International Society for New Institutional Economics

ISNIE 2012

Upcoming Conferences

The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop presented by University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Washington University School of Law, will take place 23-25 May 2012, at USC Gould School of Law. The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop is for law school faculty, political science faculty and graduate students interested in learning about empirical research. The registration deadline is May 11. See the Conference page for program and registration details. 

The Economics of Public Private Partnerships research group will host the 3rd international conference on "Contracts, Procurement and Public-Private Agreements" that will held in Paris next 30th and 31st of may. The program includes Florencio Lopez de Silanes (Edhec), Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics), Steve Tadelis (Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE). See the conference page for registration details.

The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) will host its 24th annual meeting at MIT (USA), 28-30 June 2012. The program will include a special network on Asian Capitalism focused on five areas: (a) De- or Re-industrialisation? , (b) Innovation, HRM and Knowledge Creation, (c) Beyond Market or State?, (d) The future of Asian Capitalism, and (e) Welfare, Inequalities, and institutional change. A special section for PhD candidates will be included. See the SASE conference page for registration details.   

Calls for Papers / Applications

The Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Conference on the Law & Economics of Organization: New Challenges and Directions.  The conference will be held at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, CA, on Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to take stock of recent advances in the analysis of economic organization and institutions inspired by the work of 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson and to examine its implications for contemporary problems of organization and regulation. Empirical research and research informed by detailed industry and institutional knowledge is especially welcome.  Conference papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. Submissions are due March 31, 2012. See the Call for Papers for details. 

The 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) will be held on September 20-22, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden at Stockholm University in Aula Magna. Papers should be sumitted online http://www.eale.org/conference/eale2012 no later than : April 15, 2012.