2004 Tucson Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
SEPTEMBER 25–30, 2004
TUCSON, ARIZONA, USA


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
18:00 - 19:00
Registration
19:00
Informal dinner

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:00
Hubris and Game Theory:
Cognitive Limitations, Culture and Institutional Innovation

Arthur Denzau (Claremont Graduate University)
10:00 - 10:30
The Political Economics of Russian Federalism
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Moscow, and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis, and The Ronald Coase Institute)
John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
19:00
Dinner

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Institutional Analysis in Economics and Economic History
John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:00 - 10:30
What Does Political Economy Tell Us about Economic Development - and Vice Versa?
Philip Keefer (The World Bank)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Empirical Work in Agricultural Contracts
Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)
11:30 - 12:00
The Rules of the Game:
Regulation and Path Dependence

Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis, and The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:00 - 12:30
Doing Empirical Work in Transaction Cost Economics
Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE, Lima)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Communicating Institutional Findings
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Mara Batlin (The Ronald Coase Institute)
14:30 - 15:00
Participants revise their research, with consultation
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Participants revise their research, with consultation
19:00
Dinner

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Transaction Costs and the Common Pool
Gary Libecap (University of Arizona)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Presentations by participants
11:30 - 12:00
What Determines Whether Privatization of Banks Improves Their Performance?
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
The Effects of Land Titling
Sebastian Galiani (Universidad de San Andres, and Washington University in St. Louis)
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
19:00
Dinner

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Challenges for Empirical Research on Contracting
Michael Sykuta (University of Missouri)
11:30 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Causality and Institutions
Sebastian Galiani (Universidad de San Andres, and Washington University in St. Louis)
14:00 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Cognitive Constraints on Property Institutions
Benito Arrunada (Pompeu Fabra University)
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
19:00
Dinner

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
8:45 - 9:45
Operationalizing Transaction Cost Economics
Oliver Williamson (University of California at Berkeley)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Presentations by participants
11:30 - 12:00
Wrap-up discussion
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations and feedback from participants
12:00 - 12:30
Perspectives on Institutional Analysis
Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis, and The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch