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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

 

Sebastiαn 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

 

Sebastiαn 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 Arruρada (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

 
Program
|2001 Berkeley |2001 Rio |2002 St. Louis |2002 Cambridge |2003 Budapest|
|2003 Sγo Paulo |2004 Tucson |2005 Barcelona |2006 Boulder |2007 Reykjavik|
|2008 Singapore |2008 Philippines |2008 Beijing |2009 Bratislava |2009 Xiamen|
|2010 Moscow |2010 Shanghai |2011 Chicago|




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