ISNIE celebrates Oliver Williamson's 80th Birthday
Oliver Williamson is the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He has been awarded 13 honorary degrees. He has been a Fulbright Professor, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, and a John von Neumann Lecturer. He was awarded the 1988 Irwin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, the H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics for 2004, and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2007. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009.
Williamson is a co-founder of ISNIE, along with Ronald H. Coase and Douglass C. North, and a main figure in the development of the New Institutional Economics. He served two terms as ISNIE President (1999-2000 and 2000-2001). His 1985 book, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting, is said to be the most frequently cited work in social science research and, along with his books Markets and Hierarchies (1975) and The Mechanisms of Governance (1996), central to the NIE literature.
In the framework of the 2013 ISNIE conference a session honors Professor Williamson in his 80th year and celebrates his many and diverse contributions to the study of institutions and organizations.
Friday June 21st, 11:00-12:30, Room A.4
OLIVER WILLIAMSON AT 80, TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AT 40
Organizers: Brian S. Silverman and Peter G. Klein
Chair: Brian S. Silverman
Presenters:
- Janet Bercovitz, Jiyoon Chung and
Joseph Mahoney
Beyond the Dyad: Taking Stock and Moving Forward - Peter G. Klein
Transaction Cost Entrepreneurship - Charles Cameron, John de Figueiredo and David Lewis,
Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-control Trade-off - Ricard Gil and Christian Ruzzier
'Make or Buy' As Competitive Strategy: Evidence from the Spanish Local Tv Industry - Oliver Williamson
Adaptive, Sequential Decision Making: Transaction Cost Economics in the Early Years
