Estudios de la Economía

Call for Papers
VI Research Workshop on Institutions and Organizations

at IE UFRJ – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
October 3rd and 4th, 2011.

Dear Colleague,

We invite you to submit a proposal to present a paper at the VI Research Workshop on Institutions and Organizations (RWIO) to be held in Rio de Janeiro on October, 3^rd and 4^th 2011. This year we have Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson and Prof. Antonio Nicita as keynote speakers. Please find more details at the workshop website:

http://www.cors-usp.com/cors/conferences/index.php/cors/VI-RWIO .

We strongly encourage you to submit an extended abstract (1 to 3 pages) on the followed topics:

• ·         Agri-food chains and institutions
• ·         Combining different lenses to study institutions and organizations
• ·         Environmental Institutions
• ·         Governance and agency conflicts
• ·         Hybrid Modes of Organization
• ·         Industrial policy, institutions and organizations
• ·         Infrastructure, institutions and organizations
• ·         Interplay between public and private agents
• ·         Political conflicts
• ·         Regulation and antitrust
• ·         Sociological institutionalism
• ·         Strategy and institutions

Our RWIO is a joint effort of five schools in Brazil: FGV, Insper, UFBA, UFRJ and USP.

Proposals are due by July, 10^th, 2011. All proposals must be submitted electronically via the RWIO web site.