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SIOE 2020

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Parallel A

A1: Corporate Governance

Chair: 1

  • Corporate Ownership and Antitrust Violations

    Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University); Riccardo Marzano (La Sapienza University)

  • Membership, Governance, and Lobbying in Standard-Setting Organizations

    Clemens Fiedler (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysi); Maria Larrain (Tilburg University, Tilec, and CentER); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University, Tilec, and CentER)

  • Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States

    Nicola Mastrorocco (Trinity College Dublin); Arianna Ornaghi (University of Warwick)

  • Social Governance

    Jeremy McClane (University of Illinois College of Law); Yaron Nili (University of Wisconsin School of Law)

A2: Compensation

Chair: 1

  • The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups

    Michael Ewens (Caltech); Ramana Nanda (Harvard); Christopher Stanton (Harvard)

  • Optimal Project Design

    Daniel Garrett (Toulouse School of Economics); George Georgiadis (Northwestern Kellogg); Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics); Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)

  • Automation and Top Income Inequality

    Omer F. Koru (University of Pennsylvania)

A3: Effects of Organizational Form

Chair: 1

  • Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium

    Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); François Libois (Paris School of Economics); Joaquin Morales Belpaire (Universidad Privada Boliviana); Astrid Similon (University of Namur)

  • The Proper Scope of Government in Hospitals

    Lapo Filistrucchi (University of Florence, Tilburg University); Phuc Phung (Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

  • An Academic Question

    Scott E. Masten (University of Michigan)

A4: Frontiers in Empirical Management

Chair: 1

  • The capacity to be aggressive: structured management and profit shifting practices in the firm

    Katarzyna Bilicka (Utah State University); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

  • Corporate Purpose and Firm Ownership

    Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton); George Serafeim (Harvard Business School)

  • Strategy and Structured Management

    Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto); Scott Ohlmacher (U.S. Census Bureau); Mu-Jeung Yang (University of Utah)

A5: Incentives and Information

Chair: 1

  • Paying and Incentivizing Agents with Reference-Dependent Preferences

    Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Felix Peterhammer (Regensburg); Till Stowasser (Stirling)

  • Monitoring with Career Concerns

    Ivan Marinovic (Stanford GSB); Martin Szydlowski (University of Minnesota)

  • Partnership Dissolution with Cash-Constrained Agents

    Guillaume Pommey (Paris School of Economics)

A6: Incentives and Managers

Chair: 1

  • Cooperation, Free-Riding, and the Signaling Value of Incentives: An Experiment in a Company

    Marvin Deversi (LMU Munich)

  • Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

    Jana Gallus (University of California, Los Angeles); Olivia S. Jung (Harvard Business School); Karim R. Lakhani (Harvard Business School)

  • Capital (Mis)allocation and Managerial Incentives

    Alexander Schramm (University of Munich); Alexander Schwemmer (University of Munich); Jan Schymik (University of Mannheim)

A7: Incentives: Field Experiments

Chair: 1

  • When Bonuses Backfire: How Incentivizing Attendance Increases Absenteeism in the Workplace

    Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (University of Cologne)

  • Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Incentives: Evidence from Branchless Banking Agents in Indonesia

    Erika Deserranno (Northwestern University); Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE); Firman Witoelar (Australian National University)

  • Corporate Governance and Social Impact of Non-Profits: Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Anicet Fangwa (HEC Paris); Caroline Flammer (Boston University); Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris); Bertrand Quelin (HEC Paris)

  • Fostering Innovation through Empowered Workers - Experimental Evidence from the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

    Vanessa Schreiber (University of Oxford)

A8: Narratives, Persuasion and Learning

Chair: 1

  • Organisational ethics, narratives and social dysfunctions

    Steven Bosworth (University of Reading); Dennis Snower (University of Oxford)

  • Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

    Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes); Francesco Amodio (McGill University)

  • Investment and information acquisition

    Dimitri Migrow (University of Calgary); Sergei Severinov (University of British Columbia)

A9: Organizational Structures

Chair: 1

  • The Breakdown and Recovery of Cooperation in Large Groups: Exploring the Role of Formal Structure Using a Field Experiment

    Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Christoph Loch (Cambridge Judge Business School); Cristina Riquelme (University of Maryland)

  • Choice Architecture and Gender Differences in Propensity to Compete and Productivity: An Experimental Study

    Joyce He (University of Toronto); Sonia Kang (University of Toronto); Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto)

  • The Value of Delegation in Hiring

    Hugh Xiaolong Wu (Stanford Graduate School of Business); Shannon X. Liu (University of Toronto Rotman School of Management)

A10: Selection and Promotion

Chair: 1

  • Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

    Gross Daniel P. (Harvard Business School); Feigenbaum James (Boston University)

  • Hiring dreamers

    Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich); Ester Manna (Universitat de Barcelona and BEAT)

  • The Costs of Workplace Favoritism: Evidence from Promotions in Chinese High Schools

    Xuan Li (HKUST)

  • Positive Selection of Employees

    Zhenda Yin (Peking University); Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

