Session 8 - ISNIE 2004

Saturday, October 2nd
10:30 – 11:55 a.m.
Five Parallel Sessions

Panel 8.1: TCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Chair: Oliver Williamson (University of California – Berkeley)
Discussants: Witold Heinsz (Wharton School of Business) and Claude Menard (University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne)

• Do Transaction Costs Matter for Survival At All Stages of the Industry Lifecycle?
  Nicholas Argyres (Boston University) and Lyda Bigelow (Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis)
• TCE and Marketing Problems: Progress, Uses, and Limitations
  George John and Ragunath Rao (both University of Minnesota)
• Family Feud or Happy Marriage? Governance and Competence Perspectives on the Multinational Firm and International Alliances
  Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)
• Pragmatic Methodology and the Theory of the Firm
  Oliver Williamson (University of California-Berkeley)

Panel 8.2: NEUROECONOMICS AND INSTITUTIONS

Organizer: Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)
Chair: Rick Geddes (Cornell University)
Discussants: Rick Geddes (Cornell University), Dan Houser (George Mason University), and Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)

• Neural Foundations of Uncertainty-Aversion and Time Discounting
  Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
• Individual Differences in Cognition and Behavior
  Dan Houser (George Mason University)
• Working For Self or Others
  Kevin McCabe (George Mason University)
• Dihydrotestosterone Responds to Social Signals of Distrust in Men but Not in Women
  Bill Matzner (Claremont Graduate College)
• Oxytocin is Associated with Interpersonal Trust in Humans
  Paul Zak (Claremont Graduate College)

Panel 8.3: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY

Chair: Michael Hiscox (Harvard University)
Discussants: Michael Hiscox (Harvard University) and Scott Kastner (University of Maryland)

• Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?
  Jeffrey Bergstrand (University of  Notre Dame) and Scott Baier (Clemson University)
• Membership Has Its Privileges: The Impact of GATT on International Trade
  Judith Goldstein, Douglas Rivers,  and Michael Tomz (all of Stanford University)
• Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations
  Massimo Morelli (Ohio State University) and Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University)
• National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
  Kyle Bagwell (Columbia University) and Robert W. Staiger (University of Wisconsin)

Panel 8.4: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS

Chair: Charles Palmer (University of Bonn, Center for Development Research)
Discussants: Sebastian Galiani (University of San Andres/ Washington University in St. Louis) and Melissa Thomasson (Miami University of Ohio)

• The Prohibition of Alcohol Revisited: The U.S. Case in an International Perspective
  Ruth Dupré (HEC)
• Government Intervention and Its Effects on Nineteenth Century Water Policy
  Terry L. Anderson (Hoover Institution and PERC) and P.J. Hill (Wheaton College and PERC)
• The Common Law of Tort Liability: Bursting Dams in Two Counties in Gold Rush California
  Mark Kanazawa (Carleton College)

Panel 8.5: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT OF BANK PRIVATIZATION

Chair: Mary Shirley  (Ronald Coase Institute)
Discussants: Phil Hoffman (California Institute of Technology) and Philip Keefer (World Bank)

• State Bank Transformation in Brazil – Choices and Consequences
  Thorsten Beck and Juan Miguel Crivelli (both of World Bank), and William Summerhill (University of California-Los Angeles)
• Empirical Studies of Bank Privatization: An Overview
  George R.G. Clarke, Robert Cull (both of World Bank), and Mary Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)
• Getting Privatization Wrong: The Mexican Banking System, 1991 - 2003
  Stephen Haber (Stanford University) and Shawn Kantor (University of California-Merced)
• Bank Privatization in Developing and Developing Countries: Cross-Sectional Evidence on the Impact of Economic and Political Factors
  Ekkehart Boehmer (Texas A&M University), Robert Nash (Wake Forest University), and Jeffry M. Netter (University of Georgia)