Note about Application for RCI Workshop
The Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis
September 17-22, 2005
Barcelona, Spain
Apply by April 1, 2005
Attend this workshop to
learn more about institutional analysis, and present your current research and get comments from established scholars in the field.
Who is eligible?
Postdoctoral social scientists early in their careers, and advanced graduate students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.Scholars from developing and transitional countries are particularly invited to apply.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their current research abstracts.
Admission is strictly limited.
As a participant in this workshop, you will
Hear established scholars discuss their strategies to formulate research questions, design projects, and draw important and practical conclusions.
Past speakers have included:
Ronald Coase, University of Chicago, USA; Douglass North, Washington University and Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Oliver Williamson, University of California ? Berkeley, USA; Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Gary Libecap, University of Arizona, USA; Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Benito Arru?ada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Lee Benham, Washington University and Ronald Coase Institute, USA; Claude Ménard, Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France; John Nye, Washington University, USA; Philip Keefer, The World Bank, USA; Sebastián Galiani, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina, and Washington University, USA; Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School, Russia; and many more.
Make two presentations of your own research:
(1) in a small group with faculty guidance and (2) after revisions, to the entire workshop.
Network with a worldwide set of scholars ? faculty and alumni ? who have an enduring interest in institutional analysis.
To apply (by April 1, 2005)
E-mail an abstract - 350 words maximum - of a current research project of yours, plus a one-page curriculum vitae, to workshop2005@coase.org. At the top of your abstract, list the title, your name, and the number of words in your abstract. On your CV, include the names and e-mail addresses of two scholars familiar with you and your work.
For your e-mail subject line, use Application for RCI Workshop. Attach your abstract and CV as Microsoft Word files, with filenames yyy abstract.doc and yyy cv.doc where yyy is your surname.
Abstracts will be judged on the clarity and importance of the research question and on the institutional focus. Please do not submit any longer documents, as they will not be read.
Costs
The cost of the workshop - tuition and meals - is $1995 USD. This does not include hotel accommodations or travel expenses. A limited number of fellowships will be available to scholars from developing and transitional countries, for tuition and meals, hotel accommodations, and fees for the ISNIE conference.
The ISNIE conference ? the annual meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics - will take place in Barcelona on September 22-24, immediately after this workshop.
The Ronald Coase Institute (www.coase.org)
encourages careful and useful analysis of the institutions that govern economies and affect transaction costs. Its mission is to better understand how real economic systems work, so that individuals and societies have greater opportunities to improve their well-being.
