2nd T&D World Conference

Reykjavik, June 24th, 2007

Deadline: Send a two-page summary or the full version until April 30th, 2007. In the case you are unable to met this deadline, send the full version until May 15th.

The Second Thinking&Doing Conference will be held in June 24, 2007 in the University of Iceland, in Reykjavik. Its program will include the discussion of up to nine unpublished papers by young researchers. These articles will be chosen among those submitted to T&D's Essay Contest on Economic Development, Public Policies and Law and the winners will be considered for publication in the journal of the network, the Review of Economic Development, Public Policy and Law.

The event will follow the 11th ISNIE (International Society for New Institutional Economics) Conference that brings together economists, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, and researchers and students from a variety of areas in applied social sciences field. This year, keynote speakers are Professor Avinash Dixit of Princeton University, President-elect of the American Economic Association, and Professor Ariel Rubinstein of New York and Tel Aviv University.

The timing and location of the T&D Conference, immediately following the ISNIE Conference, is meant to facilitate attendance by researchers from a variety of countries. Most of the network affiliates have plans to attend both conferences. To this end, our organization has been relied on the help of Professor Thrainn Eggertsson, President-elect of ISNIE, Professor Lee Alston, from Colorado University and ISNIE president, and Mary Shirley, president of the Ronald Coase Institute, the organization that sponsors the Institutional Analysis Workshop that precedes the ISNIE Conference. You can find updated information about the conference program, the results of the article selection and more, on this website.

GUIDELINES:
Either a two-page summary or the full version of the article should be sent by e-mail to brisaferrao@usp.br until April 30th, 2007. You can alternatively send the full version of the article until May 15th.
- The articles must have no identification of the author(s). They also must have no reference that could potentially identify the author(s) of the paper.
- The summary must have a maximum of one thousand words, including graphs, tables and footnotes.
- The summary must include between two and five bibliographical references (not included in the 1000-word limit), and also between one and five keywords. The references do not have to follow any specific format.
- The article summary must be submitted using Times New Roman size 12 font. The paper size must be letter (11”x 8.5”), and paragraphs must be formatted with 1.5 line spacing, justified, with a 0.5” left space in each first line. The bibliographical references and footnotes must be single spaced, and the latter must use Times New Roman size 10 font.
- The final article has a 10.000-word limit, including appendices, graphs, tables and bibliographical notes. The final version must present a 250-word summary and the JEL classification of the article. The format for presentation, like line spacing and so forth, must follow the summary guidelines above.

You must also submit in the same e-mail message, but in separate files, a short CV (two-page maximum) and the completed T&D enrollment form.

For the time being, we are not able to provide any sponsorship or other kind of financial support for those selected to present a paper during T&D Conference.

Selection will be done in a rolling basis, so early submissions are encouraged.

Personal Information
(be aware that this information will be released for T&D Network Members)

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Previous Conferences

Boulder, September 25-25th, 2007

The T&D First World Conference was held in the University Memorial Center at Colorado University, in Boulder. In a two-day conference were discussed 17 unpublished papers of young researchers from a variety of countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, US, UK, Latvia, Canada, Vanatu, Nigeria, Ethiopia and others.

Keynote Speaker: Lee Alston (Colorado University)

Program

Trade Liberalization for Brazilian Sugar Exporters: North or South?

David J Zetland (University of California, Davis)

Comments: Andrés Gallo (University of North Florida), Rana Bose (University of Georgia)

A case study of participation and social control in the third party smallholder organic certification system

Paulo R. B. de Brito (University of São Paulo)

Comments: Mauro Mondelli (University of São Paulo), Arina Matvejeva (University of Delaware)

Competition Law and Inter-Firm Cooperation 

Alberto R Salazar (Osgoode Hall Law School – York University)

Comments: Pavlos C Symeou (Judge Business School – University of Cambridge), Ning Wang (Arizona State University)

The impact of employment contract laws on private sector employers in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Anita Jowitt (University of the South Pacific)

Comments: Natalia Liarskaya (Université Paris-X)

Telecommunications in Small Economies: the Impact of Liberalisation and Mobile Telephony on the Universal Service Objective

Pavlos C Symeou (Judge Business School – University of Cambridge)

Comments: Rana Bose (University of Georgia), Alberto R Salazar (Osgoode Hall Law School – York University)

A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Infant Mortality Rates in Nations Across the World

Gaurav Tiwari (University of Missouri-St. Louis)

Comments – Ivan Ribeiro (University of São Paulo), Mohsen A. Ahmed (Osgoode Hall Law School – York University)

A Model for Trust and Reciprocity

Angela A. Stanton (Claremont Graduate University)

Comments: Ivan Ribeiro (University of São Paulo), Marina Dodlova (University of Paris X-Nanterre)

The new institutional design of the Procuracy in Brazil: transaction costs, multiplicity of veto players and  institutional vulnerability

Flavianne F. B. Nóbrega  (Federal University of Pernambuco)

Comments: Ivan Ribeiro (University of São Paulo), Tanyamat SrungBoonmee (University of Milwaukee)

Economic growth sustainability: Do institutions matter, and which one prevails?

Abdoul G. Mijiyawa (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International)

Comments: Cosmas Ochieng (International Food Policy Research Institute), Ning Wang (Arizona State University)

Institutions and Factor Endwoments – Income taxation in Argentina and Australia

Andrew H Mitchell

Comments: Andrés Gallo (University of North Florida)

Influence of institutional environment on the choice of optimal structure of the governance and control

Natalia Liarskaya  (Université Paris-X)

Comments: Angela A. Stanton (Claremont Graduate University), Anita Jowitt (University of the South Pacific)

Active Pension Participation and Household Wealth: Evidence of Learning by Doing ?

Rana Bose (University of Georgia)

Comments: David J Zetland (University of California, Davis)

Corruption, Institutions and Economic Development in Nigeria

Tanyamat SrungBoonmee (University of Milwaukee)

Comments: Marina Dodlova (University of Paris X-Nanterre), Flavianne F. B. Nóbrega  (Federal University of Pernambuco)

Patent Rights Index in Countries in Transition

Arina Matvejeva (University of Delaware)

Comments: Paulo R. B. de Brito (University of São Paulo)

Gift-Exchange in Sustaining Bureaucracies

Marina Dodlova (University of Paris X-Nanterre)

Comments: Ivan Ribeiro (University of São Paulo), Angela A. Stanton (Claremont Graduate University)