Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance; MacArthur Research Networks, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Meeting Agenda

November 14-16, 1997
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts


 

Friday, Nov. 14

Building #E56-Penthouse at M.I.T.

9-10:30 Abhijit Banerjee, Dilip Mookherjee, Kaivan Munshi, and Debraj Ray: "Inequality, Control Rights, and Rent-Seeking: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra"

10:30-11 Coffee break

11-12:30 Michael Kremer: "Why Are Worker Cooperatives So Rare?"

12:30-2 Lunch break

2-3:30 Norman Frohlich: "Employee vs. Conventionally Owned and Controlled Firms: An Experimental Analysis"

3:30-4 Coffee break

4-5 Henry Hansmann: "The Ownership of Enterprise"

5-6 Business Meeting I (Network Members only)

 

Saturday, Nov. 15

Sloan Building #E51, Room #385, at M.I.T.

9-12:30 Symposium on Land Questions (with 10:30-11 coffee break)

Robert Allen: "The Enclosure and the Yeoman"
Michael Carter: "Do the Poor but Efficient Survive in the Land Market? Capital Access and Land Accumulation in Paraguay"
Gershon Feder: "The Benefits of Land Registration and Titling: Economic and Social Perspectives"
Jean-Philippe Platteau and Frederic Gaspart: "Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives: Some Further Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso"

12:30-2 Lunch br