Ronald Coase Institute Conference

Farayi Gwenhamo, a Ph.D. student in the School of Economics recently presented a paper entitled, “Foreign Direct Investment in Zimbabwe: Do legal property rights play a role?” at a conference organised by the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) in March and held in the Philippines, Los Banos.

The RCI is a research centre named after the Nobel Prize Laureate, Ronald Coase. Its work involves identifying and building outstanding young scholars doing research in the field of New Institutional Economics. The research of the RCI focuses on understanding how institutions including formal rules and laws, customs and social norms affect the functioning of different economies. Farayi’s paper was rated the best among other papers on the importance and clarity of the research question by the RCI faculty and participants.

The faculty consisted of the likes of Nobel Prize Laureate, Douglas North, and President of the RCI, Mary Shirley, and other prominent new institutional economists such as Lee Benham, Alexandra Benham, John Nye, Colin Xu and Yang Yao.

Nobel Prize Laureate Douglas  North surrounded by other Conference participants.

From left to right: Mary Shirley (The current president of the RCI), Farayi Gwenhamo, Lee Benham (Faculty member) and Alexandra Benham (The RCI current secretary).

Posted on 07/04/2008 by Johannes Fedderke