Research workshop
Public Policy Department
Institutions and Development
Impact of conditions of social regulation systems on
economic development and other policy fields
DRAFT 07.062015
Yury Fogelson
Edgar Demetrio Tovar Garcia
Zinaida Pogosova
Maria Belikova
Elena Korotkova
Artem Uldanov
Research area
• Application of the new institutional approach
to explain development processes;
• Different schools of institutional thought in
social sciences;
• Focus on Institutional theorists and New
institutional economics;
• Institutions: set of rules (formal and informal)
+ organizations;
Research area
• The process of institutionalization (the process
of embedding institutions), and its impact on
economic and social development.
• Key authors:
Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, Douglas
North, Daron Acemoglu, John. W. Meyer, Brian
Rowan, Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell
Aims of workshop
•To describe different institutional approaches in social
sciences
• To describe and explain the connection between
institutions, public policy and development process
•To connect public policy to the institutional theoretical
framework
• To combine qualitative and quantitative methods to
test the impact of institutions on public policy
Tasks of workshop
•To review current theoretical background on institutional approaches
•To review the empirical findings on the connection between
institutions, public policy and development process
•To find and analyze illustrative cases of institutional theoretical
framework application to public policy
•To collect data and to test statistically the influence of institutions +
case studies, interviews, and other qualitative methods
• To create models for particular dimensions of development process
Preliminary list of topics for
research
• Institutional mechanisms of the global financial
system regulation
• The impact of the Bank on International
Settlements on institutions in banking policy
• Approaches to evaluate the influence of legal
and ethical regulations on economic growth and
social welfare
• Social norms internationalization and its impact
on economic development
List of topics for research
•Language policy transformation as a result of
institutional changes
•Impact of formal and informal institutions on family
policy formation
•Institutions for sustainable urban development
•Influence of informal institutions on educational
outcomes and policies
Materials
websites / e-journals
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International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE)
http://www.isnie.org
European School on New Institutional Economics (ESNIE)
http://esnie.org
Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics (ASNIE)
http://www.univie.ac.at/asnie2013/
The Ronald Coase Institute
http://coase.org/index.htm
Contracting and Organizations Research Center (University of Missouri)
http://cori.missouri.edu
Economics and Institutions WEBSITE - by prof. F. Toboso, University of
Valencia, Spain.
• http://www.uv.es/ecoinst/
• Revista de Economía Institucional (Universidad Externado, Colombia)
• http://www.economiainstitucional.com
Materials
on-line videos and courses
• Институциональная экономика (Institutional economics) by Maria
Yudkevich (HSE)
• https://class.coursera.org/instec-001
• Effect of Institutions on Market Performance. Douglas North, Nobel
Laureate, Washington University
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xhmlpUKd8
• Why Institutions Matter (Part 2 of 8). Douglas North. University of the
Philippines
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sleqhKuq2z0
• Ronald Coase: "Markets, Firms and Property Rights"
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAq06n79QIs
• Ronald H. Coase: On Economics (The University of Chicago)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zFygmeCUA
• Interview about the 2009 Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4cK6LDQYpg
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HSE in coursera
Institutional economics by Maria Yudkevich
Some articles and books
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Brousseau, É., & Glachant, J.-M. (Eds.). (2008). New institutional economics: a guidebook (p. 558). Cambridge
University Press.
Coase, R. H. (1998). The New Institutional Economics. American Economic Review, 88(2), 72–74.
DiMaggio, P., & Powell, W. (1991). Introduction. In P. DiMaggio & W. Powell (Eds.), The New Institutionalism in
Organizational Analysis (pp. 1–38). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hodgson, G. M. (1998). The approach of institutional economics. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(1), 166–
192. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2564954
Hodgson, G. M. (Ed.). (2002). A modern reader in institutional and evolutionary economics: key concepts (p.
239). Edward Elgar. Retrieved from
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xDBmAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=A+Modern+Reader+i
n+Institutional+and+Evolutionary+Economics+Key+Concepts&ots=rmTSoDCf7&sig=LGnAgGyi2MGRYr4qvVMqHgbSYbI
Ménard, C., & Shirley, M. M. (Eds.). (2008). Handbook of new institutional economics (p. 884). Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-540-69305-5.pdf
Rutherford, M. (2001). Institutional economics: then and now. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(3), 173–
194. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696562
Staniek, Z. (2010). Diversification of institutional economics. Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology, 1(1), 90–
116. Retrieved from http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.ekon-element000171274067
Williamson, O. E. (1999). Public and private bureaucracies: a transaction cost economics perspectives. Journal
of Law, Economics, and Organization, 15(1), 306–342. Retrieved from
http://jleo.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/306.short
Williamson, O. E. (2005). The economics of governance. American Economic Review, 95(2), 1–18.
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Dr. Yury Fogelson
http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/68640
Dr. Edgar Tovar
http://www.hse.ru/org/persons/75264782
Dr. Zinaida Pogosova
http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/188369