ALUMNI CONFERENCE
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023
FRANKFURT, GERMANY
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Lee Benham and Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | Conveying Your Research |
| Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | I. Current Research by Alumni |
| A Model of the Homicide-Growth Nexus and a Long Run Reconstruction of English Homicides | |
| Jordan Adamson, Leipzig University, Germany | |
| Activists, Credibility, and Industry Structure | |
| Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University, USA | |
| Frequent Losers in Public Tenders: Anticompetitive Behavior or Bad Luck? | |
| Darcio Genicolo Martins, Insper Institute of Education and Research, Brazil | |
| When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Local Self-Government | |
| Jan Pablo Vogler, University of Konstanz, Germany | |
| Sketches of very new projects | |
| Paulo Furquim de Azevedo, Insper Institute, Brazil, on judicial behavior in corruption cases, | |
| and more | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | II. Current Research by Alumni |
| Trust and Monetary Innovations in Early Modern Warfare: A Comparative Analysis | |
| Danila Raskov, University of Helsinki, Finland | |
| Friends and Enemies in the Spanish Empire | |
| Marcos Salgado, Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV, Brazil | |
| Evolution of Institutional Designs: Endogenizing the History of Allocation Procedures for the Indian Civil Services | |
| Ashutosh Thakur, National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
| How To Confront My Own Party? Choices of Corporate Political Strategies Amid Polarization | |
| Bo Yang, University of Southern California, USA | |
| Discussion of AI and ChatGPT | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Problems with Pigou: Demsetz, Coase, and Limits to Economic Property Rights, with Two Examples |
| Gary Libecap, University of Santa Barbars (Emeritus), USA | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | III. Current Research by Alumni |
| Rooted in the Land: Clanship and Land Market in China | |
| Wentian Diao, National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
| Culture Legacy and Climate Change Adaptation in the Andes | |
| Cesar Agusto Huaroto, Universidad de Piura, Peru | |
| Can Migration Barriers Save Labor Productivity in a Developing Country? | |
| Zhangfeng Jin, Zhejiang University, China | |
| The Determinants and Consequences of Electric Vehicle Adoption in Germany | |
| Ekaterina Savchenko, University of Mannheim, Germany | |
| Special topics | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Wrap-up Discussion |
| New topics, data methods, evolving career paths, more | |
| 18:00 | Festive dinner |
| Award ceremony |