Session 7 - ISNIE 2004

Saturday, October 2nd
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

 Panel 7.1: AGRO-INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTS AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Organizer: Decio Zylbersztajn (University of Sao Paulo)
Chair: Kostas Karantininis (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University – Denmark)
Discussants: Mike Sykuta (University of Missouri) and Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (Fundacao Getulio Vargas-Brazil)

• Governance Models in Food Production and Distribution: Analyzing Mutual Vertical Integration
  Michael Cook (University of Missouri) and Constantine Iliopoulos (Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute-Athens)
• Contracts for Regional Development: Inside the Coordination Black Box
  Gustavo Gordillo (FAO’s Office for Latin America) and Rodrigo Wagner (FAO)
• Grower Heterogeneity and Governance: Authority, Access, and Countervailing Power
  George Hendrikse (Erasmus University-Rotterdam)
• The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems
  Thomas Reardon (Michigan State University)

Panel 7.2: CASES FROM THE PRACTICE OF LAW AND ECONOMICS: QUESTIONS OF RELEVANCE TO THE LAW THAT INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS MIGHT ANSWER

Organizer: Kenneth Gartrell (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
Chair: Mark Sarro (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
Discussants: Rainer Kulms (Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law) and D. Bruce Johnsen (George Mason University)

• A Rational Expectations Critique of Merger Policy Analysis
  Sencer Ecer (LECG, Washington D.C.)
• Secondary Markets & Efficiency in the Allocation of Slots at U.S. Airports
  Daniel M. Kasper (LECG, Cambridge, MA)
• The Economics of Delaware Fair Value
  Brett Margolin (LECG, Philadelphia, PA)

Judicial System Performance: Impact on Economic Development
Robert M. Sherwood (International Business Counselor)

Panel 7.3: POLITICAL ECONOMY, INSTITUTIONS, AND REFORM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRISE

Organizer: Clifford Zinnes (University of Maryland)
Chair: Jeffery B. Nugent (University of Southern California)
Discussants: Lee Alston (University of Colorado), Nauro F. Campos (University of Newcastle), and Sonja Opper (University of Tuebingen)

• Institutions and Instability the World Around
  Nauro F. Campos (University of Newcastle) and Jeffery B. Nugent (University of Southern California)
• The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity
  A. Mushfiq Mobarak and David S. Brown (both of University of Colorado-Boulder)
• Explaining Improvement in Institutional Environments Through Multi-Case Research at the Organizational Level
  Robert Chapman Wood (San Jose University)
• Premeditated Inter-Jurisdictional Competition in Morocco to Strengthen Local Governance and Increase Donor Effectiveness
  Clifford Zinnes and Patrick Meagher (both of University of Maryland)

Panel 7.4: INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES OF SOCIAL OUTCOMES

Chair: Thrainn Eggertson (University of Iceland)
Discussants: Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Wolfram W. Latsch (University of Washington)

Making Democrats of Dictators: Foreign Aid and Africa’s Political Liberalization
Clark Gibson (University of California-San Diego), and Barak Hoffman (University of California-San Diego)

• Facets of Sovereignty: Institutions that Spur and Institutions that Retard Tribal Development
  David D. Haddock (Northwestern University) and Robert J. Miller (Lewis & Clark University)
• Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Effects of Accountability and Obstacles to Policy Change
  Allen Hicken (University of Michigan), Shanker Satyanath and Ernest Sergenti (both of New York University)
• Social Mobility, Institutional Choice, and Economic Performance: Germany From the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
  Oliver Volckart (Humboldt University)

Panel 7.5: COMPARATIVE INSITTUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Organizer: Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)
Chair: Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate University)
Discussants: Mary Shirley  (Ronald Coase Institute) and Pablo Spiller (University of California at Berkeley)

• Judges’ Cognition and Market Order
  Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University), and Veneta Andonova (ITAM)
• The New Comparative Economics
  Simeon D. Djankov (World Bank), Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University), Rafael La Porta (Harvard University), Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (Yale University), and Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
• Enforcement Failure Under Incomplete Law: Theory and Evidence from Financial Market Regulation
  Katharina Pistor (Columbia University), and Chenggang Xu (University of London)
• Legal Systems as a Framework for Market Exchanges
  Paul Rubin (Emory University)