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 2021 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk/Paper |
|
Feb 11
|
Elliot Lipnowski
(Columbia University)
|
Optimal Political Career Dynamics |
|
Feb 18
|
Allison Stashko
(University of Utah)
|
Prosecutor Elections and Police Accountability |
|
Feb 25
|
Marina Halac
(Yale University)
|
Monitoring Teams |
| March 4 |
Natalie Bau
(UCLA)
|
The Equilibrium Effect of Grants to Public Schools |
| April 1 |
Nicola Persico
(Northwestern University)
|
Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision |
| April 15 |
Jesse Shapiro
(Brown University)
|
Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence |
| April 29 |
Laurent Bouton
(Georgetown University)
|
TBD |
| May 6 |
Ilyana Kuziemko
(Princeton University)
|
TBD |
Fall 2020 Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk/Paper |
|
Sep 3
|
Molly Schnell
(Northwestern University)
|
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health |
|
Sep 10
|
Sharat Ganapati
(Georgetown)
|
Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Recent Economic Growth |
|
Sep 17
|
Clemence Tricaud
(UCLA Anderson)
|
Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation |
| Sep 24 |
Andrea Prat
(Columbia University)
|
Measuring Voters’ Knowledge of Political News |
| Oct 1 |
Andres Gonzalez Lira
(UC Berkeley Haas)
|
Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies |
| Oct 8 |
Paul Oyer
(Stanford GSB)
|
TBD |
| Oct 15 |
Richard Hornbeck
(Chicago Booth)
|
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing |
| Oct 22 |
Andrew Newman
(Boston University)
|
Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure |
|
Oct 29
|
Claudia Steinwender
(MIT Sloan)
|
All aboard: The Aggregate Effects of Port Development |
|
Nov 5
|
Gordon Hanson
(Harvard Kennedy School)
|
On the Persistence of the China Shock |
|
Nov 12
|
Bocar Ba
(UC Irvine)
|
Diversity in Policing: The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago |
|
Nov 19
|
Chad Kendall
(USC Marshall)
|
TBD |
|
Dec 2
|
Lisa Kahn
(University of Rochester)
|
Joint with EAP |