Sabancı Üniversitesi, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) "kurumsal ve ekonomik performans" programı ve BREAD (Harvard Üniversitesi, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development) girişimiyle, İstanbul'da 17-19 Haziran 2005 tarihleri arasında "Kurumlar, İktisadi Uyum ve Gelişme" konulu uluslararası bir konferans düzenlenecektir. Konferans etkinlikleri 17 ve 19 Haziran günleri İstanbul Marmara Pera Otelinde, 18 Haziran günü ise Sabancı Üniversitesi Tuzla kampüsünde gerçekleştirilecektir. 
    CEPR daha önce de William Davidson Enstitüsü işbirliğinde, "uyum süreci yaşayan ekonomiler" konusunda senelik uluslararası konferanslar düzenlemiştir. Bu dizinin onuncusu olacak olan bu konferans,  CEPR'nin "Kurumsal ve ekonomik performans" konusunda yeni araştırma yönelimini yansıtmakta ve önde gelen araştırmacıların çalışmalarını sunup tartıştıkları bir ortam yaratmayı amaçlamaktadır. Konferans kapsamında T.C. Merkez Bankası Başkanı Sayın Süreyya Serdengeçti, TOBB Başkanı Sayın Rıfat Hisarcıklıoğlu ve Prof. Dr. Refik Erzan'ın katılımyla, Türkiye'nin kriz sonrası mikroekonomik, makroekonomik ve kurumsal gelişme ve uyum süreçlerinin tartışılacağı bir panel de düzenlenecektir. 

http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/7/765

Institutions, Development and Transition

 

JOINT CONFERENCE with CEPR and BREAD

 

Istanbul, 17-19 June

 

Draft Programme

 

 

Friday 17 June  

Marmara Pera Hotel, Pera I Conference Hall

 

 

14.00-14.15                                          Welcoming Remarks by BREAD and CEPR

 

14.15-15.00                            Integrity for Hire: An Analysis of a Widespread Program for Combating Customs Corruption

                                               *Dean Yang ( University of Michigan)

 

15.00-15.45                                          Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?

*Jennifer Hunt ( McGill University, NBER and CEPR)

Sonia Laszlo ( McGill University)

 

15.45-16.00                           Coffee Break

 

16.00-16.45                            Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption

                                               Marianne Bertrand ( University of Chicago and CEPR)

                                               Simeon Djankov (The World Bank and CEPR)

                                               *Rema Hanna (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR)

                                               Sendhil Mullainathan ( Harvard University)

 

16.45-17.30                            Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as an Entrepôt Trader

                                               Raymond Fisman ( Columbia University)

                                               Peter Moustakerski (Booz Allen Hamilton)

                                               *Shang-Jin Wei (International Monetary Fund and CEPR)

 

18.00                                     Policy Panel

 

Refik Erzan (Professor of Economics, Boğaziçi University)

 

Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu (President, The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB))

 

Süreyya Serdengeçti (Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)
 
 

 

 

Saturday 18 June

S abancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Conference Room G022   

09.00-09.45                           Institutional Quality and International Trade

*Andrei A. Levchenko (International Monetary Fund)

 

09.45-10.30                                          Deregulation, Legal Reform, and Meritocracy

Francesco Caselli (NBER, London School of Economics and CEPR)

*Nicola Gennaioli ( IIES-Stockholm University)

 

10.30-10.45                                          Coffee Break

 

10.45-11.30                            Financial Market Developments and the Rise in Firm Level Uncertainty

                                               David Thesmar (ENSAE-CREST and CEPR)

                                               *Mathias Thoenig (Université de Geneve and CEPR)

 

12.15-13.15                                          Lunch

 

13.15-14.00                            Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up with the World Standard

                                               Klara Sabirianova ( University of Michigan and CEPR)

                                               Jan Svejnar ( University of Michigan and CEPR)

                                               *Katherine Terrell ( University of Michigan)

 

14.00-14.45                                          The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam

Edward Miguel (NBER and University of California Berkeley)

*Gérard Roland ( University of California Berkeley and CEPR)

 

14.45-15.00                            Coffee Break

 

15.00-15.45                            Women as Agents of Change: Female Income, Social Affiliation and Household Decisions in South India

                                               Nancy Luke ( Brown University)

                                               *Kaivan Munshi ( Brown University and NBER)

 

15.45-16.30                                          Land and Power: The Impact of Electoral Reforms in Chile

*Jean-Marie Baland (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix and CEPR)

James Alan Robinson ( Harvard University)

 

16.30-16.45                                          Coffee Break

16.45-17.30                                          Pairwise Kidney Exchange

*Utku Ünver ( Koç University)

Alvin Roth ( harvard University)

Tayfun Sönmez ( Koç University)

 

 

18.00-19.0                                             Keynote Lecture

Thinking about the Rise and Decline of Nations

                                              Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR)

 

 

 

                                               

Sunday 19 June

Marmara Pera Hotel, Pera I Conference Hall
 

09.00-09.45                            Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

                                               Luigi Guiso ( University of Sassari, Ente L. Einaudi and CEPR)

                                               Paola Sapienza (Northwestern University and CEPR)

                                               *Luigi Zingales (NBER, University of Chicago and CEPR)

 

09.45-10.30                            Household Structure and Child Outcomes: Nuclear vs. Extended Families - Evidence from Bangladesh

                                               Lena Edlund ( Columbia University and CEPR)

                                               *Aminur Rahman ( University College London)

 

10.30-10.45                                          Coffee Break

 

10.45-11.30                                          Patience Capital and the Demise of the Aristocracy

*Matthias Doepke (FRB Minneapolis, University of California, UCLA and CEPR)

Fabrizio Zilibotti (IIIE, Stockholm University and CEPR)

 

11.30-12.15                           Some Macroeconomics Implications of an Information Age

                                              *Mehmet Yörükoğlu ( Sabancı University)

                                              Thomas Cooley ( New York University)

 

13.00-14.00                           Keynote Lecture

                                              Pranab Bardhan ( University of California Berkeley)

 

 

 

 

 

Organizers:                          Ahmet Alkan ( Sabancı University)

Erik Berglöf (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)

                                              Gérard Roland ( University of California Berkeley and CEPR)

                                              Mehmet Baç ( Sabancı University)