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 2010 Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
January 21 |
Allan Drazen (Maryland) |
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January 28 |
Patrick Hummel (Stanford) |
"Policy |
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February 4
|
Bengt Holmstrom
(MIT) |
"A Theory of Firm Scope" |
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February 11
|
Stephan Meier
(Columbia) |
"The Role of Group Boundaries in Human Altruism and Anti-Social Behavior" |
February 18 |
Timothy Bartley (Indiana) |
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February 25 |
Eric Talley (Boalt Hall – UCB) |
"Left, Right, and Center: Strategic Information Acquisition and Diversity in Judicial Panels" |
March 4 |
Richard Gil (UCSC) |
"The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence from Highway Procurement Auctions" |
March 11 |
Kevin Quinn (Boalt Hall – UCB) |
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March 18 |
Patrick Bajari (Minnesota) |
"Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence" |
March 25 |
NO MEETING (Spring Break) |
NO MEETING |
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April 1
|
Willie Fuchs
(Berkeley-Haas) |
Markets for Advice |
April 8 |
Chad Syverson (UChicago GSB) |
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April 15 |
Christopher Paik
|
"Historical |
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April 22
|
Paola Giuliano
(UCLA) |
"Family Values and the Regulation of Labor" |
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April 29
|
NO MEETING
|
NO MEETING |
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May 6
|
Felix Vardy
(Berkeley-Haas) |
Express Yourself! Mixed Motives and the Condorcet Jury Theorem |
Fall 2009 Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
August 27 |
Mathew McCubbins (UCSD – Political Science) |
"Good |
September 3 |
Sami Berlinski (UCL – Econ.) |
Did the Extension |
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September 10
|
Steve Tadelis
(Berkeley-Haas) |
"The Effect of Information on Auction Outcomes: A Large Scale Field Experiment" |
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September 17
|
Stephane Straub
(Toulouse Sch. of Econ.) |
"La Patria Contratista?: Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking in Paraguay" |
September 24 |
Bentley MacLeod (Columbia Bus. & Econ.) |
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October 1 |
Florian Ederer (UCLA Andersen) |
"Is Pay-for-Performance Detrimental to Innovation?" |
October 8 |
Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan) |
"The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment" |
October 15 |
Dan Silverman (Michgan Econ.) |
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October 22 |
Richard Wang (Berkeley-Haas) |
"Spatial Competition Among Heterogeneous Firms: Evidence from the Chinese Satellite Television Industry" |
October 29 |
Jonathan Levin (Stanford Econ.) |
"Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions" |
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November 5
|
Deepak Hegde
(Berkeley-Haas) |
"Imperfect Information and Contracts in the Market for Ideas: Evidence from the Licensing of Biomedical Inventions" |
November 12 |
Dennis Yao (HBS) |
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November 19 |
Timothy Feddersen
|
Warm-Glow Decision |
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November 26
|
NO MEETING
(Thanksgiving) |
NO MEETING |
|
December 3
|
Curt Taylor
(Duke Econ.) |
"Subjective Performance and the Value of Blind Evaluation" |
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Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
For the current semester schedule please click here.
For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.