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SIOE 2022

Toronto, Canada · 23 June 2022 – 25 June 2022 — Full Programme

Underlined = presenting author

Thursday, June 23

9:00 am - 12:00 AI Tutorial 1
In our morning tutorial, we'll introduce participants to the basic methods used by modern machine learning researchers (supervised, self-supervised and unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning); the framework used to simulate and analyze multi-agent systems composed of artificial agents; the formal tests used by machine learning researchers to evaluate algorithmic bias and develop explanations; and the techniques used to construct the recommender systems that shape social media, online commerce, and more.
2:00 pm - 4:00 AI Tutorial 2
In our afternoon tutorial, we'll discuss research in machine learning that invokes institutions and organizations that are well known to the SIOE audience. We'll discuss the insights available for AI from incomplete contracting theory, how contracts might be deployed in multiagent settings, what we learn about the tragedy of the commons, norms and culture from multiagent simulations, how algorithmic bias and explainability challenges might impact organizational design and regulation, and how democratic processes might be devised to improve the alignment of algorithms and recommender systems with social welfare.
4:00 - 5:00 pm Registration
Location: Atrium
5:00 pm - 6:15 Keynote #1

(in-person) Siwan Anderson (UBC): “Unbundling Female Autonomy”

Room J250

6:15 pm - 7:30 Reception
Location: Atrium

Friday, June 24

8:45 am - 10:15 Plenary #1

The War in Ukraine: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives Room: J250

Chair: Scott Gehlbach

  • (online) Daryna Marchak (Kyiv School of Economics): War Damages
  • (online) Tania Babina (Columbia Business School): Sanctions
  • (online) Mariia Bogonos and Valentyn Litvinov (Kyiv School of Economics): Food Security
  • (online) Timofiy Mylovanov (Kyiv School of Economics): Reconstruction
10:15 am - 10:30 Break
10:30 am - 12:30 Parallel A

A1: Historical Perspectives on the State — Room J250

Chair: Eric Brousseau

  • The Societal Origins of State Education

    Htet Thiha Zaw (University of Michigan)

  • Schools, Language, and Nations: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in France

    Guillaume Blanc (Brown University); Masahiro Kubo (Brown University)

  • Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building

    Lydia ASSOUAD (Paris School of Economics)

  • Modernizing the Economy in the 18th Century France: The revealed policy of the ‘Bureau du Commerce’

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

A2: Workers and Firms I — Room P120

Chair: Decio Coviello

  • Treatment and Selection Effects of Formal Workplace Mentorship Programs

    Christopher Stanton (Harvard University); Jason Sandvik (Tulane); Richard Saouma (Michigan State); Nathan Seegert (University of Utah)

  • Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

    Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania); Aaron Sojourner (Carlson School of Management); Evan Starr (Smith School of Business)

  • Does Working from Home Increase Job Satisfaction and Retention? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Christos Makridis (Columbia Business School and Stanford University); Jason Schloetzer (Georgetown University)

  • Effect of Firing Frictions on Turnover

    decio coviello (HEC Montreal)

A3: Bureaucracy, Governance, and State Capacity — Room J140

Chair: Federica Carugati

  • Motivating Loyal Bureaucrats in Sequential Agency

    Dongsoo Shin (Santa Clara University); Alexander Rodivilov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

  • Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China

    Joy Chen (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Erik Wang (Australian National University); Xiaoming Zhang (Hong Kong University)

  • State Capacity and Organizational Learning in Classical Greece

    Federica Carugati (King's College London); Mark Pyzyk (Princeton University)

A4: Institutional Reforms & State Capacity — Room FL228

Chair: Benjamin Marx

  • Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

    Felipe Valencia (UBC); Luis R. Martinez (Chicago Harris); Juan David Torres (Stanford); Giorgio Chiovelli (Montevideo)

  • The Rise of Fiscal Capacity

    Matthias Weigand (Harvard University); Cathrin Mohr (Universität Bonn); Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

  • Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History

    Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh); Sascha O. Becker (Monash University and University of Warwick); Eric Melander (University of Namur); Luigi Pascali (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  • The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution

    Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po, Department of Economics); Cédric Chambru (University of Zurich); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po, Department of Economics)

A5: Innovation I — Room FH103

Chair: Brian Silverman

  • A Quest for Knowledge

    Johannes Schneider (U Carlos III Madrid & U Mannheim); Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi)

  • Endogenous Criteria for Success

    Rene Kirkegaard (University of Guelph)

  • Communication Technology and Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: The Role of Intra-firm Control Rights

    Luis Ballesteros (Boston University); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Casidhe Troyer (London Business School)

  • How do inventors’ political preferences affect innovation?

