Session 10 - ISNIE 2004

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

Panel 10.1: GOVERNMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS

Chair: TBA
Discussants: Jeffery B. Nugent (University of Southern California) and Itai Sened (Washington University in St. Louis)

International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Witold J. Henisz (University of Pennsylvania), Bennet A. Zelner (Georgetown University) and Mauro F. Guillén (University of Pennsylvania)
An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts
Pablo T. Spiller (University of California – Berkeley)
Regulatory Effectiveness: The Impact of Good Regulatory Governance on Electricity Industry Capacity and Efficiency in Developing Countries
John Cubbin (City University-UK) and Jon Stern (London Business School)

Panel 10.2: GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS

Chair: John Wallis (University of Maryland)
Discussants: Troy Paredes (Washington University in St. Louis) and James Stewart (Reed College)

Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry
Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
Credibility, Rules and Power in the European Union Institutions: A Transactions Analysis of the ‘Stability and Growth Pact’
Abel Caballero, Gonzalo Caballero, and Abel Losada (all of University of Vigo)
The Global Farmer: Typology, Institutions, and Organization
Kostas Karantininis (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University – Denmark) and Decio Zylbersztajn (University of Sao Paulo)

Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption: American States and Constitutional Change, 1842 – 1852
John Wallis (University of Maryland)

Panel 10.3: FIRM ORGANIZATIONS

Chair: Rosemarie Ziedonis (University of Michigan)
Discussants: Howard Shelanski (University of California at Berkeley) and Janet Bercovitz (Duke University)

Ownership, Control and Performance in Swedish Listed Companies
Per-Olof Bjuggren, Johan Eklund and Daniel Wiberg (all of Jonkoping International Business School)
Technology Investment in Small Firms: A Transaction Cost Explanation
Demian Castillo (University of the Americas)
Inter-Firm Technological Spillovers Through Mobility of Scientists and the Organization of R&D
Simona Lup (University of Arizona)

Panel 10.4: UNCERTAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INCOMPLETE CONTRACTING

Organizer: Dean Williamson (U.S. Department of Justice)
Chair: Joanne E. Oxley (University of Toronto)
Discussants: Peter Klein (University of Missouri) and Arvids A. Ziedonis (University of Michigan)

Incentives Verses Synergies in Markets for Talent
Bharat Anand (Harvard University), Alexander Galetovic and Alvaro Stein (both of University of Chile)
The Determinants of Success in R&D Alliances
Jeffery H. Dyer (Brigham Young University), Benjamin C. Powell (University of Alabama), Mariko Sakakibara (University of California – Los Angeles), and Andrew J. Wang (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
How Do Consortia Organize Collaborative R&D? Evidence From the National Cooperative Research Act
Suzanne Majewski (Harvard University) and Dean Williamson (U.S. Department of Justice)
Termination as Sole Remedy in Contracts
Rachelle C. Sampson (New York University)

Panel 10.5: INSTITUTIONS, REFORM, AND DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Kenneth Koford (University of Delaware)
Discussants: Sonja Opper (University of Tuebingen) and Alan Dye (Barnard College)