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WORK EXPERIENCE
2001-present President, Ronald Coase Institute
Manage non-profit institute that supports research
on the economic roles of laws, contracts, norms, and other institutions though
collaborative research, grants, conferences, and publications, and supports
young scholars through training, grants, mentoring, and networking. Organize and participate in Institute
workshops and research projects. Publish and lecture on my own program of
research on institutions and economic development.
Consultant, World Bank
Research on regulation and bank privatization, advice on aid effectiveness and institutions.
Consultant, Swedish International Development Agency
Advice on institutional reform to Evaluation Department.
1990-2001
Research manager on competition policy, regulation, finance, public sector
management and private sector development, World Bank.
Managed group responsible for research, policy development, training
and support in competition policy and regulation, including public
sector reform, privatization, regulation of monopolies, and the
development of political, bureaucratic, legal and other market-supporting institutions.
1983-1990 Public
enterprise advisor and senior advisor, World Bank
1980-1982 Economist,
Latin America and the Caribbean programs, World Bank
1974-1980 Senior Economist,
Organization of American States
1972-1974 Professor of
Economics, Universidad de Bogota, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogota,
Colombia
1971-1972
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University
Economic Research Project
EDUCATION Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts: Ph.D. 1974; M.A.L.D. 1971
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California: M.A. 1968; B.A. 1966
BORN March 16, 1945; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LANGUAGES
Fluent Spanish
OTHER ACTIVITIES
International Society
for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE). Co-editor SSRN
journal. President 2004. Vice President 2003. Treasurer 1997-2000.
Member of Board 1997-2004. Organized annual ISNIE meetings
in 1999, 2003.
Board member, NGO Alliance
Visiting Researcher, Stanford University Center for International
Development, March 2004
Faculty, European School on New Institutional Economics, May 2003
Visiting faculty, University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, May
2002.
Advisory board, Economic Reform Today
Referee,
Canadian Journal of Economics; The Independent Review;
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Comparative
Economics; National Science Foundation; Stanford University Press;
World Bank Economic Review; World Bank Research Observer; World Development.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
“Why Is Sector Reform So Unpopular in Latin America?”
The Independent Review. Vol. 10, #5, 195-207 (Fall, 2005).
“Bank
Privatization in Developing Countries: A Summary of Lessons and Findings” with
George Clarke and Robert Cull. Journal of Banking and Finance, Special Issue on Bank Privatization Vol. 29, #8-9:
1905-1930 (August-September, 2005).
Book review: "Bertin Martens, ed. The Institutional Economics of
Foreign Aid." The Independent Review, Vol. 9, 2
(Fall 2004).
“Ownership Structure and the Temptation to Loot. Evidence from
Privatized Firms in the Czech Republic.” With Robert Cull and Jana
Matesova. Journal of Comparative Economics Vol. 30, 1-24
(2002).
"Experience with Privatization: A New Institutional
Economics Perspective." Journal
Of African Economics (forthcoming).
“Empirical
Effects of Performance Contracts: Evidence from China.” With Colin
Xu, Journal of Law, Economics
and Organization. Vol 17. No. 1 (Spring 2001).
Book
review: Mancur Olson and Satu Kahkonen, “A Not-So-Dismal Science:
A Broader View of Economies and Societies.” Journal
of Economic History Vol 60. No. 3. (September 2000).
“Information,
Incentives and Commitment. An Empirical Analysis of Contracts Between Government and
State Enterprises.” with
Colin Xu. Journal of Law,
Economics and Organization. Vol. 14, No. 12. 358-378 (1998).
“Bureaucrats
in Business: The Roles of Privatization versus Corporatization in
State-Owned Enterprise Reform” World
Development. Vol 27, No. 1, 115-136 (1999).
“Trends
in Privatization” Economic
Reform Today. No. 1, 1998.
“Book
Review: Mark Armstrong, Simon Cowan and John Vickers. Regulatory
Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience” Information
Economics and Policy 10 (September, 1998) 389-401.
“Reformando
los sistemas urbanos de agua en Amèrica Latina: Un cuento de cuarto
ciudades.” Expe-Outlook.
Vol. VI, No. 51. (August, 1998).
“A
New Database on State-Owned Enterprise Reform”
with Luke Haggarty in World
Bank Economic Review, Vol. 11, No. 3
(September 1997).
“The
Economics and Politics of Government Ownership” Journal
of International Development, Vol. 9, No. 6 (September 1997).
Reprinted in Privatization in Developing Countries, Paul Cook and Colin
Kirkpatrick, eds. Aldershot, U.K. Edward Elgar.
