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SIOE 2012

Los Angeles, USA — Full Programme

  • Provoking preferences: leaders, organizations, and inspiration

    John S. Ahlquist (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Margaret Levi (University of Washington)

  • Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence From a UK Policy Experminet

    Shekhar Aiyar (IMF); Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School); Tomasz Wieladek (London Business School)

  • Learning by Supplying

    Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School); Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)

  • The Grounds For Marriage: Differences Across Sexual Orientation

    Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University)

  • Decentralization and Deforestation:The Moderating Role of Polycentric Governance

    Krister Andersson (University of Colorado at Boulder ); Tom Evans (Indiana University); Clark Gibson (University of California at San Diego); Glenn Wright (University of Alaska, Southeast)

  • Tax Morale and Pro-Social Behaviour: Evidence from a Palestinian Survey

    Luca Andriani (Birkbeck College University of London)

  • The economics of self-regulation under Sunset legislation in telecommunications

    Patrick Anell (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); Andreas Freytag (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena); Klaus Winkler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

  • Political Connections & Use of Courts in Dispute Resolution: A Survey Analysis of Chinese Private Firms

    Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan); Nan Jia (University of Southern California)

  • Knowledge Inheritance, Vertical Integration and Entrant Survival in the Early U.S. Auto Industry

    Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis); Romel Mostafa (University of Western Ontario)

  • Optimal nondiscriminatory auctions with favoritism

    Leandro Arozamena (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and CONICET); Nicholas Shunda (University of Redlands); Federico Weinschelbaum (Universidad de San Andrés and CONICET)

  • Property as an economic concept: Reconciling legal and economic conceptions of property rights in a Coasean framework

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • ‘One For All and All For One’? Judicial Ideology and Judicial Professionalism in the House of Lords and Supreme Court

    Thiruvallore Thattai Arvind (University of York); Lindsay J Stirton (University of Sheffield)

  • Managerial effort incentives and market collusion

    Cécile Aubert (GREThA, Bordeaux and TSE, Toulouse)

  • Does International Law Matter?

    Shima Baradaran (Brigham Young University); Michael Findley (Brigham Young University); Daniel Nielson (Brigham Young University); J. C. Sharman (Griffith University)

  • Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets

    Jonathan Barnett (USC)

  • Private and Public Supply of Intellectual Property Rights

    Jonathan Barnett (USC)

  • Mission Congruence, Incentives and Autonomy: An Empirical Analysis of Child-Care Facilities in Minnesota, the U.S.

    Marco Barrenechea-Mendez (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona); Avner Ben-Ner (University of Minnesota)

  • Reel Authority: Theory and Evidence on Relational Renegotiation in the Movie Industry

    Daniel Barron (MIT Economics Department); Robert Gibbons (MIT Sloan School of Management); Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School); Kevin J. Murphy (USC Marshall School of Business)

  • The exchange of Variable-Quality Commodities

    Yoram Barzel (University of Washington)

  • Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: evidence from the German States

    Thushyanthan Baskaran (University of Goettingen)

  • Innovation, Tort Law, and Competition

    Florian Baumann (University of Tuebingen); Klaus Heine (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Market Structure, Quality and Consumer Behavior: Exit Voice and Loyalty Under Increasing Competition

    T. Randolph Beard (Auburn University); Jeffrey T. Macher (Georgetown University); John W. Mayo (Georgetown. University)

  • Toward A Theory of State-Owned Property Rights

    Abraham Bell (University of San Diego); Horacio Spector (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

  • When Does Business Get Violent?

    Galina V. Belokurova (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Unbundling Democracy

    Ariel BenYishay (University of New South Wales,Sydney,Australia); Roger R. Betancourt (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

  • Organization's Formation: Collective Action Theory Perspective for HOA

    Ekaterina Borisova (Higher School of Economics)

  • Scaffolding: Using Formal Contracts to Build Informal Relations in Support of Innovation

    Iva Bozovic (University of Southern California); Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Southern California)

  • How was Banking-Credit Allocated during Colombia's Industrialisation? The Politics of Finance in a Developing Country

    Carlos A. Brando (LSE)

  • The regulation of market access in 18th century mercantilist France

    Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine & EUI); Jerome Sgard (Sciences-Po Paris)

  • Local Determinants of Economic Structure: Evidence from Land Quota Allocation in China

