November 17, 2001

8:30–9:00 AM Continental breakfast and introductions

9:00–10:45 AM
Ronald Rogowski and Mark Kayser, University of California, Los Angeles
“Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD Countries”

Discussants
Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University

10:45–11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM–12:45 PM
Barry Weingast, Stanford
“Federalism and Democracy: Self-Enforcing Equilibria”

Discussants
David Austen-Smith, Northwestern University

12:45–2:00 PM Lunch

2:00–3:45 PM
John Roemer, Yale University
“Does Democracy Engender Equality?”

Discussant
James Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

3:45–4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00–5:45 PM
Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, and Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth
“The Welfare State in the United States and Europe: Why So Different?”

Discussant
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University