Workshop on Institutional Analysis
Ronald Coase Institute

September 16-21, 2006

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Apply by April 1, 2006

Attend this workshop to
learn more about institutional analysis, and present your current research, receiving 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, you will

    Hear established scholars discuss their strategies for formulating research questions,
    designing projects, and drawing important and practical conclusions. 
    Past speakers have included Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Oliver Williamson,
    Paul Joskow, Gary Libecap, Mary Shirley, Elinor Ostrom, Benito Arruñada, Lee

Alston,
    Alexandra Benham, Lee Benham, Claude Ménard, John Nye, Philip Keefer,
    Sebastián Galiani, Konstantin Sonin, and many more.

Make two presentations of your current research:
    (1) in a small group with faculty guidance, (2) after revisions, to the entire workshop.

Network with a worldwide set of scholars – faculty and workshop alumni –
    who have an enduring interest in institutional analysis.

Location
The workshop will take place in the town of Boulder, Colorado, scenically located in the foothills
of the Rocky Mountains.

How to apply (deadline April 1, 2006)
E-mail an abstract - 350 words maximum - of a current research project of yours,
plus your one-page curriculum vitae, to workshop2006@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, using as the 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 awarded competitively to scholars from developing and transitional countries, for tuition and meals, hotel accommodations, and fees for the ISNIE conference.  If you are applying for a fellowship, indicate this in your e-mail message, and list your citizenship, country of residence, and current professional status.

The ISNIE conference – the annual meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (www.isnie.org) - will take place in Boulder on September 21-24, immediately after this workshop. 

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