    Meina Cai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

    Nauro Campos (Brunel University and IZA); Jeffrey Nugent (University of Southern California and IZA)

  • Vote Suppression and Insecure Property Rights

    Paul Castañeda Dower (New Economic School); Tobias Pfutze (Oberlin College)

  • The Law of Small Numbers: Investigating the Benefits of Restricted Auctions for Public Procurement

    Lisa Chever (Sorbonne Business School); Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School); Anne Yvrande-Billon (University Paris 1)

  • The Limits of the International Tax Regime as a Commitment Projector

    Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen's University)

  • Programmatic Parties and the Politics of Bureaucratic Reform

    Cesi Cruz (University of California, San Diego); Philip Keefer (The World Bank Development Research Group)

  • Public-private partnerships and the allocation of demand risk - An Incomplete Contract Theory Approach

    julie de brux (IAE Sorbonne business school); claudine desrieux (University Paris II)

  • Reforming Fisheries: Lessons from a Self-selected Cooperative

    Robert T Deacon (Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara); Dominic Parker (Univ. of Wisconsin); Christopher Costello (Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara)

  • Saving Power to Conserve Your Reputation? The effectiveness of private versus public information

    Magali Delmas (UCLA); Neil Lessem (UCLA)

  • Determinants of public trust towards major political institutions in countries with economies in transition and in the OECD countries: the comparative analysis

    Olga Demidova (NRU Higher School of Economics)

  • Transaction Cost Troubles

    Harold Demsetz (UCLA)

  • Creating an appropriate institutional environment for intellectual property rights: Current private reward system and alternative institutional solutions

    Maiia Deutschmann (European University Viadrina)

  • Jurisdiction and Development: The Impact of Public Law 280 in Indian Country

    Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl (Virginia Military Institute); Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Joseph Guse (Washington and Lee University)

  • Stakeholder Capital and Performance in Tough Times

    Sinziana Dorobantu (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania); Witold Henisz (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania); Lite Nartey (University of South Carolina)

  • The Political Economy Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850

    Alan Dye (Barnard Colleges, Columbia University); Sumner La Croix (University of Hawaii)

  • The Societas Privata Europaea (SPE) – Will it Promote the Internationalization of SMEs?

    Martina Eckardt (Andrássy University Budapest)

  • The Distinctive Role of Social Enterprise

    Ofer Eldar (Yale Law School; NYU Center for Law & Business)

  • Are Franchisees Well-Informed? Revisiting The Debate Over Franchise Relationship Laws

    Robert W. Emerson (Warrington College of Business Administration, Uni); Uri Benoliel (Academic Center of Law & Business)

  • Industry Self-Governance and National Security: On the Private Control of Dual Use Technologies

    Sebastian Engelhardt (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena); Stephen Maurer (University of California, Berkeley)

  • The Institutional Economics of the Globalized Financial Regulation; Example on International Accounting Standards Board

    Elif Erdemoglu (University of Hamburg)

  • Domestic Sanctions to Cross-Border Acts: The Case of Foreign Bribery

    Laarni Escresa (University of Hamburg); Lucio Picci (University of Bologna)

  • Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia: Auctions, Contracts and Property Rights

    Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Northwestern University)

  • Incentives to cooperate and fairness norms in the provision of water – cases of Namibian land reform projects

    Thomas Falk (University of Marburg); Dirk Lohmann (University of Potsdam); Nadege Azebaze (University of Marburg)

  • Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm

    Victor Fleischer (University of Colorado)

  • REGIONAL TAX COMPETITION: SOME LESSONS FROM RECENT SPANISH FISCAL REFORMS

    Cabrillo Francisco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • The Common Pool Problem in Municipal Amalgamation

    Benedikt Fritz (Walter Eucken Institute and University of Freiburg)

  • Disclosure Strategies and Shareholder Litigation Risk: Evidence from Earnings Restatements

    Michael Furchtgott (University of California, San Diego); Frank Partnoy (University of San Diego Law School)

  • Agency Costs in the Era of Economic Crisis – The Enhanced Connection between CEO Compensation and Corporate Cash Holdings

    Mira Ganor (The University of Texas School of Law)

  • The Psychology of Competition: A Social Comparison Perspective

    Stephen Garcia (University of Michigan); Avishalom Tor (University of Notre Dame); Tyrone Schiff (University of Michigan)

  • The Impact of Bundling on Product Variety: Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School)

