2022 Webworkshop: Program

WEBWORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 7, 2022
ONLINE


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28

30 minutes
Welcome and Introduction
Mary Shirley
30 minutes
Participants and faculty introduce themselves and their research interests
30 minutes
Great Architecture for Research Presentations
Alexandra Benham
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Small groups with four participants and two faculty each
Participants present their research and receive feedback
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Small groups continue
Close of day

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
30 minutes
Autocratic Institutions
Georgy Egorov
30 minutes
Liberty and the Neoclassical Fallacy: Adam Smith's Views
Barry Weingast
30 minutes
Break
30 minutes
Historical Political Economy and the Study of Institutions
Scott Gehlbach
30 minutes
Stabilization Lessons from the British Empire
Roger Myerson
30 minutes
Break
30 minutes

Elevator pitch competition
Participants present their research projects in one minute each, with voting and awards

30 minutes
Discussion in small groups (same groups as November 28)
Close of day

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2
30 minutes
Institutions: The Formal, the Informal, and the In-Between
Georgy Ganev
30 minutes
Understanding the Gender Gap in International Piano Competitions (with some lessons for doing empirical research)
Marc Law
30 minutes
Break
30 minutes
Institution: Determinants and Effects
Sebastian Galiani
30 minutes
Discussion in small groups (same groups as November 28)
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes

Panel: How Should Scholars Study Institutions?
Lee Benham, chair
Philip Keefer
Claude Menard
David Skarbek
Konstantin Sonin
Maria Yudkevich

Close of day

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5
Final presentations in plenary session
for 30 minutes each - including presenter, discussant, audience
60 minutes
Two final presentations
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Two final presentations
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Two final presentations
Close of day

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
Final presentations in plenary session continue
60 minutes
Two final presentations
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Two final presentations
30 minutes
Break
60 minutes
Two final presentations
15 minutes
Break
30 minutes
Evaluation of the webworkshop,
graduation ceremony and conclusion
Webworkshop ends