Session 2 - ISNIE 2004

Thursday, September 30th
3:20 – 4:50 p.m.
Three Parallel Session

Panel 2.1: EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MARKET INSTITUTIONS

Chair: Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)
Discussants: Dean Williamson (U.S. Department of Justice) and Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)

• Promises and Partnership
  Gary Charness (University of California) and Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona)
• Barking Up the Right Tree: Are Small Groups Ration Agents?
  James C. Cox (University of Arizona), Daniel Friedman (University of California – Santa Cruz), and Steven Gjerstad (University of Arizona)
• Endogenous Property Rights in a Hold-Up Experiment
  Mathias Erlei and J. Philipp Siemer (Clausthal University of Technology)

Panel 2.2: DISCIPLINE, COOPERATION, AND NORMS OF FAIRNESS

Organizer and Chair: Ekkehart Schlicht (University of Munich)
Discussants: Wolfgang Pfeuffer and Ekkehart Schlicht (both of University of Munich)

• Explaining Employment Institutions: A Historical Perspective
  Gregory Clark (University of California – Davis)
• The Rule of Law in the Mining Camps of the American West: Evidence on the Evolution of Cooperation
  James I. Stewart (Reed College)
• The Theory and Practice of Political Fairness Games
  Edward E. Zajac (University of Arizona)
• Why the Common Law Tends Towards Efficiency
  Richard O. Zerbe Jr. (University of Washington)

Panel 2.3: REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS

Chair: Bruno Frey (University of Zurich)
Discussants: Eric Brousseau (University of Paris X) and Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Using Political Resource Theory for Analyzing Biotechnology Politics: The Case of Regulatory Systems for Genetically Modified Crops in Germany and India
  Regina Birner (University of Gottingen), Heidi Wittmer (UFZ-Center for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle), and Carl E. Pray (Rutgers University)
• Yes, Managers Should be Paid Like Bureaucrats
  Bruno Frey and Margit Osterloh (both of University of Zurich)
• The Political Economy of Setting Risk Regulations: An Empirical Study of U.S. Transportation Fuels
• David Gerard, David E. Stikkers, and Paul S. Fischbeck (all of Carnegie Mellon University)
• Privatization and Regulation: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Why People Seem to Dislike Market-Friendly Reforms: The Case of Peru
  Jose A. Tavera (Catholic University of Peru)

Plenary Session I

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

• “Viewing the Environment through Coase-Colored Glasses”
  Terry L. Anderson (PERC and Hoover Institute)
• “Yoram Barzel and the New Institutional Economics”
  Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)