December 3, 2005

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

9:00–11:00 AM
David Stasavage, London School of Economics and New York University
"Partisan Politics and Public Debt: the Importance of the Whig Supremacy for Britain's Financial Revolution"

Discussants
Barry Weingast, Stanford
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard

11:00–11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM–1:30 PM
Scott Ashworth, Princeton
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Washington University
"Party Labels, Executive Power, and Ideological Balance"

Discussants
John Ferejohn, Stanford Abhinay Muthoo, Essex

1:30–3:00 PM Lunch

3:00–5:00 PM
Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School
“Trade Credit, Bank Loans and Monitoring: Evidence from Japan”

Discussants
Howard Rosenthal, New York University Russell Sage, Inter-American Development Bank
Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank