Session 1 - ISNIE 2004

Thursday, September 30th
1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Three Parallel Sessions

Panel 1.1: HISTORICAL STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND REGULATION

• Chair: Edward E. Zajac (University of Arizona)
  Discussants: D. Bruce Johnsen (George Mason University) and Melissa Thomasson (Miami University of Ohio)
• The Political Economy of Workers’ Compensation Benefits: 1930-2000
  Sam Allen (University of Arizona)
• Property Rights and the Buffalo Economy of the Great Plains
  Bruce Benson (Florida State University)
• Changes in Firm Structures in the Retail Industry During the 20th Century
  Todd Neumann (University of Arizona)
• The Birth of Modern Medical Education: Institutional Change and the Impact on the Medical Schools (1870-1920)
  Jaret Treber (University of Arizona)

Panel 1.2: PROPERTY RIGHTS, INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR

Chair: P.J. Hill (Wheaton College)
Discussants: P.J. Hill (Wheaton College) and Mark Kanawaza (Carleton College)

• The Wealth of Indian Nations: Economic Performance and Institutions on Reservations
  Terry L. Anderson (Hoover Institution and PERC) and Dominic P. Parker (PERC)
• The Complex Economics of Nuisance Law: Bargaining Under Property and Liability Rules with Public Law Standards
  Georg von Wangenheim (Max-Planck-Institute for Research into Economic Systems) and Fernando Gomez (Pompeu Fabra University)
• Who Owns the Right? The Determinants of  Community-Industry Contracting Over Forests in Indonesia
  Stefanie Engel and Charles Palmer (University of Bonn, Center for Development Research)
• Subdividing the Commons: Politics and Property Rights Transformation in Kenya’s Maasailand
  Esther Mwangi (International Center for Research in Agroforestry-Kenya)

Panel 1.3: POLITICS, CULTURE, AND IDEOLOGY

Chair: Timur Kuran (University of Southern California)
Discussants: Ruth Dupré (HEC, Montreal, Canada) and Timur Kuran (University of Southern California)

• Does Ideology Matter?
  Michael Baird  (Dalhousie University)
  Express Yourself! Political Participation Rights and the Demand for Censorship
  Gerald Hosp (University of Fribourg)
• Experimental Evidence for the Effects of Land Privatization and Market Integration on Trust and Cooperation among Kenyan Pastoralists
  Carolyn Lesorogol (Washington University in St. Louis)