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2007 Reykjavik Workshop: Program


WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
JUNE 16–21, 2007
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND


SATURDAY, JUNE 16
 

17:30 – 19:00

Registration

 

 

19:00

Depart for dinner

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 17
 

8:00 – 8:45

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 9:30

Introduction and Welcome

 

Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

9:30 – 10:00

Testing the Economics of Institutions in Iceland

 

Thrainn Eggertsson (University of Iceland and New York University)

 

 

10:00 – 11:00

Causality and Institutions

 

Sebastiαn Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

 

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee

 

 

11:30 – 12:30

Formulating Research Projects

 

Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

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

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 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

Depart for dinner


MONDAY, JUNE
18
 

8:00 – 8:45

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 10:00

History, Growth, and the New Institutional Narrative

 

John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis and George Mason University)

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Political Economy and Policy Failure in Poor Countries

 

Philip Keefer (The World Bank)

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 - 12:00 Analyzing Institutions Using Experiments
Maroš Servαtka (University of Canterbury)

 

 

12:00 - 12:30

Long-Term Capital Management Revisited: The Role of Institutional Economics in Risk Management

 

Henry Mohrman (Mohrmanlaw LC)

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 14:30

Communicating Institutional Findings

 

Alexandra Benham (The Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

14:30 – 15:30

Participants revise their research,

 

with individual consultations

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00 – 18:00

Participants revise their research,

 

with individual consultations

 

 

19:00

Depart for dinner

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 19
 

8:00 – 8:45

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 - 9:30

State Bureaucracy and Russian Privatization Effectiveness: An Exercise in Institutional Analysis

 

Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin)

 

 

9:30 – 10:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 - 12:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 14:30

A New World Record:  Four Asset Price Bubbles in Twenty Years

 

Robert Aliber (University of Chicago)

 

 

14:30 – 15:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00 – 18:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

19:00

Depart for dinner

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
 

8:00 – 8:45

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 –9:30

Institutions and Political Economy of Russia

 

Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Russia)

 

 

9:30 – 10:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 – 12:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00 – 15:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee

 

 

16:00 – 17:00

Institutions in the Natural State

 

Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis, and the Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

17:00 – 18:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

19:00

Depart for special dinner

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 21

8:00 – 8:45

Breakfast

 

 

9:00 – 9:30

Transaction Costs and Coasean Solutions to Environmental and Resource Problems

 

Gary Libecap (University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Ronald Coase Institute)

 

 

9:30 – 10:30

Presentations by participants

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

 

 

11:00 – 12:00

Transaction Cost Economics: An Introduction

 

Oliver Williamson (University of California-Berkeley)

 

 

12:00 – 13:00

Wrap-up discussion

 

Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants

 

 

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

 

 

Program
|2001 Berkeley|2001 Rio |2002 St. Louis|2002 Cambridge |2003 Budapest|
|2003 Sγo Paulo|2004 Tucson |2005 Barcelona|2006 Boulder |2007 Reykjavik|
|2008 Singapore|2008 Philippines |2008 Beijing|2009 Bratislava |2009 Xiamen|
|2010 Moscow|




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