“Enterprise
Contracts: A Route to Reform?” Finance
and Development, Vol. 33, No. 3 (September, 1996).
“Privatization
in Latin America: Lessons for Transitional Europe” World
Development, Vol. 22, No. 9, 1313-23
(September 1994). Reprinted in Vincent Wright and Luisa
Perrotti, eds. Privatization
and Public Policy. Aldershot:
Elgar. 1999.
“Privatization
and Performance” in Hasting’s
International and Comparative Law Review, Vol 17, No. 4 (Summer
1994).
“Privatization:
Lessons from Market Economies,” in The
World Bank Research Observer, vol. 9, no. 2 (July 1994).
"The
What, Why, and How of Privatization:
A World Bank Perspective", Fordham
Law Review, Vol. LX, No. 6, May 1992
"Improving
Public Enterprise Performance:
Lessons from South Korea" in Annals
of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 62, Number 1, 1991
“Promoting
the Private Sector” in Finance
and Development Vol 25, No. 1 (March 1988).
“The
Experience with Privatization” in Finance
and Development Vol. 25, No. 3 (September 1988)
“Management
of State Owned Enterprises” World Bank Staff Working Papers No.
577, 1984; reprinted in State
Enterprises (New Delhi) Vol 3, Nos. 2 & 3 (1984)
Books and Chapters in Books
“Conclusions” with Douglass North in Stephen Haber,
Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast eds., The Politics of Financial Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
Forthcoming 2006.
"Empirical Studies" with George Clarke and Robert Cull in Gerard Caprio, Jonathan
Fiechter, Robert E. Litan, and Michael Pomerleano, eds. The Future of
State-Owned Financial Institutions: Policy and Practice (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2004).
Handbook of New Institutional Economics
Co-editor with Claude Menard (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer,
2005).
"Institutions and
Development" in
Handbook of New Institutional Economics
Co-editor with Claude Menard (Dordrecht,
the Netherlands: Springer, 2005).
Thirsting for Efficiency: Experiences in Reforming Urban Water Systems
(London: Elsevier Publications, forthcoming) Editor and author of
four chapters.
“Reforming
Urban Water Systems in Developing Countries” with Roger Noll and
Simon Cowan in Anne O. Krueger (ed.) Economic
Policy Reform: The Second Stage (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2000).
“Formal
versus Informal Institutions in Economic Development,” with Philip
Keefer in Claude Menard (ed.) Institutions, Contracts, Organizations: Perspectives from New
Institutional Economics (Williston, VT: Edward Elgar, 2000).
“Privatization
in Transitional Economies: Politics as Usual?” with Philip Keefer
in Stephan Haggard and Mathew McCubbins eds. Presidents, Politics
and Policy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
“Water
Reform in Latin American: A Tale of Four Cities” in Luigi Manzetti
(ed.) Post-Privatization Environments: The Latin American Experience (Miami:
University of Miami Press, 2000).
“Bureaucracy
in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”
in Peter Newman (ed.) The
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (London:
Macmillian, 1998).
“Comments
on Dilip Mookerjee Incentive Reforms in Developing Country
Bureaucracies” in Boris Pleskovic and Joseph Stiglitz, eds. Annual
World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1997 (Washington
D.C.: World Bank, 1998).
“Performance
Contracts: A Tool for Improving Public Services? in Robert Picciotto
and Eduardo Wiesner, eds. Evaluation
and Development. The Institutional Dimension.
(New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998.)
“The
Payoffs from Economics Reform: Commentary” in Nancy Birdsall and
Frederick Jaspersen, Eds. Pathways
to Growth: Comparing East Asia and Latin America, (Washington,
D.C.: Interamerican Development Bank, 1997).
Bureaucrats in Business: The Economics and Politics of Government
Ownership,
led team of authors (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Does Privatization Deliver? with Ahmed Galal (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994).
“Public
Enterprise Reform: Lessons from the Past, Issues for the Future,”
in Managing the
Changing Public/Private Sector Relationship Proceedings of the
Third Asia Pacific Conference of Management Consultants (Brisbane
Australia: August 23-26, 1993)
“The
Enterprise Sector” in Georgia:
A Blueprint for Reforms (Washington, D.C.: World Bank,
1993).
Privatization: The Lessons
of Experience
with John Nellis and Sunita Kikeri (Washington, D.C.: World Bank,
1992)
Public Enterprise Reform: The
Lessons of Experience
with John Nellis (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, EDI, 1991)
“Lessons
from the World Bank Experience” Paper presented to a Conference on
Privatization in Latin America Sponsored by the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York (New York: June 5, 1991)
“Private
Sector Development” in Czechoslovakia:
Transition to a Market Economy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank,
1991).
