| Saturday, August 8 | |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Continental breakfast |
| 9:45 a.m. | Welcoming remarks: Arthur Rolnick |
| 10:00 a.m. | Raquel Fernandez and Richard Rogerson “Income Distribution, Communities and the Quality of Public Education: A Policy Analysis” |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | James A. Kahn and Jong-Soo Lim “Finite Horizons, Political Economy, and Growth” |
| 12:15 p.m. | Break for lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. | Jeffrey Liang and Allan H. Meltzer “A Rational Theory of Income Inequality and the Size of Government in a Dynamic Model of Kuznets’ Hypothesis” |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Roberto Chang “Political Party Negotiations, Income Distribution, and Endogenous Growth” |
| 4:15 p.m. | Break |
| 4:30 p.m. | Per Krusell and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull “Choosing Not to Grow: How Bad Policies Can Be Outcomes of Dynamic Voting Equilibria” |
| 5:30 p.m. | Cocktail reception |
| 7:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| Sunday, August 9 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 10:00 a.m. | V. V. Chari and Hal Cole “A Contribution to the Theory of Pork Barrel Spending” |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | David Austen-Smith “Information and Influence: Lobbying for Agendas and Votes” |
| 12:15 p.m. | Break for lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Jon Faust |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | A. S. Pinto Barbosa, Boyan Jovanovic, and Mark M. Spiegel “An Optimal Constitution in a Stochastic Environment” |
| 4:15 p.m. | Break |
| 4:30 p.m. | Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini “Federal Fiscal Constitutions. Part I: Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard” |
| 5:30 p.m. | Closing remarks: Rao Aiyagari and Hal Cole |