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Economics,
Political Institutions, and Financial Markets:
Institutional Theory and Evidence from Europe, the United States, and Latin
America
A
Conference of the Social Science History Institute
Stanford University
February 7th and 8th, 2003
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Science Building
Friday, February
7th
9:30 AM-12:15 PM Session1: Introduction and Foundations
Douglass North
( Washington University and
“Foundations of
Efficient Markets”
Mary Shirley (Ronald
Coase Institute)
“Institutions
and Development: A Statement of the Problem”
10:45 AM Coffee
Break
Barry Weingast
( Stanford University and
“Political
Institutions and Financial Systems: Theory and History—A Precis”
Richard Sylla (
New York University)
“The
Political Economy of Financial Systems—Historical Perspectives”
Phil Hoffman, (Cal
Tech)
“What
Makes a Financial System Thrive?”
John Wallis (University
of Maryland )
“The
Public Promotion of Private Interest Groups”
James Robinson
(U.C.-Berkeley)
7:00 PM Conference
Dinner
Spago, 265 Lytton Avenue
Downtown Palo Alto
Saturday, February
8th
9:30 AM-12:00 PM Session 4: Formal Rules Governing Markets
Peter Gourevitch
(U.C.-San Diego and CASBS, Stanford)
“Testing
Political Explanations of Corporate Governance Patterns”
Aldo Musacchio
( Stanford University)
10:45 AM Coffee
Break
Andy Rutten (Stanford
University)
“Markets and the
Rule of Law”
Ross Levine (University
of Minnesota and NBER)
“Bank
Supervision, Corporate Finance, and Economic Development”
Phil Keefer (The
World Bank)
“
Is the financial sector a laboratory for research on the political economy
of development?”
3:15 PM
Coffee Break
Douglass North
This conference was made possible by the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bechtel Program on Global Change.
Scott Wilson
saw@stanford.edu
(650) 723-1453
