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Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis – 2008-2007

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 2008 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title of Talk/Paper


January 24


Erik Snowberg
(Stanford GSB)

"Explaining
the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?"


January 31

Steve Tadelis
(UCB – Haas)

"The
Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust"
February 7
Silke J.-Forbes
(UCSD Economics)
 "Does
Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline
Industry"


February 14

Bob Hall
(Stanford Econ.)

"The
Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital"


February 21

Marco Ottaviani
(Kellogg Northwestern)

 Search
Agency [Hard copy of paper available only.]


February 28

Anna Levine
(Stanford)

 "Licensing
and Scale Economies in the Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Industry"


March 6

Ben Hermalin
(UCB – Haas)

"Firm
Value and Corporate Governance: Does the Former Determine the Latter?"


March 13

Glenn Ellison
(MIT Economics)

 "Position
Auctions with Consumer Search"


March 20

Phillip Leslie (Stanford GSB)

"Nearly
Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms"
March 27
NO MEETING
 SPRING
BREAK


April 2 *

Ray Fisman
(Columbia GSB)


"Exposure to Ideology and Distributional Preferences"
(Paper not available).

[*Note: This talk will replace the seminar originally scheduled
for Thursday, April 3rd. This talk will take place in room C210
from 2:30 – 4:00 PM].]


April 10

Jesse Shapiro
(Chicago GSB)


Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers.
[Hard copy of paper available only.]

April 17
Fiona Murray
(MIT Sloan)
 "Learning
to Live with Patents: Assessing the Dynamic Adaptation to the Law
by the Scientific Community"
April 24
Mariano Tommasi
(Univ. de San Andres)
 "How
Do Political Institutions Work? Veto Players, Intertemporal Interactions,
and Policy Adaptability"
May
1
Rui de Figueiredo
(UCB – Haas)
Skill
and Luck in Hedge Fund "Diversification"
May
8
Richard Holden
(MIT Sloan)
 "A
Theory of Rule Development"
Fall 2007 Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title of Paper


August 30


John Morgan
(UCB-Haas)

Efficient
Information Aggregation with Costly Voting and Sincere
Voting and Information Aggregation with Voting Costs


September 6

Pablo Spiller
(UCB-Haas)

The
Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry
in the Mid-XXth Century

September 13
NO MEETING
(Rosh Hashanah)
 NO
MEETING


September 20

Chad Syverson
(Chicago)

Vertical
Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence


September 27

John Hatfield
(Stanford GSB)

 Federalism,
Tax Base Restrictions, and the Provision of Intergenerational Public
Goods
October 4
Joanne
Oxley
(Toronto)
 The
Determinants of Dispute Resolution Mode in Inter-Firm Contracts


October 11

Paul Gertler
(UCB-Haas)

 Sex
Work and Infection: What’s Law Enforcement Got to Dot With It?


October 18

Scott Masten
(Univ. of Michgan)

 Durability,
Reliability, and the Limits of Reputation


October 25

Tim Simcoe
(Toronto)

 Competing
on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform
Paradox


November 1

Victor Nee
(Cornell Univ.)
Bureaucracy and Financial Markets


November 8

Bernard Yeung
(NYU)

 Institutional
Determinants of Vertical Integration: Evidence from China
November 15
Steve Tadelis
(Haas-UCB)
 The
Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust


November 22

NO MEETING (Thanksgiving Holiday)

 NO
MEETING
November 29
Nicholas Economides

(NYU )
 Two-Sided
Competition of Proprietary vs. Open Source Technology Platforms and
the Implications for Software Industry
December
6
Kevin McCabe
(GMU)
 Neural
Correlates of Trust and Supporting
Information [Figures
1-4, Figures
1-6].
OEW Seminar Archive

Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters

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For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.

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