2012 Santiago Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DECEMBER 9–15, 2012
SANTIAGO, CHILE


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
17:00 - 18:00
Registration
18:00
Dinner

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 9:30
Opening Remarks
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Andres Zahler (Diego Portales University)
9:30 - 10:00
Introduction to the Workshop
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
10:00 - 10:30
From Spectrum Crisis to Research Crisis
Scott Wallsten (Technology Policy Institute)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
A Brief History of New Institutional Analysis
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
11:30 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
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
18:00
Dinner

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:00
Growth, History, and the New Institutional Economics
John Nye (George Mason University)
10:00 - 10:30
Using the Coasian Lens of Transaction Costs as a Research Agenda
P.J. Hill (Wheaton College)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
On the Origin of Formal Institutions
Jorge Fabrega (Adolfo Ibáñez University)
11:30 - 12:00
What Makes a Compelling Case?
Ning Wang (Arizona State University)
12:00 - 12:30
Communicating Strategically
Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations with faculty
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations with faculty
18:00
Dinner

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:00
Developing a Research Design for Examining Groundwater Use and Trade in Chile
Gary Libecap (University of California - Santa Barbara)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
18:00
Dinner

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 9:30
Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment
Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
18:00
Dinner

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Looking for Causal Institutional Effects on Development
Francisco Gallego (Catholic University of Chile)
11:30 - 12:00
Assessments
12:00 - 12:30
Wrap-up discussion and ceremony
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Meeting with Jose Pablo Arellano
14:30 - 18:30
Special event
20:00
Depart for dinner