Session 8 - ISNIE 2004

Saturday, October 2nd
10:30 – 11:55 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

Panel 8.1: TCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Chair: Oliver Williamson (University of California – Berkeley)
Discussants: Witold Heinsz (Wharton School of Business) and Claude Menard (University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne)

Do Transaction Costs Matter for Survival At All Stages of the Industry Lifecycle?
Nicholas Argyres (Boston University) and Lyda Bigelow (Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis)
TCE and Marketing Problems: Progress, Uses, and Limitations
George John and Ragunath Rao (both University of Minnesota)
Family Feud or Happy Marriage? Governance and Competence Perspectives on the Multinational Firm and International Alliances
Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)
Pragmatic Methodology and the Theory of the Firm
Oliver Williamson (University of California-Berkeley)

Panel 8.2: NEUROECONOMICS AND INSTITUTIONS

Organizer: Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)
Chair: Rick Geddes (Cornell University)
Discussants: Rick Geddes (Cornell University), Dan Houser (George Mason University), and Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)

Neural Foundations of Uncertainty-Aversion and Time Discounting
Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
Individual Differences in Cognition and Behavior
Dan Houser (George Mason University)
Working For Self or Others
Kevin McCabe (George Mason University)
Dihydrotestosterone Responds to Social Signals of Distrust in Men but Not in Women
Bill Matzner (Claremont Graduate College)
Oxytocin is Associated with Interpersonal Trust in Humans
Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)

Panel 8.3: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY

Chair: Michael Hiscox (Harvard University)
Discussants: Michael Hiscox (Harvard University) and Scott Kastner (University of Maryland)

Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?
Jeffrey Bergstrand (University of Notre Dame) and Scott Baier (Clemson University)
Membership Has Its Privileges: The Impact of GATT on International Trade
Judith Goldstein, Douglas Rivers, and Michael Tomz (all of Stanford University)
Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations
Massimo Morelli (Ohio State University) and Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University)
National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
Kyle Bagwell (Columbia University) and Robert W. Staiger (University of Wisconsin)

Panel 8.4: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS

Chair: Charles Palmer (University of Bonn, Center for Development Research)
Discussants: Sebastian Galiani (University of San Andres/ Washington University in St. Louis) and Melissa Thomasson (Miami University of Ohio)

The Prohibition of Alcohol Revisited: The U.S. Case in an International Perspective
Ruth Dupré (HEC)
Government Intervention and Its Effects on Nineteenth Century Water Policy
Terry L. Anderson (Hoover Institution and PERC) and P.J. Hill (Wheaton College and PERC)
The Common Law of Tort Liability: Bursting Dams in Two Counties in Gold Rush California
Mark Kanazawa (Carleton College)

Panel 8.5: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT OF BANK PRIVATIZATION

Chair: Mary Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)
Discussants: Phil Hoffman (California Institute of Technology) and Philip Keefer (World Bank)