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Session 4 - ISNIE 2004

Friday, October 1st
10:30 – 11:55 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

 Panel 4.1: CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONS

Organizer and Chair: Dean Lueck(University of Arizona)
Discussants: Daniel Ackerberg and Robert Innes (both of University of Arizona)

  • Unlikely Customs: Simple Cropshare Fractions Versus Continuous Cash Rents In Agriculture
    Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)
  • Is There A Need for Lawyers in Conveyancing?
    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)
  • Generalized and Particularized Trust in Organizations
    Harvey James and Michael E. Sykuta (both of University of Missouri- Columbia)
  • Oligopsony Power, Asset Specificity and Hold-Up: Evidence from the Broiler Industry
    Tom Vukina (North Carolina State University)

Panel 4.2: WHEN FORMAL INSTITUTIONS FAIL: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA

Organizer: Noel Maurer (Harvard University)
Chair: Stephen Haber (Stanford University)
Discussants: Aldo Mussachio(Harvard University) and Hernando Zuleta (ITAM)

  • Networks, Discipline, and Idiosyncratic Risks in Mexican Banks, 1950-1980
    Gustavo A. Del Angel-Mobarak (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica)
  • Patent Protection in Late Industrialization: The Case of Mexico 1870-1910
    Ted Beatty (University of Notre Dame)
  • Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
    Stephen Haber (Stanford University) and Noel Maurer (Harvard University)
  • Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
    Kris James Mitchener(Santa Clara University) and Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna College)

Panel 4.3: ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS: TRANSMISSION AND INTERCONNECTION

Chair: Stephen Littlechild (University of Cambridge)
Discussants: Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) andPablo Spiller  (University of California at Berkeley)

  • Governance of Competitive Transmission Investment in Weak Institutional Systems
    Manuel A. Abdala (LECG)
  • Transmission Investment Decisions in a Club with Imperfect Representation: The Case of Argentina in the Nineties
    Omar O. Chisari and Carlos A. Romero (both of University of Argentina)
  • Electricity Transmission and the “Short Law” in Chile: Why Competitive Bidding is Better than Regulation
    Alexander Galetovic (University of Chile) and Juan Ricardo Inostroza (AES Gener S.A)
  • Congestion Management in Electrical Interconnections Around Italy
    Pippo Ranci (Former President, Electricity and Gas Authority-Italy)

  • Panel 4.4: FIRMS AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: INSTITUTIONS IN KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION

Organizer and Chair: Zeynep Hansen (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussants: Zeynep Hansen(Washington University in St. Louis) andArvids Ziedonis (University of Michigan)

  • Defying Distance: Examining the Diaspora on Knowledge Flows
    Ajay K. Agrawal (University of Toronto), Devesh Kapur (Harvard University), and John McHale (Queen’s University)
  • Academic Entrepreneurs: Social Learning and Participation in University-Industry Technology Transfer
    Janet Bercovitz (Duke University) and Maryann Feldman (University of Toronto)
  • Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
    Marc T. Law (University of Vermont), Gary J. Miller and Joseph M. Tonon (both of Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Opening the Dam or Building Channels: University Patenting and the Use of Public Science in Industrial Innovation
    Kira Makiewicz (University of California - Berkeley)

Panel 4.5 GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF CHINA

Chair: Sonja Opper (University of Tuebingen)
Discussants: John Drobak (Washington University in St. Louis) and Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California)

  • China as A Transition Economy: Political Versus Institutional Change
    John Groenwegen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • China’s Resource Mobilizing Networks: Alternatives to Legal Property Rights for Economic Development
    Hans Hendrischke (University of New South Whales – Sydney)
  • Political Economy of Labor Retrenchment: Evidence based on China’s SOEs
    Yifan Hu (Hong Kong University), Sonja Opper (University of Tuebinger) and Sonia Wong (Hong Kong University)
  • Entrepreneurship in Transition: Searching for Incentives and Governance in China’s Private Sector
    Barbara Krug (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Hans Hendrischke (University of New South Whales – Sydney)