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PhD Candidate
(Environmental Sciences), Peking University, Beijing
Lecturer, Land Resource Management, China Agricultural University
M.Agr. (Soil Science), China Agricultural University, 1999
BS (Land Use Planning), China Agricultural University, 1994
Research interests: land administration, land registration,
environmental management
Associate
Researcher for Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE),
Lima, Peru
Adjunct Professor of Econometrics, Thesis Advisory, Economic
History,
Development Economics
PhD (Economics), Washington University in St.
Louis, USA, 2007
Graduate Diploma in Institutional Analysis, Center for the New
Institutional Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005
AM (Economics), Washington University in St. Louis, USA 2002
BA (Economics and Social Sciences), Universidad Catolica, Lima,
Peru, 1997
Research interests: development economics, labor economics, impact
evaluation
Current research focus: measuring effects of formality on the
operation and expansion of medium-size firms in Peru, and on court decentralization and women’s well-being
Assistant
Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
Education: PhD (Applied Economics, Privatization), Osaka
University, 2006
Master in Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 1999
BA (Economics), University of
Santo Tomas, 1998
Research interests: public and development finance and remittances
and immigration
Consultant to World Bank, World Health Organization, USAID
Board member, Philippine Economic Society
Visiting
Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economics, IDE-JETRO, Japan
PhD Candidate, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
MBA, INSEAD,
Fountainebleau, France 1991
Economics Diploma, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 1998
M. Sc (Engineering major, Economics minor), Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1985
B.Sc. (Engineering major, Economics minor), Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 1985
Research interests:
education,
energy, development, economic integration, privatization, monetary
policy, the future of Latin America and the world; author of 10
books
Current research focus: follow an interdisciplinary approach in
order to compare the impact of institutions in the long-term
development of several Latin American and East Asian countries
Assistant
Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 2005-present
PhD (Economics), University of Arizona, 2005
MA (Economics), University of Houston, 2000
BE (Management Information Systems), Tsinghua University, 1997
Research interests: experimental economics, applied microeconomics,
industrial organization, labor economics, game theory
Current research focus: using lab experiments to answer
market-related questions
Doctoral
student, University of Cambridge, working in the area of law and
development from an institutional perspective
Currently, one-year research fellowship, Columbia University,
working with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz
BA (Law), Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2006
BA (Hons) (Economics), St. Stephens College, University of Delhi,
2004
Research interests: law and development, legal theory, women and the
law and international law
Currently working with the World Justice Project
Assistant
Professor, Singapore Management University,
2003-present
PhD (Economics), University of Pennsylvania, 2003
MA (Economics), Renmin University of China, 1995
BA, Renmin University of China 1992
Research interests:
how society invests in
people and institutions to pursue long-run economic growth;
including the endogenous formation of social trust and its dynamic
interactions with monitoring, the transition from relational to
formal contract enforcement, and the long-run co-evolution between
economic and political development
PhD student, CERDI (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le
Developpement International) at Auvergne University (France)
Research master degree (Development Economics) CERDI/
Auvergne University, 2006
Professional master degree (Public and Private Projects Analysis),
CERDI/Auvergne University, 2006
Research interests:
political economy of
development, international development funding, and the evolution of
institutions in developing countries
PhD student,
University of Hong Kong 2006- present
BSc (Surveying), Second Class Honors (Division II),
University of Hong Kong, Department of Real Estate and Construction
Research interests: institutional arrangements of racial segregation
Current research focus: history of planning law, planning
development, and zoning in law for Hong Kong
Candidate for
MA in economics, expected 2008
Education: China Center for Economic Research, Peking University,
2005- present
BA (Economics),
Business School, Zhenghou University, 2005
Research interests: institutional economics and development economics;
contract theory
relating to arrangement of transaction payment and the transition of
land use in China
Economist, The
World Bank, Washington D.C.
