Parliaments, Policy and Crises Workshop
University of Oslo Norwegian Institute in Rome (http://www.hf.uio.no/dnir/)
Thursday 11 September, 2014
1-2pm
Lunch and opening remarks at the Norwegian Institute
2-3pm
David Singer (MIT) – Financial Levees: Capital Inflows, Financial Market
Structure, and Banking Crises
3-3:15pm
Coffee break
3:15-4:15
David Stasavage (NYU) – Why Did Public Debt Originate in Western
Europe?
4:15-4:30
Coffee break
4:30-5:30
Petra Schleiter (Oxford) – Varieties of Parliamentarism: How Parliamentary
Constitutions Mediate the Effects of Booms and Busts on Government
Termination
7:00pm
Dinner at Il Drappo (http://www.ildrappo.it/)
Friday 12 September, 2014
11-12
Valentino Larcinese (Bocconi/LSE) – Enfranchisement and Representation
12-12:15
Coffee break
12:15-1:15
Lucy Barnes (Kent) – Fiscal Responses to the Great Recession: The politics
of stimulus and distribution
1:15-2:15
Lunch at the Norwegian Institute
2:15-3:15
Stephanie Rickard (LSE) – Policy Targeting: Special Interest Politics,
Geography and Electoral Institutions
3:15-3:30pm
Coffee break
3:30-4:30
Jeff Frieden (Harvard) and David Lake (UCSD) – Crisis Politics: Risk,
Relative Prices, and Political Change
4:30-5:00
Concluding roundtable
7:00 pm
Dinner at Pierluigi (http://www.pierluigi.it/e_default.asp)
Saturday 13 September, 2014
11:00 am
Guided tour through Piazza Farnese, Campo dei Fiori, Largo Argentina, Jews
Ghetto, Isola Tiberina, Trastevere (Meet at lobby of Hotel Indigo at 10.55am)