SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Measuring the Costs of Exchange" 2000, in Claude Ménard, editor, Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 367-375 (with Lee Benham).

"Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know ," 1997, in Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker, eds, Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies, Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 35-60 (with Lee Benham).

Institutional Reform in Central and Eastern Europe:  Altering Paths with Incentives and Information, 1995, St. Louis:  International Center for Economic Growth  (with Lee Benham and Michael Merithew).

"Early Home Environment and Retrospective Recall:  A Test for Concordance Between Siblings With and Without Psychiatric Disorders," 1985, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 55 (1), 27-41 (with Lee N. Robins et al.)

"Employment, Earnings and Psychiatric Diagnosis," 1982, in Economic Aspects of Health, National Bureau of Economic Research, edited by Victor Fuchs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (with Lee Benham).

"The Informer’s Tale," 1980, in Regulating the Professions: A Public Policy Symposium, edited by Roger Blair and Stephen Rubin, D.C. Heath and Company (with Lee Benham).

"Prospects for Increasing Competition in the Professions," 1978, in The Profession and the Public, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (with Lee Benham).

"Regulating Through the Professions: A Perspective on Information Control," 1975, Journal of Law and Economics 18, October: 421-47 (with Lee Benham).

"The Impact of Incremental Medical Services on Health Status, 1963-1970," 1975, in Equity in Health Services: Empirical Analysis in Social Policy, Ronald Andersen, Joanna Kravits, and Odin W. Anderson, eds, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 217-228 (with Lee Benham).

"Utilization of Physician Services Across Income Groups, 1963-1970," 1975, in Equity in Health Services, Ronald Andersen, Joanna Kravits, and Odin W. Anderson, eds, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 217-228 (with Lee Benham).

"Nuclear Weapons and Alliance Cohesion," 1969, in Theory and Research on the Causes of War, Dean G. Pruitt and Richard C. Snyder, eds, Prentice-Hall, 165-175 (with Richard A. Brody).

"Hostile International Communication, Arms Production, and Perception of Threat: A Simulation Study," Peace Research Society Papers, VII, Chicago Conference, 1967, 15-40 (with Richard A. Brody and Jeffrey S. Milstein).  

“Inter-Nation Conflict, Dyadic and Mediated: Case Studies of Egypt, Israel, and the United Nations at Five Points in Time (Phase Two: October 28-November 25, 1956),” 1966, Defense Technical Information Center Interim Technical Report No. 2, 1 Oct 65 - 30 Sep 66, Stanford University Studies in International Conflict and Integration (with Ole R. Holsti, Richard A. Brody, Terry P. Hopmann, and Joseph B. Kadane).

"Dirge from a Funeral Watch," 1960, in Dennis Hartman, ed, Voice of Young America, Los Angeles: National Poetry Association.

"Thus Shall the Heart Endure," 1958, Siwasher.

"Willows," 1954, Carmel Pine Cone, Carmel, CA: October 29.
 

WORKING PAPERS
"Questionnaire on Costs of Exchange: Registering a New Business Officially ," September 2003 (with Lee Benham, Brian Gunia, Miguel Jaramillo, Mary Shirley, and Decio Zylbersztajn).

"The Costs of Exchange," July 2001 (with Lee Benham).


FIELDS OF INTEREST
New Institutional Economics, writing, editing.


RECENT WORK
2000 – present          Secretary of the Ronald Coase Institute

2001 - present           Organizer and faculty member, thirteen workshops on institutional analysis conducted by the Ronald Coase Institute, training 264 scholars from 55 countries:
2001 Berkeley, CA, USA and Rio, Brazil; 2002 St. Louis, MO,
USA and Cambridge, MA, USA;  2003 Budapest, Hungary and
São Paulo, Brazil; 2004 Tucson, AZ, USA; 2005 Barcelona, Spain; 2006 Boulder, CO, USA; 2007 Reykjavik, Iceland; 2008 Singapore and Los Baños, Philippines and Beijing, China