A11: Talent in Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Worker Visibility and Firms' Retention Policies

    Simon Dato (University of Bonn); Andreas Grunewald (Frankfort School of Finance and Management); Matthias Kräkel (University of Bonn)

  • Chasing Lemons: Competition for Talent under Asymmetric Information

    Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics); Radoslawa Nikolowa (Queen Mary University of London)

  • Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Implicit Team Incentives

    Jonathan Glover (Columbia University); Eunhee Kim (City University of Hong Kong)

  • Organizational Design with Portable Skills

    Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II)

Parallel B

B1: Auctions and Procurement

Chair: 1

  • Strategic delegation in procurement

    Eduard Alonso-Pauli (Universitat de les Illes Balears); Lluis Bru (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

  • Secret Reserve Prices by Uninformed Sellers

    Pavel Andreyanov (National Research University, HSE, Moscow); El Hadi Caoui (University of Toronto)

  • Competition and Contract Performance: Evidence from US Defense Procurement

    Andres Gonzalez-Lira (UC Berkeley); Rodrigo Carril (Stanford); Michael S. Walker (Dept. of Defense)

B2: Bargaining Empirics

Chair: 1

  • Communication and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis

    Matthew Backus (Columbia, NBER, CEPR); Thomas Blake (Amazon); Jett Pettus (Columbia); Steven Tadelis (Berkeley, NBER, CEPR)

  • Outside Options, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks

    Sydnee Caldwell (Microsoft Research/UC Berkeley); Nikolaj Harmon (University of Copenhagen)

  • Optimal Bargaining on eBay using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Etan Green (University of Pennsylvania); Barry Plunkett (University of Pennsylvania)

B3: Vertical Contracts and Bundling

Chair: 1

  • Complex Pricing and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Lab Experiment

    Joshua Deutschmann (University of Wisconsin); Jeffrey Michler (University of Arizona); Emilia Tjernstrom (University of Sydney)

  • Optimal Payment Contracts in Trade Relationships

    Christian Fischer (University of Bayreuth)

  • Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects

    Andreas Grunewald (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); David Low (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau); Jonathan Lanning (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago); Tobias Salz (MIT Department of Economics)

  • The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives

    Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis); Alex Rees-Jones (Cornell University); Charlotte Blank (Maritz)

B4: Information Acquisition Between Firms

Chair: 1

  • Should We Let Interest Groups Learn From Their Competitors?

    Emiel Awad (London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining

    Renee Bowen (University of California, San Diego); Ilwoo Hwang (University of Miami); Stefan Krasa (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

  • Information, coordination and the legal order

    Xiaoyu Wang (Tilburg University (CentER & TILEC)); Cédric Argenton (Tilburg University (CentER & TILEC))

B5: Manipulation and Collusion

Chair: 1

  • Procurement with Manipulation

    Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal); Andrea Gugliemo (Wayfair); Clarissa Lotti (Tor Vergata); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE,EIEF, Tor Vergata)

  • The Value of Relational Collusive Arrangements in the Colombian Electricity Market

    Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics); Carlos Sanchez (Universitat Barcelona)

  • Collusion via Information Sharing

    Olga Gorelkina (University of Liverpool)

B6: Networks and governance of organizations

Chair: 1

  • Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relations: A Theory of Multiplexity

    Chen Cheng (Johns Hopkins University ); Wei Huang (National University of Singapore); Yiqing Xing (Johns Hopkins University )

  • Rulebooks in Relational Contracts

    Jin Li (University of Hong Kong); Arijit Mukherjee (Michigan State University); Luis Vasconcelos (University of Technology Sydney)

  • Modular Organization

    Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University); Michael Powell (Northwestern University); Bryony Reich (Northwestern University)

B7: Networks, Complementarity, and Organization

Chair: 1

  • THE ORGANIZATION OF INNOVATION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

    Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University); Sean Nicholson (Cornell University); June Pan (VISA); Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

  • Roles in Franchising: Agency and Stakeholder Theory Perspectives

    Aveed Raha (University of Vienna); Ilir Hajdini (University of Vienna)

  • Revisiting Economic Action and Social Structure: The Role of Embeddedness in the Age of Amazon

    Hagay C. Volvovsky (MIT Sloan School of Management)

B8: Property Rights Inside and Outside the Firm

Chair: 1

  • Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Technology Transfers

    Sara Biancini (CYU Cergy Paris Université); Pamela Bombarda (CYU Cergy Paris Université)

  • Endogenous Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm.

