WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
SEPTEMBER 25–30, 2004
TUCSON, ARIZONA, USA
18:00 - 19:00
Registration
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)
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)
13:30 - 15:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:30 - 17:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
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)
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)
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
15:30 - 17:30
Participants revise their research, with consultation
9:00 - 9:30
Transaction Costs and the Common Pool
Gary Libecap
(University of Arizona)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
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
13:30 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
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
9:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 11:30
Challenges for Empirical Research on Contracting
Michael Sykuta
(University of Missouri)
11:30 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
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
15:30 - 16:00
Cognitive Constraints on Property Institutions
Benito Arrunada
(Pompeu Fabra University)
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
8:45 - 9:45
Operationalizing Transaction Cost Economics
Oliver Williamson
(University of California at Berkeley)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
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)