It is dedicated to Ph.D. students, Post-docs and researchers in Economics, Management Sciences, Sociology, Law and other social sciences. They will benefit from lectures (every morning) dedicated to the extensive presentation of the state of the art of the discipline on a specific applied or theoretical topic, workshops (afternoon) devoted either to "research questions" or "technical topics", and seminars (second part of the afternoon) that will allow the attendants to have their work discussed by specialised scholars in the field.

Closing date fo applications:

7th of March 2011

http://esnie.org/esnie2011.html

Attendant selection

Attendants will be selected on the basis of their research program. They will present a paper that will be discussed in seminars.

Lectures

• Enriqueta Aragones (Institute of Economic Analysis – Barcelona),
• Philippe Gagnepain (U. of Paris 1),
• Tom Ginsburg  (U. of Chicago),
• Jack Knight (Duke U.), Timur Kuran (Duke U.),
• Dean Lueck (U. of Arizona),
• Andrew Seltzer (U. of London),
• Pablo Spiller (U.C. Berkeley),
• Frank H. Stephen (U. of Manchester),
• Michael Ting (U. of Columbia).

Workshops

• Roberto Bonfatti (Oxford U.),
• Gonzalo Caballero (U. of Vigo),
• Sandro Cabral (U. Federal da Bahia),
• Ricard Gil (U.C. Santa Cruz),
• Sergio G. Lazzarini (INSPER, Sao Paulo),
• Desmond Lo (Santa Clara U.),
• Matteo Rizzolli (Free U. of Bolzano),
• Santiago Sanchez-Pages (U. of Edinburgh),
• Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School, Moscow).

Scientific committee

• Masahiko Aoki (Stanford U.),
• Ronald H. Coase (U. of Chicago),
• Massimo Egidi (Luiss, Roma),
• Jean-Luc Gaffard (U. Nice),
• Claude Menard (U. de Paris I),
• Bart Nooteboom (Erasmus U.),
• Douglass C. North (Washington University),
• Rudolf Richter (U. of Saarlandes),
• Oliver Williamson (U.C. Berkeley),
• Frank Stephen (U. of Manchester).

This event is sponsored by the CNRS (French National Foundation for Research), the European network of excellence DIME (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe) and the Doctoral School "Economics Organization and Society" (U. Paris Ouest).

Organization coordinated by Eric Brousseau (U. of Paris Ouest, EconomiX).

Calendar

• Closing date for application: 7th of March 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 21st of March 2011
• Closing date for registration: 11th of April 2011

Workshops - ESNIE 2011

Monday, 16th May 2011

• Santiago Sanchez-Pages - U. of Edinburgh, "Bargaining and Conflict"
• Desmond Lo - Santa Clara U., "Economics of Contracts in Distribution Channels"

Tuesday, 17th May 2011

• Gonzalo Caballero - U. of Vigo, "Opening the black box of Congress: a Transaction Cost Politics Approach"
• Sandro Cabral - U. Federal da Bahia, "Applied Research on PPP: Challenges and Pitfalls"

Wednesday, 18th May 2011

• Sergio G. Lazzarini - INSPER, Sao Paulo, "Business strategy for emerging markets"
• Matteo Rizzolli - Free U. of Bolzano, "Experimental Economics in Law And Economics"

Thursday, 19th May 2011

• Ricard Gil - U.C. Santa Cruz, "Economics of Relational and Informal Contracts"
• Roberto Bonfatti - Oxford U., "Foreign Influence on the Shaping of Institutional Game or The Methodology of Historical Economic Research"

Friday, 20th May 2011

• Konstantin Sonin - New Economic School, Moscow, " Methodology of Positive Political Economy"

Lectures - ESNIE 2011 :

Monday, 16th May 2011: The Economics of Regulation

• Pablo Spiller - U.C. Berkeley, "Political Economy of Regulation"
• Philippe Gagnepain - U. of Paris 1, "Empirical Approaches to Regulation Theory"

Tuesday, 17th May 2011: The Long Term Dynamic of Institutions

• Timur Kuran - Duke U., "The Institutions of the Islamic World"
• Andrew Seltzer - U. of London, "History of Labor Market Institutions, or Historical Analysis of Contractual Practices"

Wednesday, 18th May 2011: Law and Economics

• Frank H. Stephen - U. of Manchester, "The Regulation of the Legal Profession in Europe"
• Dean Lueck - U. of Arizona, "Economics of Property Law"

Thursday, 19th May 2011: Institutions and Democracy

• Enriqueta Aragones - Institute of Economic Analysis, Barcelona, "Participatory democracy"
• Jack Knight - Duke U., "Democratic Theory or On Judicial Decision-Making"

Friday, 20th May 2011: Political Institutions

• Michael Ting - U. of Columbia, "The Interplay Between Bureaucracy and Politics"
• Tom Ginsburg - U. of Chicago, "The Comparative and Dynamic Analysis of Constitutions"