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 2009 Schedule
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
|
January
22 |
Paul Gertler (UCB – Haas) |
Paying Medical Care Providers for Performance: Evidence From a Randomized Trail in Rwanda. [Note: Paper not available for this talk.] |
January 29 |
Dean Lueck (Arizona) |
"Demarcation |
|
February 5
|
Raffi Amit
(Wharton) |
"Family Control of Firms and Industries" |
February 12 |
Petra Moser (Stanford) |
"Compulsory |
February 19 |
Glen Weyl (Harvard) |
"Pass-Through as an Economic Tool". For a copy of the slides, click here. |
February 26 |
Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Harvard) |
The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets |
March 5 |
Ernesto Dal Bo (UCB – Haas) |
|
March 12 |
Ernesto Schargrodsky (Stanford) |
"Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring" |
March 19 |
Tracy Lewis (Duke Univ – Econ) |
"Delegating Search Agents" |
|
March 26
|
NO MEETING
|
SPRING BREAK |
April 2 |
Avner Greif (Stanford) |
|
April 9 |
Witold Henisz
|
"Preferences, |
|
April 16
|
Bart Hamilton
(Wash Univ.) |
“The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers” |
|
April 23
|
Charles William
(Duke Univ.) |
"Promoting Inertia: How Executive Links Reduce Entry and Exit in Medical Firms" |
|
April
30 |
Oliver Williamson
(UCB – Haas) |
"The Economics of Organization — with Reference to Transaction Cost Economics and More Generally" |
|
May
7 |
Kevin Murphy
(USC) |
"Executive Pay and ‘Independent’ Compensation Consultants" |
Fall 2008 Schedule
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
August 28 |
Tom Davidoff (UCB – Haas) |
"Illiquid |
September 4 |
Steve Raphael (UCB – Goldman School for Public Policy) |
|
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September 11
|
Luis Rayo
(Chicago GSB) |
"Signaling Under Imperfect Competition: Quality Escalation and Veblen Effects" |
| September 18 |
John
Asker (NYU Stern) |
"A Study of the Internal Organisation of a Bidding Cartel" |
September 25 |
Marc Meredith (MIT) |
"The |
October 2 |
Jan Eeckhout (UPenn Econ.) |
"Diverse Organizations and the Competition for Talent" |
October 9 |
NO MEETING (YOM KIPPUR) |
NO MEETING |
October 16 |
Heski Bar Isaac (NYU Stern) |
|
October 23 |
Rob Seamans (UCB) |
"Competing Against City Hall: Entry Deterrence and New Technology Deployment in Local Cable TV Markets" |
October 30 |
Marina Halac (UCB Econ) |
Relational Contracts and the Value of Relationships [Hard copy of paper available only.] |
|
November 6
|
Juan Carrillo
(USC Econ) |
"From Perception to Action: An Economic Model of Brian Processes" |
November 13 |
Justin Wolfers (Wharton) |
|
November 20 |
Brian Knight
|
|
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November 27
|
NO MEETING
(Thanksgiving) |
NO MEETING |
|
December 4
|
Constanca Esteves
(UCB) |
"Micro-costs: Inertia in Television Viewing" |
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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.