4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Registration for the Workshop

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Introduction and Welcome

Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Defining and Studying Institutions

Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

7:00 p.m.

Dinner

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Session via conference call

Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis; The Ronald Coase Institute)

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Institutional Analysis and Social Change

Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate School; California Institute of Technology) 

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee

11:00 - 11:45 a.m.

John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)

11:45 – 12:30 p.m.

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 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

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)

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Communicating Institutional Findings

Alexandra Benham and Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)

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

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Theoretical Foundations of 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 – 2:00 p.m.

Institutional Analysis and Development Assistance

Gun Eriksson Skoog (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Coffee

4:00 – 4:30 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)

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

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)

7:00 p.m.

Dinner

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Putting Institutional Analysis into Practice: Tradable Emissions

Richard Sandor (Environmental Financial Products and Chicago Climate Exchange)

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Participants present their revised research talks

in plenary session, with feedback

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Coffee

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 – 2:30 p.m.

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

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Analyzing Governmental Institutions II

Gary Libecap (University of Arizona)

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

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

4:00 p.m.

Tour, dinner, and evening in Boston area

(made possible by the generous support of Dr. Kenneth Gartrell)