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RECENT WORK
2000 – present
A founder and the Secretary of the Ronald Coase Institute
2001 - present
Faculty member and organizer, fourteen workshops on
institutional
analysis conducted by the Ronald Coase Institute,
training 289 scholars from 56 countries
2001: Berkeley, California, USA & Rio, Brazil
2002: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
&
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2003: Budapest, Hungary & São Paulo, Brazil
2004: Tucson, Arizona, USA
2005: Barcelona, Spain
2006: Boulder, Colorado, USA
2007: Reykjavik, Iceland
2008: Singapore & Los Baños, Philippines & Beijing, China
2009: Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 – present
Designer and maintainer of
the Ronald Coase Institute Web site
December 2008 Organizer, Applied
Econometrics Seminar for the Analysis
of
Micro Data, Ronald Coase Institute & University of
Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, China
December 2006 Organizer,
2006 Conference on Institutional Research,
Ronald Coase Institute & Stigler Center, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 2005 Organizer and presenter, St. Louis Initiative Planning Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
“Reducing Administrative Burdens on Small Businesses:
Terms of Reference for Research” (with Lee Benham
and Jessica Soto)
December 2004
Faculty member and organizer, Conference on Transaction Costs,
Ronald Coase Institute & Stigler Center,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1997 – 2004
Editor,
Newsletter of the International Society for New
Institutional Economics
February 2003 Faculty
member and organizer, Conference on Transaction Costs,
Ronald Coase Institute & Stigler Center,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
July-August 2002 Lecturer, summer school
“New Institutional Economics for Countries in Transition: Theoretical Debates and Policy Implications,” St. Petersburg, Russia
July-August 2001 Lecturer, summer school
"Understanding Markets
and Hierarchies in East and Central European
Countries:
New Institutional Economics Approach," St. Petersburg, Russia
September 1997 Co-organizer
(with Lee Benham) of the inaugural conference
of the International Society for New
Institutional Economics,
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Measuring the Costs of Exchange" 2000, in Claude Ménard, editor,
Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New
Institutional Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp.
367-375 (with Lee Benham).
"Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know
," 1997, in Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee
Walker, eds, Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies,
Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 35-60 (with Lee
Benham).
Institutional
Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Altering Paths with
Incentives and Information,
1995, St. Louis: International Center for Economic Growth (with
Lee Benham and Michael Merithew).
"Early Home Environment and Retrospective Recall: A Test for
Concordance Between Siblings With and Without Psychiatric
Disorders," 1985, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 55 (1),
27-41 (with Lee N. Robins et al.)
"Employment, Earnings and
Psychiatric Diagnosis," 1982, in Economic Aspects of Health,
National Bureau of Economic Research, edited by Victor Fuchs,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (with Lee Benham).
"The Informer’s Tale," 1980, in
Regulating the Professions: A Public Policy Symposium, edited by
Roger Blair and Stephen Rubin, D.C. Heath and Company (with Lee
Benham).
"Prospects for Increasing
Competition in the Professions," 1978, in The Profession and the
Public, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (with Lee Benham).
"Regulating Through the Professions: A Perspective on Information
Control," 1975, Journal of Law and Economics 18, October:
421-47 (with Lee Benham).
"The Impact of Incremental Medical Services on Health Status,
1963-1970," 1975, in Equity in Health Services: Empirical
Analysis in Social Policy, Ronald Andersen, Joanna Kravits, and
Odin W. Anderson, eds, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company,
217-228 (with Lee Benham).
"Utilization of Physician Services
Across Income Groups, 1963-1970," 1975, in Equity in Health
Services, Ronald Andersen,
Joanna Kravits, and Odin W. Anderson, eds, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger
Publishing Company, 217-228 (with Lee Benham).
"Nuclear Weapons and Alliance Cohesion," 1969, in Theory and
Research on the Causes of War, Dean G. Pruitt and Richard C.
Snyder, eds, Prentice-Hall, 165-175 (with Richard A. Brody).
"Hostile International Communication, Arms Production, and
Perception of Threat: A Simulation Study," Peace Research Society
Papers, VII, Chicago Conference, 1967, 15-40 (with Richard A.