    Carmine Guerriero (Department of Economics, University of Bologna); Giuseppe Pignataro (Department of Economics, University of Bologna)

  • Contracting Institutions and Firm Integration Around the World

    Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York); Peter Eppinger (University of Tuebingen)

B9: Governing Large-Scale Investments

Chair: 1

  • Interconnection, Integration, and Holding Company: Three Institutional Approaches to Electric Power Network Coordination in the Early 20th Century

    Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University); Lynne Kiesling (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Digital Transformation of the Italian and US Automotive Supply Chains: Evidence from Survey Data

    Ruggero Colombari (Politecnico di Torino); Aldo Geuna (Università di Torino); Susan Helper (Case Western Reserve University); Raphael Martins (New York University); Emilio Paolucci (Politecnico di Torino); Riccardo Ricci (Politecnico di Torino); Robert Seamans (New York University)

  • Why Choose LTAs: An Empirical Study of Ohio Manufacturer's Contractual Choices Through A Bargaining Lens

    Juliet P Kostritsky (Case Western Reserve University); Jessica Ice (Case Western Reserve University)

Parallel C

C1: Community enforcement and cooperation

Chair: 1

  • Can Technological Change Weaken the Robustness of Common-Property Regimes?

    Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol); Evagelos Pafilis (King's College London)

  • Silly rules improve the capacity of agents to learn stable enforcement and compliance behaviors

    Raphael Koster (DeepMind); Dylan Hadfield-Menell (UC Berkeley); Gillian K Hadfield (University of Toronto); Joel Z Leibo (DeepMind)

  • Mass Political Action and Revolutionary Capital

    Weijia Li (Monash University); Gerard Roland (University of California, Berkeley); Yang Xie (University of California, Riverside)

  • Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel?: Community Enforcement with Incomplete Information

    Takuo Sugaya (Stanford GSB); Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)

C2: Informal Polycentric Governance

Chair: 1

  • Does Blockchain Need Governance?

    Eric Alston (University of Colorado); Wilson Law (Baylor University); Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh); Martin Weiss (University of Pittsburgh)

  • How the Network Neighborhood Influences Partnerships: From Handshakes to Formal Collaboration among US Fire Departments

    Jay Horwitz (University of Toronto); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto); Anita McGahan (University of Toronto)

  • Is blockchain social? A polycentric governance perspective for rule setting in crypto environments

    Francesco Pierangeli (King's College London); Ashwin J. Mathew (King's College London)

C3: Law and Public Policy of Polycentric Governance

Chair: 1

  • Comparative evaluation of alternative water governance arrangements in British Columbia

    Angela Lockrey (University of British Columbia)

  • Fixing Urban Planning with Ostrom

    John R. Myers (London YIMBY)

  • Duties Beyond Shareholders

    Kish Parella (Washington and Lee University)

Parallel D

D1: Bargaining in Judicial Systems

Chair: 1

  • Contractual Flexibility and Political Tolerance: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations

    Jean Beuve (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne); Marian Moszoro (George Mason University & IMF); Pablo Spiller (University of California, Berkeley & NBER)

  • Are Adjudication Panels Strategically Selected? The Case of Constitutional Court in Poland

    Jacek Lewkowicz (University of Warsaw); Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw)

D2: Evaluation and Monitoring in Public Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Public Support and the European Union Centralised Compliance Monitoring System

    Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven); Yu-Cheong Yeung (KU Leuven)

  • Under Pressure? Performance Evaluation of Police Officers as an Incentive to Cheat: Evidence from Drug Crimes in Russia

    Ekaterina Travova (CERGE-EI)

  • Monitoring and Local Governance: evidence from Italy

    Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University )

D3: Firms and politicians' strategies in public procurement imperfect markets: new evidence from Russia

Chair: 1

  • Public procurement in collusive institutional settings

    Paola Valbonesi (Univ. of Padova); Riccardo Camboni (Univ. of Padova); Elena Podkolzina (HSE - Moscow); Koen Shoors (Univ. of Gent); Sumeyra Atmaca (Univ. of Gent)

D4: Uncertainty and Spending in Public Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Fiscal response to revenue shocks

    Simon Berset (University of Fribourg); Martin Huber (University of Fribourg); Mark Schelker (University of Fribourg)

  • Economic Forces Shape Beliefs: A Model of Investment under Fundamental Uncertainty

    Johannes Binswanger (St. Gallen); Anja Garbely (Lucerne); Manuel Oechslin (Lucerne)

  • Political Organization and Public Investment: Evidence from Close Municipal Elections

    Gabriel Natividad (Universidad de Piura)

  • Legal Status and Local Spending: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA

    Navid Sabet (Goethe University Frankfurt); Christoph Winter (LMU Munich)

D5: Governance of the Environment

Chair: 1

  • Induced Innovation from Environmental Regulation: Evidence from China

    Yangsiyu Lu (Oxford University); Jacquelyn Pless (MIT Sloan School of Management)

  • Agency Organization and Funding in the Service of Wildlife Conservation

    Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin)

D6: Local Political Institutions

Chair: 1

  • Fiscal Rules and the selection of politicians: evidence from Italian municipalities

    Matteo Gamalerio (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, UB)

  • How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities

    Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis); Jonas Hjort (Columbia University); Gautam Rao (Harvard University); Juan Santini (IPA)

  • Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services

    Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis); Mitra Akhtari (Airbnb); Laura Trucco (Amazon)

D7: Media, Polarization and Political Institutions

Chair: 1

  • Optimal Political Institutions in the Shadow of Conflict

    Andrea Canidio (IMT Lucca & INSEAD); Joan Esteban ( Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

