Session 3 - ISNIE 2004

Friday, October 1st
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

 Panel 3.1: INSTITUTIONS AND LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Organizer and Chair: Lee Alston (University of Colorado)
  Discussants: Veneta Andonova (ITAM) and Mary Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)
• The Erosion of Rule of Law in Argentina, 1930-1947: An Explanation of Argentina’s Economic Slide from the Top 10
  Lee Alston (University of Colorado) and Andres Gallo (University of North Florida)
• Cuba and the Origins of the U.S. Sugar Quota, 1934-1938: Performance and Intent
  Alan Dye (Columbia University)
• Practices, Dynamics, and Institutions of Science and Technology in Developed and Developing Countries
  Clemente Forero-Pineda and Jorge Andrés Zambrano (University of Rosario)
• From Colony to Republic: Silver, Guano, and the Formation of the Peruvian State
  Catalina Vizcarra (University of Vermont)

Panel 3.2: REGULATED AND DEREGULATED INDUSTRY: NEW DEVELOPMENT

Organizer: Dominique Finon (CIRED, Ecole des Hautes Etudes EHESS and CNRS-Paris)
Chair: Jean-Michel Glachant (University Paris XI)
Discussants: Didier Chabaud (University Cergy) and Yannick Perez (University Paris XI)

• The Shipper as the Architect of Contractual Relations in Access to Natural Gas Networks
  Marc-Kevin Codognet (University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne)
• Public Policies in Liberalized Energy Markets: Comparison of Efficiency of the Various Institutional Devices for the Promotion of Renewable Energy
  Dominique Finon  (CIRED, Ecole des Hautes Etudes , EHESS and CNRS - Paris)
  The “Golden Triangle of Regulation”: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Scheme to Assess the Performance of Regulatory
• Reforms Through Some EU Utility Law
  Bertrand du Marais (Conseil d’Etat & University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne)
• Regulation, Competition, and Institutional Design in Media Markets: The Evolution of Pay-TV in UK, Australia, and Italy
  Antonio Nicita, Roberto Galbiati, and Giogio Nizi (all of Sienna University)

Panel 3.3: CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

Organizer and Chair: John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussants: Kenneth Koford (University of Delaware) and John Nye (Washington University in St. Louis)

• Interest Groups and Institutional Change in Transition Countries: The Case of Poland
  Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics)
• Equal Access to WTO Rights: Substantive Equality For Developing Countries
  Bradly J. Condon (ITAM)
• The Free Trade Agreement Between Columbia and the USA: What Can Happen to Columbia?
  Orlando Gracia (Planeacion Nacional-Columbia) and Hernando Zuleta (ITAM)
• Transportation in NAFTA
  Tapen Sinha and Bradly J. Condon (ITAM)

Panel 3.4: INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Organizer and Chair: Eric Brousseau (University of Paris X)
Discussants: Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario) and Itai Sened (Washington University in St. Louis)

• The Economics of Private Institutions
  Eric Brousseau, (University of Parix X) M’hand Fares (INRA, ESR, and Montepellier), and Emmanuel Raynaud (INRA, SAD, & ATOM)
• The Contribution of the Emerging Institutions of Network Governance to the Provision of Global Common Goods: A Case Study on Bioprospection
  Tom Dedeurwaerdere (University Louvain la Neuve)
• Explaining De Facto Judicial Independence
  Bernd Hayo (University of Marburg), and Stefan Voigt (University of Kassel)
• Governing the Ungovernable: The Challenge of A Global Disaggregation of Authority
  James N. Rosenau (George Washington University)

Panel 3.5: TECHNOLOGY ORBIT INSTITUTIONS

Chair: David D. Haddock (Northwestern University)
Discussants: Lynne Kiesling (IFREE and Northwestern University) and Dean Williamson (U.S. Department of Justice)

• Genetic Technology and the Evolution of Property Rights:The Case of Decode Genetics
  Thrainn Eggertson (University of Iceland)
• Institutional Economics of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology: Theory and Empirics
  Scott Kieff (Stanford University)
• Hostage Exchange in Venture Capital Networks
  Jennifer Kuan (Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University)
• What Do Inventors Patent?
  Petra Moser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)