Sixth Annual Social Science Research Conference
Credit,
Trust and Calculation
Conference Program
Breakfast on the sundeck at the Empress Hotel from 7:00
UCSD van pickup in front of the Empress Hotel 8:45 to campus
9:30-11:30 Credit in Historical Perspective
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UC Los Angeles, Phillip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay, INRA-EHESS, Paris
“Through the Tempest Slowly; Trust and Credit Markets in France 1740-1840.”
Rowena Olegario, Vanderbilt University
"Art and Method: Assessing Credit Risk in the Early-19th Century U.S."
Martha Olney, UC Berkeley
“Spendthrift, or Sophisticated
Borrower? Twentieth Century Evolution of
Discussant: Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2:30 Small
Business Credit
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University, Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
Nicole Woolsey-Biggart, UC Davis
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
"Exploiting Social Networks to Alleviate Credit Market Failures"
Discussant: Joel Watson, UC, San Diego
2:50-5:15: Corporate Finance and Credit
Lisa Keister, Ohio State University
“Capital Structure in Transition in China”
Linda Stearns, UC Riverside,
Ivan Major, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
“Corporate Loans in Hungary: Big Is Beautiful?"
Toby Stuart, University of Chicago, Olav Sorenson, UC Los Angeles
Triads in Venture Capital
Discussant: James Rauch, UC, San Diego
UCSD van pickup at 5:20 to Piatti’s
6:15 Dinner at Piatti’s in La Jolla
Breakfast on the sundeck at Empress Hotel from 7:00
UCSD van pickup in front of the Empress Hotel at 8:15 to campus
9:00-11:00 Consumer
Credit I
Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland
"Adverse Selection in the Credit Card Market"
Tamara Perkins, Lewis and Clark
“Credit Worthiness Decision-Making in Mainland China: An Overview and Some Observations”
Alya Guseva, Boston University
“Uncertainty and the Russian Credit Card and Insurance Markets”
Dicussant: Michael Staten, Credit Research Center, Georgetown University
11:15-1:00 Consumer Credit II
Thomas Layman Global Visions formerly chief economists of VISA
Michael Staten, Credit Research Center, Georgetown University
“The Value of Comprehensive Credit Reporting”
.Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas, UC, San Diego
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00 Credit and Uncertainty
Akos Rona-Tas, UC, San Diego
“Uncertainty and Credit Card Lending in Hungary”
Robyn Dawes, Carnegie Mellon
Michelle White, UC San Diego
“Bankruptcy and Credit Markets”
Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, UC, San Diego
UCSD van pickup at 4:10 to hotel
7:00 Dinner at Spice and Rice, in La Jolla
(this Thai restaurant is at 7734-C Girard Ave, La Jolla, two blocks from the Empress Hotel)
The conference was
made possible by grants from
The Institute for
International, Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS)
and
support from the Department of Sociology
Emergency contact: 619-507-7290