  • The Impact of Institutions on Social Polarization

    Norbert Pierre (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)

D8: Organization of the Public Sector

Chair: 1

  • Public Sector Leadership

    Morten Bennedsen (INSEAD and University of Copenhagen); Fracisco Pérez-Gonzàlez (ITAM); Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University); Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)

  • Competition and Reciprocity Based Incentives

    Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Dominik Grothe (LMU Munich); Stephen Leider (Michigan Ross)

  • Public Service Quality under Civil Service versus Fixed-term Employment: Evidence from Physician Supply of Primary Care

    Sean Sylvia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Hongmei Yi (Peking University); Hao Xue (Stanford University); Gordon Liu (Peking University)

D9: Governance Decisions in Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

    Laura Alfaro (Harvard); Nicholas Bloom (Stanford); Paola Conconi (ECARES); Harald Fadinger (Mannheim); Patrick Legros (ECARES); Andy Newman (Boston University); Raffaella Sadun (Harvard); John Van Reenen (MIT)

  • Adverse Selection in Agenda Setting

    S. Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University); Maximilian Mihm (NYU-Abu Dhabi); Lucas Siga (NYU-Abu Dhabi)

  • Too Big for their Boots

    Daniel Barron (Northwestern); Yingni Guo (Northwestern); Bryony Reich (Northwestern)

Parallel E

E1: Firms and Politics

Chair: 1

  • Executives in Politics

    Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University); Viktar Fedaseyeu (CEIBS); Song Zhang (Boston College)

  • Power, Scrutiny, and Favoritism for Friends' Firms: Evidence from Close Congress Elections

    Quoc-Anh Do (Northwestern University; Sciences Po; CEPR); Yen-Teik Lee (Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT); Bang D. Nguyen (University of Cambridge Judge Business School); Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University)

  • What Drives U.S. Corporate Elites' Campaign Contribution Behavior?

    Edoardo Teso (Northwestern Kellogg)

E2: Institutions and Growth in Economic History

Chair: 1

  • Why did Kings Summon Towns to Assemblies? A Theoretical Analysis

    Charles Angelucci (Columbia University); Simone Meraglia (University of Exeter); Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)

  • Proxeny: institutions, trade and growth in the ancient economy

    Pier Paolo Creanza (Princeton University)

  • Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers, Institutions, and Firms in Shanghai's Concession Era

    Claudia Steinwender (MIT Sloan); Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School); Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University); Junjie Hong (UIBE); Cathy Ge Bao (UIBE)

  • Institutional Change and Representative Government: England, 1660-1832

    Kara Dimitruk (University of Zurich, CEPR); David Schönholzer (IIES); Guo Xu (UC Berkeley)

E3: Power and Governance

Chair: 1

  • Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions

    Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); Giorgio Zanarone (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Infrastructure and institutions: lessons from history

    Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)

  • A Model of Censorship and Propaganda

    Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Dmitriy Vorobyev (Ural Federal University); Anton Shirikov (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

E4: The Political Economy of Developing Business Environment in China

Chair: 1

  • Innovation in China: A Political Economy Perspective

    Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Bo Yang (University of Southern California); Kenneth Huang (National University of Singapore)

  • Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody

    Shuo Chen (Fudan University); Xinyu Fan (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Xuanyi Wang (Fudan University)

  • Controlling the Media’s Narrative: The Coordination and Disciplining Role of the People’s Daily in China

    Joseph Piotroski (Stanford University ); Shubo Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Tianyu Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

E5: Three New Books on NIE: A Roundtable Discussion

Chair: 1

  • Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications

    Eric Alston (University of Colorado ); Lee J. Alston (Indiana University); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia ); Tomas Nonnenmacher (Allegheny College )

  • A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics

    Claude Menard (University of Paris 1, (Pantheon Sorbonne)); Mary M. Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)

  • Institutional Economics - An Introduction

    Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)

E6: Institutional Design

Chair: 1

  • Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization

    Renee Bowen (UC San Diego); Danil Dmitriev (UC San Diego); Simone Galperti (UC San Diego)

  • Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Institutions

    Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

  • A Dynamic Theory of Regulatory Capture

    Alessandro De Chiara (Universitat de Barcelona and CEU); Marco A. Schwarz (University of Innsbruck)

E7: Bureaucracy

Chair: 1

  • May Weberian Bureaucracies be Instruments of Change in Non-Democratic Regimes? The case of the 18th Century French ‘Bureau du Commerce’

    Eric Brousseau (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Antoine Cazals (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Mohammad Habibpour (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Jérome Sgard (Sciences-Po Paris)

  • Redistributive Consequences of Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Turkish Housing Administration

    Ethan Caspi (University of Southern California); Christopher Dann (University of Oxford); Lutfi Sun (Trinity University); Andre Zeromski (Washington and Lee University); Yihan Zhu (London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • Crackdowns in Hierarchies: Evidence from China's Environmental Inspections

    Valerie Karplus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Mandy Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

