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 2013 Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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January 24
|
David Teece (Berkeley-Haas) |
Reasoning about Reasonable Royalties: Evaluating Patent Licensing in Platform Based Industries |
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January 31
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Doug Bernheim
(Stanford Univ.)
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February 7
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Tim Simcoe
(Boston Univ.) |
Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings |
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February 14
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Brian Silverman
(Univ. of Toronto) |
Managing Agency Problems in Early Shareholder Capitalism: Liverpool Shipping in the 18th Century |
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February 21 |
Ulrike Malmendier (Berkeley-Haas) |
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February 28
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Canice Prendergast (Univ. of Chicago) |
The Empirical Content of Pay-for-Performance and The Economics of Wild Goose Chases |
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March 7 |
Ashish Arora (Duke Univ.) |
Make, Buy, Organize: The Interplay Between Research, External Knowledge, and Firm Structure |
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March 14 |
Wouter Dessein
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March 21 |
Jonathan Levin (Stanford Unif.) |
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March 28 |
(Spring Break)
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NO SEMINAR |
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April 4
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Emerson Tiller (Northwestern Univ.)
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Panel Effects in Administrative Law: A Study of Rules, Standards and Judicial Whistleblowing. |
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April 11
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Esteban Ross-Hansberg (Princeton Univ.)
|
The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies |
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April 18 |
Nicola Lacetera |
Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes. |
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April 25 |
Chad Syverson
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector |
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May 2
|
Pol Antras |
Organizing the Global Value Chain |
Fall 2012 Schedule
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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August 30
|
Vito Sciaraffia (UT Austin/UCB) |
"Compensation Incentives and Risk Taking Behavior: Evidence from Sell-Side Analysts Forecasts" |
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September 6
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David Vogel
(Berkeley-Haas)
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September 13
|
Pablo Hernandez
(Berkeley-Haas) |
TBA |
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September 20
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NO MEETING
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NO MEETING |
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September 27 |
Roland Benabou (Princeton) |
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October 4
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Pierre Yared (Columbia) |
A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles |
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October 11 |
Orie Shelef (Berkeley-Haas) |
Incentive Thresholds, Performance, and Risk-Taking. Evidence from Hedge Funds. |
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October 18* |
Andrew Sweeting
|
Airline Mergers and the Potential Entry Defense *[Note: This session is jointly offered with the IO seminar series.] |
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October 25 |
Amy Nguyen- Chyung (Berkeley-Haas) |
TBA |
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November 1 |
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"Moore’s Law Goes Multicore: The Economic and Strategic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in How Computers Work" |
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November 8
|
Julie Wulf
(Harvard Bus Sch) |
Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation |
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November 15
|
Leeat Yariv
(Caltech) |
What Makes Voters Turn Out: The Effects of Polls and Beliefs |
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November 22 |
NO MEETING
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NO MEETING |
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November 29* |
Claudio Lucarelli
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TBA *[Note: This session is jointly offered with the IO seminar series.] |
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December 6
|
Reed Walker
(Berkeley-Haas) |
TBA |
OEW Seminar Archive
Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
For the current semester schedule please click here.
For all semesters’ schedules, please click here.