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International Society for New Institutional Economics Annual Conference, September 22-24, 2000, Tübingen, Germany
Oliver E. Williamson President
Local Organizers: Rudolf Richter and Joachim Starbatty
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Note: Registration deadline extended to July 1 , 2000.
The registration fee will be DM 225 before July 1, 2000 and DM 450 after July 1, 2000 (fees include initial gathering, coffee-breaks, lunches, conference dinner and farewell dinner). Registrants must also be current members of ISNIE. For additional information on memberships and registration see
http://www.isnie.org
or contact [email protected]. Draft Program Key Lectures: Paul Joskow
Transaction Cost Economics and Competition Policy Reinhard Selten On Bounded Rationality
I. Panel Discussion: How Evolutionary Is the New Institutional Economics, and Why Has Evolutionary Economics Been So Hard to Operationalize?
Douglass North • Ekkehart Schlicht • Oliver Williamson • Ulrich Witt
II. Institutional Environment: Argentina
Mark P. Jones, Sebastian Saiegh, Pablo Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, Amateur Legislators, Professional Politicians: The Argentina Congress during the XX Century (Jones Presenting)
Matias Iaryczower, Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi, Judicial Independence in Unstable Environments: Argentina Judiciary 1936-1998, (Spiller presenting)
Matias Iaryczower, Sebastian Saiegh and Mariano Tommasi,
Coming Together: The political Economy of Argentina's Federalism (Saiegh Presenting)
Pablo Spiller and Mariano Tommasi, The Institutional Determinants of Public Policy: Theory and the Argentina Case (Tommasi Presenting)
III. Agricultural Institutions
Lee Alston Agricultural Contracts over Time: Individual, Community and Governmental Influences (with Joseph P. Ferrie)
Kyle Kauffman Do Women Matter? Household Structure, Risk, and Agrarian Contracts (with Maristella Botticinij
Alan Dye The Political Economy of Land Privatization In Argentina and Australia, 18101890 (with Sumner La Croix)
Francesco Galassi Dr Pangloss, I presume? Functionalism and the Evolution of Institutions: Seven centuries of Italian sharecropping contracts, 821 to 1517 AD
IV. Incentives and Contracting
Jean-Jacques LaffontIncentives and Group Behavior
Manuel Gonzales-Diaz Design of Contracts: Formalization vs. Implicit Safeguards (with Susana Lopez-Bayon and Juan Ventura)
Allison Fine Contracting for Credibility: A Political Analysis of Investment Under Uncertainty
Tian Zhu Contract Law, Authority, and the Firm (with Susheng Wang)
V. Contracts and Organization
Travis Taylor A Transaction Cost Approach to Offsets in Government Procurement Dean Williamson The Structure of Contracts in Cooperative R&D: Evidence from NCRA filings of R&D Joint Ventures (with Suzanne Majewski)
Erin Anderson Threats to Inter-Organizational Relationships:Safeguarding Performance and Continuity when Opportunism is Suspected (with Sandy D. Jap)
Tetsuo Wada Post-Contracting Innovations and Contingent Payment Scheme in Patent Licensing Contracts (with Noriyuki Yanagawa)
VI. Competing Theories
Nicholas Argyris The Dynamics of Organizational Debate (with Vai-Lam Mui) Bart Nooteboom Agent Based Computational Transaction Cost Economics (with Tomas Klos)
Sven Haugland Explaining Vertical Integration: Transaction Cost Economics and Competence Considerations (with Boge Gulbrandsen)
Armelle Maze
Bargaining versus Posted price Selling : A transaction cost approach
VII. Distribution Channels
Benito Arrunada Ownership and Performance in Car Distribution
Janet Bercovitz An Analysis of the Contract Provisions in Business-Format Franchise Agreements
George Hendrikse Ownership Structure in Agrifood Chains: The Marketing Cooperative Jean-Marc Chappuis Transaction costs and artisanal food products (with Dominque Barjolle)
VIII. Governance Alignments
Kyle Mayer Governance Alignment and Contractual Performance
Margherita Turvani Mismatching by design: the 'make or buy' in human resources and the development of innovative capabilities of the firm.
