WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DECEMBER 13–18, 2008
BEIJING, CHINA
17:30 - 19:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:00
Why Do Some Autocracies Attract Investment?
Philip Keefer
(The World Bank)
10:00 - 10:30
Unintended Consequences of Monitoring Regimes
Alberto Simpser
(University of Chicago)
11:00 - 11:30
Implications of the Chinese Experience to the Rest of the World
Yang Yao
(Peking University)
11:30 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham
(Washington University in St. Louis, and the Ronald Coase Institute)
14:00 - 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
Clio and the NIE: The Rise of the New Institutional Narrative
John Nye
(George Mason University)
10:00 - 10:30
On the Design of Field Experiments to Study Interesting Questions in Institutional Economics
Sebastian Galiani
(Washington University in St. Louis)
11:00 - 11:30
Strategic Communication
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
11:30 - 12:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
14:00 - 15:15
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
15:30 - 16:30
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Douglass North
(Washington University in St. Louis and the Ronald Coase Institute)
16:45 - 18:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
9:00 - 9:30
Question & Answer Session
Douglass North
(Washington University in St. Louis and the Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 11:30
Conducting Research: Personal Experiences and Challenges
Colin Xu
(The World Bank)
11:30 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
14:00 - 14:30
Microeconometrics for Causal Effects
Sebastian Galiani
(Washington University in St. Louis)
14:30 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
16:00 - 18:00
Presentations by participants
9:00 - 10:00
Aid and Institutions
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
14:00 - 14:30
Extended Order Illustrated in Social Simulation
Dingding Wang
(Peking University)
14:30 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
16:00 - 18:00
Presentations by participants
9:00 - 9:30
The Demarcation of Property and Its Impact
Gary Libecap
(University of California - Santa Barbara)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 11:30
What Do Revolving Door Laws Do? Evidence from Public Utility Commissions
Marc Law
(University of Vermont)
11:30 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
14:00 - 15:30
Wrap-up discussion
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants
16:00
Depart for special event and dinner