    Brian Silverman (University of Toronto); John de Figueiredo (Duke University); Trijeet Sethi (Capital One)

A6: Law, Politics and Finance — Room J225

Chair: Michael Waibel

  • The role of digital technologies in development of financial regulatory governance

    Ivana Bajakic (Faculty of Law University of Zagreb)

  • Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing

    Albert Choi (University of Michigan); Kathy Spier (Harvard University)

  • Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets

    Marcos Salgado (Stanford University); Saumitra Jha (Stanford University); Peter Koudijs (Erasmus University Rotterdamam)

  • The German Constitutional Court and Central Bank Independence

    Michael Waibel (University of Vienna)

A7: Education & Society — Room J230

Chair: Mary Shirley

  • The Implications of School Lotteries for Neighborhood Crime

    Andrew Bibler (University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Stephen Billings (University of Colorado Boulder); Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut)

  • Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills

    Jun Hyung Kim (Jinan University); Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University); Zhe Yang (Jinan University)

  • The Long-Term Effects of Financial Aid and Career Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

    Laëtitia Renée (McGill University)

  • Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes

    Yang Song (Colgate University); Ziteng Lei (UCSB); Le Kang (Peking University); Peng Zhang (CUHK Shenzhen)

A8: Determinants of Voting and Political Participation — Room FL219

Chair: Alexandru Savu

  • Rally Post-Terrorism

    Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))

  • Transnational Diffusion of Identity Politics

    Soeren Schwuchow (Brandenburg University of Technology)

  • Robots, China and Polls: Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US

    Marina Chugunova (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition); Klaus Keller (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competitionn); Sampsa Samila (IESE Business School)

  • The Local Political Economy of Austerity: Lessons from Hospital Closures

    Alexandru Savu (Christ's College, University of Cambridge)

A9: Conflict I — Room FL223

Chair: David Skarbek

  • Deterrence or Backlash? The Causal Effect of Arrest on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

    Victoria Endl-Geyer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Sofia Amaral (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Timo Hener (Aarhus University); Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego); Helmut Rainer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich)

  • Cosa Nostra Courts

    Henry Thompson (George Mason University)

  • Prisons and Homophobia

    Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)

  • Vigilantism, Institutions, and Honor Culture: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil

    David Skarbek (Brown University); Danilo Freire (University of Lincoln / Political Science)

A10: Antitrust and Competition Law — Room FH105

Chair: Jeffrey Macher

  • A Subject-Matter Specific Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the "Summary Judgment Trilogy"

    Jonathan Nash (Emory University School of Law); Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California Law School)

  • Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers

    Mark Tremblay (Miami University)

  • Information exchange through secret vertical contracts

    Nicolás Riquelme (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Jihwan Do (Wuhan University)

  • The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence From Litigated Merger Trials

    Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown (McDonough)); John Mayo (Georgetown (McDonough))

12:30 pm - 1:30 Lunch + members meeting

Room J250

1:30 pm - 3:00 Parallel B

B1: Emerging Markets and Developing Economies — Room J250

Chair: Stefan Dimitriadis

  • Property Rights Security in a Self-Sustaining Equilibrium of Institutions

    Fali Huang (Singapore Management University)

  • Testing the convergence of legal standards in antitrust investigations in BRICS

    Svetlana Golovanova (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Svetlana Avdasheva (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Won’t you be my neighbor? Geography, peer learning, and entrepreneur performance in Togo

    Stefan Dimitriadis (University of Toronto); Rem Koning (Harvard University)

B2: Measurement — Room P120

Chair: David Francis

  • Measuring The Impact of Transaction Costs on Profitability of Farmers: Empirical Evidence from India

    Dr. Kedar Vishnu (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Ruchika Rai (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Dr. Parmod Kumar (Giri Institute of Development Studies)

  • Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies

    David Francis (World Bank); Robert Kubinec (NYU Abu Dhabi)

