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Workshop on The
Microfoundations of Economic Policy Making in Advanced
Democracies, 6 May 2003.
This one-day workshop features papers by four sets of
authors:
8:30 Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Ronald Rogowski (UCLA), Eric C. C. Chang (UCLA), and
Mark Andreas Kayser (University of Rochester / Nuffield
College, Oxford), Electoral
Systems and Real Prices: Panel Evidence for the OECD
Countries, 1970-2000. Gary Cox, discussant
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:45 Torben Iversen (Harvard) and David Soskice (Duke) Electoral
systems and the politics of coalitions: Why some
democracies redistribute more than others. Gary Cox,
discussant
11:45 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Kathleen Bawn (UCLA) and Frances Rosenbluth (Yale) Coalition
Parties versus Coalitions of Parties: How Electoral
Agency Shapes the Political Logic of Costs and
Benefits. Mariano Tommasi, discussant
2:30 - 3:30 Torsten Persson, Gerard Roland, and
Guido Tabellini (Universitą
Bocconi) The Economic Effects of Constitutions: What do
the Data Say? Mariano Tommasi, discussant
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break
3:45 - 4:45 Davide Ticchi (Urbino / Pompeu Fabra) and
Andrea Vindigni (MIT), Endogenous
Constitutions. Tasos Kalandrakis, discussant
4:45 - 5:15 General Discussion | 
