Date
|
Speaker
|
Title of Talk/Paper
|
January 18
|
Oliver Williamson
(Emeritus Haas-UCB)
|
"Corporate
Boards of Directos: A Dual Purpose (Efficiency) Perspective"
|
January 25
|
Michael Tomz
(Stanford)
|
The Credibility
of International Commitments [Papers attached are: "Domestic
Audience Costs in International Relations: An Experimental Approach"
AND "The Effects of International Agreements on Foreign Policy
Preferences"] Note: These 2 papers are in one pdf
file.
|
February 1
|
Preston McAfee
(Cal Tech)
|
"Firms,
Queues, and Coffee Breaks: A Flow Model of the Corporation with Human
Delays" |
February 8
|
James Anton
(Duke Fuqua)
|
"Quality
Upgrades and (the Loss of) Market Power in a Dynamic Monopoly Model"
|
February 15
|
Eric Van den Steen
(MIT Sloan)
|
"Interpersonal Authority in a Theory
of the Firm" .
[Note: The Speaker will meet with interested students in the Lester
Center Conference Room located in room F451 of the Haas School of
Business NOT the IMIO Conference room for this meeting.] |
February 22
|
Nick Bloom
(Stanford)
|
"It
Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do I.T.: Investigating the
US Productivity Miracle Using Multinationals" |
March 1
|
Severin Borenstein, Mechan Busse & Ryan Kellogg
(UCB-Haas)
|
"Security
of Supply and Forward Price Premia: Evidence from the Natural Gas
Industry" |
March 8
|
Rafael Di Tella
(HBS)
|
"Crime
and Punishment in the 'American Dream'" |
March 15
|
Brandice Canes-Wrone
(Princeton)
|
"Partisan Signals and Democratic
Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions"
[Note: The following paper is available for those interested in the
formal theory.] "When
Do Elections Encourage Ideological Rigidity?" |
March 22
|
Tom Hubbard
(Northwestern-Kellogg)
|
"The
Return to Knowledge Hierarchies" |
March 29
|
NO MEETING
|
SPRING
BREAK |
*April 5
|
Ben Jones
(Northwestern-Kellogg)
|
"Age
and Great Inveniton"
*[Note: This session is jointly offered with the Lester Center Kauffman
Research Series] |
*April 12
|
David Scharfstein
(HBS)
|
Skill vs Luck in Entrepreneurship
and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
*[Note: This session will be held in room C220 Cheit Hall, and
is jointly offered with the Lester Center Kauffman Research Series
and the Finance Group.] |
April 19
|
Sebastian Galiani
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
|
Property
Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling |
April 26
|
Robert Gibbons
(MIT Sloan)
|
"What
Do Managers Do? Suggestive Evidence and Initial Theories About Building
Relationships" |
May
3
|
Eric Zitzewitz
(Stanford GSB)
|
An
Eliot Effect? Prosecutorial Discretion in Mutual Fund Settlement Negotiations,
2003-2007 |