WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
DECEMBER 7-14, 2025
PERUGIA & FLORENCE, ITALY
Optional day with hotel room provided
Arrive in Perugia if travel connections require this
Check in to workshop hotel
19:00
Dinner together for those who have arrived
Arrive by 12:00
Check in to workshop hotel
16:20 - 17:20
Optional: Walk to the Church of San Domenico; view liturgical vestments of Pope Benedict X with historical details
17:30 - 18:30
Register for workshop, and special ceremony for Roger Myerson
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome and Introduction
Mary Shirley and Gaetano Martino
9:30 - 10:00
How Will the New Institutional Economics Sharpen Analyses in Coase Workshop Projects?
Gary Libecap
10:00 - 10:30
Understanding Path Dependence from Perspectives of Institutional Genes
Chenggang Xu
11:00 - 11:30
Voters behaving "Badly"? Behavioral Economics Meets Political Economy
Philip Keefer
11:30 - 12:00
Architecture for Research Projects
Alexandra Benham
12:00 - 12:30
Choosing a Research Topic
Lee Benham
14:00 - 15:30
Participants present their research in small groups, with 2 faculty leaders and 5 participants, and receive feedback
16:00 - 18:00
Participants present their research in small groups, with 2 faculty leaders and 5 participants, and receive feedback
09:00 - 09:30
Institutional Analysis through Analogy: Lessons from the Study of Dictatorships and Firms
Scott Gehlbach
09:30 - 10:00
Ninety-second talks
Participants present their research projects in ninety seconds
11:00 - 11:30
Ninety-second talks
Participants present their research projects in ninety seconds
11:30 - 12:00
Meso-Institutions: The Concept and its Implementation in Empirical Studies
Claude Menard
12:00 - 12:30
Conveying Research Skilfully
Alexandra Benham
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch, then brief visit to medieval garden in the Complessso monumentale
14:00 - 15:30
Participants revise their research, with consultations with faculty
16:00 - 18:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations with faculty
09:00 - 09:30
Modern Applied Work: The Dos and Don'ts
Alexey Makarin
09:30 - 10:30
Small groups, final round
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
During these days, each participant will give a formal 10-minute presentation, followed by a participant discussant and a faculty discussant, then group discussion for a total of 30 minutes.
14:00 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
17:30 - 18:00
Interviews with faculty about their research
Gary Libecap and Philip Keefer
09:00 - 10:30
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:30
Presentations by participants
14:00 - 15:30
Presentations by participants
16:00 - 17:30
Presentations by participants
17:30 - 18:00
Interviews with faculty about their research
Alexey Makarin and Chenggang Xu
18:00
Visit to the Basilica in the Complesso monumentale, then depart for dinner
WORKSHOP FACULTY
Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA
Lee Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA
Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago, USA
Philip Keefer, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
Gary Libecap, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA
Alexey Makarin, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Gaetano Martino, University of Perugia, Italy
Claude Menard, University of Paris, France
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, USA
Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute, USA
Chenggang Xu, Stanford University, USA
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA
Andrea Marchini, University of Perugia, Italy
Gaetano Martino, University of Perugia, Italy
Alessandro Pacciani, University of Florence, Italy
Daniela Toccaceli, Center for the Study of Agricultural Organization, Italy
Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute, USA
WORKSHOP ADMINISTRATOR
Darin Hargis, Ronald Coase Institute, USA