Program
Monday, September 3
8:15 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Opening of Symposium
Growth 1
Chair: Per Krusell
9:10 - 10:40 Technology [Video]
Speaker: Paul Romer, Stanford University [Presentation]
Discussant: Peter Howitt, Brown University [Presentation]
11:00 - 12:30 Empirical Determinants [Video]
Speaker: Robert Barro, Harvard University [Paper] [Presentation]
Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee, MIT [Presentation]
Development 1
Chair: Fabrizio Zilibotti
13:50 - 15:20 Schooling [Video]
Speaker: Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University [Presentation]
Discussant: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University [Presentation]
15:40 - 17:10 Health [Video]
Speaker: Michael Kremer, Harvard University [Presentation]
Discussant: Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago [Presentation]
17:30 - 19:00 Credit and Insurance [Video]
Speaker: Robert Townsend, MIT [Presentation]
Discussant: Orazio Attanasio, UCL [Presentation]
Tuesday, September 4
Development 2
Chair: Jakob Svensson
9:00 - 10:30 Well-Being [Video]
Speaker: Angus Deaton, Princeton University [Presentation]
Discussant: Chad Jones, Stanford University [Presentation]
10:50 - 12:20 Policy Evaluation [Video]
Speaker: Esther Duflo, MIT [Presentation]
Discussant: Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University [Presentation]
Growth 2
Chair: Philippe Aghion
13:50 - 15:20 Productivity and Misallocation [Video]
Speaker: Peter Klenow, Stanford University [Presentation]
Discussant: Chris Udry, Yale University [Presentation]
15:40 - 17:10 Human Capital [Video]
Speaker: Robert Lucas Jr., University of Chicago [Presentation]
Discussant: Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University [Presentation]
17:30 - 19:00 Institutions [Video]
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu, MIT [Presentation]
Discussant: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University [Presentation]
Wednesday, September 5
Panels
09:30-11:00 Micro Meets Macro [Video]
Daron Acemoglu, MIT
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
Angus Deaton, Princeton University
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University
Robert Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago
Chair: Torsten Persson
13:40-15:10 How Can Policy and Aid Help in Bringing down World Poverty? [Video]
Public session at Aula Magna, Stockholm University
Panel discussion:
Paul Collier, Oxford University
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Easterly, New York University
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
Introduction: Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
Moderator: Timothy Besley, London School of Economics