The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance, and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny in the seminar. Over the years, the seminar has contributed to pushing the frontier of knowledge on governance, and on the norms and institutions that lead to societal success or failure.
For past semesters’ schedules and papers, please click here.
Spring 2007 Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
January 18 |
Oliver Williamson (Emeritus Haas-UCB) |
"Corporate |
January 25 |
Michael Tomz (Stanford) |
The Credibility |
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February 1
|
Preston McAfee
(Cal Tech) |
"Firms, Queues, and Coffee Breaks: A Flow Model of the Corporation with Human Delays" |
February 8 |
James Anton (Duke Fuqua) |
"Quality |
February 15 |
Eric Van den Steen (MIT Sloan) |
"Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm" . [Note: The Speaker will meet with interested students in the Lester Center Conference Room located in room F451 of the Haas School of Business NOT the IMIO Conference room for this meeting.] |
February 22 |
Nick Bloom (Stanford) |
"It Ain’t What You Do, It’s The Way That You Do I.T.: Investigating the US Productivity Miracle Using Multinationals" |
March 1 |
Severin Borenstein, Mechan Busse & Ryan Kellogg (UCB-Haas) |
"Security of Supply and Forward Price Premia: Evidence from the Natural Gas Industry" |
March 8 |
Rafael Di Tella (HBS) |
"Crime and Punishment in the ‘American Dream’" |
March 15 |
Brandice Canes-Wrone (Princeton) |
"Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions" [Note: The following paper is available for those interested in the formal theory.] "When Do Elections Encourage Ideological Rigidity?" |
March 22 |
Tom Hubbard (Northwestern-Kellogg) |
"The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies" |
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March 29
|
NO MEETING
|
SPRING BREAK |
*April 5 |
Ben Jones (Northwestern-Kellogg) |
"Age and Great Inveniton" *[Note: This session is jointly offered with the Lester Center Kauffman |
*April 12 |
David Scharfstein
|
Skill vs Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs *[Note: This session will be held in room C220 Cheit Hall, and |
|
April 19
|
Sebastian Galiani
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis) |
Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling |
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April 26
|
Robert Gibbons
(MIT Sloan) |
"What Do Managers Do? Suggestive Evidence and Initial Theories About Building Relationships" |
|
May
3 |
Eric Zitzewitz
(Stanford GSB) |
An Eliot Effect? Prosecutorial Discretion in Mutual Fund Settlement Negotiations, 2003-2007 |
Fall 2006 Schedule
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Paper |
September 7 |
Asim Khwaja (Harvard) |
"Tracing |
*September 12 |
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard) |
TBA |
|
September 21
|
Ian Larkin
(UCB-Haas) |
"The Cost of High Powered Incentive Systems: Gaming Behavior in Enterprise Software Sales" [Note: The September 21st session is being offered with the Research Policy Conference in honor of David Teece. The presentation will start at 4:10 pm in the Wells Fargo Room.] |
September 28 |
Evan Rawley (UCB-Haas) |
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October 5 |
Steven Klepper (Carnegie Mellon) |
"Intra-industry Spinoffs" |
October 12 |
Enrico Moretti (UCB-Econ) |
"Peers at Work" |
October 19 |
Ken Shotts (Stanford) |
"Media Effects on Policy Choice" |
October 26 |
George Baker (HBS) |
"Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital" |
November 2 |
David Hsu (Wharton) |
"The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays?" |
November 9 |
Francine Lofontaine (UMich) |
"The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm" |
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November 16
|
Marko Tervio
(UCB-Haas) |
"Network Analysis of Three Academic Labor Markets" |
November 23 |
NO MEETING (Thanksgiving Holiday) |
NO MEETING |
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November 30
|
Juan Carols Hallak
(U-Mich and U-de San Andres) |
"Productivity, Quality, and Exporting Behavior under Minimum Quality Requirements" |
|
December
7 |
Kyle Bagwell (Columbia)
|
Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships |
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Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
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For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.