B3: Platforms I — Room J140

Chair: Leshui He

  • Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage

    Talia Gillis (Columbia University); Jens Frankenreiter (Wash U); Dan Svirsky (Uber)

  • The dependence of search result quality on user-generated data: evidence from an experiment

    Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University); Tobias Klein (Tilburg University); Madina Kurmangaliyeva (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

  • Does Amazon Exercise its Market Power? Evidence from Toys R Us

    Leshui He (Bates College); Imke Reimers (Northeastern University); Benjamin Shiller (Brandeis University)

B4: Corporate Culture — Room FL228

Chair: Camille Hebert

  • Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence

    Kai Li (University of British Columbia); Rui Shen (CUHK); Rachel Peng (Univ. of Dayton); Gabriel Wong (Cardiff University)

  • Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm

    Alexander Zentefis (Yale University); Gary Gorton (Yale University)

  • Communicating Culture Consistently: Evidence from Banks

    Jillian Grennan (Duke University)

B5: Corporate Political Power — Room FH103

Chair: Bo Cowgill

  • The Challenge of Holding Big Business Accountable

    Roy Shapira (Reichman (IDC))

  • Corporate Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban

    Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal); Julia Cagé (SciencesPo and CEPR); Elisa Mougin (SciencesPo and LIEPP)

  • Political Power and Market Power

    Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Andrea Prat (Columbia University); Tomasso Valletti (Imperial College Business School)

B6: Democratic Governance in Polities and Organizations — Room J225

Chair: Scott Masten

  • Citizen Corp.

    Saura Masconale (University of Arizona); Simone M. Sepe (University of Arizona)

  • On the evolution of polarized views and beliefs: Nonprofit sector and civil society origins

    Avner Ben-Ner (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

  • Engineering Wealth-Enhancing Democracy in Ancient Greece: Gains from Exchange versus Alignment on Public Policy

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

B7: Land, Coercion, and Indigeneity — Room J230

Chair: Doug Allen

  • Rationale for Paternalism: "Semifeudalistic'' Tenancy Contracts in Imperial Japan

    Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo)

  • Gender, Indigeneity, and Social Class: Criminal Sentencing at the Turn of the 20th Century in British Columbia

    Blair Long (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Ian Keay (Queen's University); Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)

  • Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession Through Strategic Occupation

    Doug Allen (Simon Fraser University); Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University)

B8: Authoritarianism — Room FL219

Chair: Scott Gehlbach

  • The Bureaucratic Politics of Authoritarian Repression: Intra-Agency Reform and Surveillance Capacity in Communist Poland

    Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)

  • The Legacy of Authoritarianism in a Democracy

    Pramod Kumar Sur (Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) and Osaka University)

  • Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma?

    Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago)

B9: Innovative Markets and Contracts — Room FL223

Chair: Evagelos Pafilis

  • Organizing for Cooperation: Fostering Relational Contracts to Support Interunit Knowledge Sharing

    Nadav Levy (Reichman University, Israel)

  • Smart contracts vs incomplete contracts: A transaction cost economics viewpoint

    Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento & Università della Svizzera italiana)

  • How to Manage Public Artworks? A Market Alternative to Deaccessioning

    Claudia Amadei (University of Padova and CRIEP); Luciano Greco (University of Padova and CRIEP); Marina Bertolini (University of Padova and CRIEP)

3:00 pm - 3:15 Break
3:15 pm - 4:45 Parallel C

C1: Climate Change — Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

  • Bargaining Power in Multilateral Relational Contracts: a Setting Particularly Amenable to the Analysis of Contractual Equilibrium

    Joel Watson (UC San Diego)

  • Pledge-and-review bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris

    Bard Harstad (U of Oslo)

  • Climate Change and Incentives to Cooperate

    Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)

C2: Workers and Firms II — Room P120

Chair: Nick Zubanov

  • License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs

    Daniel Keum (Columbia University); Stephan Meier (Columbia University)

  • Shocks and the organization of the firm: who pays the bill?

