2002 St. Louis Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
MAY 19–25, 2002
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA
Sponsored jointly by the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis


SUNDAY, MAY 19
17:00 - 18:00
(Lobby, Cheshire Inn)
17:00 - 18:00
Registration
18:00
Depart for opening dinner

MONDAY, MAY 20
8:00 - 18:00
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome
Lee Benham
9:10 - 10:00
Keynote Address: The Policy-Making Process in the U.S.
Murray Weidenbaum
10:00 - 10:30
Institutional Analysis of Property Rights
Itai Sened
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:45
Institutions, Interests, and Regulation
Krishna Ladha
11:45 - 12:30
Governing the Internet
Eric Brousseau
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Participants give 5-minute presentations about their research projects
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Computer Lab/Library
18:30
Dinner

TUESDAY, MAY 21
8:00 - 18:00
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15
On Abstracts and Presentations
Alexandra Benham
9:15 - 9:45
The Limits of Market Prices
Lee Benham and Alexandra Benham
9:45 - 10:30
Using Actual Contracts in Research
Michael Sykuta
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:45
Strategy and Organizational Choice in the Japanese International Courier and Small Package Industry
Jackson Nickerson
11:45 - 12:30
Producing Public Goods in Nepal
Gautam Yadama
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Interview with Ronald Coase (videotaped)
15:00 - 15:30
Tutorials
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
18:30
Dinner

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
8:00 - 18:00
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30
Keynote Address: Our Knowledge and Perception of Institutional Development
Douglass North
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:45
Sources of Failure in Financing in Pre-Revolutionary France
Noel Johnson
Political Economy of Food and Drug Regulation
Marc Law
11:45 - 12:30
On American Institutional Evolution
Norman Schofield
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorials/Library
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Missouri Botanical Garden tour
18:30
Dinner

THURSDAY, MAY 23
8:00 - 18:00
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45
Useful and Not Useful Approaches to NIE
John Nye
9:45 - 10:30
Roundtable on Methodology
Workshop Faculty and Participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:45
Law and Economics
John Drobak
11:45 - 12:30
Property Rights in DNA
F. Scott Kieff
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
What Does China Trade and Why?
Andrew Hertha
14:45 - 15:30
Institutions of International Finances and Their Consequences
Andrew Sobel
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
18:00
Formal Reception and Dinner
Whittemore House

FRIDAY, MAY 24
8:00 - 18:00
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Roundtable: Research Strategies for Institutional Analysis
Workshop Faculty and Participants
10:00 - 10:30
Question and Answer Session with Ronald Coase (via telephone)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Roundtable: Teaching Strategies for Institutional Analysis
Workshop Faculty and Participants
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorials/Library
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
16:00 - 18:00
Evening Dinner on your own

SATURDAY, MAY 25
8:00 - 14:00, dinner and opera in evening
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30
Presentations by the Participants
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by the Participants
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:30
Free time
17:30
Depart for dinner and opera

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