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Thursday 11 September
12:00-17:00 Registration
14:15-14:30 Welcome
14:30-15:45 Keynote lecture: Kathleen Thelen
15:45-16:15 Coffee/tea break
16:15-18:15 Parallel sessions 1
18:30-20:00 Reception
Friday 12 September
09:00-13:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Coffee/tea
09:30-10:45 Keynote lecture: Geoffrey Ingham
10:45-11:15 Coffee/tea break
11:15-13:15 Parallel sessions 2
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Parallel sessions 3
16:30-17:00 Coffee/tea break
17:00-18:15 Keynote lecture: Barry Smith
Saturday 13 September
09:00-09:30 Coffee/tea
09:30-10:45 Keynote lecture: Timur Kuran
10:45-11:15 Coffee/tea break
11:15-13:15 Parallel sessions 4
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:45 Keynote lecture: Katharina Pistor
15:45-16:15 Coffee/tea break
16:15-16:45 Why WINIR?
16:45-18:00 First WINIR membership meeting
19:30-22:30 Conference dinner
Sunday 14 September
09:45-12:00 Guided tour of Greenwich (with Richard and Claire)
Thursday 11 September
14:30–15:45 Keynote lecture 1
Kathleen Thelen, “The politics of institutional change”
Chair: Katharina Pistor
16:15–18:15 Parallel sessions 1
8 groups with 4 x 20 minute presentations each
P1.1 – The Evolution of Organizations (special session organised by Denise Dollimore)
Chair: Richard Webb
Dermot Breslin, “What evolves in organizational co-evolution?”
Denise Dollimore &, Elmo Gomes, “The meaning of evolutionary language in the study of organisations: lost in translation?”
Manuel Wäckerle, “Generic institutionalism: an evolutionary political economy approach to socioeconomic transformation processes”
Ulrich Witt & Hagen Worch, “Growing into troubles: self-organizing criticality and forced change in the governance of growing firm organizations”
P1.2 – Institutional Complementarities (special session organised by Francesca Gagliardi)
Chair: Alice Sindzingre
Bruno Amable, “Institutional complementarities in the dynamic comparative analysis of capitalism”
Francesca Gagliardi, “Institutional complementarities: disciplines, methods and future research”
Gregory Jackson, “Understanding complementarities as configurations”
Ugo Pagano & Simone Sepe, “Legal and economic disequilibrium”
P1.3 – The Meaning and Relevance of Property Rights (special session organised by Geoffrey Hodgson)
Chair: Bruno Gandlgruber
Frank Decker, “On the economic importance and impact of ownership and security: claims to property as the institutional foundation of monetary systems”
Geoffrey Hodgson, “The ‘economics of property rights’ is about neither property nor rights”
Frank Stephen, “Property rights and economic development”
Erik Stubkjaer, “The emergence of real property rights in Denmark: a case of path dependent institutional change”
P1.4 – Market Institutions
Chair: Claude Ménard
Bas Bavel, “The invisible hand? The emergence and decline of market economies throughout history”
Rutger Claassen, “Capabilities and market regulation”
Kurt Dopfer, “The rule-based theory of the market”
Amadeus Gabriel, “On the origins and evolution of credit rating agencies”
P1.5 – Rationality, Trust & Cooperation: Banks, Contracts & Property
Chair: Daniel Cole
Niclas Berggren, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt & Jörgen Hellström, “Does social trust speed up economic reforms? The case of central-bank independence”
Arie Krampf, “Orthodox theory of central banking reconsidered: explaining varieties of central banking norms”
Arturo Lara Rivero & Helder Osorio, “The tragedy of the anticommons in the construction of knowledge of the human genome”
Alexander Lascaux, “E-lusive trust: calculativeness, trusting attitudes and economic organization of electronic contracts”
P1.6 – Institutions & Development: Families, Caste & Disasters
Chair: Ana Castro
Bruno Coric, “Economic disasters, output growth and volatility over the last two centuries”
Selin Dilli, “The long term determinants of development: family systems and (female) agency in the world system, 1900-2000”
Dan Johansson, Anders Bornhäll & Johanna Palmberg, “Independence, the price of control and the ‘capital constraint paradox’ in small family firms”
Elisabetta Basile, “An institutionalist analysis of the role of caste in contemporary India”
P1.7 – Firms & Corporations
Chair: Pertti Aaltonen
Michael Joffe, “The world created by capitalist firms”
Philipp Kern, “Institutional change in times of crisis: corporate practice as a driver of incrementalism”
Richard Langlois, “The corporation and the twentieth century”
Massimiliano Vatiero, “On the origin of corporate governance species”
P1.8 – Legal Institutions
Chair: Katharina Pistor
Federica Gerbaldo, “Do international courts promote legal changes with compensatory awards? The case study of European Court of Human Rights and Italy”
Leonor Rossi, “When institutions are late: the system of legal costs in Regulation EC 1049/2001”
Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt & Lars P. Feld, “The effects of judicial independence 10 years on: cross-country evidence using an updated set of indicators”
Mathias Siems, “A network-based taxonomy of the world’s legal systems”
Friday 12 September
09:30–10:45 Keynote lecture 2
Geoffrey Ingham, “China: the ‘great divergence’ and the ‘missing link’”
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
11:15–13:15 Parallel sessions 2
8 groups with 5 x 16 minute presentations each (to be allocated)
P2.1 – Institutional Methodology & Theory I
Chair: Francesca Gagliardi
Clemens Buchen & Alberto Palermo, “Evolutionary stability in a principal-agent population game”
Kai Kaufmann, “Institutionalizability as recursion”
Ioana Negru, “On markets and institutions: a methodological perspective”
Makoto Nishibe & Takashi Hashimoto, “Theoretical model of institutional ecosystems and its economic applications”
Nadia von Jacobi, “Institutional interconnections: understanding symbiotic relationships”
P2.2 – Firms & Industries I
Chair: Michael Joffe
Jokin Cearra, “Effect of the environment on corporate entrepreneurship”
Véronique Dutraive & Richard Arena, “Industrial economics and policies: recent issues and theoretical foundations”
Mathias Erlei & Wiebke Roß, “Bounded rationality as an essential ingredient of the holdup problem”
Gerhard Schnyder, “The rise of shareholder-orientated corporate governance in Europe: longitudinal firm-level evidence”
Eric Scorsone, Anne Lawton, David Schweikhardt & Kristi Bowman, “An institutional approach to corporate bankruptcy law”
P2.3 – Institutions, Competition & Innovation
Chair: Claude Ménard
Piret Kukk, Marko P. Hekkert & Ellen H.M. Moors, “The impact of institutional changes on the innovation system: the case of personalized cancer medicines in England”
Fabio Landini & Franco Malerba, “Technological change, public policy and catch-up in global industries: a simulation model”
Giovanna Massarotto, “The changed role of antitrust agencies: from watchdogs to regulators”
Mark McKenna & Brett Frischmann, “Comparative analysis of innovation institutions in context”
Dina Tsytsulina, “The effects of competition policy tools on the behavior of companies”
P2.4 – Institutional Change
Chair: Ioana Negru
Terrence McDonough, “Social structures of accumulation: a Marxian institutionalism?”
Felix-Fernando Muñoz, María-Isabel Encinar & Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo, “Intentionality and technological and institutional change: implications for economic development”
Jens Rommel & Christian Kimmich, “Constitutional rules in the study of evolutionary institutional change: a research heuristic for agent-based modelers and experimentalists”
Ferdinand Wenzlaff, “Dynamic stagnation: institutional change as a reflex of declining economic growth”
Jan van Zanden, “On Amartya Sen and Douglass North, and the link between agency and economic development”
P2.5 – Political Institutions
Chair: Ugo Pagano
Christian Bjornskov & Martin Rode, “Stolper-Samuelson democratizes”
Maurizio Lisciandra & Emanuele Millemaci, “The economic effect of corruption in Italy: a regional panel analysis”
Hilton Root, “Sources of institutional variation in global development and order building: a complex systems approach”
Anna Soci, Anna Maccagnan & Daniela Mantovani, “Does inequality harm democracy? An empirical investigation on the UK”
Roberto Veneziani, Carlo Fiorio & Simon Mohun, “Social democracy and distributive conflict in the UK, 1950-2010”
P2.6 – Institutions & Development
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Anne Booth, “Institutions and governance in colonial and post-colonial southeast Asia: the case of export-oriented agriculture”
Judit Kapas, “Unbundling culture: The impact of individual values on development”
Lyndal Keeton & Giampaolo Garzarelli, “Internal exit in pre-colonial Southern Africa (ca.1500-1910)”
Atiyab Sultan, “Institutional explanations of long-run underdevelopment: an insidious discourse?”
Gerhard Wegner, “Capitalist transformation without political participation: German capitalism in the first half of the 19th century”
P2.7 – Institutions & the Natural Environment
Chair: Daniel Cole
Nathalie Berta, “The European carbon market”
Grazia Cecere & Nicoletta Corrocher, “Waste patents and regulation in EU countries”
Thomas Herzfeld & Max Spoor, “Determinants of institutional change: a survey and an application to natural resource use in China”
Muriela Padua, Diana Prata & Ana Costa, “Regulation of markets to promote empathy and pro-social behavior among energy consumers”
Annika Scharbert, Sigrid Stagl & Manuel Wäckerle, “An institutional approach to socio-ecological transformation: agency, structure and evolutionary political economy”
P2.8 – Money & Finance
Chair: Geoffrey Ingham
Paolo Dini & Alexandros Kioupkiolis, “Community currencies as laboratories of institutional learning: emergence of governance through the mediation of social value”
Ioannis Glinavos, “The eye of the storm: ICSID and transnational law in the era of financial crisis”
Georgina M. Gómez, “Why do people want their own currency? Money for a day: a social experiment in Argentina”
Giuseppe Littera, Laura Sartori, Paolo Dini & Panayotis Antoniadis, "From an idea to a scalable working model: merging economic benefits with social values in Sardex"
Mohsen Yazdanpanah, “Capitalist-credit money and development ethics”
14:30–16:30 Parallel sessions 3
8 groups each with 6 or 7 x 12 minute presentations each
P3.1 – Institutional Methodology & Theory II
Chair: Ugo Pagano
Oleg Ananyin, “Institutions at the crossing of culture and economy”
Javier Aranzadi, “New institutional neoclassical economics or institutional economics?”
Ashok Chakravarti, “Imperfect information and opportunism”
Melissa Dennison & Ian Fouweather, “Darwin’s Legacy: towards a creative conversation”
Svetlana Kirdina, “Methodological individualism and methodological institutionalism for interdisciplinary research”
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz, “Shared concepts of institutional and feminist economics”
P3.2 – Firms & Industries II
Chair: David Gindis
Pertti Aaltonen, “The co-evolution of institutions with the build-up of research in pharmaceutical firms and their role in current socio-technical industry transition”
Paivi Aaltonen, “Institutional forces in the creation of new sustainable technologies: a case study of reusing old infrastructure – paper mills to datacenters”
Graham Brownlow, “Back to the failure: an analytic narrative of the De Lorean debacle”
Lukas Wiafe & Albrecht Söllner, “Institutions matter: a discursive perspective on inclusion”
Petar Stankov, “Firm size, market liberalization and growth”
Jan Peter van den Toren, Marc van der Meer & Tammy Lie, “Competent national institutional regimes and sectoral variety”
P3.3 – Institutions & Development: Asia
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Sung-Bae Kim, “Replicating Hong Kong: Is it a viable economic development strategy for developing countries?”