    Alessandro Sforza (University of Bologna); Edoardo Acabbi (Carlos III)

  • Mystery Shopping as an Incentive Device for Service Uniformity

    Sidney Block (University of Cologne); Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

C3: Algorithms — Room J140

Chair: Arna Woemmel

  • Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms

    Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD); Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University); Andrew Hillis (Fractal); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University); Michael Luca (Harvard Business School)

  • Machine Learning and Deterrence

    Henrik Sigstad (University of Oslo); Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse School of Economics)

  • Public Perception on Authority, Transparency, and Bias of AI in Courts: A Vignette Experiment with Chat Intervention

    Huyen Nguyen (University of Hamburg); Arna Woemmel (University of Hamburg); Hendrik Huening (University of Hamburg); Lydia Mechtenberg (University of Hamburg)

C4: Leadership and Management — Room FL228

Chair: Kathryn Shaw

  • Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT

    Silvia Castro (University of Munich (LMU)); Florian Englmaier (University of Munich (LMU)); Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

  • Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia

    Maria Carreri (UCSD); Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)

  • Managing with Purpose

    Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University); Ann Bartel (Columbia University); James Jedras (Stanford University)

C5: Kinship & Family — Room FH103

Chair: Ardina Hasanbasri

  • Of Families and Inheritance: Law and Development in Pre-Industrial England

    Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

  • Kin in the Game: How Family Ties Help Firms Overcome Campaign Finance Regulation

    Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Juan Dodyk (Harvard University); Ignacio Puente (Independent Researcher)

  • Multidimensionality of Land Ownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Ardina Hasanbasri (University of Michigan); Talip Kilic (World Bank); Gayatri Koolwal (World Bank); Heather Moylan (World Bank)

C6: History of Transaction Cost Economics Thought — Room J225

Chair: Pavel Pelikan

  • ATMOSPHERE, PRIVATE ORDERING AND INDUSTRIAL PLURALISM: WILLIAMSON’S EVOLVING SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION

    Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University)

  • THE LEGACY OF CHESTER I. BARNARD IN THE SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION OF OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON

    Naciba Haned (ESSCA School of Management); Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University); Bernard Baudry (University of Lyon)

  • How to bring D.C. North, O.E. Williamson, and D. Acemoglu et al. together, and start unifying Institutional Economics

    Pavel Pelikan (Prague University of Economics and Business)

C7: CANCELLED SESSION : Training Policymakers in Soft and Hard Skills

  • Training Policymakers in Econometrics

    Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)

  • Training Effective Altruism

    Shaheen Naseer (Lahore School of Economics)

  • Transmitting Rights

    Daniel Chen (Tolouse School of Economics); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School); Shaheen Naseer Naseer (Lahore School of Economics)

C8: Nation Building — Room FL219

Chair: Haikun Zhan

  • Labour Market Segmentation and Surplus Extraction: The Indian Case

    SATYAKI DASGUPTA (PhD Student at Colorado State University)

  • Nation-State Building

    Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University, Professor of economics); Esmaeil Izadi (Simon Fraser University, PhD candidate)

  • Central Administration and the Rise of Local Institutions: Evidence from Imperial China

    Haikun Zhan (the University of Melbourne)

C9: Trade — Room FL223

Chair: Ryu Matsuura

  • Protectionism, Global Supply Chains, and Domestic Lobbying: Evidence from the U.S.–China Trade War

    Bo Yang (University of Southern California)

  • The Asymmetric Effects of Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Economic Agreements on Cross-Border Trade and Investment

    Der-Ting Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Market Integration and Cost of Borders in Africa

    Ryu Matsuura (Northwestern University); Robin Burgess (London School of Economics); Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University); Gerard Padro i Miquel (Yale University)

C10: Organizational Strategy — Room FH105

Chair: Elina Hoffmann

  • Social Comparison and the Value of Performance Trajectory Information: A Field Experiment in the Workplace

    Hugh Xiaolong Wu (Washington University in St. Louis); Yucheng Liang (Carnegie Mellon University); Shannon X. Liu (University of Toronto)

  • Quality of Mandatory Data Reporting by US Nursing Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of For-Profit Ownership

    Elina Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University); Valerie Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University); Erica Fuchs (Carnegie Mellon University)

5:00 pm - 6:15 Keynote #2

(in-person) Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University): “The Turing Trap: The Promise and the Peril of Human-like Artificial Intelligence”