  • Privateering and its Discontents: Marque and Reprisal, Qui Tam, Citizen Suits, and Patents

    John M. Golden (University of Texas School of Law)

  • Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework

    Sophia Gollwitzer Franke (Graduate Institute, Geneva); Marc Quintyn (IMF Institute)

  • Implementation in the K-Level Thinking Environment

    Olga Gorelkina (Max Planck Institute)

  • Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

    Érica Gorga (Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo); Michael Halberstam (S.U.N.Y. Buffalo Law School)

  • Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

    Érica Gorga (Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo); Michael Halberstam (State University of New York Law School)

  • Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

    Érica Gorga (Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School at São Paulo); Michael Halberstam (S.U.N.Y. Buffalo Law School)

  • Stealing more is better? Marginal Deterrence in Islamic Criminal Law of Theft

    Moamen Gouda (Philipps-University Marburg)

  • Business associations, personal connections and other ways of lobbying by Russian firms

    Andrei Govorun (The Higher School of Economics)

  • Economic Theory of the Rise of Jus ad Bellum Norms under International Law

    Joseb Gudiashvili (University of Hamburg)

  • Moral Hazard in Mutual Fund Management: The Role of Fees

    Michel A. Habib (University of Zurich); D. Bruce Johnsen (George Mason Law School)

  • The impact of who decides the rules for network use: A 'common pool' analysis of the investment dynamics in different gas network regulatory frames

    Michelle Hallack (European University Institute); Miguel Vazquez (European University Institute)

  • Institutions, Gender, Age, and the Careers of Hollywood Actors

    F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University); Robert K. Fleck (Clemson University)

  • The economic implications of law: nineenth centiury legal innovation in New South Wales, the wool lien and stock mortgage

    Edwyna Harris (Monash University)

  • Physical, Human, and Social Capital as Barriers to Environmental Policy Reform

    Shi-Ling Hsu (University of British Columbia Faculty of Law)

  • Physical, Human, and Social Capital as Barriers to Environmental Policy Reform

    Shi-Ling Hsu (Florida State University College of Law)

  • From Coercion to Politics to Law: The Evolution of Property Rights Protection

    Fali Huang (Singapore Management University)

  • CONSIDERATION DOCTRINE AND REGULATORY ARBITRAGE IN MORTGAGE SECURITIZATION

    John P. Hunt (UC Davis School of Law (King Hall)); Nancy Wallace (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business); Richard Stanton (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business)

  • Parity, Paternalism and Peonage in the Informal Economy: an Empirical Study of Off-the-books Loans

    Richard Hunt (University of Colorado - Boulder)

  • Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Understanding Urban Land Use

    Siodla James (University of California, Irvine)

  • Regulation with Interested Experts

    Jason Johnston (University of Virginia)

  • Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa

    Mogens K. Justesen (University of Southern Denmark); Christian Bjørnskov (University of Aarhus)

  • Political Connections, Entrepreneurship, and Social Network Investment

    Raja Kali (HEC Montreal); Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne)

  • Rankings as a Driver Of Institutionalization: The Case of Governance Reform

    Alison Kemper (Rotman School and York)

  • De Soto, Russian Style: Property Rights and Red Tape

    Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya (National Research University Higher School of Econ); Rinat Menyashev (National Research University Higher School of Econ)

  • Domestic Institutions and the Political Economy of International Agreements

    Florian Kiesow Cortez (University of Hamburg)

  • Entrepreneurship and Desperate Poverty: Biopharmaceutical Innovation in China, India, and Brazil

    Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri); Anita M. McGahan (University of Toronto); Rahim Rezaie (University of Toronto)

  • Public and Private Enforcement of Law under the High Risk of Type I Errors: the Russian Case

    Polina Kryuchkova (National Research University Higher School of Econ); Svetlana Avdasheva (National Research University Higher School of Econ)

  • Born in Transition: The Effect of Economic Shocks in Early Childhood on Health and Educational Outcomes

    Olga Lazareva (Higher School of Economics)

  • Downward Accountability in Response to Collective Actions: The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in China

    Yuan Li (University of Duisburg-Essen)

  • Roving Bandits in Action: Outside Option and Governmental Predation in Autocracies

    Alexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management); Vladimir Kozlov (Higher School of Economics); André Schultz (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

  • Institutions of flexicurity in labor markets: culture against incentives

    Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics)

  • The freer the fatter? A cross-country panel study of the relationship between changes in body-mass index and economic freedom

    Åsa Ljungvall (Lund University, Sweden)

  • The Strategic Use of Early Bird Discounts for Dealers

    Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo (Santa Clara University); Stephen W Salant (University of Michigan)

  • The Problem of Inefficiency: Market Failure or Modeling Failure?

