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W. ALLEN WALLIS INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

4th Annual Conference

September 26-27, 1997

The Wallis Institute organised its 4th Annual Conference on September 26-27, 1997 at Holiday Inn Airport. The speakers and papers are listed in the order of presentation at the conference.


Session I : Social Groups, Tolerance and Conflict
  • "The Rationality of Fear : Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict",
    Rui deFigueiredo, Stanford political science,
    (with Barry Weingast).

  • "A Theory of Constitutional Standards and Civil Liberty",
    Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown Economics.


Session II : Modern Approaches to Classic Problems
  • "The Coase Theorem with Private Information",
    Richard McKelvey, Caltech Social Science,
    (with Talbot Page).

  • "Large Poisson Games",
    Roger Myerson, Northwestern MEDS.


Session III : Jurisdiction and Efficiency
  • "Distributive Policy Making as a Source of Inefficiency in Representative Democracies",
    Stephen Coate, Penn Economics.

  • "Constitutional Rules of Exclusion in Jurisdiction Formation",
    Suzanne Scotchmer, Berkeley Economics,
    (with Pilippe Jehiel).

  • "Does Fiscal Decentralization Increase Innovation ?",
    Koleman Strumpf, North Carolina Economics.


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