Carles Boix , University of Chicago, "The Birth of Party Democracy: Electoral Mobilization in Belgium, Britain and Sweden from 1880 to 1940," Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop

    Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse        12 noon

  Steven Yeaple, Penn, "Mergers and the Composition of International Commerce," Workshop on  
Trade and Development
     Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                     3:30–5:00 pm

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University, "The Timing of New Technology Adoption," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics
    Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           2:30-3:50 pm

Borja Gracia, Yale University, "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Conflicts in the Context of a Fixed Exchange Rate," Macro Lunch
    Common Room, 28 Hillhouse           12-1:00 pm

Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College, "Do Good Schools or Good Neighbors Raise Property Values?" (with Thomas Kane and Stephanie Riegg). Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 609b (joint with Labor and Population Workshop)
    Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                    2:30-4:00 pm

Peter Swenson, Yale University, "Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions, and the Role of Big Business in American and Swedish Welfare Politics,"  Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop.
   Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse                 12 noon

Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon – Heinz School, "Gender Wage Disparities Among the Highly Educated," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population. 
    Room 106, 28 Hillhouse                            12:15-1:45 pm

Conference on  ROBUST MECHANISM DESIGN  
     Common Room, 28 Hillhouse

Andrea Vindigni (Stockholm/Princeton, "On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West" (with Davide Ticchi, University of Urbino). Leitner International and Comparative Political Economy Workshop.
     Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse           12:00 noon