"Evaluating
the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises in Pakistan" in R.
Ramamurti and R. Vernon, eds., Privatization
and Control of State-Owned Enterprises (World Bank, 1991)
Developing the Private Sector: The
World Bank's Experience and Approach
with Enrique Rueda-Sabater (World Bank, 1991)
“State
Owned Enterprises” Chapter in World
Development Report, 1984 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1984).
“Organization
of the Public Sector” in Ecuador:
Development Problems and Prospects (Washington, D.C.: World
Bank, 1979)
“Short
Term Economic Reports, Vol. VII: Peru” with Jose Luis Restrepo
(Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States, 1979)
Synthesis of Economic Performance in Latin America During 1978 (Also
in Spanish; Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States, 1978)
“Mining
Technologies” with Roger Kubarych in State
Estimates of Technology, 1963 Karen Polenske, ed. (Lexington,
MA: Lexington Books, 1974)
“Federal
Government Purchases” with Bo Carlsson and W. Norton Gruff in State
Estimates of the Gross National Product (Lexington, MA:
Lexington Books, 1972
“A
Guide for Users of the U.S. Multiregional Input-Output Model” with
Karen Polenske and Carolyn Anderson (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1972)
Working Papers and Unpublished Reports
"Aid and Institutions." Working paper presented at Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford, California. March 2004.
"
New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries:
The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database" with Scott Wallsten, George Clarke, Luke Haggarty,
Rosario Kaneshiro, Roger Noll, and Lixin Colin Xu. AEI-Brookings
Joint Center Related Publication 04-05. March 2004.
“Empirical Studies of Bank Privatization” with George Clarke and
Robert Cull. Working paper presented at World Bank, Conference on
Bank Privatization. Washington, D.C. November 20-21, 2003.
“Why Is Sector Reform So Unpopular in Latin America?” presented at
Stanford, Center for International Development, Latin American
Conference on Sector Reform. Palo Alto, CA. November 14, 2003.
“What Does Institutional Economics Tell Us About Development?”
presented to the ISNIE meetings in Budapest, Hungary on September
28, 2003.
“Institutions and Development” presented at George Mason
University, March 5, 2003.
“Telecommunications Reform in Uganda.” with
F. F. Tusubira, Frew Gebreab, and Luke Haggarty. World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper #2864. July 2002.
“Public versus Private Ownership: The Current State of
the Debate.” With Patrick Walsh. World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper #2420, July 2000. Under review at the World
Bank Research Observer.
“Ownership
Structure and the Temptation to Loot. Evidence from Privatized Firms
in the Czech Republic.” With Robert Cull and Jana Matesova.
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #2568. March 2001. Under review at Journal
of Comparative Economics.
“Reforming Contractual Arrangements: Lessons from Urban
Water Systems in Six Developing Countries”
with Claude Menard. Paper
presented at the ISNIE Meetings in Washington, D.C. September 17,
1999.
“The
Buenos Aires Water Concession.” With Lorena Alcazar and Manuel
Abdala. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper # 2311. April,
2000.
“The Politics and Economics of Reforming Urban Water
Systems.” Paper presented at Stanford University. Conference on
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America, April
14-15, 2000, World Bank Conference on Development Economics, May
2000.
“Telecommunications Reform in Ghana” with Luke
Haggarty. May, 1999.
“Cities Awash” with Claude Menard. Paper presented at Western Economic Association Meetings in
San Diego, CA. July 6-10, 1999.
“Reforming
Urban Water Systems: The Case of Chile,” with Colin Xu and Ana
Maria Zuluaga. World
Bank Policy Research Working Paper #2294.
March 2000.
“Reforming
Urban Water Systems in Developing Countries” with Roger Noll and
Simon Cowan. Paper
presented at a conference on Economic Policy Reform, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California, September 16-17, 1988
“From the Ivory Tower to the Corridors of Power: Making
NIE Matter for Policy,” paper presented at the Second Annual
Meeting Society for New Institutional Economics, September 16-17,
1988.
“The Contribution of Ronald Coase”.
Paper presented at the First Brazilian Seminar on New
Institutional Economics, Sponsored by the University of Sào Paulo,
Sào Paulo, Brazil, August 6, 1998.
“Water
Reform in Latin American: A Tale of Four Cities.” Paper presented
at a conference on Regulation in Post-Privatization Environments:
The Latin American Experience.”
Sponsored by the Tinker Foundation, Southern Methodist
University, the USIS, The University of Palermo Law School and the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 21,
1998.
“Empirical
Effects of Performance Contracts: Evidence from China” with Colin
Xu. World Bank Policy
Research Working Paper No. 1919.
