2007 Reykjavik Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
JUNE 16–21, 2007
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND


SATURDAY, JUNE 16
17:30 - 19:00
Registration
19:00
Depart for dinner

SUNDAY, JUNE 17
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:00
Testing the Economics of Institutions in Iceland
Thrainn Eggertsson (University of Iceland and New York University)
10:00 - 11:00
Causality and Institutions
Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis, and The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
19:00
Depart for dinner

MONDAY, JUNE 18
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
History, Growth, and the New Institutional Narrative
John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis and George Mason University)
10:00 - 10:30
Political Economy and Policy Failure in Poor Countries
Philip Keefer (The World Bank)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Analyzing Institutions Using Experiments
Maroš Servátka (University of Canterbury)
12:00 - 12:30
Long-Term Capital Management Revisited: The Role of Institutional Economics in Risk Management
Henry Mohrman (Mohrmanlaw LC)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Communicating Institutional Findings
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
14:30 - 15:30
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
19:00
Depart for dinner

TUESDAY, JUNE 19
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
State Bureaucracy and Russian Privatization Effectiveness: An Exercise in Institutional Analysis
Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
A New World Record: Four Asset Price Bubbles in Twenty Years
Robert Aliber (University of Chicago)
14:30 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:30
Presentations by participants
19:00
Depart for dinner

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Institutions and Political Economy of Russia
Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Russia)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 17:00
Institutions in the Natural State
Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis, and the Ronald Coase Institute)
17:00 - 18:30
Presentations by participants
19:00
Depart for special dinner

THURSDAY, JUNE 21
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Transaction Costs and Coasean Solutions to Environmental and Resource Problems
Gary Libecap (University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Transaction Cost Economics: An Introduction
Oliver Williamson (University of California-Berkeley)
12:00 - 13:00
Wrap-up discussion
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch