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Since this program began in 2000, we have hosted 50 visitors from 21
different countries. Through this program, we facilitate research and
discussion of formal and informal institutions in many different
countries across the world.
Director - Itai Sened
Administrative Assistant
- Alana Bame
NIE & Development Conference: A Project of the St. Louis
Initiative, May 4-5, 2007
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Conference Summary
Conference Program
Links to papers presented are listed below:
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting
Recorded Human History
Abstract: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting
Recorded Human History
Douglass C. North, Washington University in St. Louis; John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER;
and Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University and Hoover Institution
NIE, IAD, and Characteristics of Institutional Change and Robustness
Bill Blomquist and Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Deliberation, Learning, and Institutional Change:
The Use of Judicial Forums in Institutionally Diverse Settings
William Blomquist and Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Urban Water Reform: What We Know, What We Need to Know
Mary M. Shirley, President, The Ronald Coase Institute
Do Institutions Really Matter? A Fresh Look at the Data
Itai Sened, Washington University in St. Louis
Evaluation of Programs and Public Policy
Sebastian Galiani, Washington University in St. Louis
Institutional Experimentalism
Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis
Development Policy and the NIE: What Can We Really Say?
John Nye, Washington University in St. Louis
Research Frontiers at the
Nexus of Domestic and International Politics, November 3, 2006
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Links to papers presented are listed below:
Time Horizons
and Political Economy of Technological Development
Joel Simmons, University of Michigan
The
Company
You Keep: How International Institutions Can Make Emerbing Markets
Look Less Risky
Julia Gray, University of California-Los Angeles
Unstable
Politics:
Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States
Irfan Nooruddin, Ohio State University
Industriousness:
On the
Sources of Cross-Industry Variation in Foreign Direct Investment
Restrictions
Sonal S. Pandya, Harvard University
Hummingbird-A Model City
in Belize:
A One Day Workshop, October 21, 2006
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materials, please
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Promoting U.S.-China
Business Relations, May 11-13, 2006
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Selected abstracts, papers, and presentations from
Conference
U.S.-China
Business
Relations
DeLisle
transcript
IP System and
Economic Development in China
The above powerpoint should not be cited per
author's request
China's Balanced
Scorecard: A Corporate Perspective on Modern Business
China's Progress
in
Developing Modern Business Practices
Statement
from U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
China's "Soft"
Centralization: Shifting Tiao/Kuai Authority Relations
Middle
Income Blues, The East Asian Model and Implications for Development in
China
Global
Incentives
and National Governance in China
Legal
Uncertainty
in the Chinese Environment for Foreign Investment
The Rule of Law
in China: A Path Dependent (Pessimistic)View Bank Reform in
China
Responsive
Strategies: A Comparative Study on the USTR's U.S.-China Trade
Relations Report and Chinese President's Speech
A Debate on
Transparency: Different Views on Article 63.3 on the WTO TRIPS Agreement
The Emerging
Private Sector in China and the Chinese Legal System
A Tax Free Zone in Belize:
A One Day Workshop, May 10, 2006
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materials, please
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Israel: The Next Decade,
May 19-21, 2005
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Links to summaries of the topics discussed at the workshop appear
below:
Overview of Workshop
Summary of
Electoral Reforms Presentation and Discussion
Summary of Education
Presentation and Discussion
Summary of Labor
Reforms
Presentation and Discussion
Summary of
Fiscal Consolidation Presentation and Discussion
Director - Gautam Yadama
Administrative Assistant
- Alana Bame
Socioeconomic and
Political Challenges in the Middle East and Central and East Asia
May 27-28, 2004
For this workshop, the focus will be on the Middle East and Central
Asia. Participants will come from Kyrgyzstan, Israel, and Tajikistan.
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Links to some of the papers discussed at the workshop appear below:
"The
Difficulty of Applying the Standard Concept of the 'Market Failure' to
the Formerly Communist Countries: Observation from the Kyrgyz Republic"
"Corruption in the
Private and Government Sectors: The Challenges of Reforms in Kyrgyzstan"
"Informal Costs of
Doing Business: The Case Study of the Registration and Regulation of
Firms in the Kyrgyz Republic"
Appendix to
above paper
Maks Kobonbaev, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Political
Entrepreneurs and Dynamics of Instutional Change: Conceptual Framework
and Analysis of Case Studies in Israel"
Assaf Meydani, Ph.D. Candidate, Ben-Gurion University
"Problems and
Perspectives of Decentralization in Kyrgyzstan"
Attachment
to above report
Askat Duekbaev, Co-Chair, Dept. of International and Comparative
Politics, American University in Central Asia
Director - Itai Sened
Administrative Assistant
- Alana Bame
International Research
Workshop, May 28-31, 2003
For this workshop, the focus was on Central America, the Caucasus in
Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Participants who came for this workshop
were from Costa Rico, Mexico, Georgia, France, Italy, and Brazil.