Brody and Jeffrey S. Milstein).
“Inter-Nation Conflict, Dyadic and Mediated: Case
Studies of Egypt, Israel, and the United Nations at Five Points in
Time (Phase Two: October 28-November 25, 1956),” 1966, Defense
Technical Information Center Interim Technical Report No. 2, 1 Oct
65 - 30 Sep 66, Stanford University Studies in International
Conflict and Integration (with Ole R. Holsti, Richard A. Brody,
Terry P. Hopmann, and Joseph B. Kadane).
"Dirge from a Funeral Watch," 1960, in Dennis Hartman, ed, Voice of
Young America, Los Angeles: National Poetry Association.
"Thus Shall the Heart Endure," 1958, Siwasher.
"Willows," 1954, Carmel Pine Cone, Carmel, CA: October 29.
WORKING PAPERS
"Questionnaire on Costs of Exchange: Registering a New Business Officially
," September 2003 (with Lee Benham, Brian Gunia, Miguel
Jaramillo, Mary Shirley, and Decio Zylbersztajn).
"The Costs of Exchange," July 2001 (with Lee Benham).
FIELDS OF INTEREST
New Institutional Economics, writing, editing.
RECENT CONFERENCES
December 2008, Ronald Coase Institute and Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Conference on Property Rights and Economic Reform.
July 2008, Coase Foundation and University of Chicago: China's Economic Transformation.
June 2008, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Toronto, Canada.
Recipient (with Lee Benham) of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society.
June 2007, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland.
November 2006, St. Louis Initiative Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
September 2006, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
September 2005, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Barcelona, Spain.
September 2004, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Panel co-organizer and presentation
with Lee Benham, "Measuring Some Dimensions of Transaction Costs: The Costs of Exchange."
December 2003, Center for International Private Enterprise and
Ronald Coase Institute: Promoting Institutional Reforms in Latin
America; São Paulo, Brazil. Presentation with Lee Benham, "Using Costs of Exchange as a Tool to Investigate Economic Performance."
September 2003, International Society
for New Institutional Economics, Budapest, Hungary.
February 2003, Ronald Coase Institute and University of Chicago:
Conference on Transaction Costs, Chicago, IL. Presentation with Lee Benham, "On
Measuring Transaction Costs."
October 2002, Hungarian Society for
New Institutional Economists, Debrecen, Hungary.
September 2002, International Society
for New Institutional Economics, Cambridge, USA.
September 2001, International Society
for New Institutional Economics, Berkeley, USA.
July 2001, Western Economic
Association, San Francisco, CA. Paper with Lee Benham, "The Costs
of Exchange."
December 2000, Global Development
Network, Tokyo, Japan. Designed the
Knowledge Fair booth for the Ronald
Coase Institute.
November 2000, World Movement for
Democracy, São Paulo, Brazil. Panelist, "Confronting the
corrosive effects of narcotics trafficking and organized crime on
democratic development."
September 2000, International Society for New Institutional Economics,
Tübingen, Germany.
May 2000, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Spoke on the
organizations concerned with New Institutional Economics.
December 1999, Global Development Network, Bonn, Germany.
September 1999, International Society for New Institutional Economics,
Washington DC, USA.
September 1998, International Society for New Institutional Economics,
Paris, France. Paper with Lee Benham, "Measuring the Costs of
Exchange."
September 1997, International Society for New Institutional Economics,
St. Louis, MO, USA. Co-organizer of inaugural conference.
EDUCATION
B.A. Mathematics, Knox College, 1961. Summa cum laude.
M.S. Mathematics, Stanford University, 1963.
Doctoral program, political science, Stanford University, 1964-68.
All requirements completed except dissertation.
AWARDS
National Merit Scholar
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholar
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
National Science Foundation Fellow
International Society for New Institutional Economics - Lifetime
Achievement Award
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship: USA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ronald Coase Institute
International Society for New Institutional Economics
TO CONTACT
abenham@coase.org
July 2009
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