Michelle Liu, “Understanding China’s miracle”
Adam M. Saunders & Ke Meng, “The institutional development of the Chinese political economy: comparisons with the West”
Miao Zhang & Rajah Rasiah, “The provincialization of state policy: the four ‘ls’ of urban housing institutions in China”
Zehra Aftab, “Political economic consequences of Pakistan's linguistically/religiously and economically fractured educational system”
Anna Kochanova, Mary Hallward-Driemeier & Bob Rijkers, “Economic costs of political connections: firm dynamics and completion pre and post-Suharto”
Bharat Punjabi, “Canal bureaucracy and the corruption nexus around water in the Mumbai hinterland: questions for development and water governance in Maharashtra, India”
P3.4 – Institutions & Development: Transitional Economies
Chair: Klaus Nielsen
Svetlana Avdasheva & Kryuchkova Polina, “Procedures, incentives and the enforcement models: the Russian case”
Ulan Kasymov & Andreas Thiel, "Designing institutions regulating pasture use in Kyrgyzstan”
Peter Mihalyi, “The importance of the design of privatization institutions: the experience of post-communist economies”
Gul Ozcan, “Conceptualising post-Soviet institutions and new capitalists: politics of the Mikado game”
Katarzyna Szarzec & Dawid Piatek, “What determines institutional change in transition economies?”
Joachim Zweynert & Ewa Dabrowska, “Economic ideas and institutional change. the case of the Russian Stabilization Fund”
P3.5 – Institutions & Development: Latin America & Palestine
Chair: Ana Castro
Juan Lopez Aymes & Bruno Gandlgruber, “Institutional change and the political economy of development: an analytical proposal on property regimes, foreign investment, and integration of global networks”
Liandra Caldasso, Valeria Da Vinha & Peter May, “Interface between economics and law in the debate on property rights for common resources: the case of Resex-Mar for fisheries co-management in Brazil”
Estela Maria Neves, “Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region and state organizations at local level”
Jairo Parada, “Veblen's Imperial Germany and the industrialization of Latin America”
Jairo Salas-Paramo, Viviana Gutiérrez-Rincón & Santiago Londoño-Jaramillo, “Symbolic capital and discourse in the maintenance and disruption of institutions: the case of Venezuela”
Emanuele Lobina & Léo Heller, “Institutional bricolage, co-production of capacity, and sustainable water development”
Luca Andriani, “Fighting corruption in the Palestinian Territories: with or without social capital?”
P3.6 – Institutions in Europe
Chair: Francesca Gagliardi
Peter Claeys & Federico Martire, “If you want me to stay, pay: a model of asymmetric federalism in centralised countries”
Marina Grusevaja & Romy Broedner, “Varieties of capitalism and corporate governance in CEEC”
Paulo Marques, “Outsiderness among young generations in Europe: a fuzzy set analysis”
Gerhard Fuchs, “Institutions under pressure and institutions enabling: the transformation of the Germany electricity system”
Anita Pelle & Marcell Zoltán Végh, “A comparative analysis of competition across the EU internal market: evidence from 11 EU member states”
Argentino Pessoa, “Explaining the Eurozone crisis: a fable or merely organizations without the adequate institutions?”
P3.7 – Institutions for the Future
Chair: Nicole Biggart
Panayotis Antoniadis & Ileana Apostol, “Designing for local institutions in the hybrid city”
Slawomir Czech & Anna Zabkowicz, “The state and the triangle of interests: towards subordination or coordination?”
Jakob Kapeller, Bernhard Schütz & Dennis Tamesberger, “From free to civilized markets: first steps towards eutopia”
Sergey Kulpin & Evgene Popov, “Economic institutions for internet transactions”
Lorenzo Sacconi & Virginia Cecchini Manara, “Ex post stability of constitutions: an endogenous explanation”
Andre Sorensen, “Institutions and urban space: path dependence, land and property capital”
P3.8 – An Institutional Panorama
Chair: Mathias Klaes
Stephan Panther & Svenja Flechtner, “Towards a political economy of the middle-income trap: case study evidence on institutional change”
Sung Sup Rhee, “Imperfect property rights, bounded rationality and relation exchange”
Alice Sindzingre, “Institutions as a composite and hierarchical concept: explaining the diverging paths of development”
Andre van Hoorn & Dimitrios Soudis, “Local embeddedness, distance constraints, and credit assessments as organizational outcomes: how global are credit rating agencies?”
