The Ronald Coase Institute
Workshop on Institutional Analysis
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Attend this workshop to
learn more about
institutional analysis, and
present your current research and get comments from established scholars in the
field.
Who is eligible?
Postdoctoral social scientists early in their careers,
and advanced graduate students in economics, political science, and other
social sciences.
Scholars from developing and transitional countries are particularly invited to
apply.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their current research
abstracts.
Admission is strictly limited.
As a participant in this workshop, you will
Hear established scholars discuss their strategies to formulate research
questions,
design projects, and draw important and practical conclusions.
Past speakers have included:
Ronald Coase, University of Chicago, USA; Douglass
North, Washington University and Ronald
Coase Institute, USA; Oliver Williamson, University of
California – Berkeley, USA; Paul Joskow,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Gary
Libecap, University of Arizona, USA; Mary Shirley,
Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Benito Arruñada,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Alexandra Benham,
Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Lee Benham, Washington
University and Ronald Coase Institute, USA;
Claude Ménard, Université de Paris
(Panthéon-Sorbonne), France; John Nye, Washington University,
USA; Philip Keefer, The World Bank, USA; Sebastián
Galiani, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina,
and Washington University, USA; Konstantin Sonin, New
Economic School, Russia; and many more.
Make two presentations of your own research:
(1) in a small group with faculty guidance and (2) after revisions, to the
entire workshop.
Network with a worldwide set of scholars
– faculty and alumni – who have an enduring interest in institutional analysis.
To apply (by
E-mail an abstract
- 350 words maximum - of a current research project of yours, plus a one-page
curriculum vitae, to workshop2005@coase.org. At the top of your
abstract, list the title, your name,
and the number of words in your abstract. On your CV, include the names
and e-mail addresses of
two scholars familiar with you and your work.
For your e-mail subject line, use Application for RCI Workshop. Attach
your abstract and CV as
Microsoft Word files, with filenames yyy abstract.doc and yyy
cv.doc where yyy is your surname.
Abstracts will be judged on the clarity and importance of the research question
and on the
institutional focus. Please do not submit any longer documents, as they
will not be read.
Costs
The cost of the workshop - tuition and meals - is $1995 USD. This does
not include hotel
accommodations or travel expenses. A limited number of fellowships will
be available to scholars
from developing and transitional countries, for tuition and meals, hotel
accommodations, and fees for
the ISNIE conference.
The ISNIE conference of the annual meeting of the International Society for New
Institutional
Economics - will take place in
See www.isnie.org for details.
The Ronald Coase Institute (www.coase.org)
encourages careful and useful analysis of the institutions that govern
economies and affect
transaction costs. Its mission is to better understand how real economic
systems work, so that
individuals and societies have greater opportunities to improve their well-being.