2011 Chicago Workshop: Titles

WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
MAY 15–21, 2011
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA

TITLES

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Digital Book Adoption and the Publishing Industry:
A Cross-Country Institutional Analysis
Lemilson José Cavalcanti de ALMEIDA
University of São Paulo



The Power in the Executive Branch:
Presidents and Ministers in the Brazilian Lawmaking Process, 1988-2006
Mariana BATISTA DA SILVA
Federal University of Pernambuco



Endogenous Property Rights and the Distribution of Human Capital:
Transition to Intra-Elite Rule of Law
Biniam Egu BEDASSO
Maastricht University



Businessmen Murdered: When the State Does Not Protect
Galina BELOKUROVA
University of Wisconsin - Madison



Does Shareholders' Control Improve Banks' Performance?  A Russian Perspective
Veronika BELOUSOVA
National Research University – Higher School of Economics
Kirill Pogorelskiy
California Institute of Technology



Between Agriculture and Industry: Can Public Choice Explain
the Classification Controversy Surrounding Biofuels?
José Guilherme Moreno CAIADO
University of Hamburg



Guanxi Retribution: How the Chinese Solved Opportunism in Contracts
in Hispanic Philippines
Tina S. CLEMENTE
University of the Philippines – Diliman



Transaction and Measurement Cost in the Governance Structure Chosen between Supermarkets and Organic and Conventional Producers in Brazil and the USA
Christiano França da CUNHA and Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes
University of São Paulo



Informal Networks and Corruption across Countries
Jorge FABREGA-LACOA
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez



Bureaucracy Intermediaries in Developing Countries
Anders FREDRIKSSON
University of Namur



Property Rights, Land Tenure and Insurgency: Evidence from Peru
Jenny GUARDADO R.
New York University



Analysis of the Sustainability of China's Cotton from an Ecological Modernization Perspective
Shuqin JIN
Wageningen University



Property Rights Formalization: The Mystery of "Dacha Amnesty"
Ekaterina KHMELNITSKAYA
National Research University – Higher School of Economics



Intergovernmental Transfers: Tactical Redistribution, Political Bargaining and Vote Buying - Evidence from India
Nakul KUMAR
George Mason University



Incentives Provided by the Patent System, Russian Style
Natalia LAMBEROVA
Kazan Federal University



Fiscal Federalism and Tax Institutions in Colombia, 1863 - 1886
Edwin LOPEZ RIVERA
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University



The Political Effects of the Resource Curse:
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Peru
Stanislao MALDONADO
University of California - Berkeley



Tax Governance: The Design of Enforcement Institutions
Orli OREN-KOLBINGER
Bar-Ilan University



What are Unexpected Consequences of a Well-intended Revision of the Employment Contract Law in China?
Lifang PAN
Huazhong University of Science and Technology



Multi-Governance Structures in African Cash-Crop farming:
Empirical Evidence from Pineapple Supply Chain in Benin
Stefano PASCUCCI, Djalal Arinloye and Geoffrey Hagelaar
Wageningen University



Institutions and Economic Segregation in Brazil's Old Republic
Thales A. ZAMBERLAN PEREIRA
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul



An Overhaul of Doctrine: Has Inflation Targeting Opened a New Era
in Developing-Country Peggers?
Marjan PETRESKI
Staffordshire University



Integration of Different Regional Ethanol Markets and Transactions Costs
Felippe SERIGATI
São Paulo School of Economics



Towards a Goal-Based Approach to Analyzing the Effectiveness
of the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Sivan SHLOMO AGON
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem



The Evolution of Market Governance: Illicit Trade & Prison Gangs
David SKARBEK
Duke University



The Effect of the Landfill Tax on Local Authorities' Waste Policies,
Itai TRILNICK
Ben Gurion University



Does the Iron Fist Squash the Creative Mind?  Evidence from Russia's Regions
Imogen WADE
University College London