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 12:00 – 1:30 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 2019 Schedule
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January 31
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A Model of Voluntary Managerial Disclosure [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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February 7
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Phil Haile (Yale)
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Common Values, Unobserved Heterogeneity, andEndogenous Entry in U.S. Offshore Oil Lease Auctions [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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February 14
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Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School)
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Schmoozing: Socializing and Success at Work” joint with Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
| The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| Big Push Policies and Firm-Level Barriers to Employing Women: Evidence from Saudi Arabia [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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March 7
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Buyer Signaling Improves Matching: Evidence from a Field Experiment [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| March 14 | The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| Matt Gentzkow (Stanford) | The Welfare Effects of Social Media [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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March 28
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Spring Break
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April 4
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Jeff Weaver (USC)
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“The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio” (joint with Sam Norris and Matt Pecenco) [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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April 11
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Ray Fisman (Boston University)
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Experience of Communal Conflicts and Inter-group Lending [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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April 18
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Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)
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April 22
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Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
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May 2
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Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)
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Quality, Variety and Quantity from the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Revolution [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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May 9
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Emily Breza (Harvard)
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Fall 2018 Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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August 30
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Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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September 6
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Xavier Jaravel (LSE)
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What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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September 13
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Chad Syverson (Booth)
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How Wide Is the Firm Border? [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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September 20
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Abhay Aneja (Job market mock talk)
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The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
| Supply chain enforcement of labor law: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh’s apparel sector [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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October 4
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The Oriental City? Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000 [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| October 11 | How Does Competition Affect Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Antitrust Cases [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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| Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton) | Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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October 25
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Petra Moser (Stern)
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Effects of Copyrights on Science [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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November 1
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Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Booth)
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Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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November 8
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Nancy Qian (Kellogg)
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The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940 [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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November 15
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Amit Khandelwal (Columbia GSB)
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Detecting Urban Markets with Satellite Imagery: An Application to India [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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November 29
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Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown)
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Folklore [pdf] [add to Google Calendar] [download calendar item] |
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December 6
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Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (Haas)
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OEW Seminar Archive
Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
For the current semester schedule please click here.
For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.