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ISNIE 2006: Institutions: Economic, Political and Social Behavior

Boulder, Colorada, USA
September 21-24, 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Panel 1.1: NEW MARKET ARRANGEMENTS

Panel 1.2: INSTITUTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Panel 1.3: TOPICS IN LAW AND DEVELOPMENT

Panel 1.4: CORRUPTION AND STATE

  • When the Tiger’s Tooth Becomes Sharper: The Role of Political Competition on the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Penalties
    Carlos Mauricio Figueiredo, Marcus André Melo (both of Federal University of Pernambuco), and Carlos Pereira (Michigan State University)
  • Using Institutional Change to Estimate the Effects of Institutions: Election Fraud in and Turnout in Mexico
    Alberto Simpser (University of Chicago)
  • Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
    Frederico Finan (University of California-Berkeley)
  • Reducing Costs of Exchange by Combating Corruption in Procurement
    Roderica Taduran Stamer (University of the Philippines)

Plenary Session I – Keynote Address

The Natural State: Or Why Economic Development Is So Difficult to Achieve
Douglass C. North
Nobel Laureate for 1993 in Economics and Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, September 22, 2006

Panel 2.1: INTERFIRM NETWORKS AND GEOGRAPHY

Panel 2.2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRADE POLICY

  • Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress
    Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia) and Francesco Trebbi (University of Chicago)
  • Does Decentralization Create Inefficiencies? Water Pollution Spillovers from the Redrawing of County Boundaries in Brazil
    Molly Lipscomb and A. Mushfiq Mobarak (University of Colorado-Boulder)
  • Trade and Inequality in Developing Countries: The Role of Workers Self-Selection
    Bernardo Blum (University of Toronto) and Marcos Rangel (University of Chicago)
  • Is Mortality in Developing Countries Procyclical? Evidence from Colombia’s Coffee Growing Regions
    Grant Miller (Stanford University Medical School) and Peidad Urdinola (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Panel 2.3: FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS

Panel 2.4: CONTRACTS

  • The Pricing of Durable Lemons
    Lennon H.T. Choy (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and K.W. Chau (University of Hong Kong)
  • The “Double Aims” Regulation Impact of the Governance of the White Wine Transactions: A New Institutional Approach
    M’hand Fares, Magali Aubert, and Jean-Pierre Laporte (all of UMR MOISA)
  • Contractual Governance and Opportunism: Effect of Control and Coordination on Enforcement Costs
    Fabrice Lumineau and Bertrand Quélin (both of HEC Paris)
  • Information Asymmetry, Profit Sharing and the Over-quota Harvesting: A Contract Theory Approach and its Empirical Evidence
    Jiegen Wei (Goteborg University)

Panel 2.5: TRANSACTION COSTS AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Panel 3.1: CONTRACTS AND RURAL MARKETS IN THE LONG RUN

Panel 3.2: LAND USE CHANGE AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES: CASE STUDIES FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

  • Rapid Social and Economic Change in Northern Tanzania: the Influence of Land Tenure, the Gem Business, and Conservation
    J. Terrance McCabe (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Paul Leslie (University of North Carolina)
  • Parks, Livelihood Diversification, and Perception of Risk and Uncertainty in Northern Tanzania
    Paul Leslie and T. Baird (both of University of North Carolina), H. Kiwasila and N. Madulu (both of University of Dares-Salaam), and J. Terrance McCabe (University of Colorado-Boulder)
  • Governance and the Transformability of Socio-Ecological Systems in Southern Africa
    Brian Child (University of Florida-Gainesville)
  • Understanding Institutional Emergence: Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya
    Carolyn Lesorogol (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Institutional Reforms and Economic Performance in Nigeria: An Evaluation Under the Needs Reform Agenda
    Friday K. Ohuche (African Institute for Applied Economics)

Panel 3.3: REGULATORY GOVERNANCE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Panel 3.4: THE POLITICS OF MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES

Panel 3.5: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC POLICIES, AND LAW

Finalists for the First Annual ISNIE Ph.D. Dissertation Award to present a brief summary of their research during lunch: chaired by Lee Benham

  • Communication Technologies: Commercial Adoption and Institutional Environment
    Veneta Andonova (Universidad de Los Andes)
  • Decentralization Puzzles: A Political Economy Analysis of Irrigation Reform in the Philippines
    Eduardo K. Araral, Jr. (Lee Kuan School of Public Policy)
  • How Should Standards be Set and Met? An Incomplete Contracting Approach to Delegation in Regulation
    Cynthia Lin (University of California-Davis)

