The China Summer Economics Institute will take place again in 2009 after a first successful meeting (Working papers available here) . The objective of the China Summer Economics Institute is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hong Kong University and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute will be organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.
Click here for the papers that will be presented
Click here for a draft of program
Please contact director Heddy Riss for more information
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California-EU Regulatory Cooperation Project |
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The IGS-UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (http://igov.berkeley.edu) and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and LICOS (University of Leuven) will be holding a conference on June 10th at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Hertogsstraat 1 1000 Brussels.
This conference is the culmination of a two-year project "Managing Biosafety and biodiversity in a global world-EU, US, California and Comparative perspectives".
The preliminary conference program may be accessed at the project web site.
The goal of the project is to examine the roles that California and the European Union play in defining the forefront of domestic and international environmental policy solutions and to produce concrete, actionable policy recommendations to further regulatory cooperation between the EU, California and the US on transatlantic environmental issues, including climate change, chemicals policy, biosafety, water regulation, and biodiversity protection.
As socioeconomic and environmental issues become increasingly integrated, innovative policy solutions are required to identify and address the complex nexus between society and environment. The project has developed a network of representatives from the US and the EU in academia, industry, the NGO-sector, and government.
A first conference has taken place in Washington on April 30th, 2009.
Click here for the program
Click here for the papers that have been discussed.
Click here for the presentation
The conference aims at merging two dynamics: on the one hand the "judicialisation"of related religious disputes in secular contexts,and on the other one the "de-judicialisation" of a relgion based set of norms often designated under the label of sharia.
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Valérie Amiraux |
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Olivier Roy |
By focusing on Muslims and Islam as core objet of study
the goal is not to consider it as exceptional. On the contrary, the conference wishes to widen the scope to the place of religion in the public sphere.
The conference will take place on May 7th and 8th, 2009 on "Islamic norms in secular public spheres: political
problems, legal issues, and social practices" with the support
of Olivier Roy who teaches at UC Berkeley in 2008-2009 and Valérie
Amiraux from the University of Montreal.
Click here for the program.
Co-sponsors: The Robert Schuman Centre, The Carnegie Corporation, The Graduate Theological Union, The Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Chaire de recherche du Canada en etude du pluralisme religieux et
de l'ethnicite (CRSH/Universite de Montreal)
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The UC Berkeley Positive Political Theory group hosts a two-day workshop on Endogenous Institutions and Political Conflict every spring on the Berkeley campus. This workshop brings together a group of scholars who share related interests on institutions. Papers are presented on a wide variety of topics, including civil wars, authority, war and collective action, polarization, inefficient states and democracy. Click here for the program.
Panelists: Aaron Edlin,Barry Eichengreen, Maurice Obstfeld, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Andrew Rose
Thursday, October 2, 2008, noon-1.45 pmGood Bank, Bad Bank: How to increase credit liquidity, stem foreclosures and support the economy
February 18th, 2009
John Quigley, Paul Milgrom, James A. Wilcox, Dwight Jaffee
Watch the webcast
Global Financial Market Turmoil:
A Panel Discussion
Quicktime Video of Event
A panel of distinguished scholars from UC Berkeley analyze how the
recent financial market meltdown
occurred, evaluate the government’s and explain its impact on American households and global markets.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley
Center for Law, Business and the Economy and the IGS
Center on Institutions & Governance
For further information contact: igov@berkeley.edu
CIG would like to welcome our visiting scholars Nicholas Hanley (arriving January, 2009). To contact them and find out more about their research initiatives, go to the About CIG page.
Mr. Nicholas Hanley was awarded one of ten fellowships under the 2009 EU Fellowships Program, which funds stays at select universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia for EU officials focusing on Transatlantic relations.
Politics and Policy in Highly Institutionalized Environments
The Interface between Weakly and Highly Institutionalized Environments
The Center will host conferences this academic year on topics that span CIG's research. CIG also organizes the Positive Political Theory Seminar, which provide a venue for researchers working in these areas to present their work. The Center also hosts the website VoteWorld which provides researchers access voting records from national legislatures, the United Nations, the European Parliament, and other international organizations.
The Center is under the leadership of Professor Robert Powell and Director Heddy Riss.
