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ISNIE 2004 : Institutions and Economic and Political Behavior

8th Annual Conference, September 30 - October 3, 2004

Tucson, Arizona
USA

Session 1 - details

  • Panel 1.1: HISTORICAL STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND REGULATION
  • Panel 1.2: PROPERTY RIGHTS, INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR
  • Panel 1.3: POLITICS, CULTURE, AND IDEOLOGY

Session II - details

  • Panel 2.1: EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MARKET INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 2.2: DISCIPLINE, COOPERATION, AND NORMS OF FAIRNESS
  • Panel 2.3: REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS

Plenary Session I

  • Terry L. Anderson (PERC and Hoover Institute)
    “Viewing the Environment through Coase-Colored Glasses”  
  • Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)
    “Yoram Barzel and the New Institutional Economics”

Session III - details

  • Panel 3.1: INSTITUTIONS AND LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • Panel 3.2: REGULATED AND DEREGULATED INDUSTRY: NEW DEVELOPMENT
  • Panel 3.3: CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
  • Panel 3.4: INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
  • Panel 3.5: TECHNOLOGY ORBIT INSTITUTIONS

Session IV - details

  • Panel 4.1: CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 4.2: WHEN FORMAL INSTITUTIONS FAIL: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA
  • Panel 4.3: ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS: TRANSMISSION AND INTERCONNECTION
  • Panel 4.4: FIRMS AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: INSTITUTIONS IN KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION
  • Panel 4.5: GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF CHINA

Douglass North (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Understanding the Process of Economic Change"

Session V - details

  • Panel 5.1: HISTORICAL APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
  • Panel 5.2: RADIO PAYOLA REVISITED: LAW AND ECONOMICS OF THIRD-PARTY PAYMENTS
  • Panel 5.3: INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY MAKING
  • Panel 5.4: INSTITUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN TRANSITION AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
  • Panel 5.5 FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION IN DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS

Session VI - details

  • Panel 6.1: ELECTRICITY MAKETS AND INSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONAL REGULATION AND COMPETITION ANALYSIS
  • Panel 6.2: INTEREST GROUPS, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY
  • Panel 6.3: LAW AND FINANCE
  • Panel 6.4: ALTERNATIVE MODES OF ORGANIZATIONS: GOVERNANCE ISSUES
  • Panel 6.5: PROPERTY RIGHTS

Plenary Session II:
Matt McCubbins (University of California at San Diego) and Jim Alt (Harvard University)
“Institutional Tradeoffs”

Session VII - details

  • Panel 7.1: AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
  • Panel 7.2: CASES FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW AND ECONOMICS: QUESTIONS OF RELEVANCE TO THE LAW THAT INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS MIGHT ANSWER
  • Panel 7.3: POLITICAL ECONOMY, INSTITUTIONS, AND REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRISE
  • Panel 7.4: INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF SOCIAL OUTCOMES
  • Panel 7.5: COMPARATIVE INSITTUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Session VIII - details

  • Panel 8.1: TCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
  • Panel 8.2: NEUROECONOMICS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 8.3: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
  • Panel 8.4: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 8.5: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT OF BANK PRIVATIZATION

Session IX - details

  • Panel 9.1: MEASURING TRANSACTION COSTS: THE COSTS OF EXCHANGE
  • Panel 9.2: ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 9.3: COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
  • Panel 9.4: PERFORMANCE OF DEMOCRACIES: WHEN DO SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS PRODUCE DISSIMILAR OUTCOMES
  • Panel 9.5: INSTITUTIONS AND THE CREATION AND USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Session X - details

  • Panel 10.1: GOVERNMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 10.2: GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
  • Panel 10.3: FIRM ORGANIZATIONS
  • Panel 10.4: UNCERTAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INCOMPLETE CONTRACTING
  • Panel 10.5: INSTITUTIONS, REFORM, AND DEVELOPMENT

Presidential Address: “Understanding Underdevelopment”
Mary Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)

Acknowledgements

  • The organizers gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the following institutions for their support to the ISNIE 2004 Conference:
  • Department of Economics, Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona
  • Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona
  • Karl Eller Center, Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona.
  • Cardon Chair, Dean Lueck, and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona
  • Kenneth and Dona Gartrell

Exhibitors

  • Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
  • Taylor and Francis Publishing