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THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Fall 2013 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 IBI 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 5

 

NO MEETING

MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
September 12
Stephane Straub
(Toulouse Sch. of Econ.)

Road Access and the Spatial Pattern of Long-Term Local Development in Brazil
September 19
Torsten Persson (Institute for Int'l Econ. Studies - Stockholm)
Preferential Voting and the Selection of Party Leaders: Evidence from Sweden
September 26
Michael Luca
(Harvard Bus. Sch.)

Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud
October 3
Heidi Williams
(MIT - Econ.)
Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials
October 10
Andrei Hagiu
(Harvard Bus. Sch.)

Marketplace or Reseller?
October 17

Chris Rider
(Emory Gouzieta Sch. of Bus.)

Educational Credentials, Hiring, and Intra-Occupational Inequality: Evidence from Law Firm Dissolutions
October 24
Jessica Goldberg
(Maryland - Econ.)

Commitments to Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
October 31

Petra Moser
(Stanford Econ.)

Dead Poets' Property - Do Stronger Copyrights Rights Increase Price?
November 7
NO MEETING
 NO MEETING
November 14
Jeremy Fox
(Univ. of MIchigan)
 Estimating Matching Games with Transfers
November 21
Avner Greif
(Stanford - Econ.)

The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe
November 28

NO MEETING
(Thanksgiving)

NO MEETING
December 5
Yona Rubinstein
(London Sch. of Econ.)
 Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?
December 12
Dennis Yao
(Harvard Bus. Sch.)

TIME CHANGE: THIS SEMINAR WILL BE HELD 2 - 4 PM (C325)

TBA


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. Rui de Figueiredo (rui@haas.berkeley.edu) or Penny Hennagir, IBI (hennagir@haas.berkeley.edu)