CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
28 th
– 31 st
May 2013
Scarman House, University of Warwick
Wednesday 29 th
May
Tuesday 28 May 2013: 6pm: Welcome drinks reception
Chair: Professor Sharun Mukand and Professor Sascha Becker
08:45
08:55
09:00
Registration and Coffee
Session 1 Chaired by Bishnu Gupta (Warwck)
Introduction and Welcome
Helios Herrera (Columbia)
Co-Authors: Luigi Guiso and Massimo
Morelli
10:00 Coffee
Session 2 Chaired by Mark Harrison (Warwck)
10.15 Ola Olsson (U Gothenburg)
Co-Authors: Christopher Paik
“A culture based theory of fiscal union desirability ”
11:15
12:15
Enrico Spolaore (Tufts)
Co-Authors: Romain Wacziarg
Lunch
“A Western Reversal Since the
Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of
Early Agriculture”
“How Deep Are the Roots of
Economic Development?”
Session 3 Chaired by Fabian Waldinger
(Warwick)
13.30
14.30
15.30
Gerard Roland (Berkeley)
Co-Authors: Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton)
Co-Authors: Omar Garcia Ponce
Coffee
Chaired by Chris Woodruff (Warwick)
“Culture, Institutions and
Democratization”
“Critical Junctures: Independence
Movements and Democracy in Africa”
Session 4
15.45 Yann Algan (Sciences Po)
Co-Authors: Thierry Mayer and
Mathias Thoenig
“The Economic Incentives of Cultural
Transmission: Spatial evidence from
Naming Patterns”
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Department of Economics
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16.45
19:00
Elias Papaioannou (LBS)
Co-Authors: Stelios Michalopoulos and
Gregoios Siourounis
Dinner
“Natural Belief”
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Department of Economics
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