January 28        Severin Borenstein and Joseph Farrell, UCB
                          Do Investors Forecast Fat Firms? Diagnosing Profit Dissipation from the
                          Stock Market Values of Gold Mining Companies

 February 4       Iain Cockburn, UBC
                          Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research

 February 11      Romain Wacziarg, Stanford
                          Is Europe Going Too Far?

 February 18      Toby Stuart, Chicago
                          Interorganizational Endorsements and the Performance of
                           Entrepreneurial Ventures

 February 25      Roger Noll, Stanford
                          Reforming Urban Water Systems:
                           Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries

 March 4            Jonathan Bendor, Stanford
                          Adaptive Political Parties in Downsian Competition

 March 11          Paul Joskow, MIT
                          Replacing Vertical Integration with Spot Market Transactions:
                          Performance of the California Electricity Restructuring

 March 18         Gerard Roland, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
                          Coordinating Changes in M-Form and U-Form Organizations

 April 1             Dennis Yao, Wharton
                          Little Patents and Big Secrets

 April 8             David Baron, Stanford
                          Legilsative Organization with Informational Committees

 April 15           Edward Green, Minneapolis FRB
                          Reconciling Some Conflicting Evidence on Decisionmaking Under
                          Uncertainty

 April 22           Rebecca Henderson, MIT
                          Exploring the Diffusion of "Best Practice" in Pharmaceutical Research

 April 29           Michael Katz, UCB
                          Yet Another Look at Public Policy Towards 'Predatory Behavior'

 May 6               Stephen Littlechild, Former Director, UK OE
                           Privitization, Competition, and Regulation in the
                          British Electricity Industry