Room J250

6:15 pm - 7:30 Reception
Location: Atrium

Saturday, June 25

8:45 am - 10:15 Plenary #2

AI and Institutions and Organizations Room: J250

Chair: Gillian Hadfield

  • (in-person) Gillian K. Hadfield, “Judging Facts, Judging Norms: Training Machine Learning Models to Judge Humans Requires a New Approach to Labeling Data”
  • (in-person) Joel Leibo, “Deep reinforcement learning models the emergent dynamics of human cooperation”
  • (in-person) Marzyeh Ghassemi, “Just following AI orders: When unbiased people are influenced by biased AI”
10:15 am - 10:30 Break
10:30 am - 12:30 Parallel D

D1: Discussion panel: Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy — Room J250

Chair: Catherine Magelssen, Minyuan Zhao

D2: Corporate Networks — Room P120

Chair: Andy Back

  • Economics of Lenten Power Dinner: Social Spending by Trading Companies in Imperial Japan

    Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo); Hisayuki Oshima (Takachiho University)

  • A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

    Florian Ederer (Yale University); Bruno Pellegrino (University of Maryland)

  • Coordinated location decisions in business groups and the boundary of the firm

    Marta Bisztray (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), Hungary); Gábor Békés (Central European University, KRTK); Péter Harasztosi (European Investment Bank)

  • Strategic Broadcasting of Strategic Alliances: Which firm(s) would broadcast their alliance formation?

    Andy Back (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Navid Asgari (Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business)

D3: Changing Organizational Culture — Room J140

Chair: Roberto Weber

  • Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

    Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School); Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University); Ada González-Torres (Ben Gurion University); Rachel Heath (University of Washington)

  • Measuring Working From Home Adoption: Evidence from half-a-billion online job ads

    Raffaella Sadun (Harvard); Nick Bloom (Stanford); Steven Davies (Chicago); Stephen Hansen (Imperial); Peter Lambert (LSE); Bledi Taska (Burning Glass)

  • Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work

    Roberto Weber (University of Zurich); Florian Schneider (University of Zurich); Fanny Brun (University of Zurich)

D4: Corruption — Room FL228

Chair: Tom Eeckhout

  • Corruption as an informal fiscal system

    Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia); Clement Minaudier (University of Vienna)

  • Inclusive Experimentalism in Transnational Law Reform: Lessons from Operation Car Wash

    Mariana Mota Prado (University of Toronto); Kevin Davis (New York University, USA); Raquel Pimenta (FGV, Brazil); Marta Machado (FGV, Brasil)

  • SOCIAL CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL OBSERVATORIES MONITORING ON BRAZILIAN MUNICIPAL OUTLAYS

    Sergio Krakowiak (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo); Renato Seixas (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo)

  • STATISTICAL FOOTPRINTS OF CORRUPTION: “VANITY FAIR” OF AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES IN RUSSIA

    Tom Eeckhout (Ghent University); Timur Natkhov (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Leonid Polishchuk (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Kevin Hoefman (Ghent University)

D5: Collaboration and Contracting — Room FH103

Chair: Simone Sepe

  • Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Multinational Firm

    Cagatay Bircan (EBRD & UCL); Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford, EBRD, & CEPR); Stefan Pauly (Sciences Po)

  • Collaboration and Cultural Homophily in Global Teams

    Gábor Békés (Central European University); Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

  • Measuring Transaction Costs in China’s Rural Land Rental Market: Ex-Ante Bargaining associated with Ex-Post Contract Violation Uncertainty and Location Specificity

    Ziyan Yang (Xiamen University)

  • Interim Contract Interpretation

    Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School); Simone Sepe (University of Arizona; Toulouse School of Economics); Samuel Bray (Notre Dame Law School)

D6: Chinese Political Economy — Room J225

Chair: Qing Chang

  • The Innovation Cost of Short Political Horizons: Evidence from Local Leaders’ Promotion in China

    Xueping Sun (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

  • Anti-Corruption Campaign and Inter-Generational Transmission of Bureaucracy: Evidence from China

    Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)/Economics); Erqi GE (Sun Yat-sen University)

  • Social Embeddedness, Power Balance, and Rural Governance in China

    Meina Cai (University of Connecticut); Xiaolu Zhao (Fudan University); Qi Zhang (Fudan University)

  • Career Incentives, Inter-jurisdiction Competition, and Economic Development Incentives: Empirical Evidence from Land Prices in China

    Qing Chang (University of Pittsburgh)

D7: Incentives in Organizations — Room J230

Chair: Saskia Opitz

  • Over-workers and Drop-Outs in Competitions : Contests with Expectation-Based Loss-Averse Agents

