Session 6 - ISNIE 2004

Friday, October 1st
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

Panel 6.1: ELECTRICITY MAKETS AND INSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONAL REGULATION AND COMPETITION ANALYSIS

Chair: Jean-Michel Glachant (University of Paris XI)
Discussants: Dominique FINON (CIRED, Ecole des Hautes Etudes EHESS and CNRS-Paris) and Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario)

Investment Incentives and Dynamic Efficiency in Electricity Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Céline Jullien (University of Grenoble), Lynne Kiesling (IFREE and Northwestern University), Carine Staropoli (University of Paris-Sorbonne), and Dean Williamson (U.S. Department of Justice)
Policy Evolution, Institutional Response and Performance in India’s Electricity Sector Reforms
Kameswara Rao (PWC-India)
Are Highly Competitive Power Markets Sustainable?
Anthony White (Anthony White Consulting)
The Electricity Industry in Canada: Reregulation Without Deregulation
Andonis Yatchew (University of Toronto)

Panel 6.2: INTEREST GROUPS, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY

Organizer and Chair: Philip Keefer (World Bank)
Discussants: Michael Hiscox (Harvard University) and Marc Law (University of Vermont)

U.S. Domestic Politics and International Monetary Fund Policy
J. Lawrence Broz and Michael Brewster Hawes (both of University of California – San Diego)
Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence
Allen Drazen, Nuno Limao (both of University of Maryland), and Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University)
A Time and Place to Lobby
John M. de Figueiredo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

Party Finance and Party Development
Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin) and Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School)

Panel 6.3: LAW AND FINANCE

Chair: Frank Stephen (University of Strathclyde)
Discussants: Christian Harm (University of Muenster) and Thorsten Beck (World Bank)

Corruption in Commercial Courts in Georgia
Omar Azfar (University of Maryland)
Financial Intermediation and the Incompleteness of Law
Bruno Deffains (University of Nancy)
Entrepreneurial Activity and Legal Institutions
Frank Stephen (University of Strathclyde), David Urbanno, and Stefan Van Hemmen (both of Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians: Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator
Stefan Voigt (University of Kassel), Lars Feld (Philips University-Marburg), and Anne van Aaken (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Public Law)

Panel 6.4: ALTERNATIVE MODES OF ORGANIZATIONS: GOVERNANCE ISSUES

Chair: Claude Menard (University of Paris – Pantheon Sorbonne)
Discussants: Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto) and Anne Yvrande-Billon (University of Paris – Pantheon Sorbonne)

Contract Design Capabilities and Contract Performance by High Technology Firms: Implications for the Roles of Managers, Engineers, and Lawyers
Nick Argyres (Boston University), and Kyle Mayer (University of Southern California)
Delegation and Real Authority in Franchise Chains
Paulo F. Azevedo (Fundacao Getulio Vargas), and Andre G. Alves Silva (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
The Survivor Principle in Organizational Economics Research: An Application from Corporate Diversification
Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Lasse B. Lien (Norwegian School of Business and Economics)
Linking Strategic and Governance Choices with An Application to Quality Labeling in Agrofood sectors
Emmanuel Raynaud (INRA, SAD, & ATOM), Loic Sauvee (Institut Superieur Agronomique de Beauvais), and Egizio Valceschini (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

Panel 6.5: PROPERTY RIGHTS

Organizer and Chair: Rick Geddes (Cornell University)
Discussants: Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)