Conference in honor of Oliver Williamson

at the University Paris-Dauphine on Friday October 19th 2012, 9h30-19h00.
In room Edgar Faure, second floor on the main campus of Paris Dauphine, Porte Dauphine.

Program

Morning Session: Recent Development in the Economics of Contracts, Organizations and Institutions
Chair: Claude Ménard, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and CES

9h30-9h45: Welcome Address, Elyes Jouini, Vice-Président Recherche, University Paris-Dauphine

9h45-10h30: Carmine Guerriero (University of Amsterdam), "Endogenous (in)formal institutions".

10h30-11h00: Coffee Break

11h00-12h30:

Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University) "Business Associations and Private Ordering".
Marian Moszoro (IESE Business School), "Third-Party Opportunism and the (In)Efficiency of Public Contracts"

12h30-13h00: Buffet Lunch

Afternoon Session:
Chair Stéphane Saussier, Director of the EPPP Chair, Sorbonne Business School (IAE)

14h00-15h30: The legacy of TCE in Economics and Management

David Martimort (EHESS and PSE), "The legacy of Transaction Costs Economics for (Incomplete) Contract Theory: When Williamson meets Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson..."
Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto), "The Economic Institutions of Strategy"

15h30-16h00: Coffee Break

16h00-16h45: Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France and PSE), "Coordination and anticipation"

17h20-19h00
Doctorat Honoris Causa Award Ceremony

17h30-18h30
Welcome addresses by François Weil, Recteur de Paris, Chancelier des Universités de Paris, representing Mrs. Geneviève Fioraso, Ministre de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche; Laurent Batsch, Président de l'Université Paris Dauphine and Elyès Jouiny, President of the Scientific Council.
Introduction of O.E. Williamson by Eric Brousseau.

18h30-19h00 : Lecture by Oliver E. Williamson

19h00: Cocktail