2004 Chicago Conference: Program

CONFERENCE ON TRANSACTION COSTS
DECEMBER 3-5, 2004
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA

Co-sponsored by the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
12:00 - 16:30
Room 422, Gleacher Center, University of Chicago
12:00 - 16:30
Technical studies team, by prior arrangement
(to work on technical issues concerning the costs of exchange project)
18:00 - 18:15
All conference attendees
Meet in hotel lobby, Embassy Suites
Chicago-Downtown/Lakefront
19:00
Conference dinner

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
8:00 - 17:30
Room 422, Gleacher Center, University of Chicago
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
8:45
Depart from hotel lobby together
9:00 - 10:30
Costs of Exchange: Introduction and Results I
Introduction
Mary Shirley
Perspectives
Alexandra Benham and Lee Benham
Peru
Miguel Jaramillo
Ukraine
Olga Nashchekina and Igor Timoshenkov
Discussant
John Wallis
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Costs of Exchange: Results II
Brazil
Decio Zylbersztajn
Tanzania
Estomih Nkya
Chile
Marcela Allué N.
Discussant
Douglas Allen
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
World Bank and Other Studies
Ana Fernandes
Ryan Orr
Discussant
Mary Shirley
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 - 16:30
Approaches to Transaction Costs
Douglas Allen
John Wallis
Discussant
Douglass North
16:30 - 17:30
Perspectives on Transaction Costs
Ning Wang
General discussion
19:00
Conference dinner

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
8:00 - 14:00
River North Room, Embassy Suites Chicago
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30
Transaction Costs and the Social Sciences
Douglass North
Discussant
Sam Peltzman
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Future Directions
Edward Bakewell, Kenneth Gartrell, P.J. Hill, Frederic Sautet, John Sullivan, Nancy Truitt
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch and closing discussion

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