Academic

Here is a revised program for the New Institutional Economics conference that Phil Weiser and I are hosting in Boulder on June 4-5.  Let me know if you are interested in attending.  (More info also available on the Silicon Flatirons website.).

Workshop Faculty 

• Lee Fennell (Chicago)
• Victor Fleischer (Colorado)
• Mark Ramseyer (Harvard)
• Henry Smith (Harvard)
• Eric Talley (Berkeley)
• Phil Weiser (Colorado)

Participant Papers

• Mitu Gulati (Duke)
• Kim Krawiec (North Carolina)
• Michael Madison (Pittsburgh)
• Fred Tung (Emory)
• Molly Van Houweling (Berkeley)
• Josh Wright (George Mason)

More details below.

Thursday, June 4

New Institutional Economics and Property Rights

9:30-10:30       Henry Smith

• Presentation of Harold Demsetz, Toward a Theory of Property Rights 57 American Economic Review 347-59 (1967)
• Lee Fennell, Discussant

10:30-11:15     Molly Van Houweling

• Presentation of  Molly Van Houweling, Author Autonomy and Atomism in Copyright Law (work in progress)
• Henry Smith, Discussant

11:15-11:30     Break
11:30-12:15     Michael Madison

• Presentation of Michael Madison, Brett Frischmann & Katherine Strandburg, The University as Constructed Cultural Commons (work in progress)
• Lee Fennell, Discussant

12:15?1:30      Lunch [in the law school]

New Institutional Economics and Contract Design

1:30 ? 2:15      Mark Ramseyer                      

• Presentation of Benjamin Klein, Robert G. Crawford & Armen A. Alchian, Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process, 21 J. L. Econ. 297 (1978).

2:15 ? 3:00      Josh Wright

• Presentation of Benjamin Klein & Joshua Wright, The Economics of Slotting Contracts, 50 J. L. Econ. 421 (2007).
• Phil Weiser, Discussant

3:00 ? 3:15      Break

Using NIE in the Classroom

3:15 ? 4:15      Victor Fleischer

• Presentation of Michael Lewis, The End, Portfolio (Dec. 2008)
• Application of NIE to the Lewis article
• The ?Deals? Template
• Eric Talley, Discussant

4:15 -   5:15     Discussion of NIE and the Financial Crisis

• Eric Talley
• Victor Fleischer
• Phil Weiser
• Mark Ramseyer

7:30 pm           Conference Dinner

Friday, June 5

New Institutional Economics and Behavioral Finance

9:00 ? 9:45      Fred Tung

• Presentation of Fred Tung, Leverage in the Board Room: The Unsung Influence of Private Lenders in Corporate Governance (work in progress)
• Eric Talley, Discussant

9:45 ? 10:30    Mitu Gulati

• Presentation of Mitu Gulati & Robert Scott, Sticky Contracts (work in progress)
• Victor Fleischer, Discussant

10:30 ? 10:45  Break

10:45 ? 11:30  Kim Krawiec

• Presentation of Kim Krawiec, The Return of the Rogue, Az. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009)
• Eric Talley, Discussant

11:30 ? 12:00 Wrap-up and Feedback (Vic and Phil)

End of Program

12:30 ? 1:30 pm          Informal Lunch (optional)
Friday afternoon ? Cycling or Hiking (optional)