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THE OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Spring 2012 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
January 26
Lamar Pierce
(Wash U Olin Sch.)

Learning from Peers

February 2
Tim Groseclose
(UCLA Political Sci)

Bias in a Laboratory Simulation of a Signaling Game with Implications for the Influence of the News Media

February 9*
David Dranove
(Northwestern Kellogg
)

TBA

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

February 16*
Aviv Nevo
(Northwestern Kellogg)

TBA

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

February 23*
Chris Nosko
(Havard Econ/ eBay Research)

TBA

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

March 1
Don Moore
(Berkeley-Haas)

TBA

March 8
Ann Marie Knott
(Wash U Olin Sch.)

TBA

March 15

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
(Harvard Bus Sch.)

Competing Complements

March 22
NO SEMINAR
(Cancelled)

NO SEMINAR

March 29

NO SEMINAR (Spring Break)

NO SEMINAR

April 5
Oliver Williamson (Berkeley-Haas)
Transaction Cost Economics: What are the Questions?
April 12
Karthik Muralidharan (UCSD Econ.)
Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India
April 19

Felix Oberholzer-Gee
(Harvard Bus Sch.)

No News is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events

April 26

Judea Pearl
(UCLA Computer Science)

Trygve Haavelmo and the Emergence of Causal Calculus

The Causal Foundations of Structural Equation Modeling

Transportability Across Studies: A Formal Approach

[Note: There are three papers]

May 3

Grigore Pop-Eleches
(Princeton Politics and WWS)

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 deFigueiredo (rui@haas.berkeley.edu) or Penny Hennagir, IBI (hennagir@haas.berkeley.edu)