Workshop on
Institutional Analysis
June 16-21, 2007
Reykjavik, Iceland
*Apply by December 1, 2006*
Attend this workshop to
· learn more about institutional analysis
· present your current research and get comments from established
scholars
· become part of a worldwide network of institutional scholars.
Who is eligible?
· Postdoctoral social scientists - early in their careers.
· Advanced graduate students - in economics, political science, and other
social sciences.
· Scholars from developing/transitional countries are particularly
invited to apply.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their current
research abstracts.
Admission is strictly limited. The pace is intense. Participants must attend
all sessions and give as well as receive feedback.
As a participant, 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,
Douglass North, Oliver Williamson, Paul
Joskow, Gary Libecap,
Mary Shirley, Elinor Ostrom, Lee Alston,
Alexandra Benham,
Lee Benham, John Nye, Philip Keefer,
Thrainn Eggertsson, Claude
Ménard, Sebastián Galiani, Konstantin
Sonin, Alberto Simpser,
and many more.
Make two presentations of your own research:
(1) in a small group, receiving faculty
guidance
(2) after revisions, to the entire
workshop, with discussion following.
Network through close, informal contacts with a
worldwide set of
scholars – faculty and workshop alumni –
who have an enduring
interest in institutional analysis.
Immediately after the workshop, you can also attend the 2007
ISNIE conference in Reykjavik, June 21-23. This annual meeting of the
International Society of New Institutional Economics offers you the
opportunity to meet like-minded institutional scholars from around the world.
Workshop location
Reykjavik, Iceland, June 17-21, 2007.
How to apply (deadline December 1, 2006)
E-mail an abstract - 350 words maximum - of a current research project
of yours, plus a one-page curriculum vitae, to workshop2007@coase.org
At the top of your abstract, list the title, your name, and the number
of words in the abstract. Any co-authors must be
listed.
On your CV, include as references the names and e-mail addresses
of two scholars familiar with you and your work.
As e-mail subject line, use Application for 2007 RCI Workshop.
Attach your abstract and CV as Microsoft Word files, using as 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 their 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 $2195 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. All fellowship
recipients
will attend ISNIE 2007 as part of their training. If you wish to be considered
for a fellowship, (1) you must state that in your application and (2)
include
your citizenship, country of residence, and current professional status.