The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis features current research of faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and advanced doctoral students who are investigating the efficacy of economic and noneconomic forms of organization. In this seminar, an interdisciplinary perspective–combining aspects of law, economics and organization–is maintained. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, bureaus, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny. The aspiration is to progressively build towards a new science of organization.
The OEW Seminar meets on Thursdays from 4:10 – 6:00 pm in room C325 Cheit Hall (the April 22 session is on a Wednesday). Outside speakers normally meet with interested students from 3:00 – 3:45 pm in the IBI Conference room located in room F402 (in the Faculty Wing of the Haas School).
For past semesters’ schedules and papers, please click here.
Spring 2015 Schedule
Date |
Speaker |
Title of Talk/Paper |
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January 15
|
(Univ. of Texas – Austin) |
“Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes” [pdf] |
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January 22
|
Leonardo Burstyn
(UCLA) |
“How does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?” [pdf] |
|
January 29
|
Tomas Rau
(PUC – Chile) |
“The Children of the Missed Pill: Unintended Consequences of Price Collusion in the Chilean Pharmaceutical Industry” |
|
February 5
|
Thomas Fujiwara
(Princeton) |
“The Runner-up Effect” [pdf] |
(Columbia) |
“Work-Life Balance in Politics” | |
|
February 19
|
(UCLA) |
CANCELLED |
| Marianne Bertrand (Univ. of Chicago – Booth) |
“What Determines Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service” | |
| March 5 | (PUC – Rio) |
“Electoral Registration, Disenfranchisement and Public Service Provision” |
| Asim Khwaja (Harvard) |
“Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools” | |
(Columbia) |
“Muddled Information” [pdf] | |
|
March 26
|
NO SEMINAR
(Spring Break) |
|
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April 2
|
David Yanagizawa-Drott
(Harvard) |
“From Father to Son: The Intergenerational Transmission of War” [pdf] |
(Univ. of Chicago – Booth) |
“Regional Redistribution Through the U.S. Mortgage Market” [pdf] | |
(Univ. of British Columbia) |
“Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures” [pdf] | |
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April 22
(Wednesday) |
David Autor
(MIT) |
“Gentrification and Crime: Evidence from Rent Deregulation” |
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April 30
|
Monica Martinez Bravo
(CEMFI) |
“An Empirical Investigation of the Legacies of Non-Democratic Regimes: The Case of Suharto’s Mayors in Indonesia” |
|
May 7
|
David Vogel
(UC Berkeley – Haas) |
“Why the Golden State became Green” [pdf] |
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May 14
|
NO SEMINAR
|
OEW Seminar Archive
Schedule and Papers for Previous Semesters
- Spring 2015 Schedule
- Fall 2014 Schedule
- Spring 2014 Schedule
- Fall 2013 Schedule
- Spring 2013 Schedule
- Fall 2012 Schedule
- Spring 2012 Schedule
- Fall 2011 Schedule
- Spring 2011 Schedule
- Fall 2010 Schedule
- Spring 2010 Schedule
- Fall 2009 Schedule
- Spring 2009 Schedule
- Fall 2008 Schedule
- Spring 2008 Schedule
- Fall 2007 Schedule
- Spring 2007 Schedule
- Fall 2006 Schedule
- Spring 2006 Schedule
- Fall 2005 Schedule