Political Economy.

Members of the NBER's Political Economy Program met October 11 in Cambridge. Research Associates Ernesto Dal Bo of the University of California, Berkeley and Francesco Trebbi of the University of British Columbia organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Meera Mahadevan, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity"

* Avinash Dixit, Princeton University, "'We haven't got but one more day'--The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Dynamic Chicken Game"

* Michael Callen, University of California, San Diego and NBER; Saad Gulzar, Stanford University; Soledad A. Prillaman, University of Oxford; and Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER, "Does Revolution Work? Post-Revolutionary Evolution of Nepal's Political Classes"

* Abhay Aneja, Stanford University, and Carlos Avenancio, Indiana University...