    Kevin Lyons (Moloco Capital Partners)

  • Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children's Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Indonesia

    MUHAMMAD FARHAN MAJID (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)

  • Is Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? Debating the Islamic Law Matters Thesis

    Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)

  • Wast the Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? Debating the Islamic Law Matters Thesis

    Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)

  • From Competition to Dominance: Political Determinants of Federal Transfers in the Russian Federation

    Israel Marques (Columbia University); Eugenia Nazrullaeva (Higher School of Economics); Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics)

  • Outsourcing and Ownership: Theory and Evidence from California General Care Hospitals

    Christina Marsh (University of Georgia); Patrick Warren (Clemson University)

  • The Incoherence of U.S. Tax Policy: The Environment as Case Study

    Leo P. Martinez (University of California Hastings College of Law)

  • The Corporation as Imperfect Society

    Brian McCall (University of Oklahoma College of Law)

  • Property Rights & Attitudes toward Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Investigation

    Cherie Metcalf (Queen's Faculty of Law)

  • Fragmentation and Governance Risk in International Energy

    Timothy Meyer (University of Georgia School of Law)

  • Path Dependence, Social Capital, and Violent Conflict in Ethnically Polarized Developing Countries

    Theresa Miedema (Ryerson University)

  • Estimating the effect of Quotas across India using satellite imagery

    Brian Min (University of Michigan); Yogesh Uppal (Youngstown State University)

  • Wireless Taxes and Fees: A Tragedy of the Anticommons

    Matt Mitchell (Mercatus Center, George Mason University); Thomas Stratmann (Dept. of Econ., George Mason University)

  • The INstitutional Foundations of Propertry Rights Strategies

    Guilherme,F Monteiro (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa); Zylbersztajn Decio (Universidade de São PAulo)

  • External Stability and Bidding Aggressivity of Cartels in Public Procurement : An Empirical Analysis

    John Moore (Sorbonne Business School / Chaire EPPP)

  • Third-Party Opportunism and the (In)Efficiency of Public Contracts

    Marian Moszoro (IESE Business School); Pablo T. Spiller (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Less Protection, More Innovation ?

    Murat C. Mungan (FSU College of Law)

  • The Law and Economics of Fluctuating Criminal Tendencies and Incapacitation

    Murat C Mungan (Florida State University College of Law)

  • Expertise and Judicial Opinion Assignments on the Courts of Appeals

    Jonathan R. Nash (Emory University School of Law)

  • Exit and Firm Boundaries after an Industry Shock

    Gabriel Natividad (New York University); Natarajan Balasubramanian (Syracuse University)

  • Spread Too Thin: Uncertainty Shocks and Diseconomies of Scope

    Gabriel Natividad (New York University); Olav Sorenson (Yale University)

  • Institutions and Allocation of Talent

    Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics); Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics)

  • Trust and Economic Behavior in a Low-Trust Society

    Victor Nee (Cornell University); Sonja Opper (Lund University); Hakan Holm (Lund University)

  • Consumer Promotion, Exclusive Dealings and ‘Hold-Up Defense’

    Antonio Nicita (University of Siena); Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Lugano)

  • Regulating opportunism in the electricity industry and consumer interests

    Eva Niesten (Utrecht University); Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Administrative Patent Levers

    David Orozco (Florida State University, College of Business)

  • Draining the Moat: Considerations for the Regulation of Defensive Patent Pools

    Daniel R. Paluch (University of Southern California)

  • Securities Class Actions and Bankrupt Companies

    James Park (Brooklyn Law School)

  • The Effects of Legal Institutions on Access to Credit: Evidence from American Indian Reservations

    Dominic Parker (Montana State University)

  • Nonprofits in Post-Soviet and Developed Economies: Comparative Study of Marketing-driven Efficiency

    Khrystyna Pavlyk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

  • An experiment in social orders: the development of property rights in small landholdings in Brazil (1850 – 1889)

    Thales Pereira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

  • Identity, Consumption and Financial Security of Households in Poland

    Maria Piotrowska (Wroclaw University of Economics)

  • The U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council: Understanding Polycentric Governance

    Margaret M. Polski (George Mason University); Mohamad Elbarasse (George Mason University)

  • Over-indebtedness in Brazil: Do we need more regulation?