2000 – present           Designer/maintainer of the Ronald Coase Institute Web site

December 2008          Organizer, Applied Econometrics Seminar for the Analysis of
Micro Data, Ronald Coase Institute and University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 

December 2006          Organizer, Conference on Institutional Research 2006, Ronald Coase Institute and Stigler Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

November 2005          Organizer and presenter, St. Louis Initiative Planning Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA.  “Reducing Administrative Burdens on Small Businesses: Terms of Reference for Research” (with Lee Benham and Jessica Soto)

December 2004          Faculty and organizer, Conference on Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase Institute and Stigler Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA   

1997 – 2004               Editor, Newsletter of the International Society for New
Institutional Economics

February 2003            Faculty and organizer, Conference on Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase Institute and Stigler Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

July-August 2002        Lecturer in summer school  “New Institutional Economics for Countries in Transition:  Theoretical Debates and Policy Implications,” St. Petersburg, Russia

July-August 2001        Lecturer in summer school "Understanding Markets and Hierarchies in East and Central European Countries: New Institutional Economics Approach," St. Petersburg, Russia

February 2000            A founder of the Ronald Coase Institute

September 1997         Co-organizer of the inaugural conference, International Society for New Institutional Economics, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

RECENT CONFERENCES
December 2008, Ronald Coase Institute and Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Conference on Property Rights and Economic Reform.

July 2008, Coase Foundation and University of Chicago: China's Economic Transformation.

June 2008, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Toronto, Canada.
Recipient (with Lee Benham) of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society.

June 2007, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Reykjavik, Iceland.

November 2006, St. Louis Initiative Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

September 2006, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

September 2005, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Barcelona, Spain.

September 2004, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Tucson, Arizona, USA.  Panel co-organizer and presentation with Lee Benham, "Measuring Some Dimensions of Transaction Costs: The Costs of Exchange."

December 2003, Center for International Private Enterprise and Ronald Coase Institute: Promoting Institutional Reforms in Latin America; São Paulo, Brazil.  Presentation with Lee Benham, "Using Costs of Exchange as a Tool to Investigate Economic Performance."

September 2003, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Budapest, Hungary.

February 2003, Ronald Coase Institute and University of Chicago: Conference on Transaction Costs, Chicago, IL.  Presentation with Lee Benham, "On Measuring Transaction Costs."

October 2002, Hungarian Society for New Institutional Economists, Debrecen, Hungary.

September 2002, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Cambridge, USA.

September 2001, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Berkeley, USA.

July 2001, Western Economic Association, San Francisco, CA.  Paper with Lee Benham, "The Costs of Exchange."

December 2000, Global Development Network, Tokyo, Japan.  Designed the
Knowledge Fair booth for the Ronald Coase Institute.

November 2000, World Movement for Democracy, Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Panelist, "Confronting the corrosive effects of narcotics trafficking and organized crime on democratic development."

September 2000, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Tübingen, Germany.

May 2000, St. Petersburg State University, Russia.  Spoke on the organizations concerned with New Institutional Economics.

December 1999, Global Development Network, Bonn, Germany.

September 1999, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Washington DC, USA.

September 1998, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Paris, France.  Paper with Lee Benham, "Measuring the Costs of Exchange."

September 1997, International Society for New Institutional Economics, St. Louis, MO, USA. Co-organizer of inaugural conference.


EDUCATION
B.A.  Mathematics, Knox College, 1961.  Summa cum laude.
M.S.  Mathematics, Stanford University, 1963.
Doctoral program, political science, Stanford University, 1964-68.  All requirements completed except dissertation.


AWARDS
National Merit Scholar
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholar
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
National Science Foundation Fellow
International Society for New Institutional Economics - Lifetime Achievement Award


PERSONAL INFORMATION
Citizenship: USA


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ronald Coase Institute
International Society for New Institutional Economics


TO CONTACT
abenham@coase.org

January 2009

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