Session 4 - ISNIE 2004

Friday, October 1st
10:30 – 11:55 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

 Panel 4.1: CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONS

Organizer and Chair: Dean Lueck(University of Arizona)
Discussants: Daniel Ackerberg and Robert Innes (both of University of Arizona)

• Unlikely Customs: Simple Cropshare Fractions Versus Continuous Cash Rents In Agriculture
  Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Dean Lueck (University of Arizona)
• Is There A Need for Lawyers in Conveyancing?
  Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)
• Generalized and Particularized Trust in Organizations
  Harvey James and Michael E. Sykuta (both of University of Missouri- Columbia)
• Oligopsony Power, Asset Specificity and Hold-Up: Evidence from the Broiler Industry
  Tom Vukina (North Carolina State University)

Panel 4.2: WHEN FORMAL INSTITUTIONS FAIL: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA

Organizer: Noel Maurer (Harvard University)
Chair: Stephen Haber (Stanford University)
Discussants: Aldo Mussachio(Harvard University) and Hernando Zuleta (ITAM)

• Networks, Discipline, and Idiosyncratic Risks in Mexican Banks, 1950-1980
  Gustavo A. Del Angel-Mobarak (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica)
• Patent Protection in Late Industrialization: The Case of Mexico 1870-1910
  Ted Beatty (University of Notre Dame)
• Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
  Stephen Haber (Stanford University) and Noel Maurer (Harvard University)
• Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary
  Kris James Mitchener(Santa Clara University) and Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna College)

Panel 4.3: ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS: TRANSMISSION AND INTERCONNECTION

Chair: Stephen Littlechild (University of Cambridge)
Discussants: Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) andPablo Spiller  (University of California at Berkeley)

• Governance of Competitive Transmission Investment in Weak Institutional Systems
  Manuel A. Abdala (LECG)
• Transmission Investment Decisions in a Club with Imperfect Representation: The Case of Argentina in the Nineties
  Omar O. Chisari and Carlos A. Romero (both of University of Argentina)
• Electricity Transmission and the “Short Law” in Chile: Why Competitive Bidding is Better than Regulation
  Alexander Galetovic (University of Chile) and Juan Ricardo Inostroza (AES Gener S.A)
• Congestion Management in Electrical Interconnections Around Italy
  Pippo Ranci (Former President, Electricity and Gas Authority-Italy)

• Panel 4.4: FIRMS AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: INSTITUTIONS IN KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION

Organizer and Chair: Zeynep Hansen (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussants: Zeynep Hansen(Washington University in St. Louis) andArvids Ziedonis (University of Michigan)

• Defying Distance: Examining the Diaspora on Knowledge Flows
  Ajay K. Agrawal (University of Toronto), Devesh Kapur (Harvard University), and John McHale (Queen’s University)
• Academic Entrepreneurs: Social Learning and Participation in University-Industry Technology Transfer
  Janet Bercovitz (Duke University) and Maryann Feldman (University of Toronto)
• Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
  Marc T. Law (University of Vermont), Gary J. Miller and Joseph M. Tonon (both of Washington University in St. Louis)
• Opening the Dam or Building Channels: University Patenting and the Use of Public Science in Industrial Innovation
  Kira Makiewicz (University of California - Berkeley)

Panel 4.5 GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION: THE CASE OF CHINA

Chair: Sonja Opper (University of Tuebingen)
Discussants: John Drobak (Washington University in St. Louis) and Jeffrey B. Nugent (University of Southern California)

• China as A Transition Economy: Political Versus Institutional Change
  John Groenwegen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• China’s Resource Mobilizing Networks: Alternatives to Legal Property Rights for Economic Development
  Hans Hendrischke (University of New South Whales – Sydney)
• Political Economy of Labor Retrenchment: Evidence based on China’s SOEs
  Yifan Hu (Hong Kong University), Sonja Opper (University of Tuebinger) and Sonia Wong (Hong Kong University)
• Entrepreneurship in Transition: Searching for Incentives and Governance in China’s Private Sector
  Barbara Krug (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Hans Hendrischke (University of New South Whales – Sydney)