Benito Arruñada
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Building Market Institutions
Property Rights, Business Formalization, and
Economic Development

Monday, May 4, 2009, from 17,00 to 19,00
Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros
Serrano Anguita 10, 2nd floor, room 12

Benito Arruñada (www.econ.upf.es/~arrunada) is Professor of Business Organization at Pompeu Fabra University. His research lies at the intersection between organization, law and economics. He has published in leading journals on management, law and Economics, such as Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Economic Journal, and Industrial & Corporate Change . He has been president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, and editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. His main current interests are the behavioral and institutional bases for impersonal exchange—from innate behavioral biases and the structure of moral systems, to contractual enforcement, the commoditization of property rights, and business formalization.