Political Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Political Economy met in Cambridge on April 10. Program Director Alberto Alesina of Harvard University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po (Paris), and Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles, and NBER, "How Modern Dictators Survive: Co-optation, (Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression" (NBER Working Paper No. 21136)

* Andrea Prat, Columbia University, "Media Power"

* Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER, "An Econometric Evaluation of Competing Explanations for the Midterm Gap" (NBER Working Paper No. 20311)

* Tliomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, and Armin Falk, University of Bonn; David Huffman, University of Oxford; and Uwe Sunde, University of Munich, "Patience and the Wealth of Nations"

* Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California, Eos Angeles, and NBER; Michael J. Callen, Harvard University...