    Ayse Mermer (University of Amsterdam)

  • The impact of formal incentives on teams: Micro-evidence from retail

    Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Antoine Feylessoufi (University College London); Marcos Singer (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

  • Endogenous Organizational Restructuring: Status, Productivity & Meritocratic Dynamics

    Ashutosh Thakur (National University of Singapore); Jonathan Bendor (Stanford GSB)

  • The Targeted Assignment of Incentive Schemes

    Saskia Opitz (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); Tom Zimmermann (University of Cologne)

D8: Institutions and the Environment — Room FL219

Chair: Gemma DiPoppa

  • Measuring the Impact of Independent Regulatory Agencies on the Decarbonization of the EU Energy Mix

    Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL); Diego Cebreros (University Paris Saclay | CentraleSupelec); Carlos Gonzalez (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL)

  • SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL: GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD GAME

    Vincy Fon (The George Washington University)

  • ECONOMIC INTERESTS, PARTISAN POLITICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLARIZATION

    Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University); Julio Ramos (Penn State University)

  • Fires: Political economy and Health Impacts of Crop Stubble Burning in South Asia

    Gemma Dipoppa (Stanford); Saad Gulzar (Stanford); Fatiq Nadeem (UC Santa Barbara)

D9: Politics and Media — Room FL223

Chair: Jens Prufer

  • Communicating Risk across the Political Divide

    Cherie Metcalf (Queen's University, Kingston); Jonathan Nash (Emory Law)

  • The Credibility Effect of Defamation Law

    Yonathan Arbel (Alabama)

  • Televised Debates and Emotionality in Politics: Evidence from C-SPAN

    Gloria Gennaro (ETH); Elliott Ash (ETH)

  • Social Media and Democracy: Experimental Results

    Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University); Freek van Gils (Tilburg University); Wieland Müller (University of Vienna)

D10: Communication and Collaboration — Room FH105

Chair: Suraj Prasad

  • Gravity in Online Collaborations

    Thomas Fackler (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Michael Hofmann (LMU Munich); Nadzeya Laurentsyeva (LMU Munich)

  • The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

    Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown Univerity); Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard Business School); Tommy Fang (Harvard Business School)

  • Communication Effort and the Cost of Language: Evidence from Stack Overflow

    Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

  • Instructions and Incentives in Organizations

    Suraj Prasad (University of Sydney); Kieron Meagher (Australian National University); Andrew Wait (University of Sydney)

12:30 pm - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 Parallel E

E1: Lobbying — Room J250

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

  • Legislative Informational Lobbying

    Arnaud Dellis (University of Quebec in Montreal)

  • Caring but sharing unintentionally: Lobbying for innovations and the leakage of knowledge

    Michael Park (University of Minnesota)

  • Sleeping with the Enemy: How Politicians and Interest Groups Adapt their Collaborations in the Face of Reputational Threats

    Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi); Akhil Ilango (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Zanarone (University Washington St. Louis)

E2: Strategy and Institutional Context — Room P120

Chair: Kartik Rao

  • Emergence of Islamic Finance Organizations, 1948 – 2016

    Abdullah Shahid (Cornell University)

  • Dreaming of Institutions: The transformation of Children’s After-Sсhool Time Sector in Post-Soviet Countries

    Ivan Ivanov (HSE University)

  • NEGOTIATING AGREEMENTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS IN THE SHADOW OF REGULATION

    Kartik Rao (Ivey Business School, Western University); Adam Fremeth (Ivey Business School, Western University); Guy Holburn (gholburn@ivey.ca)

E3: Conflict II — Room J140

Chair: Nils-Petter Lagerlöf

  • Hobbesian War and Separation of Powers

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

  • Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

    Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University); Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)

  • Cities, Conflict, and Corridors

    Nils-Petter Lagerlöf (York University); Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka University)

E4: Networks — Room FL228

Chair: Raja Kali

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

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

  • Network hiring, firm performance, and growth

    Ines Black (Duke University); Sharique Hasan (Duke University)

  • Social Networks and Professional Success: Evidence from Foreign Newcomers on the PGA Tour

    Raja Kali (University of Arkansas); David Pastoriza (HEC Montreal); Jean-François Plante (HEC Montreal); Ekaterina Turkina (HEC Montreal)

