The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny in the seminar. Over the years, the seminar has contributed to pushing the frontier of knowledge on governance, and on the norms and institutions that lead to societal success or failure.
The OEW Seminar meets on Thursdays from 12:00 – 1:30 pm in room C325 Cheit Hall. Outside speakers normally meet with interested students from 3:00 – 3:45 pm in room F589 (in the Faculty Wing of the Haas School).
To see past OEW Seminars, go to the archive.
To see the current OEW Seminar schedule click here.
Spring 2020 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title of Talk/Paper |
January 23
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Na’ama Shenhav (Dartmouth) | Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work Post-Birth |
January 30
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Melanie Morton (Stanford)
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Migration and Informal Insurance |
February 6
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Filipe Campante (SAIS & John Hopkins)
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Internet, Social Media, and the Behavior of Politicians: Evidence from Facebook in Brazil |
February 13 | Luis Martinez (Chicago Harris) | Children of the Dictatorship: The Intergenerational Transmission of College (Un)enrollment in Chile |
February 20 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
February 27 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
March 5 | Joseph Altonji (Yale) | The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees |
March 12 | Andrew Newman (Boston University) | Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure |
March 23
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Spring Break
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Spring Break |
April 9
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Paul Oyer (Stanford) – Canceled
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April 16
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Sharat Ganapati (Georgetown) – Canceled
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May 6
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Lisa Kahn (Rochester) – Canceled
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