Current Program With Link to Submitted Papers Day: 6/22/2011 Welcome day and Trip to the ancient capital Ayutthaya 8:00 am - 5:00 pm   Trip to the ancient capital Ayutthaya We arranged a Day Trip on Wednesday 22nd June to the UNESCO world heritage sites, the architectural heritage of the ancient capital Ayutthaya. A thriving trade and political capital of Siam for over 400 years, Ayutthaya is filled with palaces, temples and religious monuments of great historical and cultural significance – even in their ruined state. It is fair to say that no study of Thai architecture or art is complete without a trip to this once glorious capital, which gave birth to the unique U-Thong style. We leave from the hotel lobby   Day: 6/23/2011 First Day of the Conference 8:00 am - 1:00 pm   Registration MahaChulalongkorn Building, in front of Room 105   8:00 am - 9:00 am   Coffee   9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 1 History and Culture Paola Giuliano : Session Chairman Gilat Levy (LSE) Ronny Razin (LSE) Self and Social Signaling in Religious Organizations: A Model and a Study of Calvin's Reformation in Geneva Keneth Chay (Brown University) Kaivan Munshi (Brown University) Slavery's Legacy: Black Mobilization in the Postbellum South Paola Giuliano (UCLA) On the origin of gender roles: Women and the Plough 10:30 am - 10:45 am   Coffee Break   10:45 am - 12:15 pm Session 2 Trade Steven Rosefielde (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Huan Zhou (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Protectionism and global Imbalances: the China puzzle Koji Okuguchi (Tokyo Metropolitan University,Japan) Effects of entry international competition with lobbying for protection Jonathan Edward Leightner (Augusta State University) The political economy of export driven and consumption driven growth models Property Rights Mukesh Eswaran : Session Chairman Fali Huang (Singapore Management University) Contract Enforcement: A Political Economy Model of Legal Development Watcharapong Ratisukpimol (University of Colorado at Boulder) Understanding the root causes of modern maritime piracy Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia) Hugh Neary (University of British Columbia) An economic theory of the evolutionary origin of property rights 12:15 pm - 2:15 pm   Lunch   2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Session 3 Demography and Human Capital Berthold Ulrich Wigger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Voting on Retirement Age: When does Postponing Retirement Find Political Support? Frederic Tournemaine (UTCC) Christopher Tsoukis (Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University) Public Expenditures, Growth and Distribution in a Mixed Regime of Education with a Status Motive Julio Davila (CORE, UCLouvain and Paris School of Economics) Optimal population and education Taxes and Certification Knud Munk : Session Chairman Andrea S Podhorsky (York University) A theoretical analysis of the Fairtrade certification program Yothin Jinjarak (University of London) Manachaya Uruyos (Chulalongkorn University) A note on tax base, public debt, and investors' beliefs Knud Munk (UCLouvain) B-1348 Optimal border taxes in developing countries On the importance of a large informal sector 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm   Coffee Break   4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session 4 Networks, Learning, and Markets John P. Conley : Session Chairman Timothy Van zandt (INSEAD) Pushan Dutt (INSEAD) Ilian Mihov (INSEAD) Export diversification and growth Amrita Dhillon (University of Warwick) Vegard Iversen (University of Manchester and Indian Statistical Institute) Employee Referrals vs market based recruitment: the case of unskilled labour markets in India John P. Conley (Vanderbilt University) Robert Driskill (Vanderbilt University) Hideo Konishi (Boston College) A Dixit-Stiglitz general equilibrium model with oligopolistic markets: Enough is enough 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm   Conference Dinner Dusit Thani Hotel. http://www.dusit.com/dusit-thani/dusit-thani-bangkok.html   Day: 6/24/2011 Second Day of the Conference 8:00 am - 9:00 am   Coffee   9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 5 Conflict Francis Bloch : Session Chairman Joan Esteban (Instituto de Análisis Económico, CSIC) Strategic mass killings Changxia Ke (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) Kai A. Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) Florian Morath (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) Brothers in arms – an experiment on the alliance puzzle Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique) Alliance treaties, contract incompleteness and conflicts 10:30 am - 10:45 am   Coffee Break   10:45 am - 12:15 am Session 6 Governance Khemarat T Teerasuwannajak : Session Chairman Hon foong Cheah (Michigan State University) Does foreign media entry discipline or provoke local media bias? Toshihiko Mukoyama (University of Virginia) Latchezar Popov (University of Virginia) Political Economy of Entry Regulations in an Innovative Industry Rodney Falvey (School of Business, Bond University) Khemarat T Teerasuwannajak (Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University) Optimal R&D policies for asymmetric R&D alliance: governments' competition and governments' cooperation Conflict II Laura Mayoral : Session Chairman Anna Gumen (New York University) Ethnic conflict and the provision of public goods: a framed field experiment Hendrik Ritter (University of Magdeburg) Water scarcity and conflict - a reciprocal problem? Laura Mayoral (IAE Barcelona) Joan Esteban (IAE Barcelona) Debraj Ray (NYU) Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study 12:15 pm - 2:15 pm   Lunch   2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Session 7 Group Inequality Anirban Mitra : Session Chairman Young chul Kim (Korea Development Institute) Glenn C. Loury (Brown University) Stereotypes and inequality: a `signaling' theory of identity choice Y. stephen Chiu (University of Hong Kong) Weifeng Zhong (Northwestern University) Decline of Class: A Group-Theoretic Approach Anirban Mitra (New York University) Do the poor gain from mandated political representation? Theory and Evidence from India Topics in Theory Weerachart Tee Kilenthong : Session Chairman Arayah Preechametta (Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University) Dynamic Global Game with Multiple Signals Weerachart Tee Kilenthong (University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce) Gabriel Madeira (Universidade de Sao Paulo) Observability and Endogenous Organizations A Macro Evidence of Sporting Culture 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm   Coffee Break   4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session 8 Politics and Poverty Debraj Ray : Session Chairman Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics) Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics) Repeated elections and the persistence of inefficient policies Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute) Glenn Loury (Brown University) Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College, Columbia University) On the Origins and Persistence of Group Inequality Debraj Ray (New York University) Poverty and Self-Control 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm   Farewell Dinner Dinner on a boat cruising down the Chaophraya River with the spectacular views of historical places with various choices of flavorful cuisine from authentic Thai to International variety and live band.