Panel 4.1: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

Panel 4.2: ORGANIZATION AND PERFORMANCE

Panel 4.3: CONTRACTS AND PRIVATE ORDERING

  • On the Economics of Obligation, Performance, and Breach
    Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)
  • The Interaction of Implicit and Explicit Contracts in Construction and Procurement Contracting
    Kenneth Corts (University of Toronto)
  • The Economics of Multilevel Governance
    Eric Brousseau (University of Paris X)
  • Institutional Design Under Delegated Contracting and Auditing: Auditing the Contract Offer Versus Auditing Production
    Wolfgang Gick (Dartmouth College)

Panel 4.4: THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF LEGAL INSTITUTIONS

Panel 4.5: INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Panel 5.1: LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CONTROL

  • Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
    Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law) and Cynthia Williams (University of Illinois Law School)
  • Coordination, Property & Intellectual Property: An Unconventional Approach to Anticompetitive Effects & Downstream Access
    F. Scott Kieff (Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and The Hoover Institute)
  • Organization, Control and the Single Entity Defense in Antitrust
    Dean V. Williamson (US Department of Justice)

Panel 5.2: INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Panel 5.3: REGULATION AND INSTITUTIONS

  • The Governance of Quality: The Case of the Agrifood Industry
    Marta Fernandez Barcala, Manuel Gonzalez-Diaz (both of University of Oviedo), and Emmanuel Raynaud (INRA, SADAPT, & ATOM - University of Paris I)
  • Allocation of Control Rights in Fruit and Vegetable Contracts
    Yamei Hu and George Hendrikse (both of Erasmus University-Rotterdam)
  • Does the Vertical Organization of Brand Ownership Matter? The Case of Fluid Milk in Boston
    George John (University of Minnesota), Xinlei Chen, Tirtha Dhar (both of University of British Columbia), and Om Narasimhan (University of Minnesota)
  • Regulating for Public Health: Efficaciousness of State Alcohol Regulations
    Michelle Mullins, Michael Sykuta, and Jeffrey Milyo (all of University of Missouri-Columbia)
  • Industry Voluntary Approaches to Food Safety: Does Heterogeneity Matter?
    Elodie Rouvière, Céline Bignebat, and Jean Marie Codron (all of INRA, UMR MOISA)

Panel 5.4: AUTHORITARIANISM AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS

  • Political Transitions in Warring States
    Matthew Dimick and Scott Gehlbach (both of University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Does Oil Promote Democracy?Regime Change in Rentier States
    Thad Dunning (University of California-Berkeley)
  • Why Do Some Autocracies Succeed?
    Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Philip Keefer (World Bank Development Research Group)
  • Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse
    Konstantin Sonin, Sergei Guriev (both of New Economic School) and Georgy Egorov (Harvard University)

Panel 5.5: BUDGETARY POLICY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

  • Who Decides on Public Expenditures? A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America
    Carlos Scartascini and Ernesto Stein (both of Inter-American Developmental Bank)
  • The Politics of the Budget Policymaking Process in Ecuador
    Andres Mejia (University of British Columbia) and Vincente Albornoz (CORDES)
  • The Political Economy of the Budget Process in Venezuela
    José Manuel Puente, Aberlardo Daza, Alesia Rodriugez (all of IESA), and Germán Rios (CAF)
  • The Political Economy of the Budgetary Policy in Brazil
    Lee Alston (University of Colorado-Boulder), Marcus Melo (Federal University of Pernambuco-Brazil), Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasília), and Carlos Pereira (Michigan State University)

Panel 6.1: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNMENT FINANCE

Panel 6.2: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONS

Panel 6.3: THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS OF MARKETS

Panel 6.4: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION PANEL

Panel 7.1: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRY REGULATION

Panel 7.2: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS

  • Can Democracies Achieve de facto Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes?
    David Bearce (University of Pittsburgh) and Mark Hallerberg (Emory University)
  • Firm Level Responses to Political Risks
    Nathan Jensen (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Asset Prices, Demographic Trends and Political Incentives
    William Bernhard (University of Illinois) and David Leblang (University of Colorado)

Panel 7.3: INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

Panel 7.4: ECONOMICS OF CONTRACTS IN AGRICULTURE

Panel 7.5: LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN CHINA

  • Law’s Evolution, Western Exceptionalism, and the Rule of Law in China
    John O. Haley (Washington University in St. Louis-School of Law)
  • Economics, Law, and Institutions: The Shaping of Chinese Competition
    David Gerber (Chicago-Kent School of Law)
  • Bulldozing Homes to Build Shopping Malls: The Chinese Law of Takings Revisited from a Comparative Perspective
    Chenglin Liu (University of Houston School of Law)
  • The Institutional Environment for Chinese Corporate Governance
    Donald Clarke (George Washington School of Law)