Regina Birner Co-management of Natural Resources - A Transaction Costs Economics Approach to Determine the "Efficient Boundaries of the State (with Heidi Wittmer)
Stephane Saussier Institutional Environment and the Cost of Transacting Intangibles: The Case of Technology Licensing Agreements (with Christian Bessy and Eric Brousseau)
IX. Banking and Finance
Uwe Vollmer Why Do Intermediaries Hold Equity Shares? An Incomplete Contracting Explanation of Universal Banking
D. Bruce Johnsen Soft Dollar Brokerage, Portfolio Management, and Private Information Margaret Polski Transaction Costs and Institutional Change in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry
Christophe Destais Transaction Costs Theory, Asset Specificity and Risk Valuation. An Analysis Based on the Example of Project Finance Transactions
X. Political Risk
Beatrice Weder Catastrophic Political Risk versus Creeping Expropriation: An Analysis of Political and Regulatory Risks in Private Infrastructure Investment in LDCs (with Mirjam Schiffer)
Bennet Zelner Political Institutions, Political Competition and Investment Strategy in the Electric Utility Industry: A Cross-national Study (with Witold Henisz) Phil Keefer Political institutions and regulation: financial crises, checks and balances, and encompassing interests
Pieter Ruys Service-Specific Economic Regimes
XI. Property Rights: I
Paul Zak Why One-Third? (with Rick Geddes)
Gary Libecap Political Processes and the Common Pool Problem: The Federal Highway Trust Fund (with Ronald N. Johnson)
James Dunlevy Property Rights in Baseball: An Empirical Test of the Coase Theorem (with William E. Even and Donald J. Cymrot)
XII. Property Rights: II
Elizabeth Robinson Squatters, Investment, and Endogenous Property Rights Pedro Galilea Property Rrights On The Forest Resources (with Josemari Aizpurua) Stefan Okruch The Evolution of Property Rights in European Civil Law: Competition and Cooperation among Jurisdictions
Stefan Voight The Violent and the Weak: When Dictators Care About Social Contracts (with Roland Kirstein)
XIII. Economic Reform in China: I
Sonja Opper Structural Change in China: The Contribution of Dual-track Ownership Reforms
Loren Brandt Why Do Governments Privatize? (with Joanne Roberts and Li Hongbin) Sonia Wong The Political Economy of Market Formation--The Rise and Demise of the Regional Stock Trading Centers in China
Jeffrey Nugent (with Cheng Hsiao and Harrison Cheng) On the Importance of Managerial Autonomuy in a Transition Economy: Some Evidence from China's TVE's
XIV. Economic Reform in China: II
Quiren Zhou The Nature of the Public-Owned Enterprise (POE) in China: Missing Owners? (with Hong Liang)
Yingyi Qian Understanding China's Market Transition from the Perspective of New Institutional Economics
Colin Xu The Complementarity and Substitutability of Incentives: Evidence from Managerial Incentive Contracts (with Chong-En Bai)
Yaohui Zhao Labor Compensation in Cash or Kind: Evidence from China
XV. Economic Reform in Russia
Vadim Radaev Informalization of Rules in Russian Economy
Andrei Shastitko The Phenomenon of the "Right of Economic Authority" in the Russian Transitional Economy (with Vitali Tambovtsev)
Constantin Sonin Political Capture of Bankruptcy in Transition (with A.Lambert-Mogiliansky and E.Zhuravskaya)
Yaroslav Kouzminov Economic Reforms in Russia: From Local Networks to Global Economy (with Maria Yudkevich)
XVI. Economic Reform in Eastern Europe and Russia
Mary Shirley Bad Corporate Governance OR Looting? A Reexamination of the Czech Privatization Experience (with Robert Cull, Jana Matesova)
Markus Brem Institutional Change in the Czech Republic: The Case of Agricultural Organizations (with Bogdan Buduru)
Mathilde Mesnard Institutional complementarity and corporate governance: a reassessment of the Russian transition failure
David O'Brien Peasant Households before and after the 1998 Financial Collapse in Russia (with Valeri Patsiorkovski)
XVII. Informal Organizations Barbara Krug
Entrepreneurship in New Markets: Institutions, Organizational Identity and Survival (with Laszlo Polos) Hakan Pihl
Price, Authority, Trust and Rules - Co-ordination Mechanisms and Co-ordination Forms Binyam Reja
The Industrial Organization of Corruption: What is the Difference in Corruption Between Asia and Africa (with Antti Talvitie) Jorge Miguel Streb
Economic Development as a Matter of Political Geography. The Argentine Experience (with Pablo Druck)
XVIII. Evolutionary Conditions Victor Nee
Institutional Change, Path Dependence and Emergent Social Order
Klaus Kathe
The "Nature" of the Firm - Functionalist vs. Developmental Interpretations (with Ulrich Witt) Constantine Iliopolus
The Evolution of the Greek Cooperative Laws: From the First to the Last Order of
Economizing
Wolfgang Kerber
Corporate Law, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence (with Klaus Heine)
XIX. Experimental Economics
Ernst Fehr Fairness and Institutions - Neglected Interactions
Kevin McCabe, Brian Kench Financial versus Physical Transmission Rights: an Experimental Study
Carine Staropoli How far do changes in market institutions increase efficiency ? An experimental analysis of the reform of the Electricity Pool of England and Wales (with Stephane Robin)
XX. Law, Politics, and Institutions
Regis Coeurderoy Are there Legal Determinants of Capital Structure ? An European Comparison
John Drobak The Constitutional Protection of Property Rights: Lessons from the United States and Germany
Bertin Martens The institutional economics of foreign aid
Ludger Woessman Institutions of the Education System and Student Performance: The International Evidence
XXI. Corporate Governance
Mike Sykuta Deregulation and Board Composition: Some Evidence of the Value of the Revolving Door (with Eric Helland)
Peter Klein Strong Managers, Strong Owners: An Analysis of LBO Associations (with John Chapman)
Kirsten Foss Assets, Attributes, and Ownership (with Nicolai Foss)
David Moss Limited Liability and the Birth of American Industry: Theory Meets History
XXII. Network Forms
Michael Witt Networking for Profit: Information Loops and Informational Advantage in Japan
Kurt Annen Social Capital Governance and Membership Assignment in Social Networks Bertrand Quelin Strategic Outsourcing and Contract: A Transaction-Cost Analysis (with Jerome Barthelemy)
Trevor Knox The Organizational Fitness of Winemaking under Different Appellation Regimes
XXIII. Regulation and Deregulation
Carlos Pereira Institutional Change and the Design of Regulatory Agencies in Brazil (with Bernardo Mueller)
Volker Beckman Investments, Governance Structures, and Prices in Evolving Markets The Case of Hog Transactions in Poland (with Silke Boger)
Anne Yvrande Regulatory Reforms of Railways in Europe : from Hierarchies to Hybrids Joseph Reid On The Inefficiency Of Political Democratic Markets (with Yakir Plessner)
XXIV. Unassigned
Scott Masten Public Utility Ownership in 1 9h-Century America: The 'Aberrant' Case of Water
Bruno Frey Institutions Affect Motivation and Selection
Экономическая социология. Том 1, № 1, 2000 www.ecsoc.msses.ru Claude Menard Contractual Choice and Performance
Lyndal Drennan The Determinants of Firm Performance Control: a Transaction Cost Economics Explanation
