WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
MAY 20–26, 2012
BEIJING, CHINA
17:00 - 18:00
Registration
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
Yingyi Qian
(Tsinghua University)
9:30 - 10:00
Do Informed Citizens Receive More, or Pay Less? The Impact of Radio on the Government Distribution of Public Health Benefits
Philip Keefer
(The World Bank)
10:00 - 10:30
A Brief History of New Institutional Analysis
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
11:00 - 11:30
Measuring the Effects of Culture and Institutions on Economic Development: Evidence from Historical China
James Kai-sing Kung
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:30 - 12:30
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
13:30 - 15:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:30 - 17:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:00
Applied Research in Economics
Sebastian Galiani
(Washington University in St. Louis)
10:00 - 10:30
Evaluating the Role of Foreign Direct Investment in China: Technological Effects or Institutional Impact?
Cheryl Xiaoning Long
(Colgate University and Xiamen University)
11:00 - 11:30
Writing of a Paper as a Communication Process
Yang Yao
(Peking University)
11:30 - 12:00
How to Do Empirical Work on Regulation
Marc Law
(University of Vermont)
12:00 - 12:30
School Quality and Educational Performance in Rural China
Xinzheng Shi
(Tsinghua University)
13:30 - 14:00
Communicating Strategically
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
14:00 - 15:00
Participants revise their research, with consultations
15:30 - 17:30
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:00
Hot Topics in Institutional Economics
Peter Murrell
(University of Maryland)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
13:30 - 14:00
Managing Research by Managing Your Mind
Lixin Colin Xu
(The World Bank)
14:00 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:30 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 9:30
China's Political System: The Party, the Government, and the Congresses
Hongbin Li
(Tsinghua University)
9:30 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
13:30 - 15:00
Presentations by participants
15:30 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
6:30 - 8:30
Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:00
Research on Property Rights Institutions
Gary Libecap
(University of California - Santa Barbara)
10:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
13:30 - 14:00
Assessments
14:00 - 14:30
Wrap-up discussion and ceremony
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants
14:40 - 18:00
Special event