E5: Platforms II — Room FH103

Chair: Catherine Thomas

  • Platform governance and complementors’ performance: Evidence from the crowdfunding market

    Jordana Viotto da Cruz (University of Edinburgh Business School)

  • Holding Platforms Liable

    Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law School); Xinyu Hua (HKUST)

  • Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

    Christopher Stanton (HBS); Catherine Thomas (LSE)

E6: Employment and Firm Boundaries and Hierarchies — Room J225

Chair: Ashwin Kambhampati

  • The Flattening Level of Organizations: A formal definition and its variability across firms

    Marco Antonio Barrenechea Mendez (Public University of Navarre); Pedro Ortin-Angel (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Alberto Bayo-Moriones (Public University of Navarre)

  • Employment as a Relational Obligation to Work

    Michael Raith (University of Rochester)

  • A Theory of Firm Boundaries with Long-Run Incentives and At-Will Employment

    Gorkem Bostanci (University of British Columbia); Ashwin Kambhampati (US Naval Academy)

E7: Strategy and Uncertainty — Room J230

Chair: Nona Karalashvili

  • Why are Firms Different?

    BIRGER WERNERFELT (MIT)

  • Transactional Governance Structures: New Cross-Country Data and an Application to the Effect of Uncertainty

    Nona Karalashvili (The World Bank); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland); David Francis (The World Bank)

E8: Discrimination in Organizations — Room FL219

Chair: Matthias Fahn

  • Profitable Inequality

    Anja Prummer (JKU/QMUL); Francesco Nava (LSE)

  • Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?

    Arjada Bardhi (Duke University); Yingni Guo (Northwestern University); Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

  • Informal Incentives on Labor Markets – How Norms Shape Wages, Productivity, and Employment

    Matthias Fahn (JKU Linz); Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)

E9: Democratic (In)Stability — Room FL223

Chair: Vincent Rollet

  • Populism and Minimalist Democracy

    Elliot Foote (Monash University); Weijia Li (Monash University)

  • Measuring Long Run Constitutional Textual Entrenchment and Its Effects

    Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

  • Electoral Turnovers

    Vincent Pons (Harvard University); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po); Vincent Rollet (MIT)

E10: Innovation and Change in History — Room FH105

Chair: Alberto Galasso

  • Inclusive Institutions and Economic Development: How Local Institutions Shaped the Geography of the Industrial Revolution

    Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Federico Curci (CUNEF)

  • Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice

    Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto); Stefano Comino (University of Udine); Clara Graziano (University of Udine)

3:00 pm - 3:15 Break
3:15 pm - 5:15 Parallel F

F1: Public procurement — Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

  • Decentralized procurement for drugs and centralized price cap: a structural approach

    Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Philippe Gagnepain (Paris School of Economics); David Martimort (Paris School of Economics); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

  • Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

    Andres Gonzalez-Lira (Yale); Rodrigo Carril (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Michael S. Walker (Dept of Defense)

  • The Bright Side of Discretion in Public Procurement

    Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore)

  • Rigidity and initiative of renegotiation in public contracts : an empirical study

    Vincent Jardine (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

F2: Land Security and Titling — Room P120

Chair: Huiqian Song

  • Mutual Insurance and Land Security in Rural Ghana

    Karol Mazur (University of Oxford); Georgios Manalis (European University Institute)

  • Land titling and Industrial Development: the case of the Stolypin reform

    Igor Kolesnikov (Higher School of Economics); Vladimir Novikov (Higher School of Economics)

  • Does Improved Tenure Security Reduce Fires? Evidence from the Greece Land Registry

    Huiqian Song (Simon Fraser University); Liang Diao (Simon Fraser University )

F3: Migration and Morality — Room J140

Chair: Tore Ellingsen

  • Historical Legacies and the Impact of Emigration on Electoral Outcomes

    Dragos Radu (King's College London); Bogdan Voicu (Romanian Academy of Sciences)

  • The Cultural Assimilation of Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution

    Olle Hammar (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

  • Learning from the Origins: Immigrants’ Networks, Political Preferences, and the European Refugee Crisis

    Alexander Yarkin (Brown University)

  • A Model of Social Duties

    Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Erik Mohlin (Lund University)

F4: Corporate Governance — Room FL228

Chair: Victor Saint-Jean

  • Cracks in the Boards: the Opportunity Cost of Governance Homogeneity

    Helene Maghin (KU Leuven)

