Seminars are held Fridays from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in Room 315 at 269 Mercer Street.

Coordinators:
Prof. Catherine Hafer @ (212) 992-9679 or catherine.hafer@nyu.edu
Prof. Alessandro Lizzeri @ (212) 998-8907 or alessandro.lizzeri@nyu.edu

February 8 Rebecca Morton (NYU) "Tactical Coalition Voting."

February 15 Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU) "The Self-Interested Rationale for the Extension of the Franchise."

February 22 Roger Lagunoff (Georgetown) "Credible Communication in Dynastic Government."

March 1 John Roemer (Yale)

• "The Democratic Dynamics of Educational Investment and Income Distribution."
• "Does Democracy Engender Equality?"

March 8 Alberto Alesina (Harvard) "Endogenous Political Institutions."

March 15 No seminar (Spring Recess)

March 22 Amrita Dhillon (University of Warwick and SUNY Stonybrook) "Learning in Elections and Voter Turnout."

March 27* Martin Osborne (University of Toronto) "Party Formation in Collective Decision-Making." *Please note that this is a Wednesday, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Room 715 at 269 Mercer Street.

March 29 John Hassler (Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies) "The Dynamics of Government."

April 5 Jean-Pierre Benoît (NYU) "Why Do Good Cops Defend Bad Cops?" (with Juan Dubra)

April 12 Abhinay Muthoo (University of Essex) "On The Origins of Basic Property Rights."

• "A Model of the Origins of Basic Property Rights."
• "Coalition Formation in the State-of-Nature."

April 19 Alessandra Casella (Columbia) "Toward a Theory of Storable Votes."

April 26 Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) "The Effects of Land-Tenure Institutions on Economic Outcomes" (with Lakshmi Iyer).

May 3 Rui de Figueiredo (Haas, UC-Berkeley)

• "Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty and Policy Insulation."
• "Protecting the Weak: Why (and When) States Adopt an Administrative Procedure Act," (with Richard G. Vanden Bergh) [ Table ]