Venice Summer Institute

Workshop on
"Microeconomics of Institutions"

Venice International University,

San Servolo, 19- 20 July 2006

	Programme
	Wednesday, 19 July 2006
	Session 1 Introduction
9:30 - 9:40	Introduction & Welcome
09:40 - 10:40	Keynote Lecture Institutional Economics of Development: Some General Reflections PRANAB BARDHAN (University of California, Berkeley)
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Spontaneous Markets, Networks and Social Capital: Lessons from Africa MARCEL FAFCHAMPS (University of Oxford)
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
	Session 2 Families and Firms
13:30 - 14:30	Family Networsk and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment IMRAN RASUL (University College London), Marcos Rangel, Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo de Giorgi
14:30 - 15:30	Financial Markets and Conflict in the Developing World ELIANA LA FERRARA (Bocconi University)
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee Break
	Session 3 Government Policy Changes
15:50 - 16:50	Land Rights in a Very Poor Country: Evidence from Panel Data in Rural Ethiopia 1997-2004 STEFAN DERCON (Oxford University) and Pramila Krishnan (University of Cambridge)
16:50 - 17:50	Investment Climate and Industrial Development: Lessons from India's Recent Experiments with Liberalization ROBIN BURGESS (London School of Economics)
20:00	Conference Dinner

	Thursday, 20 July 2006
	Session 4 Government Services
09:30 - 10:30	Elite Capture and Ethnic Diversity in Local Democracies: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Villages ORIANA BANDIERA (London School of Economics) and Gilat Levy
10:30 - 11:30	Accountability and Health Service Delivery: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Primary Health Sector in Uganda JAKOB SVENSSON (Stockholm University)
11:30 - 12:00	Close
12:30	Lunch

Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "Microeconomics of Institutions"

Venice International University, San Servolo, 19- 20 July 2006

Programme

Venice Summer Institute

Workshop on
"Microeconomics of Institutions"

Venice International University,

San Servolo, 19- 20 July 2006