E8: Corruption and Misallocation

Chair: 1

  • Corruption under Austerity

    Gianmarco Daniele (University of Milan & Bocconi University); Tommaso Giommoni (ETH Zurich)

  • The Inception of Capitalism through the Lens of Firms

    Krisztina Orban (NBER)

  • Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution

    Allison Stashko (University of Utah)

E9: Crime and Justice

Chair: 1

  • Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

    Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University); Nonso Obikili (Stellenbosch University)

  • Shaking Criminal Incentives

    Theodore Koutmeridis (University of Glasgow); Yu Aoki (University of Aberdeen)

  • Procedural Justice or Procedural Excuse? Strategic Adjudication of Eminent Domain Cases in Chinese Courts

    Shitong Qiao (The University of Hong Kong); Chaoqun Zhan (Sun Yat-Sen University)

  • Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow

    Patrick Warren (Clemson University); Michael Makowsky (Clemson University)

E10: History, Political Economy

Chair: 1

  • Political History, Fiscal Compliance and Public Policies: Medieval Social Contracts and their Legacy

    Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo); Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna); Sara Lazzaroni (University of Bologna); Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna)

  • Political Legitimacy and the Institutional Foundations of Constitutional Government: The Case of England

    Avner Greif (Stanford University); Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

  • The Aristotle Tradeoff: The Foundations of Wealth-Enhancing Democracy in Ancient Greece

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

  • The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution

    Noel Johnson (GMU); Raphäel Franck (Hebrew University); Theresa Finley (Susquehannah State)

E11: Trust and Network

Chair: 1

  • The Rise of a Network: Spillover of Political Patronage and Cronyism to the Private Sector

    Terry Moon (University of British Columbia); David Schoenherr (Princeton University)

  • Kin networks and institutional development

    Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University)

E12: Political Economy of Technology

Chair: 1

  • Watching the State: Can New Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy?

    Anastasiia Faikina (University of California San Diego)

  • The political economics of innovations

    jeffry frieden (harvard); arthur silve (laval)

  • Economic Origins of Digital Dictatorship and Democracy

    Nathan Lane (Oxford University); Weijia Li (Monash University)

Parallel F

F1: Conflict and Crime

Chair: 1

  • Under Pressure: Effects of Police Response Times on Repeat Victimization of Domestic Violence

    Victoria Endl-Geyer (ifo institute); Sofia Amaral (ifo institute); Helmut Rainer (ifo institute)

  • Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Systems and Intergroup Conflict

    Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University); Alain Schlaepfer (Santa Clara University)

  • Cultural Distance and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

    Eleonora Guarnieri (ifo Institute at the University of Munich); Ana Tur-Prats (University of California at Merced)

F2: Culture and Institutions

Chair: 1

  • The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries

    Leander Heldring (briq Institute); James A. Robinson (University of Chicago); Sebastian Vollmer (University of Goettingen)

  • Religious Festivals, Economic Development, and Social Capital: Evidence from Catholic Saint-Day Celebrations in Mexico

    Eduardo Montero (University of Michigan); Dean Yang (University of Michigan)

  • Markets and Rules of Cooperation

    Devesh Rustagi (Brown University)

F3: Economic Shocks, Culture and Institutions

Chair: 1

  • Moral(e) drift? Economic hardship and tolerance towards dishonest behaviour.

    Elodie Douarin (UCL)

  • The Terror of History: Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Social Complexity and Complex Thinking

    Anastasia Litina (University of Ioannina); Eric Roca Fernandez (Aix-Marseille Université)

  • Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine

    Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics)

  • Shocks and Norm Adherence

    Max Winkler (University of Zurich)

F4: Measurement of Institutions

Chair: 1

  • How Can Trust Be Measured? An Alternative Approach Using Retailers’ Refund Policies

    Fernando Arteaga (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Machine Learning Approaches to Testing Institutional Hypotheses: The Case of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001)

    Boubacar Diallo (Qatar University)

  • Labor market outcomes, Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills in Rural China

    Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota); Yang Song (Colgate University); Xianqiang Zou (Renmin University of China)

  • Bureaucratic Nepotism

    Juan Felipe Riano (University of British Columbia)

F5: Moral Values, Institutions, and Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling

    Samuel Bazzi (Boston University); Masyhur Hilmy (Boston University); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po)

  • Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

    Julia Cagé (Sciences Po and CEPR); Anna Dagorret (Stanford GSB); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW); Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB)

  • Tell Me What You Grow and I'll Tell You What You Think: Crop Mix and Slavery in the US South

    Federico Masera (University of New South Wales); Michele Rosenberg (Northwestern University)

F6: Racial, Gender, and Intergenerational Inequality

Chair: 1

  • The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act

    Carlos Avenancio-Leon (Indiana University-Bloomington); Abhay Aneja (UC Berkeley)

  • Intergenerational Mobility in China across Space and Time

    Yining Geng (University of Liverpool)

  • An economic theory of differential treatment

    Emil Temnyalov (University of Technology Sydney)

  • Women’s Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from Bangladesh

    Hannah I. Uckat (University of Oxford)

F7: Transmission of Political and Social Preferences in Authoritarian Regimes

Chair: 1

  • Does Media Reporting on Corruption Influence Beliefs about Fairness?

