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Institutions and Markets in Comparative-Historical
Perspective:
Empirical Studies in Institutional and Economic Change
May 7-8, 1999
A Conference Sponsored by the Bechtel Program in Global Change and the Social Science History Institute
Lucas Conference Room, Landau Economics Building
9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:45 AM
Introductory Remarks
Stephen Haber (Stanford University), Director of SSHI
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Panel I: Institutions and Markets in the Ancient World
Chair: Joseph Manning (Stanford University)
Richard Saller (University of Chicago), "Legal Institutions, Population Structure and Investment in the Roman Empire."
Dennis Kehoe (Tulane University), "Law and Rural Economy in the Roman Empire."
Edward Cohen (Jeffbanks, Inc.), "Development of Capital Markets in Ancient Athens: Confiscatory Tax Policy, Private Banks, Clandestine Economy."
12:00 Noon
Lunch
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
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Panel II: Financial Institutions and Markets in the Process of Growth
Chair: Stephen Haber (Stanford University)
Lance Davis (Cal Tech), "Lessons from the Past: Capital Imports and the Evolution of Domestic Capital Markets, 1870-1914" (written with Robert Gallman).
Philip Hoffman (Cal Tech), "The Explosion of Private Borrowing in Eighteenth Century Paris."
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA), "Sunk Costs and the Development of Intermediation in French Credit Markets: Evidence from the Estates of Burgundy."
3:15 PM-5:15 PM
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Panel III: Educational Institutions and Markets for Technology
Chair: Stephen Haber (Stanford University)
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA) and Ken Sokoloff (UCLA), "The Market for Technology and the Location of Inventive Activity in the United States, 1870-1920."
Francisco Ramirez (Stanford University), "The Global Institutionalization of 'Education for Development'."
John Meyer (Stanford University), "Cross-National Comparisons: Scientific Expansion and Economic Development, 1970-1990."
Dinner at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto
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9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Panel IV: The Political Foundations of Markets and Institutions
Chair: Avner Greif (Stanford University)
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Stanford University), "Popes, Kings and Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Sovereignty."
William Summerhill (UCLA), "Party and Faction in Brazil's Imperial Parliament."
Stephen Krasner (Stanford University), "Sovereignty: Organized Hyposcrisy."
Paul Ingram (Columbia University), "The Competition Between State and Federation to Govern Exchange: Evidence for Israeli Organizations."
12:00 Noon
Lunch
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
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Panel V: Institutional Reform and Economic Change in Latin America
Chair: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA)
Noel Maurer (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) and Stephen Haber (Stanford University), "Institutional Change and Productivity Growth: Access to Credit and Liquidity Constraints in the Mexican Cotton Textile Manufacture, 1878-1913."
Sandra Kuntz-Ficker (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and Stanford University), "Institutional Constraints and Firm Strategy: A Railroad Corporation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico."
Robert Cull (World Bank), "Provincial Bank Privatization in Argentina: the Why, the How, and the So What?"
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