CLAUDIO FERRAZ, IPEA

 

FEDERICO FINAN, UC, Los Angeles

 

Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance

 

 

 

Discussant: ERNESTO DAL BO, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

7:00 pm

Legal Sea Foods

 

Kendall Square

 

5 Cambridge Center

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

5/16/08