  • Easing Restrictions to Corporate Influence: Regulatory Capture and the Electric Utility Industry

    Mark Van Orden (University of California, Irvine)

  • Corporate Governance, Favoritism and Careers

    Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF); Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)

  • The Voice: the Shareholders' Motives Behind Corporate Donations During COVID-19

    Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po); Victor Saint-Jean (Sciences Po); Simon Smith (Federal Reserve Board)

F5: The Role of Gender in Organizations — Room FH103

Chair: Jakob Alfitian

  • Gender and Choice over Co-workers: Experimental Evidence

    Clement Minaudier (University of Vienna); Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Brais Alvarez Pereira (Nova School of Business and Economics); Shamyla Chaudry (Lahore School of Economics)

  • Women in Economics: Europe and the World

    Guido Friebel (Goethe Universität); Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE); Alisa Weinberger (Goethe University); Sascha Wilhelm (Goethe University)

  • Gendered Instructions and Economic Behavior

    Paul M. Gorny (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Karoline Ströhlein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT)

  • Closing the Gender Pay Gap within Firms: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity

    Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne); Marvin Deversi (BARMER); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)

F6: Innovation II — Room J225

Chair: Michael Blomfield

  • Intellectual Property Rights and New Technology Development: How the Replacement Effect and Capabilities Influence Firm Investment Following a Reduction In IPR

    Martin Hetu (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto); Denisa Mindruta (HEC Paris); William Mitchell (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

  • B2B Projects, Task Configuration, and Innovation

    Elham Ghazimatin (The University of Stavanger); Erik A. Mooi (The University of Melbourne); Jan B. Heide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • CONTRACT REMEDIES FOR NEW ECONOMY COLLABORATIONS

    Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School); Simone Sepe (University of Arizona)

  • Scientific Human Capital And Institutional Incentives: The Roles of Topic Knowledge and Research Skills

    Michael Blomfield (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

F7: Management and Performance — Room J230

Chair: Michael Waldman

  • Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

    Augustin Bergeron (Stanford University); Pedro Bessone (Uber); John Kabeya Kabeya (DRC tax ministry); Gabriel Tourek (University of Pittsburgh); Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)

  • Agile management and productivity: Empirical evidence from a large Chinese enterprise

    Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Yi Han (Renmin University of China); Yiming Liu (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & WZB)

  • Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

    Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg); Niklas Wallmeier (University of Hamburg)

  • Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency

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

F8: Democracy and the Bureaucracy — Room FL219

Chair: Michele Valsecchi

  • Private Returns to Bureaucratic Appointments: Evidence from Financial Disclosures

    Song Yuan (University of Warwick); Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)

  • Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability

    Tara Slough (New York University)

  • Empty Reasons?

    Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School)

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

    Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School)

F9: Social Preferences in Organizations — Room FL223

Chair: Matthias Fahn

  • Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

    Michael Haylock (University of Tübingen); Patrick Kampkötter (University of Tübingen); Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, CESifo, IZA, and ZEF); Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University Frankfurt and CESifo)

  • Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations

    Razvan Vlaicu (Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank); Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Sergio Perilla (Universidad del Rosario)

  • Social Conformity at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Anik Ashraf (LMU Munich)

  • Incentives and Peer Effects in the Workplace: On the Impact of Inferiority Aversion on Organizational Design

    Jenny Kragl (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School); Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa); Peymaneh Safaynikoo (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School)

F10: Teams — Room FH105

Chair: Maria Titova

  • Implicit Incentives and Delegation in Teams

    Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

  • (Mis-)Perceptions of the Importance of Team Composition and Team Governance in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks

    Dominik Grothe (LMU Munich); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); David Schindler (Tilburg University); Simeon Schudy (LMU Munich)

  • Preferences and Productivity in Job Matching: Theory and Empirics from Internal Labor Markets

    Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Jonathan Davis (University of Oregon); Pablo Montagnes (Emory University); Patryk Perkowski (Columbia University)

  • Collaborative Search for a Public Good

    Mariia Titova (Vanderbilt University)

5:30 pm - 6:30 Keynote #3: Presidential address

(in-person) Robert Gibbons (MIT): “Visible Hands Building Equilibrium: Naming (and Framing?)”

Room J250

6:30 pm - close Gala Dinner/Awards
Location: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park
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