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
17:00 - 18:00
Registration
18:00
Depart for opening dinner
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
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
11:00 - 11:45
Institutions, Interests, and Regulation
Krishna Ladha
11:45 - 12:30
Governing the Internet
Eric Brousseau
14:00 - 15:30
Participants give 5-minute presentations about their research projects
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Computer Lab/Library
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
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
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
14:00 - 15:00
Interview with Ronald Coase (videotaped)
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
9:00 - 10:30
Keynote Address: Our Knowledge and Perception of Institutional Development
Douglass North
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
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorials/Library
16:00 - 18:00
Missouri Botanical Garden tour
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
9:00 - 9:45
Useful and Not Useful Approaches to NIE
John Nye
9:45 - 10:30
Roundtable on Methodology
Workshop Faculty and Participants
11:00 - 11:45
Law and Economics
John Drobak
11:45 - 12:30
Property Rights in DNA
F. Scott Kieff
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
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
18:00
Formal Reception and Dinner
Whittemore House
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
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)
11:00 - 12:30
Roundtable: Teaching Strategies for Institutional Analysis
Workshop Faculty and Participants
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorials/Library
16:00 - 18:00
Tutorials/Library
16:00 - 18:00
Evening Dinner on your own
8:00 - 14:00, dinner and opera in evening
(Eliot 300, Washington University)
9:00 - 10:30
Presentations by the Participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by the Participants
17:30
Depart for dinner and opera