Panel 8.1: GOVERNMENT FIRM RELATIONS

Panel 8.2 INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF IMPROVED BUSINESS CLIMATE

  • Capital and Growth with Oligarchic Property Rights
    Serguey Braguinsky (State University of Buffalo) and Roger B. Myerson (University of Chicago)
  • Who Survives – The Impact of Corruption, Competition, and Property Rights Across Firms
    Mary Hallward-Driemeier (DECRG, TheWorld Bank)
  • How Good Are We at Estimating Barriers to Business? A Close Look at the Ukrainian Business Environment
    Olga N. Nashchekina (National Technical University “Kharkov Polytechnic Institute” Ukraine) and Igor V. Timoshenkov (Kharkov University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy”)
  • What Initiatives Have Improved the Business Environment Around the World: The Experience of the Center for International Private Enterprise
    John D. Sullivan, Alexander Shkolnikov, and Kim Bettcher (all from Center for International Private Enterprise)

Panel 8.3: INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN WEST

Panel 8.4: FOUNDATIONS AND EXTENSIONS

Panel 8.5: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND FREEDOM OF CONTRACT

Panel 9.1: INSTITUTIONS OF GLOBAL FINANCE AND IMPERIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA

  • American Empire and Dollar Diplomacy in Latin America, 1905-1938
    Noel Maurer (Harvard University), Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University) and Marc Weidenmier (Claremont-McKenna College)
  • Protectionism, Foreign Finance, and Sugar Stabilization in Cuba, 1921-1939
    Alan Dye (Columbia University) and Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont)
  • Guano, Credible Commitments, and State Finances in Nineteenth Century Peru
    Catalina Vizcarra (University of Vermont)
  • Sovereign Borrowing and Financial Underdevelopment in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
    William Summerhill (University of California-Los Angeles)

Panel 9.2: GROWTH, REFORM, AND OTHER FORMS OF CHANGE

Panel 9.3: OWNERSHIP, STRATEGY, AND POLICY IN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRIES

Panel 9.4: WATER MEETS ELECTRICITY: DILEMMAS IN THE REGULATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES

Panel 9.5: INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNANCE

Plenary Session II – President’s Address

Manufacturing Property Rights
Benito Arruñada
Pompeu Fabra University

Panel 10.1: TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS: ANOMALIES, EXTENSIONS, VARIATIONS ON A THEME

  • Sharing Property Rights with Contractors in Outsourced New Product Development Relationships
    Stephen Carson and George John (both of University of Minnesota)
  • Deinstitutionalization and Institutional Replacement: State-Centered and Neo-Liberal Models in the Global Electricity Supply
    Witold Henisz (University of Pennsylvania), Guy L.F. Holburn (University of Western Ontario), and Bennet A. Zelner (Georgetown University)
  • Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions
    Scott Masten (University of Michigan)
  • The Problem Solving Perspective: An Overview and Research Program
    Jackson Nickerson (Washington University of St. Louis)
  • Corporate Governance and Economic Organization: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective
    Oliver Williamson (University of California-Berkeley)

Panel 10.2: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH

Panel 10.3: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS AT THE MARGIN

Panel 11.1: POLITICAL ECONOMY PANEL

Panel 11.2: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION: INSIGHTS FROM ASIA AND AFRICA

  • Institutionalizing Poverty Among Ethiopian Pastoralists
    Konrad Hagedorn (Berlin Institute of Cooperative Studies) and Martina Padmanabhan (Humboldt University Berlin)
  • Applying Property Rights Theory to Africa
    Sandra Joireman (Wheaton College)
  • Escaping Poverty Traps? Property Rights and Collective Action in Post-War Rural Cambodia
    Michael Kirk (Marburg University) and Anne Weingart (Institute for Cooperation in Developing Countries)
  • There is no Dignity Without Property: Collective Action to Secure Land Rights For Women in Indonesia and Ethiopia
    Martina Padmanabhan (Humboldt University Berlin) and Yuliana Siagian (CGIAR)
  • Disentangling Property Rights in Land: An Economic Ethnography of Intra-Family Access to Land in Côte d’Ivoire
    Jean-Philippe Colin (IRD &UMR MOISA)

Panel 11.3: INSTITUTIONS, CONTRACTS, AND COMPLEMENTARITIES