Updated 11 June, 2015

Each presentation should take 25 minutes, the discussant may use 10 minutes, and 5 minutes are devoted to general discussion.

 

 

Wednesday June 10 

 

19.00 Pre-conference dinner

Waxholm's Hotel, for conference participants arriving on Friday

 

Thursday June 11

 

08.30–08.45  Registration

08.45–09.00  Welcome address by Niclas Berggren on behalf of the organizing committee

Session I

Chair: Niclas Berggren

09.00–09.40  Paper title: "The Influence of Ancestral Lifeway on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Presenter: Louis Putterman
Discussant: Hans Pitlik

09.40–10.20: Paper title: "How Social Networks Shape Our Beliefs: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians"
Presenter: Yves Zenou
Discussant: Enrico Spolaore

10.20–10.50 Coffee

10.50-11.30 Paper title: "Germs, Social Networks and Growth"
Presenter: Alessandra Fogli
Discussant: Niclas Berggren

11.30-12.10 Paper title: "From Gutenberg to Google: 1500 AD Communications Technology Predicts Internet Adoption"
Presenter: Martin Ljunge
Discussant: Jeffrey Butler

12.10-12.50 Paper title: "Individualistic Values, Institutional Trust, and Interventionist Attitudes"
Presenter: Hans Pitlik
Discussant: Alberto Bisin

12.50–14.00  Lunch

 

Session II

Chair: Niclas Berggren

14.00–14.40 Paper title: "Fertility and Modernity"
Presenter: Enrico Spolaore
Discussant: Christian Bjørnskov

14.40–15.20 Paper title: "Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values"
Presenter: Thierry Verdier
Discussant: Luigi Guiso

15.20-15.50 Coffee

15.50–16.30 Paper title: "Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia"
Presenter: Yann Algan
Discussant: Martin Ljunge

16.30–17.10 Paper title: "Culture and Intergenerational Social Mobility"
Presenter: Paola Sapienza
Discussant: Therese Nilsson

17.10-17.50 Paper title: "Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma"
Presenter: Eugenio Proto
Discussant: Louis Putterman

18.30 Meet on the staircase outside the entrance door for group photo

18.45–22.00  Dinner and short speach by Magnus Henrekson onboard S/S Gustav III

 

Friday June 12 

 

Session III

Chair: Paola Sapienza

09.00–09.40 Paper title: "Adam Smith vs Jeffrey Sachs: Can Social Norms in Rich Countries Explain Why Other Countries Remain Poor?"
Presenter: Andreas Bergh
Discussant: Claudia Williamson

09.40–10.20 Paper title: "Institutional Shocks and Economic Crises"
Presenter: Christian Bjørnskov
Discussant: Yann Algan

10.20–10.50 Coffee (and check-out from the hotel)

10.50–11.30 Paper title: "Cultural Differences and Institutional Integration"
Presenter: Luigi Guiso
Discussant: Assar Lindbeck

11.30-12.10 Paper title: "On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions"
Presenter: Alberto Bisin
Discussant: Yves Zenou

12.10–13.20  Lunch

 

Session IV

Chair: Thierry Verdier

13.20–14.00 Paper title: "National Culture and the Regulation of Corporate Self-Dealing"
Presenter: Claudia Williamson
Discussant: Alessandra Fogli

14.00–14.40 Paper title: "Social Identity and Punishment"
Presenter: Jeffrey Butler
Discussant: Andreas Bergh

14.40–14.50  Closing remarks

15.00–16.15  xxx (Boat trip to Stockholm and transfer to the hotel in Stockholm city for participants staying in Stockholm for the night/weekend; taxi to the airport for others)

 

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