Session 9 - ISNIE 2004
Saturday, October 2nd
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Five Parallel Sessions
Panel 9.1: MEASURING TRANSACTION COSTS: THE COSTS OF EXCHANGE
Organizers: Alexandra Benham (Ronald Coase Institute) and Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis and Ronald Coase Institute)
Chair: Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis and Ronald Coase Institute)
Discussants: Simeon D. Djankov (World Bank), Sebastian Galiani (University of San Andres/ Washington University in St. Louis) and Howard Stein (University of Michigan)
- Measuring Some Dimensions of Transaction Costs: The Costs of Exchange
Alexandra Benham (Ronald Coase Institute), and Lee Benham (Washington University in St. Louis and Ronald Coase Institute) - Costs of Exchange in Peru
Miguel Jaramillo (Group of Analysis for Development-Peru) - Hard To Bear, Hard to Measure: The Costs of Small Business Legislation in Ukraine
Olga N. Nashchekina (Kharkov Polytechnic Institute-Ukraine) and Igor V. Timoshenkov (People’s Ukrainian Academy-Ukraine) - Ex-Ante Transaction Costs: Measuring the Cost of Entrance in Brazilian Small Firms
Decio Zylbersztajn, Frederico Faccioli, and Rodrigo Frtoa Silveira (all of University of São Paulo)
Panel 9.2: ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND INSTITUTIONS
Chair: Oliver Volckart (Humboldt University)
Discussants: Shawn Humphrey (California State University-San Marcos) and Oliver Volckart (Humboldt University)
- Good Governance and Municipal Health Status
Basilia Aguirre (University of Sao Paulo) - The Role of Innovative Banking in the South African Low Income Housing Finance Market
Laura Ebert (Marist College) - Yardstick Competition and Learning in Public Policy – A Critical Assessment of the Open Method of Coordination of the EU
Martina Eckardt (University of Rostock) and Wolfgang Kerber (Phillipps University) - Irrelevant Externality Angst
David D. Haddock (Northwestern University)
Panel 9.3: COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Organizer and Chair: John N. Drobak (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussants: Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University) and John N. Drobak (Washington University in St. Louis)
- European Corporate Governance: A Path to Market Efficiency
Rainer Kulms (Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law) - Why the Islamic Middle East Did not Generate Corporate Law through Indigenous Means
Timur Kuran (University of Southern California) - Choice as Regulatory Reform: The Case of Japanese Corporate Governance
Ronald J. Gilson and Curtis J. Milhaupt (Columbia University) - Competing Models of Corporate Law: Corporate Governance and Economic Development
Troy Paredes (Washington University in St. Louis)
Panel 9.4: PERFORMANCE OF DEMOCRACIES: WHEN DO SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS PRODUCE DISSIMILAR OUTCOMES
Organizer and Chair: Philip Keefer (World Bank)
Discussants: Jim Alt (Harvard University) and Shanker Satyanath (New York University)
- Constitutions and Democratic Breakdowns
Alicia Adsera and Carles Boix (both University of Illinois-Chicago) - Fiscal Decentralization and The Electoral Control of Politicians
Scott Gelbach (University of Wisconsin) - Credibility, Clientelism and Democracy
Philip Keefer (World Bank) - Political Competition and Fiscal Federalism in India
Jonathan Rodden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Steven Wilkinson (Duke University)
Panel 9.5: INSTITUTIONS AND THE CREATION AND USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Rosemarie Ziedonis (University of Michigan)
Discussants: Gary Libecap (University of Arizona) and Rachelle Sampson (New York University)
- Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Jeffery L. Furman (Boston University) and Scott Stern (Northwestern University) - Committees and the Creation of Technical Standards
Tim Simcoe (University of California-Berkeley) - Research Consortia and the Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: Insights from SEMATECH
Arvids A Ziedonis, Rosemarie Ziedonis (both of University of Michigan) and Brian Silverman (University of Toronto) - Doing R&D in Countries with Weak IPR Protection: Can Corporate Management Substitute for Legal Institutions?
Minyuan Zhao (New York University)