THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS (formerly IDS270)
Fall 2007 Schedule
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis 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 the IMIO Conference room located in room F402 (in the Faculty Wing of the Haas School).

Speaker Meeting Schedule: To schedule an appointment to meet with a speaker, contact Anita Stephens.
Date
Speaker
Title of Paper
August 30
John Morgan
(UCB-Haas)

Efficient Information Aggregation with Costly Voting and Sincere Voting and Information Aggregation with Voting Costs
September 6
Pablo Spiller
(UCB-Haas)

The Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in the Mid-XXth Century

September 13
NO MEETING
(Rosh Hashanah)
 NO MEETING
September 20
Chad Syverson
(Chicago)

Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence
September 27
John Hatfield
(Stanford GSB)
Federalism, Tax Base Restrictions, and the Provision of Intergenerational Public Goods
October 4
Joanne Oxley
(Toronto)
 The Determinants of Dispute Resolution Mode in Inter-Firm Contracts
October 11
Paul Gertler
(UCB-Haas)
Sex Work and Infection: What's Law Enforcement Got to Dot With It?
October 18
Scott Masten
(Univ. of Michgan)
Durability, Reliability, and the Limits of Reputation
October 25
Tim Simcoe
(Toronto)
Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox
November 1
Victor Nee
(Cornell Univ.)
Bureaucracy and Financial Markets
November 8
Bernard Yeung
(NYU)
Institutional Determinants of Vertical Integration: Evidence from China
November 15
Steve Tadelis
(Haas-UCB)
 The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust
November 22
NO MEETING (Thanksgiving Holiday)
NO MEETING
November 29
Nicholas Economides
(NYU )
 Two-Sided Competition of Proprietary vs. Open Source Technology Platforms and the Implications for Software Industry
December 6
Kevin McCabe
(GMU)
 Neural Correlates of Trust and Supporting Information [Figures 1-4, Figures 1-6].


Copies of papers to be presented or related background reading will be available in Room F402, Haas School (Institute for Business Innovation); and in Room 611 Evans Hall (Department of Economics).

For information, contact Prof. Pablo Spiller (spiller@haas.berkeley.edu), or Anita Stephens, IMIO (stephens@haas.berkeley.edu)