PhD (International Economics), MA (Politics), University of California, 2006
Master of
Science in Economics, London School of Economics, 2000
Bachelor of Business in Economics and Computer Science,
University of Southern Queensland, 1998
Research interests:
international
economics, development economics, political economy
Current research: political economy in international finance, for
example the influence of special interests politics on currency
crises; human capital and governance in growth, for example the
measurement of human capital with a broader index of health and
education, and the interaction of these with measures of
institutions and governance
Programme
Officer, United Nations International Labour Organization (UN-ILO)
Master in Public Administration, National University of Singapore, 2007
Bachelor of Economics, University of Indonesia, 1997
Research interests:
employment and
entrepreneurship as central objective of economic development;
issues related to government reform, particularly the implications
of decentralization for the delivery of public services
PhD student, Economics,
Ruhr Graduate School
European Master in Law & Economics, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, University of Hamburg, University of Bologna, 2007
Master of Arts, Economics, University of the Philippines
School of Economics, 2005
Bachelor of Science (Economics) (cum laude), University of the Philippines
School of
Economics, 2002
Research interests:
corporate governance, particularly how the prevailing
institutional infrastructure in a given country affects the
incentives of various sets of shareholders
PhD Candidate (Economics), National
University of Singapore
MSc (Development Economics), School of Oriental and
Africa Studies, University of London, UK, 2003
Postgraduate Diploma of Economics, University of
London, UK, 2001
BS (Computer Science),
Fudan University, China, 1998
Research interests:
health economics, Chinese economy, development
economics, in particular, historical institutional analysis
Current research project: the Chinese health system and health
reform in China
Associate
Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate
School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo
PhD (International Studies), University of Tokyo, 1998
MA (International Relations), University of Tokyo, 1995
Master in Public Policy, Harvard University, 1994
BA (Anthropology), University of Tokyo, 1992
Research interests:
political economy
of development, natural resources and foreign aid with a
geographical focus on Southeast Asia
Current research focus: to develop "resource policy" as a new
interdisciplinary field in Japan and to conduct joint research with
policy-makers related to environment in the mainland of Southeast
Asia
Assistant
Professor, The John E. Walker of Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, NC, USA
PhD (Economics), University of Chicago, 2006
MPhil (Economics), Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, 1997
BSc (Mathematics), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
1995
Research interests:
international political economy, public economics,
and industrial organization
PhD Candidate
(Economics), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
BA (Economics), Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, 2004
Research interests:
microeconomics, auctions, industrial organization, economic reform
and development of China
Current research focus: auction of the state-owned enterprises in
China
Lecturer,
School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong
Kong
Master of Development Planning (Distinction), the
University of Queensland, 2004
BSc (Hons) (Real Estate), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 1998
Research interests:
land-use planning
policy, urban management and governance, and new institutional
economic analysis in property industry
Current research focus: property taxation in transitional urban
China
PhD student,
ATOM (Le Centre d’Analyse Theorique des
Organisat)ions et des Marches), University of Paris I (Pantheon-
Sorbonne, Paris, France
Master, Economics in Industrial Organization,
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 2006
Bachelor, Economics in Finance, Northern Jiaotong
University, Beijing, China, 2003
Research interests:
knowledge transfer
within and across organizations
Current research focus: the role of social networks in the process
of internal knowledge transfer
Assistant
Professor, Xiamen University, China
PhD candidate (Economics), University of Pittsburgh
(expected 2007)
MA (Economics), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2000
BA (Economics), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1997
Research interests:
monetary theory,
development economics, China’s economy; current focus on the
empirical study of the impact of institutions on China’s economy
Masters Student
(Economics), China Center for Economic Research, Peking
University, China
BA (Economics), Fudan University, 2005
Research interests:
institutional
changes in China's gradual economic and political reform, including
topics such as increasing Chinese farmers' income, small- and
medium-scale state-owned enterprises' reform, corruption,
state-owned banks' performance, and effect of China's labor unions
on workers' welfare
Lecturer, Economics, Tribhuwan University, Nepal
Teaches environmental economics, micro economics and monetary
economics
PhD (Environmental Economics), Tribhuvan University
Research: natural resources, including water rights in Nepal,
integration of population concerning agriculture and forests, land
reform in Nepal
Recently senior advisor, National Planning Commission, preparing
interim plan concerning natural resources; SANDEE research fellow,
examining transaction costs in farmers' managed irrigated systems in
Nepal; participant in training programs of SANDEE, Ronald Coase
Institute, various universities, and the World Bank
Has published 12 academic articles and a book on environmental
economics
PhD candidate (Economics), University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Dissertation topic: Common Pool Resource with Free Mobility:
“Voting with Their Herds”
Education: MA (Economics), University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA;
BA (Political Economy), Rostov State University, Russia
Experience: Research and lecturing, Academy of Management,
Mongolia; research and teaching assistant, instructor, University
of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Research interests: Common pool resource, social dilemmas,
public good provision, mechanism design, development
economics, game theory and experimental economics
E-mail: dolgorsu@hawaii.edu
PhD candidate, American University,
Washington DC
MA (Financial Economics for Public Policy), American University,
Washington DC
Currently at the International Monetary Fund, Policy Development
and Review Department, Crisis Resolution Issues Division
Research interests: potential indicators of local and global crises
that can serve as warning signals to policy-makers, specifically,
the types of institutional developments that constitute a warning
for a crisis. Interests include institutional economics, monetary
economics, crisis management and volatility exercises, and
mathematical finance.
