The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis features current research of faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and advanced doctoral students who are investigating the efficacy of economic and noneconomic forms of organization. In this seminar, an interdisciplinary perspective–combining aspects of law, economics and organization–is maintained. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, bureaus, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come under scrutiny. The aspiration is to progressively build towards a new science of organization.

The OEW Seminar meets on Thursdays from 4:10 – 6:00 pm in room C325 Cheit Hall (the April 4 session is on a Monday). Outside speakers normally meet with interested students from 3:00 – 3:45 pm in the IBI Conference room located in room F402 (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 2016 Schedule
Date Speaker Title of Talk/Paper
January 14
Jeremiah Dittmar
(LSE)
Origins of Growth: Health Shocks, Institutions, and Human Capital in the Protestant Reformation
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January 21
Alessandra Voena
(Chicago)
Bride Price and Female Education
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January 28
Dave Donaldson
(Stanford)
Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade
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February 4
Shanker Sathyanath
(NYU)
Political Connections and Labor Repression During Argentina’s Dirty War
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February 11 Paul Gertler
(Berkeley-Haas)
Crime and Punishment: The Effect of Mexico’s War on Drug Cartels on Economic Activity
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February 18
Mark Rosenzweig
(Yale/Stanford)
Insiders and Outsiders: Local Ethnic Politics and Public Good Provision
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February 25 Francesco De Carolis
(Boston Univ.)
Common Agency and Coordinated Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions
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March 3 Oeindrila Dube
(NYU)
Queens
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March 10 Charles Sprenger
(UC San Diego)
Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan
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March 17 Samuel Bowles
(Santa Fe Institute)
The Origins and Future of Economic Inequality
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March 24
NO SEMINAR
(Spring Break)
March 31
Pietro Ortoleva
(Columbia)
Behavioral Phenomena and Political Preferences
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April 4 (Monday) Robin Burgess
(LSE)
TBA
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April 14 Ameet Morjaria
(Northwestern)
Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda’s Coffee Mills
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April 21
Omer Moav
(Warwick)
Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy
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April 28
Camilo Garcia Jimeno
(Penn)
Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage
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May 5
Nathan Nunn
(Harvard)
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom
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May 12
NO SEMINAR
Fall 2015 Schedule
Date Speaker Title of Talk/Paper
August 27
Chris Bidner
(Simon Fraser University)
“A Theory of Minimalist Democracy” [pdf]
September 3
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
(Berkeley-Haas)
“The industrial organization of state extortion: evidence from inside the police administration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
September 10
Rohini Pande
(Harvard)
“Value for Money? Vote-buying and Politician Accountability in the Laboratory” [pdf]
September 17
Matt Gentzkow
(Stanford)
“Ideological Bias and Trust” [pdf]
September 24
Paul Niehaus
(UCSD)
“General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India”
October 1
Ricardo Perez Truglia
(Microsoft Research)
“Partisan Interactions” [pdf] “Political Conformity” [pdf]
October 8
Yujin Kim
(Berkeley-Haas)
“Too Costly To Convince: How Do Entrepreneurs Market Breakthrough Innovation Through Partnership?” [pdf]
October 15
Sarah Moshary
(UPenn/eBay)
“Price Discrimination across PACs and the Consequences of Political Advertising Regulation” [pdf]
October 22
Moshe Barach
(Berkeley-Haas)
“Search, Screening, and Information Provision: Personnel Decisions in an Online Labor Market” [pdf]
October 29
Lucy Hu
(Berkeley-Haas)
“What is the “Crowd” Worth? The Role of Social Influence in Crowdfunding” [abstract]
November 5
Mikhail Golosov
(Princeton)
“The Industrialization and Economic Development of Russia through the Lens of a Neoclassical Growth Model” [pdf]
November 12
Marina Agranov
(Caltech)
“Commitment and (In)Efficiency: a Bargaining Experiment”
November 19
Orie Shelef
(Stanford)
“Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments” [pdf]
November 26
No Seminar
(University Holiday)
December 3
Guido Friebel
(Goethe University)
How Bad is a Pay Cut? And Why? [abstract]