Session 7 - ISNIE 2004

Saturday, October 2nd
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

Panel 7.1: AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Organizer: Decio Zylbersztajn (University of Sao Paulo)
Chair: Kostas Karantininis (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University – Denmark)
Discussants: Mike Sykuta (University of Missouri) and Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (Fundacao Getulio Vargas-Brazil)

Governance Models in Food Production and Distribution: Analyzing Mutual Vertical Integration
Michael Cook (University of Missouri) and Constantine Iliopoulos (Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute-Athens)
Contracts for Regional Development: Inside the Coordination Black Box
Gustavo Gordillo (FAO’s Office for Latin America) and Rodrigo Wagner (FAO)
Grower Heterogeneity and Governance: Authority, Access, and Countervailing Power
George Hendrikse (Erasmus University-Rotterdam)
The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems
Thomas Reardon (Michigan State University)

Panel 7.2: CASES FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW AND ECONOMICS: QUESTIONS OF RELEVANCE TO THE LAW THAT INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS MIGHT ANSWER

Organizer: Kenneth Gartrell (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
Chair: Mark Sarro (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
Discussants: Rainer Kulms (Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law) and D. Bruce Johnsen (George Mason University)

A Rational Expectations Critique of Merger Policy Analysis
Sencer Ecer (LECG, Washington D.C.)
Secondary Markets & Efficiency in the Allocation of Slots at U.S. Airports
Daniel M. Kasper (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
The Economics of Delaware Fair Value
Brett Margolin (LECG, Philadelphia, PA)

Judicial System Performance: Impact on Economic Development
Robert M. Sherwood (International Business Counselor)

Panel 7.3: POLITICAL ECONOMY, INSTITUTIONS, AND REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRISE

Organizer: Clifford Zinnes (University of Maryland)
Chair: Jeffery B. Nugent (University of Southern California)
Discussants: Lee Alston (University of Colorado), Nauro F. Campos (University of Newcastle), and Sonja Opper (University of Tuebingen)

Institutions and Instability the World Around
Nauro F. Campos (University of Newcastle) and Jeffery B. Nugent (University of Southern California)
The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity
A. Mushfiq Mobarak and David S. Brown (both of University of Colorado-Boulder)
Explaining Improvement in Institutional Environments Through Multi-Case Research at the Organizational Level
Robert Chapman Wood (San Jose University)
Premeditated Inter-Jurisdictional Competition in Morocco to Strengthen Local Governance and Increase Donor Effectiveness
Clifford Zinnes and Patrick Meagher (both of University of Maryland)

Panel 7.4: INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF SOCIAL OUTCOMES

Chair: Thrainn Eggertson (University of Iceland)
Discussants: Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Wolfram W. Latsch (University of Washington)

Making Democrats of Dictators: Foreign Aid and Africa’s Political Liberalization
Clark Gibson (University of California-San Diego), and Barak Hoffman (University of California-San Diego)

Facets of Sovereignty: Institutions that Spur and Institutions that Retard Tribal Development
David D. Haddock (Northwestern University) and Robert J. Miller (Lewis & Clark University)
Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Effects of Accountability and Obstacles to Policy Change
Allen Hicken (University of Michigan), Shanker Satyanath and Ernest Sergenti (both of New York University)
Social Mobility, Institutional Choice, and Economic Performance: Germany From the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Oliver Volckart (Humboldt University)

Panel 7.5: COMPARATIVE INSITTUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Organizer: Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)
Chair: Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)
Discussants: Mary Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute) and Pablo Spiller (University of California at Berkeley)