    Xincheng Ge (New York University); Y. Jane Zhang (University of New South Wales)

  • Ideology and Human Capital: How Imperial China was Democratized

    James Kung (University of Hong Kong); Yue Wang (University of Hong Kong)

F8: Culture and Norms

Chair: 1

  • Girls will be Boys: Gender, Beliefs and Selection in the Field

    David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh); Collin Raymond (Purdue University); Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)

  • Does Culture Pay? Evidence from Crowdsourced Employee Engagement Data

    Christos Makridis (Arizona State University & MIT Sloan)

  • Managers' gender attitudes and the gender gap

    Maddalena Ronchi (Queen Mary University of London); Nina Smith (Aarhus University)

Parallel G

G1: Firms in Low Income Countries

Chair: 1

  • Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship

    Nava Ashraf (LSE); Alexia Delfino (LSE); Edward Glaeser (Harvard)

  • Achieving Scale Collectively

    Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California); Raffaela Muoio (BRAC); Tommaso Porzio (Columbia University); Ritwika Sen (Northwestern University); Esau Tugume (BRAC)

  • Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis

    Alexey Makarin (EIEF); Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI)

  • Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Industry

    Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univers); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)

G2: Management and Development

Chair: 1

  • Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

    Girum Abebe (World Bank); Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University); Michael Koelle (OECD); Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)

  • Accounting for cross-country income differences: New evidence from multinational firms

    Vanessa Alviarez (University of British Columbia); Javier Cravino (University of Michigan ); Natalia Ramondo (University of California San Diego )

  • Mandatory Apprenticeship Training in Firms

    Santiago Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes/ University of Chicago); Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Arthur Seibold (University of Mannheim)

G3: Private Sector Frictions in Low Income Countries

Chair: 1

  • Gotta' Have Money to Make Money? Bargaining Behavior and Financial Need of Microentrepreneurs

    Morgan Hardy (New York University Abu Dhabi); Gisella Kagy (Vassar College); Lena Song (New York University)

  • Informational Barriers to Accessing Demand: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms

    Vinayak Iyer (Columbia University); Jonas Hjort (Columbia University ); Golvine de Rochambeau (Sciences Po)

  • Product Conflation and Marketplace Design: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Commodity Exchange

    Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univers)

G4: Tackling Information Asymmetries in Low Income Countries

Chair: 1

  • Organizational mission, financial rewards and performance of bureaucrats

    Muhammad Yasir Khan (University of California Berkeley)

  • Adverse selection does not explain why utilization rises with premiums: evidence from a health insurance experiment in India

    Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts University); Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago); Gabriella Conti (University College London); Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)

  • Contract Design in China's Rural Land Rental Market: Contractual Flexibility and Rental Payments

    Ziyan Yang (Xiamen University)

G5: Frontier of Comparative Economics - Handbook of Comparative Economics

Chair: 1

  • INSTITUTIONS MATTER-BUT SO DOES HISTORY; A compariosn of mediaeval Dubrovnik and other Dalmatian Cities

    Oleh Havrylyshyn (Carleton Univerity )

  • Rethinking development: broadening the goals and altering the approach

    Homi Kharas (The Brookings Institution); John McArthur (The Brookings Institution)

  • Are the Transition Economies Still in Transition?

    Paul Wachtel (New York University, Stern School of Business)

G6: Judges and Development

Chair: 1

  • Religion, Politics, and Judicial Independence: Theory and Evidence

    Sultan Mehmood (Aix Marseille School of Economics); Avner Seror (Aix Marseille School of Economics)

  • Judicial Independence and Development: Evidence from Pakistan

    Sultan Mehmood (Aix Marseille University, New Economic School)

  • Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India

    Manaswini Rao (University of California San Diego)

  • Selecting Top Bureaucrats: Admission Exams and Performance in Brazil

    Thiago Scot (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business); Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern University); Laura Schiavon (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

G7: Corruption

Chair: 1

  • Why Pay The Chief? Land Rents and Political Selection in Indonesia

    Gedeon J. Lim (Boston University)

  • The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity

    Meera Mahadevan (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability

    Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School)

Parallel H

H1: Property and Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Legal Origin from Outer Space

    Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo (University of Connecticut); Daniel Klerman (University of Southern California); John P. Wilson (University of Southern California); Matthew B. Hall (University of Connecticut); Beau MacDonald (University of Southern California)

  • Informal Property Rights in the Art Market

    Anja Shortland (King's College , London); Sami Winton (Cranfield University)

  • Property as a Complex System

    Henry Smith (Harvard University)

H2: Contracts and Institutions

Chair: 1

  • Payday

    Yonathan A. Arbel (University of Alabama)

  • The Statutory Liberalization of Trust Law across 152 Jurisdictions: Leaders, Laggards and the Demand for Fiduciary Services

    Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

H3: Contracts: Doctrinal and Theoretical Issues

Chair: 1

  • Some Issues on the Law of Direct Damages (US and UK)

    Victor Goldberg (Columbua Law)

  • Business Law and Legal Institutions

    Alan Schwartz (Yale University); Robert E. Scott (Columbia University)

H4: Corporate Political Activity, Disclosure and Corruption

Chair: 1

  • Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Concealment of Corporate Political Activity

    Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Stan Markus (University of South Carolina); Tim Werner (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Is U.S. Formalized Lobbying More about Nefarious Corruption or Benign Industry Information Provision? Evidence from Foreign Firms Lobbying in the U.S.