    Antonio J. Porto (Getulio Vargas Foundation )

  • Plant Variety Rights in the International Law of Intellectual Property. A Law & Economics Approach

    Viola Prifti (University of Hamburg)

  • Political Uncertainty and Public Financing Costs: Evidence from U.S. Municipal Bond Markets

    Yaxuan Qi (Concordia University); Pengjie Gao (University of Notre Dame)

  • Social Capital and Economic Growth

    Sumant K. Rai (University of Washington)

  • Why are Peasant Migrations so low in India? Economic Spaces, Transition Costs and Positive Externality

    Vijay Regulagadda (University of Hyderabad)

  • Contracts & Cartels: Reconciling Competition and Development Policy

    Barak Richman (Duke University)

  • Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart

    Barak Richman (Duke University)

  • A New System for Managing and Resolving Monetary Claims

    James F. Ring (Chu, Ring & Hazel LLP)

  • Implementing Incentive Regulation with Bounded Regulators

    Vincent Rious (Microeconomics); Marcelo Saguan (Microeconomics); Jean-Michel Glachant (EUI); Haikel Khalfallah (EUI); Yannick Perez (Supélec)

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

    Lorenzo Sacconi (University of Trento)

  • Creditors’ Protection Law and Financial Development in France, Germany, UK and USA, 1970-2005

    Prabirjit Sarkar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and CBR, Cambridge); Simon Deakin (CBR, University of Cambridge)

  • Is There a Local Knowledge Advantage in Federations? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    Andre Schultz (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management); Alexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

  • Impact of Country Risk and New Institutional Economics on Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Analysis for MENA Region (1999-2010)

    Wesam M. Sedik (National Telecom. Regulatory Authority, Egypt); Hussien Seoudy (German University in Cairo)

  • Hate Crimes in India: An Economic Analysis of Violence and Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

    Smriti Sharma (Delhi School of Economics)

  • Illusory Stock Ownership Policies

    Nitzan Shilon (Harvard Law School)

  • Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response

    Saurabh Singhal (University of Southern California)

  • The Effect of recessions on firms' insourcing- and outsourcing decisions

    Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen (Norwegian School of Economics); Kirsten Foss (Norwegian School of Economics)

  • On the Economy of Concepts in Property

    Henry E. Smith (Harvard Law School)

  • Trust in the State and Participation in the Russian Bank Deposit Market

    Andrew Spicer (University of South Carolina); Ilya Okhmatovskiy (McGill University)

  • Federal Tax Reform and the Deduction for State & Local Taxes

    Kirk Stark (UCLA School of Law)

  • Supercharged IPOs

    Nancy Staudt (USC Law School); Victor Fleischer (Colorado Law School)

  • A Technological Revolution in ‘lawyering’?

    Frank H Stephen (University of Manchester, UK)

  • A Positive Model of Expenditure Growth: Toward Closure of The Organizational Process Theory of Budgeting

    Fred Thompson (Willamette University); Mike Hand (Willamette University); Michael Dothan (Willamette University)

  • Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason

    Daniel Treisman (UCLA)

  • Coordination and Coercion: The Nature of Rules, Governments, States, and Social Dynamics

    John Wallis (University of Maryland); Douglass North (Washington University)

  • Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Policy: Evidence from the Advanced Technology Program, the Department of Defense

    Dean V. Williamson (US Department of Justice)

  • Transaction Cost Economics: What Are the Questions?

    Oliver E Williamson (University of California, Berkeley)

  • STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN RELIGIONS

    donald wittman (University of California Santa Cruz)

  • In the Shadows of Sunlight: The Effects of Transparency in State Political Campaigns

    Abby Wood (UC Berkeley --> USC); Douglas Spencer (UC Berkeley)

  • The Impact of Changing Agricultural Technology on Land Tenancy in Preindustrial China: Evidence from Confucius's Manors (1759-1901)

    Helen Yang (George Mason University)

  • Endogenous Enforcement Institutions

    Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF); Gani Aldashev (Namur University and ECARES)

  • Poverty Traps and Institutions in Ethiopia

    Daniel Zerfu (African Development Bank)