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SIOE 2023

Frankfurt, Germany · 24 August 2023 – 26 August 2023 — Full Programme

Underlined = presenting author

Thursday, August 24

1:30 pm Registration opens
Foyer, ground floor of HZ Building (#13 on map)
5:00 pm Welcome
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm Keynote #1

Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University): “Self-Governance in Pastoral Kenya: Examining Norms and Meta-norms that Support Decentralized Social Order among Turkana Herders”

Room HZ2

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Reception
Foyer, ground floor of HZ Building (#13 on map)
8:00 pm Adjourn

Friday, August 25

8:45 am - 10:15 am Parallel A

A1: Teams — Room HZ11

Chair: Ruo Shangguan

  • Closing the Psychological Distance: The Effect of Social Interactions on Team Performance

    Keisuke Hattori (Aoyama Gakuin University); Mai Yamada (Meikai University)

  • Profit Sharing, Interconnected Autonomous Teams, and Employee Productivity

    Marco Barrenechea-Mendez (Universidad Publica de Navarra); Avner Ben-Ner (University of Minnesota); Sara Martinez-de-Morentin (Universidad Publica de Navarra)

  • Productivity and Labor Allocation Within Teams of Knowledge Workers

    Ruo Shangguan (Jinan University); Jed DeVaro (California State University, East Bay); Hideo Owan (Waseda University)

A2: Autocracy: China and Russia — Room HZ12

Chair: Günther Schulze

  • Party Membership as a Signal in China's Labor Market

    Hongbin Li (Stanford University); Lin Lin (Renmin University); Junjian Yi (Peking University); Congyi Zhou (Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University)

  • Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

    Amy Dayton (Independent); Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College); Steven Nafziger (Williams College)

  • Political Cycles of Media Repression

    Günther Schulze (University of Freiburg); Nikita Zakharov (University of Freiburg)

A3: International Politics — Room HZ14

Chair: Vera Shikhelman

  • The Global Compliance Dilemma

    Ji Li (University of California Irvine)

  • Fighting Together - Coordination Frictions between NATO Allies in Afghanistan

    Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick); Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics); Austin Wright (University of Chicago)

  • Voting Patterns and Diversity of Backgrounds in the United Nations Human Rights Committee

    Vera Shikhelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

A4: Gender and Discrimination — Room HZ7

Chair: Talia Gillis

  • Confucianism and The Persistence of Son Preference

    Chak Sang Chan (Stockholm School of Economics)

  • Strategic Discrimination in Embedded Contexts and the Emergence of Systematic Exclusion

    Paulo Arvate (FGV); Lisa Lenz (University of Cologne); Sergio Mittlaender (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy)

  • Sex and Startups

    Jens Frankenreiter (Wash U, St Louis); Talia Gillis (Columbia University); Eric Talley (Columbia University)

A5: Innovation — Room HZ15

Chair: Zhangfen Jin

  • Innovation and Organizational Resilience: Evidence from Publicly Traded Companies in the United States

    Gayane Shakhmuradyan (University of Padua)

  • Antisocial Innovation

    Christopher Buccafusco (Duke University School of Law); Samuel Weinstein (Cardozo Law School)

  • Can Technology Transfers Save Innovation? Evidence from China

    Zhangfeng Jin (Zhejiang University)

A6: Regulation of Platforms — Room HZ8

Chair: Kathryn Spier

  • Information Stewards and Normative Persuasion in Online Social Systems

    Atrisha Sarkar (University of Toronto); Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto)

  • Regulation of Digital Platforms and the State’s Use of Platform Technologies in China

    Jens Prüfer (University of East Anglia and Tilburg University); Inge Graef (Tilburg University); Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics)

  • Platform Safety: Strict Liability versus Negligence

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

A7: Organizational Design — Room HZ9

Chair: Andres Espitia

  • Adaptive Diarchy: Authority between Two Heads

    Zanhui Liu (Tsinghua University); Yucheng Qiu (Peking University)

  • Authority and Specialization under Informational Interdependence

    Daniel Habermacher (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)

  • Confidence and Organizations

    Andres Espitia (Universirty of Bonn)