Jason Windawi, “Beyond normal accidents: governance and the production of systemic risk”
17:00–18:15 Keynote lecture 3
Barry Smith, “From speech acts to document acts: an ontology of institutions”
Chair: David Gindis
Saturday 13 September
09:30–10:45 Keynote lecture 4
Timur Kuran, “Institutional roots of authoritarian rule in the Middle East: effects of the Islamic waqf”
Chair: Francesca Gagliardi
11:15–13:15 Parallel sessions 4
8 groups with 4 x 20 minute presentations each
P4.1 – Coase Memorial Session (special session organised by Elodie Bertrand)
Chair: Richard Langlois
Elodie Bertrand & Alain Marciano, “Coase, costs and market failures: from ‘the marginal cost controversy’ to ‘the problem of social cost’”
David Campbell & Matthias Klaes, “What did Ronald Coase know about the law of tort?”
Ranjan Ghosh & Ning Wang, “The methodological pragmatism of Coase”
Ugo Pagano & Massimiliano Vatiero, “Costly institutions as substitutes: novelty and limits of the Coasian approach”
P4.2 – The Legal Personality of the Firm (special session organised by David Gindis)
Chair: Frank Stephen
Simon Deakin, “Legal capacity and the theory of the firm”
David Gindis, “Legal personhood and the firm: avoiding anthropomorphism and equivocation”
Paddy Ireland, “Changing conceptions of the corporation in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain and America”
Eric W. Orts, “The legal and social ontology of organizational persons”
P4.3 – The Social Institutions of Social Science (special session organised by Uskali Mäki)
Chair: Denise Dollimore
Christian Fleck, “Institutionalization and de-institutionalization of social science disciplines in Europe”
Uskali Mäki, "On the institutional dynamics of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity"
Carlo Martini, “Interdisciplinarity in the planning office: the case of the monetary policy committee”
Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, “The nature of co-authorship: recognition sharing and scientific argumentation”
P4.4 – The Work of János Kornai (special session organised by Geoff Hodgson)
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
János Kornai, “Shortage economy - surplus economy”
Klaus Nielsen & Rasmus Storm, “Football clubs running persistent deficits and other ‘anomalies’: the ubiquity of soft budget constraints in market economies”
D. Mario Nuti, “János Kornai on socialism and capitalism: shortage versus surplus economies”
P4.5 – Institutions, Rules & Methodology
Chair: Ioana Negru
Morris Altman, “Mental models, bargaining power and institutional change”
Virginia Cecchini Manara & Lorenzo Sacconi, “Institutions, frames and social contract reasoning”
Thorvald Gran, “Organisational analysis: the generative speech act model”
Aidan Walsh, “Occams's razor and organizations”
P4.6 – Institutional Evolution: Politics, Ideology, Ethics & Design
Chair: Manuel Wäckerle
Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman, Teppo Felin & Caryn Devins, “Against design”
Pavel Pelikan, “The evolution of the institutional frameworks of economies: ideological wishes vs. politico-economic sustainability”
Ingrid Robeyns, “The ethics of institutions”
Richard Webb, “Is innovation evolution?”
P4.7 – Institutions, Welfare & Ecology
Chair: Bas van Bavel
Nicole Biggart & Kelsey D. Meagher, “Using social institutions to promote social welfare: a multi-sectoral approach to social problems and solutions”
Daniel Cole, Graham Epstein & Michael D. McGinnis, “Toward a new institutional analysis of social-ecological systems”
Bernhard Ebbinghaus, “Reforming welfare states and changing capitalism: institutional change and reversing early retirement regimes in Europe”
Ian Gough, “Welfare states and environmental states: commonalities and contrasts”
P4.8 – States, Networks, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Chair: Ruget Claassen
Moritz Botts & Albrecht Söllner, “Rethinking Europe: the role of institutional distance in understanding European integration”
Ana Castro, “Comparative innovation and state capacities in Brazil, China and Argentina”
Claude Ménard, Rolf Kunneke & John Groenewegen, “Critical network infrastructures: alignment, coherence, performance”
Erik Stam, Niels Bosma & Sander Wennekers, “In intrapreneurship we trust: institutions and the allocation of entrepreneurship”
14:30–15:45 Keynote lecture 5
Katharina Pistor, “The legal construction of global capitalism”
Chair: Klaus Nielsen