WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
MAY 15–21, 2011
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
17:00 - 18:30
Registration
8:30 - 9:00
Introduction and Welcome
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
9:00 - 9:30
How Cross-Country Regressions Lead to Bad Policy: The Case of Broadband
Scott Wallsten
(Technology Policy Institute)
9:30 - 10:00
A Brief History of New Institutional Analysis
Mary Shirley
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
10:30 - 11:00
Using Institutional Analysis to Understand How Universities Work
Maria Yudkevich
(National Research University - Higher School of Economics)
11:00 - 12:00
Formulating Research Projects
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
Lee Benham
(Washington University in St. Louis, and the Ronald Coase Institute)
13:00 - 14:30
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
15:00 - 17:00
Participants present their research in small groups and receive feedback
8:30 - 9:30
History, Growth, and the New Institutional Economics
John Nye
(George Mason University)
9:30 - 10:00
Using Field Experiments in Economics
John List
(University of Chicago)
10:30 - 11:00
Communicate Strategically
Alexandra Benham
(The Ronald Coase Institute)
11:00 - 11:30
Why Parties and Governments Manipulate Elections
Alberto Simpser
(University of Chicago)
11:30 - 12:00
Is It Possible to Have a Good Life Being an Economist? Part 1
Colin Xu
(The World Bank)
13:00 - 14:30
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
15:00 - 17:00
Participants revise their research, with individual consultations
8:30 - 10:00
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:00
Presentations by participants
11:00 - 12:00
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
Robert Fogel
(University of Chicago)
13:00 - 13:30
Question and Answer Session
Robert Fogel
(University of Chicago)
13:30 - 14:30
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 17:00
Presentations by participants
8:30 - 10:00
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 11:30
Presentations by participants
11:30 - 12:00
A Journal Editor's View of the Publication Process
Sam Peltzman
(University of Chicago)
13:00 - 14:30
Presentations by participants
15:00 - 17:00
Presentations by participants
8:30 - 9:00
Is It Possible to Have a Good Life Being an Economist? Part 2
Colin Xu
(The World Bank)
9:00 - 10:00
Presentations by participants
10:30 - 12:00
Presentations by participants
13:00 - 13:30
Assessments
13:30 - 14:30
Wrap-up discussion and ceremony
Overview by faculty of participants' presentations, and feedback from participants
14:30 - 17:00
Special event