THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
Spring 2009 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 Talk/Paper
January 22
Paul Gertler
(UCB - Haas) 		Paying Medical Care Providers for Performance: Evidence From a Randomized Trail in Rwanda. [Note: Paper not available for this talk.]
January 29
Dean Lueck
(Arizona)

"Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions"
February 5
Raffi Amit
(Wharton)
 "Family Control of Firms and Industries"
February 12
Petra Moser
(Stanford)

"Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act"
February 19
Glen Weyl
(Harvard)
"Pass-Through as an Economic Tool". For a copy of the slides, click here.
February 26
Asim Ijaz Khwaja
(Harvard)
The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
March 5
Ernesto Dal Bo
(UCB - Haas)

"Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing"
March 12
Ernesto Schargrodsky (Stanford)
"Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring"
March 19
Tracy Lewis
(Duke Univ - Econ)
"Delegating Search Agents"
March 26
NO MEETING
 SPRING BREAK
April 2
Avner Greif
(Stanford)


Risk, Institutions and Growth: Why England and Not China?
April 9


Witold Henisz
(Wharton / Stanford)

"Preferences, Structure, Influence: The Engineering of Consent"

April 16
Bart Hamilton
(Wash Univ.)
 "The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers"
April 23
Charles William
(Duke Univ.)
 "Promoting Inertia: How Executive Links Reduce Entry and Exit in Medical Firms"
April 30
Oliver Williamson
(UCB - Haas)
"The Economics of Organization -- with Reference to Transaction Cost Economics and More Generally"
May 7
Kevin Murphy
(USC)
 "Executive Pay and 'Independent' Compensation Consultants"


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)