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Curriculum Vitae of Alexandra Benham
 



RECENT WORK

2000 – present           A founder and the Secretary of the Ronald Coase Institute
 

2001 - present            Faculty member and organizer, sixteen workshops on
institutional analysis conducted by the Ronald Coase Institute,
training 340 scholars from 61 countries
2001  Berkeley, California, USA and Rio, Brazil
2002  St. Louis, Missouri, USA and
         Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2003  Budapest, Hungary and São Paulo, Brazil
2004  Tucson, Arizona, USA
2005  Barcelona, Spain
2006  Boulder, Colorado, USA
2007  Reykjavik, Iceland
2008  Singapore and Los Baños, Philippines and Beijing, China  2009  Bratislava, Slovakia and Xiamen, China
2010  Moscow, Russia
 

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 and University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 
 

December 2006          Organizer, 2006 Conference on Institutional Research,
Ronald Coase Institute and the 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, 2004 Conference on
Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase Institute and the 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, 2003 Conference on
Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase Institute and the 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
"The Costs of Exchange," forthcoming, in Peter G. Klein and Michael E. Sykuta, editors, The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (with Lee Benham).

"Institutional Economics: A Crucial Tool for Understanding Economic Development," 2009, in Ekonomický časopis, 57 (6), 603-607 (with Lee Benham, Urban Kováč, John Nye, Maroš Servátka, and Mary M. Shirley).

"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, MEETINGS

July 2010, 2010 Chicago Workshop on the Industrial Structure of Production, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

May 2010, Addressing Institutional Issues, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.  Presenter.

January 2010, Addressing Institutional Issues, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.  Presenter.

December 2009, Markets, Firms and Property Rights: A Celebration of the Research of Ronald H. Coase, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

July 2009, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Berkeley, California, USA.

May 2009, Roundtable:  The Development of New Institutional Economics Agenda in Russia, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.  Co-chair and presenter.

May 2009, Bratislava Open Lecture Series, Institutional Economics:  A Crucial Tool for  Understanding Economic Development, Bratislava, Slovakia. Presenter.

December 2008, Ronald Coase Institute and Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Conference on Property Rights and Economic Reform, Hong Kong, China.

July 2008, Coase Foundation and University of Chicago: China's Economic Transformation, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

June 2008, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Toronto, Canada.
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society
(with Lee Benham).

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 presenter 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.  Presenter 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, Illinois, USA.  Presenter 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, Massachusetts, USA.

September 2001, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Berkeley, California, USA.

July 2001, Western Economic Association, San Francisco, California, USA.  Presenter 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, St. Petersburg, Russia.  Presenter, "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.  Presenter with Lee Benham, "Measuring the Costs of Exchange."

September 1997, International Society for New Institutional Economics, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Co-organizer of the inaugural conference of the Society.


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

August 2010
 




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