Wallis Institute Annual Conference

14^th Annual Conference

October 12^th and 13^th, 2007

held at the Schlegel Hall, Wm. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, UR

Papers Presented:

• "The Dynamics of Distributive Politics"
  Marco Battaglini, Princeton,
  (Co-Author : Tom Palfrey)
• "Special Interest Politics and the Quality of Governance"
  Douglas Bernheim, Stanford
  (Co-Author : Navin Kartik)
• "Endogenous Parties in an Assembly. The Formation of Two Polarized Voting Blocs"
  Jon Eguia, NYU
• "Pivots Versus Signals in Elections"
  Ken Shotts, Stanford,
  (Co-Author : Adam Meirowitz)
• "A Resurrection of the Condorcet Jury Theorem"
  Balazs Szentes, Chicago, 
  (Co-Author : Yukio Koriyama)
• "What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers"
  Matthew Gentzkow, Chicago, 
  (Co-Author : Jesse Shapiro)
• "Strategic Redistricting"
  Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton,
  (Co-Author : Faruk Gul )