WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
SEPTEMBER 22–27, 2002
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
(Hotel Lobby, Radisson Hotel Cambridge)
16:00 - 18:00
Registration for the Workshop
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:30
Defining and Studying Institutions
Paul Joskow
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:00 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Lee Benham
(Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute)
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
John Nye
(Washington University in St. Louis)
13:30 - 15:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
16:00 - 18:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
9:00 - 10:00
Session via conference call
Douglass North
(Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute)
10:30 - 11:00
Institutional Analysis and Social Change
Paul Zak
(Claremont Graduate School; California Institute of Technology)
11:00 - 11:45
Institutional Analysis and Social Change
John Nye
(Washington University in St. Louis)
11:45 - 12:30
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Claude Menard
(University of Paris 1, ATOM; The Ronald Coase Institute)
13:30 - 14:00
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Lynne Kiesling
(Reason Public Policy Institute; Northwestern University)
14:00 - 15:00
Communicating Institutional Findings
Alexandra Benham and Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
14:30 - 15:30
Participants work on revising their research presentations, with consultation available
16:00 - 19:00
Participants work on revising their research presentations, with consultation available
Evening
Participants have dinner on their own
9:00 - 10:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
11:00 - 11:30
Theoretical Foundations of Institutional Analysis
Rudolf Richter
(University of Saarland)
11:30 - 12:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
13:30 - 14:00
Institutional Analysis and Development Assistance
Gun Eriksson Skoog
(Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
14:00 - 15:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
16:00 - 16:30
Analyzing Governmental Institutions
Real-world examples of how political economy research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Philip Keefer
(The World Bank)
16:30 - 17:00
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
8:00 - 16:00, then afternoon tour, dinner, and evening out
9:00 - 10:00
Putting Institutional Analysis into Practice: Tradable Emissions
Richard Sandor
(Environmental Financial Products and Chicago Climate Exchange)
10:00 - 11:00
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
11:30 - 12:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
13:30 - 14:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
14:30 - 15:00
Analyzing Governmental Institutions II
Gary Libecap
(University of Arizona)
15:00 - 16:00
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
16:00
Tour, dinner, and evening in Boston area
(made possible by the generous support of Dr. Kenneth Gartrell)
7:00 - 7:45
Breakfast
(note earlier time)
8:00 - 9:00
The Lens of Contract and Economic Organization
Oliver Williamson
(University of California at Berkeley)
9:00 - 10:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
11:00 - 12:00
Concluding Discussion
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, summary of major insights from lectures