    Jin Hyung Kim (George Washington University); Jordan I. Siegel (University of Michigan)

  • The Hydraulics of Dark Money

    Amanda Shanor (The Wharton School); Timothy Werner (University of Texas - Austin); Mary McDonnell (The Wharton School)

H5: Group Structure and Value Creation: Networks and Social Capital

Chair: 1

  • Internal Network Structure as a Knowledge-Protection Mechanism

    Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis); Luis A. Rios (University of Pennsylvania); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

  • A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan

    J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard University)

  • Team network and performance: Renovating a classic experiment to identify network effects on team problem solving

    Ray Reagans (MIT Sloan); Hagay Volvovsky (MIT Sloan); Ronald Burt (Chicago Booth)

H6: Legal System Design

Chair: 1

  • Bargaining in the Shadow of the Judge

    Adi Leibovitch (Hebrew University )

  • Hard Cases Make Bad Law? A Theoretical Investigation

    Sepehr Shahshahani (Fordham Law School)

  • Pay to Play? Campaign Finance and the Incentive Gap in the Sixth Amendment’s Right to Counsel

    Neel Sukhatme (Georgetown University Law Center); Jay Jenkins (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

H7: Looking at Contracts Through a Managerial Lens

Chair: 1

  • Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study

    Lisa Bernstein (University of Chicago); Brad Peterson (Mayer, Brown LLP.)

  • Why do business losses cause conflict?

    Henrik Lando (Copoenhagen Business School)

H8: The economic organization of Indian slums

Chair: 1

  • Savings and finance in slums

    Adam Chilton (University of Chicago); Anup Malani (University of Chicago)

  • Housing markets in slums

    Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)

  • Neighborhood amenities in slums

    Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)

Parallel I

I1: Bureaucracy, Political Institutions, and Power Sharing

Chair: 1

  • Try to See it My Way: The Process and Perils of "Coming Around"

    Dan Alexander (University of Rochester); Darrian Stacy (Vanderbilt University)

  • Choosing Your Pond: A Structural Model of Power Sharing

    Selcen Cakir (Bogazici University)

  • Checks and balances and Nation Building: The Spanish Constitutional Court and Catalonia

    Agustin Casas (CUNEF & INARBE); Federico Curci (CUNEF); Antoni De Moragas (CUNEF)

I2: Conflict, Defense, and Political Violence

Chair: 1

  • Collective Defense by Common Property Arrangements: the Rise and Fall of the Kibbutz

    Liang Diao (Simon Fraser University)

  • Historical Protests and Violence Against Civilians: Evidence from the Korean War

    Hojung Joo (University of Michigan)

  • When Deterrence Fails: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes

    Peter Schram (Vanderbilt University)

I3: Historical Political Economy

Chair: 1

  • When does education promote democracy? Evidence from curriculum reforms in Mexico, 1960-2010

    Agustina Paglayan (UCSD); Francisco Garfias (UCSD); Enrique Seira (ITAM)

  • Choosing Limited Property Rights: Privatizing Reforms and Collective Land Institutions in Mexico

    Emily A. Sellars (Yale University); María Paula Saffon Sanín (UNAM)

I4: Political Accountability, Instability, and Government Performance

Chair: 1

  • Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment

    Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV); Ruben Durante (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE, IP)

  • Political Instability and Economic Growth in Sub-Sahara Africa

    Felix S. Bethke (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt); Magdalene Silberberger (Witten/Herdecke University)

  • Hybrid Regulatory Regime in Turbulent Times: The Role of State in China’s Stock Market Crisis in 2015-2016

    Chen Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Huanhuan Zheng (National University of Singapore); Yunbo Liu (Beijing Normal University)

I5: Political Elites, State Capacity, and (De)centralization

Chair: 1

  • The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance

    Tuğba Bozçağa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Autonomy in Autocracy: Explaining the Creation of Ethnic Autonomous Territories in Post-1949 China

    Chao-yo Cheng (Tsinghua)

  • Property Formation in Weak States: Theory and Evidence from Imperial Brazil

    Jorge Mangonnet (Columbia University)

I6: Russian, Ukrainian, and Russian-Ukrainian political economy

Chair: 1

  • Vote Mobilization at Work: How Employers Subvert Elections

    Timothy Frye (Columbia University, HSE-Moscow); Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, HSE-Moscow); David Szakonyi (George Washington University, HSE-Moscow)

  • Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukrainian Railway Shipments

    Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI); Alexey Makarin (EIEF)

  • The Soviet Great Famine, 1931--33

    Andrei Markevich (New Economic School); Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University); Nancy Qian (Northwestern University); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

Parallel J

J1: Entrepreneurial State and New Economy

Chair: 1

  • Law, Chinese Style: Solving the Authoritarian’s Legal Dilemma through the Private Provision of Law

    Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University); Barry R. Weingast (Stanford University)

  • Is What's Good for Business Also Good for the Market? Pro-Business and Pro-Market Policy Dynamics

    Prateek Raj (IIM-Bangaglore); Brian Kelleher Richter (UT Austin McCombs School of Business); Mario Villarreal-Diaz (UT Austin McCombs School of Business)

  • Beware of Strange Bed-Fellows: Partnerships between the State and Venture Capitalists in Managing Government Guiding Funds

    Yifan Wei (University of Manitoba); Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Milo Wang (University of Alberta)

  • Leveraging Institutional Intermediaries: Entrepreneurial Strategies to Contact Investors on a Fundraising Platform

    You (Willow) Wu (Stanford University); Song Wang (Zhejiang University); Charles E. Eesley (Stanford University)

J2: Human Resource Management and Value Creation in Firms

Chair: 1

  • (How) Do Risky Perks Benefit Firms? The Case of Unlimited Vacation

    Jiayi Bao (The Wharton School)

  • Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

    Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics); Gozde Corekcioglu (Kadir Has University); Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)

  • Gender diversity in corporate boards: Evidence from quota-implied discontinuities

    Olga Kuzmina (New Economic School and CEPR ); Valentina Melentyeva (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Researc)

  • GENERAL HUMAN CAPITAL TRANSFER AND RELATIONAL STRENGTH IN ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS

    Thomaz Teodorovicz (Harvard University); Anita McGahan (University of Toronto); Sérgio Lazzarini (Insper); Sandro Cabral (Insper)

J3: Innovation in Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Multi-Layer Profit Sharing and Innovation

    Filippo Belloc (University of Siena)

  • Innovation in the U.S. Government

    Joshua Bruce (University of Illinois); John de Figueiredo (Duke University)

  • Information, Beliefs and Resource Allocation in Competitive Markets: The Impact of IT and Big Data on SMEs

    Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez (Universidad Publica de Navarra); Ricard Gil (Queen's University); Guillermo Uriz-Uharte (University College London)

  • How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on worker mobility

    Hyo Kang (University of Southern California); Wyatt Lee (University of Toronto)

J4: Managing Social Comparisons in Organizations

Chair: 1

  • Accountability versus Social Comparisons: A Theory of Pay Secrecy (and Transparency) in Organizations

    Matthias Fahn (Johannes Kepler University Linz); Giorgio Zanarone (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • The influence of pay transparency on inequity, inequality, and the performance-basis of pay

    Tomasz Obloj (HEC Paris); Todd Zenger (University of Utah)

J5: Matching talent within and across organizations

Chair: 1

  • Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

    Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan); Jean-Francois Gauthier (University of Michigan); Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan); Jorge Tamayo (Harvard Business School)

  • Salary History Disclosures and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Amanda Agan (Rutgers University); Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Laura Gee (Tufts University)

  • Relational skills, endogenous matching, and business performance: A field experiment with entrepreneurs in Togo

    Stefan Dimitriadis (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto); Rembrand Koning (Harvard Business School)

J6: Social Impact and Financial Returns: The Role of Firms

Chair: 1

  • Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms

    Luis Ballesteros (George Washington University); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School)

  • The Assessment Paradox: Practices Dissemination and Impact Evaluation

    Fernando D. Domingos (Insper); Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris); Sandro Cabral (Insper); Sergio G. Lazzarini (Insper)

  • Desert Places: Cooperatives as Infrastructure Providers in Marginalized Areas

    Hyoju Jeong (University of Minnesota); Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota)

  • Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

    Amir N. Licht (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya); Renee B. Adams (University of Oxford)

J7: Technology and Governance in Organizations

Chair: 1

  • What's in a Name? The Effect of Changing Definitions of “Employee” on Worker Outcomes

    Elliott Ash (ETH Zürich); Daniel M. Deibler (Columbia University)

  • Judged in Hindsight: Regulatory Incentives in Approving Innovations

    Suraj Malladi (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

  • Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

    Frank Nagle (Harvard University)

J8: Property Rights and Productivity

Chair: 1

  • The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Commercialization of University Research

    Rafael Correiedora (Ohio State University); Brent Goldfarb (University of Maryland); Anne Marie Knott (Washington University); Seojin Kim (University of Maryland)

  • Do Pirated Video Streams Crowd Out Non-Pirated Video Streams? Evidence from Online Activity

    Sarah Oh (Technology Policy Institute); Scott Wallsten (Technology Policy Institute); Nathaniel Lovin (Technology Policy Institute)

  • Employment and Productivity Effects of Tax Haven FDI

    Solomiya Shpak (Kyiv School of Economics)

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