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Links to papers discussed at the workshop appear below:
"The Main
Weaknesses of the Management System in State Administration of Georgia"
Professor Shalva Machavariani
"A
Computational Political Economy Model of Transition"
Professor John E. Jackson
"How
do Agencies Compete in the Aid Business? A Signaling Game between
Donors and Recipients"
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt,CNISS Fellow
"The Use of
Institutional Procedures for Agenda Control in Presidential Systems"
Natalia Ajenjo Fresno
"Filling
in the Blank Spots in History:The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Russian
Collective Memory"
Professor James V. Wertsch
"The Distribution
of and Access to Rights in Developing Countries: An Institutional
Analysis of the Relation Between Poverty and Development"(abstract)
Professor Itai Sened
"Measuring the
Spatial Clustering and Diffusion of Multiparty Competition in Urban
Mexico (1994-2000)"
Carlos J. Vilalta y Perdomo
"The Effects of
Pluralism in the Legislative Activity: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies,
1917-2000"
Maria del Carmen Nava Polina and Jorge Yanez Lopez
"Owner
Monitoring Versus Market Monitoring: Are These Substitutes?"
Vahe Lskavyan and Mariana Spatareanu
"Institutions,
Investment, and the Role of Development Assistance in a Cross-Section
of Countries"
Eliana Balla
"Georgian
Resources and Sustainable Development"
Alexander G. Tvalchrelidze
Director - Lee Benham
Administrative Assistant
- Alana Bame
Workshop on Institutional
Analysis, May 19-25, 2002 (Pilot Summer School Program)
The objectives of this workshop were to show the range of Institutional
Analysis going on at Washington University in St. Louis, to share
important scholary research in this field, and to help build a
scholarly network across countries. Participants came from countries
including Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, China, Hungary, and
Korea. Lectures discussed frontiers and strategies of research, with
illustrations from the speakers' work. Topics covered included
regulation, transaction costs and organization, political economy and
history, political economy and trade policy, social capital and
cooperation, and methodology.
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Links to some of the papers discussed at the workshop appear below:
"The Costs of
Exchange" by Lee and Alexandra Benham
"Internet
Regulation: Does Self-Regulation Require an Institutional Framework?"
by Eric Brousseau
"Beyond Stamp
Collecting" by John Drobak
"Tax
Farming" by Noel Johnson
"Perusing
Property Rights in DNA" by F. Scott Kieff
"Demosclerosi"
by Krishna Ladha
"The Origins of
State Pure Food Regulation" by Marc Law
"Market
Position, Resource Profile, and Governance: Linking Porter and
Williamson in the Context of International Courier and Small Package
Services in Japan" by Jackson Nickerson
"Economic
Performance Through Time" by Douglass C. North
"What Does
China Trade and Why? Transnational Deterrence and U.S. Trade Policy
Agenda Formation" by Andrew Mertha
"A Political
Theory of the Origin of Property Rights: Airport Slots" by William H.
Riker and Itai Sened
"Representative
Democracy as Social Choice" by Norman Schofield
"State
Institutions, Risk, and Lending in Global Capital Markets" by Andrew C.
Sobel
tables for
above paper
"A New
Institutional Economis Approach to Contracts and Cooperatives" by Mike
Sykuta and Michael L. Cook
"Empirical
Research on the Economics of Organization and the Role of the
Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI) by Michael
Sykuta
"Neighborhoods
and Public Goods: State and Community Coordination in Urban
Neighborhoods of Kathmandu, Nepal" by Gautam N. Yadama
Report of
"The U.S. Trade Deficit: Causes, Consequences, and Recommendations for
Action" See sections on "Searching for Common Ground" and "Summary
of Democratic Commissioners' Views and Recommendations" by Murray
Weidenbaum
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