May 1998.
“Information,
Incentives and Commitment. An
Empirical Analysis of Contracts between Government and State
Enterprises.” with Colin Xu. World
Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1769. May 1997.
“The
Reform of State-Owned Enterprises:
Lessons From World Bank Lending”
World Bank Policy and Research Series No. 4, 1989
“Divestiture
in Developing Countries” with Elliot Berg, World Bank Discussion
Papers No. 11, 1987
Unpublished Country Reports
Principal
author of Organization of American States economic reports on Honduras
(2) and Nicaragua. Authored chapters of
World Bank economic reports on Armenia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ghana, Malawi, Mexico, Portugal, Zambia.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2005
St. Louis Initiative Planning Conference,
Washington University in St. Louis, November 11-12, 2005, St. Louis, MO. Organizer, chair, presentation: “Nature of
the Problem.”
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Stockholm, Sweden, September
27, 2005. Presentation: “Can Foreign Assistance Improve Institutions?”
ISNIE annual meetings in Barcelona, Spain, September 22-24, 2005.
Organize and chair panel, “Political Institutions in a Changing World.” Presentation: “Can Aid Reform Institutions?” Discussant and chair
of two panels.
Ronald
Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis in Barcelona,
Spain, September 17-22, 2005. Organizer and faculty.
Western Economic Association, San Francisco, CA, July 5, 2005.
Organize, chair, and present presidential panel, “The Role of
Institutions in Economic Development.” Presentation: “Why Is
Privatization So Unpopular in Latin America?”
International Food Policy Research Institute. April 6, 2005. Presentation: “Can Aid Reform Institutions?”
Stanford University, Social Science History Institute.
“Institutional Theory and Evidence from Europe, the United States,
and Latin America.”
Presentation: “Conclusions.”
George Mason University, Mercatus Center. January 18, 2005.
Presentation: “Can
Foreign Aid Develop Underdeveloped Institutions?”
AEA Annual Meetings in Philadelphia, PA, January 9, 2005. Organize and
chair panel: “Do Legal Origins Really Matter for Contemporary
Institutions?”
2004
Conference on Transaction Costs, Ronald Coase Institute and
Stigler Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Dec. 3-5, 2004.
Organizer and faculty.
ISNIE
annual meetings in Tucson, AZ, September 30-October 2, 2004:
President’s address, chaired and organized panel on bank
privatization, discussant for two panels.
Ronald
Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis in Tucson, AZ,
Sept. 25- 30, 2004. Organizer and faculty.
Stanford University Center for International Development, Fifth
Annual Conference on Indian Economic Policy Reform, June 3-5, 2004,
Stanford, CA. Discussant.
European School on New Institutional Economics summer school, Cargèse, Corsica, May 2-8, 2004. Presentation: “Institutions and
Development.”
University of Illinois, Department of Economics and University of
Manchester Centre on Regulation and Competition, April 23-24, 2004.
Joint Conference on The Conference on the Regulation of Development
and the Development of Regulation, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, IL Presentation on regulatory governance and
entry licensing.
Stanford University Center for International Development, Palo Alto,
CA, March 2004, Visitor & Seminar “Aid and Institutions.”
2003
Center for International Private Enterprise and Ronald Coase
Institute, Conference on Promoting Institutional Reforms in Latin
America, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ronald Coase Institute and University of Sao Paulo, Workshop on
Institutional Analysis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
World Bank Conference on Bank Privatization, Washington, DC
Stanford University Center for International Development, Conference
on Latin American Sectoral Reform, Palo Alto, CA
Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis in
Budapest, Hungary
ISNIE annual meetings in Budapest, Hungary
George Mason University: seminar on institutions and development, in
Arlington, VA
Ronald Coase Institute and Stigler Center, University of Chicago:
workshop on transaction costs, in Chicago
2002
Visiting professor at University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne for
six weeks
Swedish International Development Agency: conference on
institutional assessments, in Stockholm, Sweden
ISNIE annual conference, in Cambridge, MA
Ronald Coase Institute: workshop on institutional analysis, in
Cambridge, MA
Institute for Humane Studies: workshop, in Charlottesville, VA
University of Maryland: IRIS Forum ,in Washington, D.C.
American Economic Association, in Atlanta, GA
2001
Global Development Network: annual meeting, in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Ronald Coase Institute: workshops on institutional analysis, in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil and Berkeley, CA
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy: conference,
in Siena, Italy
Western Economic Association, in San Francisco, CA
University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne: seminar on
telecommunications
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, in Washington, DC
Long Branch Association, in Millwood, VA
TO CONTACT
mshirley@coase.org
April 2006
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