ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ-ΕΞΕΛΙΞΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΟΠΤΙΚΕΣ

JOINT COLLOQUIUM THE VARIETY OF ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE MANY FORMS OF CAPITALISM Athens, 12-13 May 2006 Athens University of Economics and Business-AUEB Antoniadou Building, 1st Floor

Scientific Committee:	Panagiotis Korliras, (Director of ΙMOP, Athens University of Economics and Business- AUEB) Ioanna Minoglou (Athens University of Economics and Business-AUEB) Pascal Petit (President of EAEPE and Research Director of the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Mathematique Appliquees a la Planification -CEPEMAP)

May 11, 2006
21:00	Welcoming Cocktail (Park Hotel)

May 12, 2006
9:30	Opening Address
10:00	Opening Keynote Speaker Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:00	SESSION I: POLITICAL ECONOMY *Chair: K. Gatsios (AUEB)* Discussant: Euclid Tsakalotos (AUEB)
	*Panagiotis Korliras(AUEB), The Theory of Institutions in New Political Economy.*
	*Yiannis Varoufakis* (University of Athens), Historical versus Evolutionary Approaches to the Dynamics of Capitalist Institutions
13:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	SESSION II: HISTORY AND THEORY *Chair: P. Korliras (AUEB)* Discussant : Stavros Ioannides (Panteion University
	*George Bitros and Ioanna Minoglou* (AUEB), Entrepreneurship and the Endogeniety of Institutions: Some Historical Evidence
	*Junichi Kanzaka, (Soka University) Landholding, Nutrition, and "serfdom": An Economic Analysis of Labour Rent in Medieval England.*
	Andres Lazzarini and Margarita Olivera (*Universita degli Studi di Roma)*, Capitalism and Institutions: The Case of the Argentine Crisis, 2001-2002
21:00	Dinner at Restaurant Dionysos

May 13, 2006
10:00-11:00	SESSION III: FIRMS Chair : Nikos Vettas (AUEB) Discussant: Stavros Thomadakis (University of Athens)
	*Eleni Thanopoulou and Giannis Theotokas* (University of Aegean) Small Firms in a Global Industry: the Case of Greek Shipping (1974-2004).
	*Judit Kapas (University of Debrecen), Variety of Firms: Co-Evolution of Social and Physical Technologies*
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	SESSION IV: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS *Chair: I. Minoglou (AUEB)* Discussant: George Krimpas (University of Athens)
	*Michael K. Green, (SUNY), Financial Institutions and the Creation and Destruction of Confidence*
	*Stavros Thomadakis* (University of Athens), Market Integration within the Context of a Variety of Institutions, Traditions and Crises.
12:45-13:45	Closing Keynote Speaker
	*Pascal Petit* (CEPEMAP) National Systems of Institutions and International Challenges
14:00	Lunch

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Discussant: George Krimpas (University of Athens)