PhD candidate,
CERDI,
Université d’Auvergne, France
Dissertation topic: Institutions and Development: An
Application to
Developing Countries
MA (Development Economics), CERDI, Université
d’Auvergne
BA (Development Economics), CERDI, Université d’Auvergne
Research interests: Role of institutions on
sustainability of
economic growth, institutions and poverty reduction, factors of
institutional changes.
E-mail:
mijiyawaa@yahoo.fr
PhD candidate (Science, Technology,
and Innovation Policy
Research), Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil,
specializing in hold-ups in interfirm relationships in the
automotive and agribusiness areas
Education: MS (Business and Organization Management),
Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (UNIMEP), Brazil
Experience: 31 years in international trade, working for
multinational companies such as Daimler-Chrysler, General
Motors, and Ericsson, travelling through 75 countries in 5
continents. For past 3 years has worked as college professor of
marketing, logistics, and foreign trade in various business schools
in the area of Campinas, SP, Brazil
Research interests: Impact of institutional changes on technology
and innovation from 2000 onwards
E-mail:
kandra@uol.com.br
(as subject line, please
use: RCI Great Ideas)
PhD candidate (Political Science),
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, specializing in international relations
Education: MA (Law and Diplomacy), Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University; MS (Politics of the World Economy),
London School of Economics and Political Science
Experience: has taught at Emmanuel College in Boston,
University of
Massachusetts Lowell, and Estonian Business
School;
researcher, Harvard University; International Policy
Fellow, Center
for Policy Studies of the Open Society Institute
and Central
European University, Budapest; Research Associate,
Stockholm School of Economics, Riga
Research interests: political economy of technology diffusion,
international trade
website:
www.policy.hu/kitsing/
PhD Fellow, Center for Development
Research, University of Bonn,
Germany (www.zef.de), specializing in development policy and
research
Education: Diploma with honors (International Relations and
Political Science), Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University, Kyrgyzstan
Research interests: political parties and non-governmental
organizations in Russia and Central Asia
Publications: UNV Project Report: Reinforcement of Cultural Aspect
of Outreach Settlements Through University Volunteer Service
(UVS) in Nicaragua. UN Volunteers. Best practices in urban
volunteerism. http://www.caringcities.org.
Institutions of Civil Society: Cross-National Studies (Russia and
Kyrgyzstan),Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen, Germany, 2007.
Honors and awards: UN-HABITAT and the Municipality of Dubai
in 2004 designated Kustov's UNV Project “Caring Cities: Support
to Intra-City Volunteerism in Amran, Yemen” as a Best Practice:
an initiative which has made outstanding contributions to
improving the quality of life in cities and communities around the
world.
Lecturer in economics, Estonian Business School
Education: PhD (Economics) expected 2007, Tallinn Technical
University; MA student (Political Science) Central European
University, 2004-2005
Research interests: Political economy and political philosophy and
history; criticism of welfare economics: coordination problems
and
possible solutions in case of public goods, commons, and
other
"market failures"
Wider academic interest: Austrian economics
Expert, Political Economy Department,
The Open Economy Institute
Education: PhD candidate (Political economy) State University -
School of Economics; MA (Economics) State University - Higher
School of Economics; MA (Economics) Erasmus University
Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Economics; BS (Computer
science), Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University
Research interests: Demand for democratic institutions:
independence of mass media; cross-country analysis of election
turnouts; political business cycles; public choice
PhD candidate (Economics), University of Munich
Currently intern, Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD
Education: MA (Modern Turkish History), University of Bogazici,
Bosphorus; BA (Economics), University of Bogazici, Bosphorus
Experience: Country reader for the Center for Public
Integrity, editorial assistant for Economics and Human Biology,
teaching assistant for the course Economics of Corruption,
University of Passau and University of Göttingen
Research interests: New institutional economics and its applications
to the fields of development and transition economics
Languages: Fluent in Turkish (mother tongue), English, French,
German
E-mail:
utku.teksoz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Economics,
Northwestern
College, Iowa
Education: PhD (Economics) 2004, Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, dissertation: Economic Impacts of the Evolution of
Pyramidal and Decentralized Institutional Structures in Spain and
England; MS (Industrial Management) 1995, UCTM, Sofia,
Bulgaria; BA (Chemical Engineering) 1993, UCTM, Sofia, Bulgaria
Research interests: How institutional structures shape the rules of
the game for the entrepreneurial classes, and the impact on
economic development
E-mail:
atokarev@nwciowa.edu
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Education: MA (Economics) expected 2004, University of Rio de
Janeiro; BA (Economics) University of São Paulo
Prizes: Brazil National Treasury Award in Public Finance, first
place,
for "The Brazilian Budgetary Process in the Light of the New
Institutional Economics"
Research interests: Public finance, growth and economic
