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2008 Beijing Workshop: Program



WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DECEMBER 13-18, 2008
BEIJING, CHINA


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
 

17:30 – 19:00

Registration

 

 

19:00

Depart for dinner

 

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14
 

8:00 – 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 9:30

Introduction and Welcome

 

Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

9:30 – 10:00

Why Do Some Autocracies Attract Investment?

 

Philip Keefer (The World Bank)

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Unintended Consequences of Monitoring Regimes

 

Alberto Simpser (University of Chicago)

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 – 11:30

Implications of the Chinese Experience to the Rest of the World

 

Yang Yao (Peking University)

 

 

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

 

 

18:30

Depart for dinner


MONDAY, DECEMBER 15

 

8:00 – 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 10:00

Clio and the NIE:  The Rise of the New Institutional Narrative

 

John Nye (George Mason University)

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

On the Design of Field Experiments to Study Interesting Questions in Institutional Economics

 

Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 - 11:30 Strategic Communication
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

11:30 - 12:00

Participants revise their research,
with individual consultations

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:15

Participants revise their research,

 

with individual consultations

 

 

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee

 

 

 15:30 – 16:30

Violence and Social Orders:  A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

 

Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis and the Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

16:45 – 18:00

Participants revise their research,
with individual consultations

 

 

18:30

Depart for dinner

 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16
 

8:00 – 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 - 9:30

Question & Answer Session

 

Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis and the Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

9:30 – 10:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 - 11:30

Conducting Research:
Personal Experiences and Challenges

 

Colin Xu (The World Bank)

 

 

11:30 - 12:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 14:30

Microeconometrics for Causal Effects

 

Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

 

14:30 – 15:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00 – 18:00

Presentations by participants

 

 

18:30

Depart for dinner

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17
 

8:00 – 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 –10:00

Aid and Institutions

 

Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

10:00 – 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

Extended Order Illustrated in Social Simulation

 

Dingding Wang (Peking University)

 

 

14:30 – 15:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00 – 18:00

Presentations by participants

 

 

18:30

Depart for dinner

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18

8:00 – 8:30

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 9:30

The Demarcation of Property and Its Impact

 

Gary Libecap (University of California - Santa Barbara)

 

 

9:30 – 10:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 – 11:30

What Do Revolving Door Laws Do? 
Evidence from Public Utility Commissions

 

Marc Law (University of Vermont)

 

 

11:30 – 12:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:30

Wrap-up discussion

 

Overview by faculty of participants' presentations,
and feedback from participants

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00

Depart for special event and dinner

 

 
Program
|2001 Berkeley |2001 Rio |2002 St. Louis |2002 Cambridge |2003 Budapest|
|2003 São 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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