2016 Tallinn Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
MAY 15-21, 2016
TALLINN, ESTONIA


SUNDAY, MAY 15
17:00 - 18:00
Registration
18:00
Dinner

MONDAY, MAY 16
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome and Introduction
Mary Shirley and Arno Almann
9:30 - 10:00
Institutional Path Dependence
Gary Libecap
10:00 - 10:30
Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms
Scott Gehlbach
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Why Was Douglass North So Important to New Institutional Analysis?
Mary Shirley
11:30 - 12:00
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham
12:00 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Lee Benham
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, MAY 17
09:00 - 10:00
Causal Analysis in Social Sciences
Sebastian Galiani
10:00 - 10:30
Peers, Ties, and Academic Outcomes
Maria Yudkevich
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Strategies for Communication
Alexandra Benham
11:30 - 12:00
Research Opportunities in Government Design
Paulo Furquim de Azevedo
12:00 - 12:30
Recognizing and Solving Institutional Puzzles
Douglas Allen
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, MAY 18
09:00 - 09:30
Dimensionalizing Institutions: The Key Role of Meso-Institutions
Claude Menard
09:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Economic Performance and Institutional Change in Estonia
Meelis Kitsing
14:00 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
The Lighthouse: Analytic Historic Narrative on the Provision of Public Goods
Kaire Poder
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
18:00
Dinner

THURSDAY, MAY 19
09:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Presentations by participants
14:00 - 15:00
A Lego Approach to International Monetary Reform
Robert Aliber
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
18:00
Dinner - alumni invited

FRIDAY, MAY 20
09:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Presentations by participants
12:00 - 12:30
Assessments
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Wrap-up discussion and ceremony
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants
14:30 - 18:00
Special event
18:00
Gala dinner