development, state-led industrialization and institutions for
economic development
Current research: Brazilian and Korean institutions for state-led
development, 1971-1985
Faculty of Economics, Business and
Accountancy, University of São
Paulo
Education: PhD (Business Administration) 1996, University of São
Paulo, Thesis: The Globalization of the Brazilian Financial Market;
MBA (Finance, Marketing) 1990, University of São Paulo,
Thesis: An Evaluation of Investments Funds Performance
Under the CAPM;
BA (Business Administration) 1984, University of São Paulo
Research interests: Pensions and insurance, growth and economic
development, capital markets
Current research: The role of pensions in development, pension
reforms and corporate governance in Brazilian companies
Institute of Finance and Economics, Mongolia
Education: PhD, Mongolian National University
MA (Economics), University of Colorado at Denver
Research interest: Privatization, private sector development,
enterprise restructuring, economic policy making, social and
institutional change, civilization aspects of entrepreneurship
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of
Debrecen, Hungary (www.econ.klte.hu)
Teaching: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International
Economics, Economics of Institutions
Research interests: theory of the firm, theory of the market,
economics of organization
Current research projects: (1) internal disintegration of the firm,
(2) an institutional understanding of the market
Secretary of the Hungarian Society for New Institutional Economics
E-mail:
j.kapas@delfin.unideb.hu
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, University of
Veszprém, Hungary
Fields of interests: behavioral finance, psychological aspects of
financial decisions, stock market bubbles (topic of PhD
dissertation)
website:
www.komaromi.net
Currently employed by Centre for Economic and Financial Research,
Moscow (www.cefir.ru)
Education:
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Moscow
(PhD expected 2004)
Central European University, Budapest (MA in Economics, 2000)
Novosibirsk State University, Russia (BSc in Economics, 1998)
Current projects: Adjusting Boundaries of Russian Firms, Corporate
Governance in Russia, Social Services and Infrastructure Provision
by Russian Firms
Research interests: Theory of the firm, enterprise restructuring,
corporate governance, labor economics, personnel economics
Teaching activities: Corporate Governance, lector; Labor Economics,
teaching assistant
PhD student in agricultural economics at the Center for Development
Research, Bonn University. Belongs to a research group on
alternative
institutions for natural resources in developing countries, funded
by the Robert Bosch Foundation.
His research focuses on decentralization reforms in Indonesia, principally
the outcomes of direct negotiations between logging companies and
forest-dependent communities and the underlying conditions. Of particular
interest is the role of rent-seeking and how this impacts collective
decision making.
Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
PhD in economic anthropology from Universiteit Nijmegen, the
Netherlands.
MA in economics and BS in agricultural
economics from the University of the Philippines.
Field of specialization is housing and urban development. Has done several
studies on demand and supply, finance, and urban land and real estate issues.
Currently working on housing and microfinance studies, and assisting
international aid agencies on urban shelter and community infrastructure
project and rental housing market studies.
E-mail:
mballesteros@mail.pids.gov.ph
Associate professor of accounting, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. PhD from the University of Sydney.
His general area of interest in teaching and research is Financial
Accounting. Has published in several journals and has written
books and monographs on accounting.
Research interests include
institutional influences on incomplete financial contracting and the
relevance of accounting information; globalization; determinants of Internet
financial reporting; accounting and economic reforms.
Assistant Professor,
Department of International Comparative
Studies, Warsaw School of Economics
Education: Warsaw School of Economics, PhD dissertation work
under supervision of
Professor Leszek Balcerowicz
(expected date of completion 2004)
Research projects: Corporate
governance from the perspective of
NIE, in cooperation with Professor Oliver
Williamson, University of
California at Berkeley, 2001-2002;
Corporate governance exercised by banks, University of
Muenster, Germany, 2003-2004
Research interests: corporate governance and finance, institutions
and
economic performance in transition economies
Assistant professor, University of North Florida
PhD in economics
Fields: economic institutions, development, political economy,
property rights, Latin America, law and economics
Current work: Political economy of property rights in Argentina.
Property
rights and institutions in agriculture development in
Argentina.
Biotechnology and property rights in agriculture in
Latin America: soybeans
in Argentina and Brazil. Law and
economics of Internet regulation, through
analysis of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
and privacy regulation.
Currently employed by IBMEC-MG and PUC-Minas, Brazil
Education: PhD, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul;
MA (Economics), University of São Paulo
Research interests: non-parametric analysis (data envelopment
analysis), new
institutional issues, public choice, Brazilian
economic history (particularly
the colonial age, due to transaction
costs and conflict issues), economics of
defense and economics
of conflict