2002 Cambridge Workshop: Program

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
SEPTEMBER 22–27, 2002
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
16:00 - 18:00
(Hotel Lobby, Radisson Hotel Cambridge)
16:00 - 18:00
Registration for the Workshop

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
8:00 - 18:00
(Ballroom B)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:30 - 10:30
Defining and Studying Institutions
Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
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 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 18:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
19:00
Dinner

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
8:00 - 19:00
(Ballroom B)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Session via conference call
Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute)
10:30 - 11:00
Institutional Analysis and Social Change
Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate School; California Institute of Technology)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:45
Institutional Analysis and Social Change
John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)
11:45 - 12:30
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Claude Menard (University of Paris 1, ATOM; The Ronald Coase Institute)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Lynne Kiesling (Reason Public Policy Institute; Northwestern University)
14:00 - 15:00
Communicating Institutional Findings
Alexandra Benham and Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
14:30 - 15:30
Participants work on revising their research presentations, with consultation available
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 19:00
Participants work on revising their research presentations, with consultation available
Evening
Participants have dinner on their own

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
8:00 - 17:30
(Ballroom B)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Theoretical Foundations of Institutional Analysis
Rudolf Richter (University of Saarland)
11:30 - 12:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Institutional Analysis and Development Assistance
Gun Eriksson Skoog (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)
14:00 - 15:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
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)
16:30 - 17:00
Doing Institutional Analysis
Real-world examples of how research has been designed and implemented, problems solved, methodologies chosen, results communicated
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
19:00
Dinner

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
8:00 - 16:00, then afternoon tour, dinner, and evening out
(Ballroom B)
8:00 - 8:45
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Putting Institutional Analysis into Practice: Tradable Emissions
Richard Sandor (Environmental Financial Products and Chicago Climate Exchange)
10:00 - 11:00
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee
11:30 - 12:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
14:30 - 15:00
Analyzing Governmental Institutions II
Gary Libecap (University of Arizona)
15:00 - 16:00
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
16:00
Tour, dinner, and evening in Boston area
(made possible by the generous support of Dr. Kenneth Gartrell)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
7:00 - 12:00
(Ballroom B)
7:00 - 7:45
Breakfast
(note earlier time)
8:00 - 9:00
The Lens of Contract and Economic Organization
Oliver Williamson (University of California at Berkeley)
9:00 - 10:30
Participants present their revised research talks in plenary session, with feedback
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:00
Concluding Discussion
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, summary of major insights from lectures