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Crisis and Persistence: Dynamics of institutional changes at the interface of the formal and informal institutions

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Workshop: Crisis and Persistence: Dynamics of institutional changes at the interface of the formal and informal institutions

Venue: Oline 

Date: 21-22 September 2021

 

Organisers  

The Birkbeck Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS), the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE) at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES UCL) and the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London), we are pleased to announce the agenda of our 4th annual London workshop on institutional studies, held online on 21 and 22 September 2021.

Convenors and Queries

For any queries, please contact any of the workshop convenors: Dr Luca Andriani (luca.andriani@bbk.ac.uk), Dr Randolph L Bruno (Randolph.bruno@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Elodie Douarin (e.douarin@ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Gerhard Schnyder (G.Schnyder@lboro.ac.uk)

 

Programme overview

Tuesday 21st of September 2021

9.45- 10.00 Introduction

10.00-12.00 First paper session:

Institutional resilience under pressure, frictions and uncertainties

 
12.10-12.30 Speakers informal discussion – speakers only
 

Wednesday 22nd of September 2021

9.30-11.30 Second paper session:

Institutional change in times of crisis

 
12.00-13.00 Keynote

Informal Institutions: Paradigm Shifts and Matters of Ambivalence.

 

Convenors and Queries

For any academic related queries, please contact any of the workshop convenors: Dr Luca Andriani (luca.andriani@bbk.ac.uk), Dr Randolph L Bruno (Randolph.bruno@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Elodie Douarin (e.douarin@ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Gerhard Schnyder (G.Schnyder@lboro.ac.uk)

 

Tuesday 21st September 2021 (BST British Summer Time)

 

9.45 - 10.00am Opening Session:  

Welcome and introduction to the Workshop, Randolph L Bruno

 
10.00 – 12.00 First paper session: Institutional resilience under pressure, frictions and uncertainties

Chair: Gerhard Schnyder

 

10.00-10.15     Speaker: Holly A Ritchie (International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University)

“Gender and precarious institutional change in uncertain refugee settings: the role and limits of local women’s groups as institutional entrepreneurs”

10.15-10.25     Discussant: Johanna Paquin

 

10.25-10.40     Speaker: Jerg Gutmann, Anna Lewczuk Jacek Lewkowicz, and Stefan Voigt (Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, and CESifo)

“Culture and constitutional compliance”

10.40-10.50     Discussant: Olle Hammar

 

10.50-11.05     Speaker: Johanna Paquin (Goethe University Frankfurt)

“Institutional Resilience and Trust”

11.05-11.15     Discussant: Holly Ritchie

 

11.15-11.30     Speaker: Olle Hammar (Uppsala University, IFN, UCFS and UCLS)

“The Cultural Assimilation of Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution”

11.30-11.40     Discussant: Stefan Voigt

 

11.40-12.00     Open Discussion Q&A

 
12.00-12.10 Break

 

12.10-12.30 Workshop Contribution Edited Volume Discussion

Speakers only – informal discussion

 

Wednesday 22nd September 2021 (BST British Summer Time)

 

9.30 – 11.30 Second paper session: Institutional change in times of crisis

Chair: Elodie Douarin

 

09.30-09.45     Speaker: Artjoms Ivlevs and Michail Veliziotis (UWE Bristol, IZA)

“Has the Global Economic Crisis increased trust in trade unions? Evidence from the post-Socialist countries”

09.45-09.55     Discussant: Tomasz Mickiewicz

 

09.55-10.10     Speaker: Paschalis Arvanitidis and George Papagiannitsis (Laboratory of Economic Policy & Strategic Planning Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, GREECE)

“The role of community and informal institutions in the implementation of reforms in times of crises”

10.10-10.20     Discussant: Carmine Guerriero

 

10.20-10.35     Speaker: Maribel Guerrero & Tomasz Mickiewicz (Newcastle University, Aston University)

“Entrepreneurial Persistence through Informal Sector during the Pandemic”

10.35-10.45     Discussant: Artjoms Ivlevs

 

10.45-11.00     Speaker: Giacomo Benati and Carmine Guerriero (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Department of Economics, University of Bologna)

“Climate Change and State-Building in Developing Countries”

11.00-11.10     Discussant: Paschalis Arvanitidis  

 

11.10-11.30  Open Discussion Q&A

 
11.30-12.00  break


12.00-13.00 Keynote Address

Chair: Luca Andriani

 

12.00-12.45     Prof. Alena Ledeneva (University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies)

“Informal Institutions: Paradigm Shifts and Matters of Ambivalence.”

 12.45-13.00     Questions and answers

 
13.00-13.05 Concluding remarks

Luca Andriani, Randolph L Bruno, Elodie Douarin and Gerhard Schnyder

 
 


                            

Contact name: Luca Andriani

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