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.
The OEW Seminar meets on Thursdays from 4:10 – 6:00 pm in room C325 Cheit Hall. Outside speakers normally meet with interested students from 3:00 – 3:45 pm in room F589 (in the Faculty Wing of the Haas School).
For past semesters’ schedules and papers, please click here.
Spring 2017 Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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January 12
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(UCSD) |
How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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January 19
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Heidi Williams
(MIT) |
The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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January 26
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Ruben Enikolopov
(UPF) |
Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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February 2
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Jim Robinson
(Chicago) |
Social Structure and Conflict [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
(Harvard) |
Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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February 16
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(Northwestern) |
Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
(UCSD) |
Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China’s College Entrance Exam [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| March 2 | (Stanford) |
1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
| Ryan Bubb (NYU) |
An Equilibrium Theory of Retirement Plan Design [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| Jesse Shapiro (Brown) |
Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech [link] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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March 23
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Pascual Restrepo
(BU) |
Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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March 30
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No session
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No session |
(Chicago) |
Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Political Risk: Measurement and Effects [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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(Chicago) |
State building in the city: The effects of public security and services on crime, violence and state legitimacy in Bogotá [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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April 20
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Reka Juhasz
(Columbia) |
Drivers of Fragmented Production: Evidence from the 19th Century [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
(Harvard) |
Acting Wife: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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May 4
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Ilyana Kuziemko
(Princeton) |
Unions and inequality over the twentieth century: New evidence from survey data [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
Fall 2016 Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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September 1
|
(Stanford) |
The Long-Term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-Stakes Tests [pdf] |
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September 8
|
Suresh Naidu
(Columbia) |
Political Language in Economics [pdf] |
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September 15
|
Session CANCELLED
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September 22
|
Joachim Voth
(visiting scholar from Zurich) |
Highway to Hitler [pdf] |
(Haas BPP) |
Property Rights and Frictions in the Sale of Ideas | |
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October 6
|
(CERGE EI) |
Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters [pdf] |
(Toronto) |
Vulnerability and Clientelism [pdf] | |
| October 20 | (MIT) |
Turbulence and Decentralization in Bad Times [pdf] |
| Yoonha Kim (Haas BPP) |
Hidden Gems? Differential Hiring and Self-Employment of U.S. Immigrants [pdf] | |
| Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) |
Shaping Educational Careers of Immigrant Children: Motivation, Cognitive Skills & Teachers’ Beliefs | |
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November 10
|
Filipe Campante
(Harvard KSG) |
Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links |
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November 17
|
Liran Einav
(Stanford) |
Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals |
(no seminar) |
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(Berkeley-Haas) |
Grass Greening: How Mexican Poverty Alleviation Makes Undocumented Migration to the U.S. More Attractive | |
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December 8
|
Amitabh Chandra
(Harvard) |
Identifying Inefficiency in Healthcare |
OEW Seminar Archive
Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
For the current semester schedule please click here.
For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.