Wallis Institute Annual Conference

18^th Annual Conference

October 14^th and 15^th, 2011

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

Detailed Schedule

Program:

• Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University, (with Daron Acemoglu and Konstantin Sonin), “Markov Voting Equilibria: Theory and Applications”
  Discussant: Vincent Anesi, University of Nottingham
• Joseph McMurray, Brigham Young University, “Ideology as Opinion: A Signaling Model of Common-value Elections”
  Discussant: Adam Meirowitz, Princeton University
• Richard Van Weelden, University of Chicago, (with Massimo Morelli), “Re-election through Division”
  Discussant: Kenneth Shotts, Stanford University
• Stefan Krasa, University of Illinois, (with Mattias Polborn), “The Relative Importance of Cultural and Economic Issues for the Polarization of the U.S. Electorate, 1972-2008”
  Discussant: Neil Malhotra, Stanford University
• Ethan Bueno De Mesquita, University of Chicago, “Rebel Tactics”
  Discussant: Alexandre Debs, Yale University
• Odilon Camara, USC Marshall School of Business, “Taxes, Public Goods and Policies of (In) Competent Politicians”
  Discussant: Jean Guillaume Forand, University of Waterloo
• Balazs Szentes, University College London, (with Marcin Peski), “Spontaneous Discrimination”
  Discussant: Hao Li, University of Toronto