University of Warwick and MYRA School of Business
Journal of Public Economic Theory
Workshop on Governance and Political Economy
December 17-18, 2012
Final Programme
SATURDAY 15th December 2012
Participants begin arriving in Mysore on Saturday. Taxis are arranged for airport pick up
No planned activity: People can choose to have lunch/dinner etc. at the same or any other place
(suggestions offered)
SUNDAY 16th December 2012
7.00 - 8.30am
Breakfast (Hotel Metropole)
8.30 am
Depart from the Hotel for sight seeing day trip
9.00 - 10.30am
First stop at Chamundi Hills and the Nandi
11-12noon
Second stop Somnathpur Temple
12-1pm
Lunch Break (Hotel Regalis)
1-2.30pm
Visit to the Mysore Palace
2.30pm
Depart for Srirangapattana
2.50pm
Arrive in Srirangapattana. Visit to Tipu’s palace, Gumbaz
and other places including Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary
5.30pm
Depart Srirangapattana: for Brindavan gardens
6.00-6.30
Tea break at Metropole Bridavan
6.30-7.00pm
Visit the Brindavan gardens
7.30-8.00pm
Drive past the Mysore Palace for the palace illumination
Return to Mysore to the hotel (Dinner at Hotel Metropole or Hotel Regalis)
MONDAY 17th December 2012
(Depart for the Workshop at MYRA at 9.30am: arrive at MYRA by 10.00am)
10 -11 am:
PLENARY TALK
Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley:
"Corruption in India: A Policy Perspective"
11-11.15am
Coffee break
11.15-12.45 Session 1: Deterrence incentives, Caste Politics, Networks and Corruption.
11.15-11.45am:
Ajit Mishra, University of Bath, U.K.
“Controlling Corruption and Extortion” (With D Mookherjee)
11.45-12.15pm:
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics,
“Caste Politics, Corruption and Distribution in India:The Effect of
Voter Preferences on Policy Outcomes in Uttar Pradesh (with Avidit
Acharya and John Roemer)
12.15-12.45pm
Raja Kali, University of Arkansas“Political Connections,
Entrepreneurship and Social Network Investment”
12.45 - 2.00pm
Lunch Break
2-3.15pm Session II: Cultures of Corruption and Self-Selection
2.00 -2.30pm
Antonio Nicolo, University of Padua, Italy,
“Status incentives and corruption” (with Amrita Dhillon)
2.30- 3pm
Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales, Australia
“Moral Cost, Perception and corruption” (with P.Schneider)
3- 3.15pm
Coffee Break
3.15- 4.45 pm Session III: Institutions, the state and Political Accountability
3.15- 3.45pm
Gael Giraud, Paris School of Economics and Myrna Wooders,
University of Vanderbilt,
“On the simultaneous emergence of money and the state” (with Gael
Giraud)
3.45-4.15pm
David Hugh-Jones, University of Essex,
“Coercive Capacity and Anonymity”(with C.Perroni).
4.15pm-4.45pm
Sumon Majumdar, Queens University, Canada,
“Institutional Building and Political Accountability” (with S.Mukand)
5.30-6.30 pm
7.30-10pm
Musical Programme on the Roof Top of MYRA
Workshop Dinner at Hotel Metropole
TUESDAY 18th December 2012
9.30-10.30 Session I: Voting and Corruption
9.30- 10 am
Rebecca Morton, New York University “Biased Experts and
Delegation” (with Jean-Robert Tyran and M.Piovesan)
10- 10.30 am
Manasa Patnam, ENSAE Paris,“Learning from exit polls in sequential
elections”
10.30-10.45am
Coffee Break
10.45-12.30 Session II: Dynamics
10.45- 11.15am
Mikhail Drugov, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Optimal
Patronage”
11.15-11.45am
Thomas Groll, Columbia
“Dynamic Commercial Lobbying” (with Chris Ellis)
Gareth Myles, University of Exeter,
“Corruption and Seiniorage”(with Hana Yousefi)
Makysm Ivanyna, Michigan State University
Culture of corruption,tax evasion and optimal tax policy”
(with Alex Mourmouras and Peter Rangazas)
11.45-12.15pm
12.15 to 12.45pm
Lunch Break 12.45-2pm
2-3.30pm Session III: Empirics
2pm- 2.30pm
2.30 – 3 pm
3-.30 pm
Farzana Afridi, ISI, Delhi
Does female leadership impact on governance and Corruption?
Evidence from a public poverty allieviation program in Andhra
Pradesh, India”
Rajeev K. Goel (Illinois State University) “Whistleblower Laws and
Exposed US Corruption”
Vilen Lipatov, Goethe University, Germany, “A
journey from a corruption port to a tax haven” (with
Shafik Hebous)