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ALUMNI NEWS - March 2010
Following workshops held in Bratislava, Slovakia in May 2009 and
Xiamen, China in December 2009, our alumni now total 315 scholars from
59 countries. Several alumni served as workshop faculty in
2009: Sebastian Galiani (Rio 2001, St. Louis 2002), Georgy
Ganev (Berkeley 2001), Bruce Rayton (Berkeley 2001),
Maros Servatka (Barcelona 2005), and Maria Yudkevich
(Beijing 2008).
At the University of Chicago Law School conference in December 2009
to celebrate the life and research of Ronald Coase, papers were
presented by Sebastian Galiani (Rio 2001, St. Louis 2002),
Zhimin Liao and Xiaofang Chen (Beijing 2008), and Lennon Choy (Barcelona 2005).
Yuting Fan (Beijing 2008) has begun doctoral studies in
economics at the
University of Virginia.
Zhimin Liao (Beijing 2008) is a visiting scholar at Harvard
University Law School for 2009-2010.
Visitors to Washington University in St. Louis during 2009 included Zhe He
(Philippines 2008) and Lennon Choy (Barcelona 2005); in 2010
they will include Jing Li (Beijing 2008) and Queena Qian
(Xiamen 2009).
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ALUMNI NEWS - January 2009
Alumni of the Coase Institute workshops now total 264.
Seventeen alumni have served subsequently on the faculty.
During 2008 these included: Eduardo Araral (Tucson 2004) and Alberto Simpser
(Barcelona 2005) for the Singapore workshop; Bruce Rayton
(Berkeley 2001) and Yang Yao (Rio 2001) for the Philippines
workshop; and Sebastian Galiani (Rio 2001, St. Louis 2002),
Alberto Simpser, and Yang Yao for the Beijing workshop.
Edsel L. Beja Jr. (Philippines 2008) will be the guest editor of Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
for an issue on the political economy of cross-border flows of goods, capital, labor and ideas
(submission deadline June 30, 2009).
The Beijing workshop's alumni dinner took place in December 2008 in the beautiful Summer Palace.
Weidong Zhang (Berkeley 2001) gallantly traveled 20 hours by train to attend. Other alumni present included Dong Ai
(Singapore 2008), Ninghua Du (Singapore 2008), who journeyed from Shanghai, Linghui Han (Philippines 2008), and Yi Yang (Singapore 2008),
in from Paris. Below, Dong Ai and Weidong Zhang join workshop faculty in the private dining room of
the Dowager Empress Cixi. Renewing contact with alumni is always a great pleasure.
Sebastián Galiani (Rio 2001, St. Louis 2002) taught an
applied econometrics seminar for the analysis of micro data, held
at the University of Hong Kong in December 2008. Intense demand
for the seminar led to a doubling of the original class size.
Alumni who attended the seminar included Desiree Desierto
(Philippines 2008), Rita Li (Philippines 2008), Alfredo
Paloyo (Singapore 2008), Andrew Pua (Philippines 2008),
Jiwei Qian (Singapore 2008), and Siu-wai Wong
(Singapore 2008).
Maroš Servátka (Barcelona 2005), senior lecturer in
economics and finance at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, is
one of the organizers of the
next Coase Institute workshop on institutional analysis, at the
University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia in May 2009.
Martin Dimitrov (Cambridge 2002, Budapest 2003) is on
sabbatical from Dartmouth College at Cambridge University, writing
a book on the collapse of communist regimes in Europe and their
resilience in Asia. His first book "Piracy and the State: The
Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China" will be
published in August 2009 by Cambridge University Press.
Fernando Zanella (Berkeley 2001) is currently assistant
professor of economics at the United Arab Emirates University.
Natalia Boliari (Reykjavik 2007) successfully defended her
dissertation concerning Bulgarian land tenure institutions, at
Carleton University, Canada, November 2008.
Wanjun Jiang (Berkeley 2001) is currently associate professor
of finance and executive vice-director, MBA programs, Guanghua
School of Management, Peking University.
Lennon Choy (Barcelona 2005) won the
ISNIE 2008 Award for the Best
Dissertation in Institutional Analysis and the Li Ka Shing
Prize for best dissertation at the University of Hong Kong. With
Ronald Coase and Ning Wang (Berkeley 2001, St. Louis 2002) he
helped organize the 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Economic
Transformation. He co-organized a conference on property rights
and economic reform in December 2008 in Hong Kong. He will spend
spring semester 2009 on a Fulbright fellowship at Washington
University in St. Louis.
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ALUMNI NEWS - February 2008
The Global Development Network has
just awarded the 2007 Award for Outstanding Research on
Development to Raul Andrade (Singapore 2008). The prize provides $30,000 USD to
support the winning research. Andrade’s project, which he
earlier presented and revised at the Coase Institute's Singapore workshop, investigates
whether increasing access to justice has positive effects on
women’s well-being. Over 700 researchers
competed for the research prize. Andrade is currently an associate
researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development
in Peru.
Eduardo Araral (Tucson 2004) served as an
organizer and a core faculty member for the 2008 workshop in
Singapore. Alberto Simpser (Barcelona 2005) also served as
a core faculty member there. Simpser is currently on the faculty
of the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
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ALUMNI NEWS - October 2007
Two alumni will be visitors at the University of Chicago next
year. Lennon
Choy (Barcelona 2005) will visit the School of Law for
several months and will work with Ronald Coase. Maroš Servátka
(Barcelona 2005) will spend winter quarter 2008 at the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy
and the State, Graduate School of Business, by arrangement between the
GSB and the Coase Institute.
Eduardo Araral (Tucson 2004) has joined the faculty of the
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of
Singapore. He is one of the organizers of the
Coase Institute workshop in Singapore in January 2008.
Decio Zylbersztajn (Berkeley 2001, St. Louis 2002)
recently organized the II Research Workshop on Institutions and Organizations,
held at the University of São Paulo. About 80 participants attended.
Funding was obtained from the Brazilian scientific academic organizations CAPES and FAPESP.
Mario Gamboa-Cavazos (Barcelona 2005) won the gold medal,
2007 III Prize in International Insolvency Studies, for a paper
with Frank Schneider, "Bankruptcy as a Legal Process."
His paper "The Organization of Corruption: Political Horizons
and Special Interests," co-authored with
Vidal Garza-Cantu and Emiliano Salinas, won first prize in the 2006 Research
Competition on Corruption (SFP-UNAM).
Esther Mwangi (Barcelona 2005) will spend the next two
years developing a research program at Harvard University, at the Center for International Development, Kennedy
School of Government.
The Journal of International Business Studies will publish a
workshop project of Ryan Orr (Barcelona 2005),
"Institutional Exceptions on Global Projects: A Process Model,"
with W. Richard Scott.
At the 2007 workshop in Reykjavik, alumni who served as faculty were
Sebastián Galiani (Rio 2001, St. Louis 2002),
Maroš Servátka (Barcelona 2005), and
Konstantin Sonin (Cambridge 2002).
Several alumni attended the gala dinner at the Reykjavik workshop,
including Brazilians Sandro Cabral (2003 São Paulo, 2004 Tucson), Carlos Figueirêdo
(Barcelona 2005), Antonio Nogueira (2001 Rio), Jose María da
Silveira (2001 Rio),
and Decio Zylbersztajn (2001 Berkeley, 2002 St. Louis).
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