THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Fall 2010 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).

To schedule an appointment to meet with a speaker, click here: Speaker Schedule
Date
Speaker
Title of Talk/Paper
September 2
James Andreoni
(UCSD)

"Diverging Opinions"
September 9
NO MEETING
(Rosh Hashanah)

NO MEETING
September 16

Dylan Minor
(Berkeley-Haas)

"Corporate Social Responsibility as Reputation Insurance: Theory & Evidence"
September 23
Justin Tumlinson
(Berkeley-Haas)
"Adverse Selection in Team Formation Under Discrimination"
September 30
Bryan Hong
(Berkeley-Haas)

The Cost of a New Boss: Individual Relationships, Hierarchy, and Firm Performance
October 7
Andrea Prat
(LSE)
"Screening With an Approximate Type Space"
October 14*
James Roberts
(Duke)

"Selective Entry and the Optimality of Auctions"

*[Note: This session is jointly offered with the IO seminar series.]
October 21

Sharon Poczter
(Berkeley-Haas)

"The Long Term Effects of a Bank Bailout Program: Evidence from an Emerging Market"
October 28*
Kate Ho
(Columbia)

"Physician Responses to Financial Incentives: Evidence from Hospital Discharge Data"

*[Note: This session is jointly offered with the IO seminar series.]
November 4*

Volker Nocke
(Oxford)

"Merger Policy With Merger Choice"

*[Note: This session is jointly offered with the IO seminar series.]
November 11
NO MEETING
(Veterans Day)
NO MEETING
November 18
Francesco Trebbi
(U. British Columbia)
 "Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process"
November 25

NO MEETING
(Thanksgiving)

NO MEETING
December 2

Stefano DellaVigna
(Berkeley Econ.)

Does Media Concentration Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews

[Note: Hard copy of paper available only.]
December 9
Ignacio Esponda
(NYU Stern)
 "Information Aggregation Under Non-Strategic Voting"


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. Ernesto Dal Bo (dalbo@haas.berkeley.edu) or Anita Stephens, IMIO (stephens@haas.berkeley.edu)