4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Registration for the Workshop

7:00 p.m.

Reception and dinner

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Introduction and Welcome

Mary Shirley (The World Bank; The Ronald Coase Institute)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Defining and Studying Institutions

Oliver Williamson (University of California at Berkeley)

Claude Ménard (Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne; The Ronald Coase Institute)

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Formulating Research Projects

Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute)

Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)

John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Participants present their research in small groups

and receive feedback

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Coffee

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Participants present their research in small groups

and receive feedback

6:30 p.m.

Dinner

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Institutional Analysis and Development Issues

Irma Adelman (University of California at Berkeley)

Mary Shirley (The World Bank; The Ronald Coase Institute)

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Professor Douglass North answers questions from participants via conference call from Sweden (schedule may change)

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Doing Institutional Analysis

Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated

Scott Wallsten (The World Bank) on telecommunications

Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute) and Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute) on measuring transaction costs

Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University) on problems of doing institutional research

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Communicating Institutional Findings

Mara Batlin (Consultant and trainer in strategic planning and communications)

Analyzing Trust and Social Capital

Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Participants work on revising their research presentations,

with consultation available

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Coffee

4:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Participants work on revising their research presentations,

with consultation available

Evening

Participants have dinner on their own

7:00 – 7:45 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Coffee

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Theoretical Frameworks for Institutional Analysis

Rudolf Richter (University of Saarland)

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Coffee

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Analyzing Governmental Institutions

Real-world examples of how political economy research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated

Philip Keefer (The World Bank)

Gary Libecap (University of Arizona)

Mathew McCubbins (University of California at San Diego)

5:30 p.m.

Dinner and evening in San Francisco

7:00 – 7:45 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Coffee

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Institutional Analysis and Development Assistance

Gun Eriksson Skoog (Swedish International Development Authority)

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Institutional Analysis and Policy

Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Concluding Discussion

Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, summary of major insights from lectures

4:45 p.m.

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