A8: States as Organizations: The Sub-national Dimension — Room HZ10

Chair: Thushyanthan Baskaran

  • When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Self-Government

    Daniel Gingerich (University of Virginia); Jan Vogler (University of Konstanz)

  • The Local Curse: Spillover Effects of Mayoral Victories in Competitive Autocracies

    Carlos Di Bonifacio (Collegio Carlo Alberto); Guido Merzoni (Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore); Federico Trombetta (Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

  • Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Development in Africa

    Thushyanthan Baskaran (Ruhr University Bochum); Sebastian Blesse (Ifo Institute)

10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm Parallel B

B1: Power, Peers, and Social Comparison in Organizations — Room HZ11

Chair: Michael Kosfeld

  • Leveraging Social Comparisons: The Role of Peer Assignment Policies

    Julien Senn (University of Zurich); Jan Schmitz (Radboud University Nijmegen); Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne)

  • Perceived Legitimacy and Motivation Effects of Power

    Holger Herz (University of Fribourg); Christian Zihlmann (University of Fribourg)

  • Peer Evaluation and Team Performance: An Experiment on Complex Problem Solving

    John Morgan (UC Berkeley); Susanne Neckermann (University of Chicago); Henrik Orzen (University of Mannheim); Dana Sisak (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

B2: The Long Run: Law, Institution, Politics — Room HZ9

Chair: Adriane Fresh

  • Legal Origins Matter – But not All Origins Are European

    Robbert Maseland (Radboud University Nijmegen); Valentin Seidler (Central European University)

  • The Early Modern Origins of Political Contestation

    Adriane Fresh (Duke University)

  • Long-Run Effects of Religious Institutions on Development

    Taha Rauf (University of Michigan)

B3: Politics and Communities — Room HZ7

Chair: Daniel Barron

  • Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting

    Peter Buisseret (Harvard University); Carlo Prato (Columbia)

  • Searching for Collaboration: The Dynamics of Relationship Building

    Charles Angelucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Roi Orzach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Power Cascades

    Daniel Barron (Northwestern University); Yingni Guo (Northwestern University); Enrique Ide (IESE)

B4: Corporate Finance — Room HZ12

Chair: Tore Ellingsen

  • Public versus Private Cost of Capital with State-Contingent Terminal Value

    Luciano Greco (University of Padova); Marian Moszoro (George Mason University & IMF)

  • Restructuring vs. Bankruptcy

    Jason Donaldson (Univ. Southern California/Wash. U. St. Louis); Edward Morrison (Columbia Law School); Giorgia Piacentino (Univ. Southern California/Columbia University); Xiaobo Yu (Columbia University)

  • Why Trade Credit?

    Niklas Amberg (Sveriges Riksbank); Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Tor Jacobson (Sveriges Riksbank); Erik von Schedvin (Swedish Debt Office)

B5: Industry Dynamics — Room HZ8

Chair: Anja Shortland

  • How Hollywood Survived: Sunk Costs, Market Size and Market Structure, 1948-2018

    Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • The Availability of Injunctions in Standard-Essential Patent Licensing

    Benno Buehler (bbuehler@crai.com); Dominik Fischer (dfischer@crai.com); Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Mannheim)

  • How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime

    Tom Baker (UPenn); Anja Shortland (King's College, London)

B6: Experimental Economics: Honesty, Trust, Information — Room HZ14

Chair: Lea Heursen

  • (Dis)Honesty of Groups: The Effects of Group Size and Gender Composition

    Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg); Timo Promann (University of Hamburg); Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg); Niklas Wallmeier (University of Hamburg)

  • Honesty and Trust in Virtual Communication

    Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Sven Walther (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

  • Advice-Seeking at Work: Reputation Concerns and Stereotypes

    Lea Heursen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich); Svenja Friess (LMU Munich, Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation ); Marina Chugunova (Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation )

B7: Legal and Economic Property Rights in the Information Age — Room HZ15

Chair: Henry Smith

  • Blockchain and Property Transactions: A Comparative Analysis

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University); Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Laussane)

  • Entitlements and Intangible Assets

    Stefanos Mouzas (Lancaster University Management School)

  • Entitlements to Things in a Complex World

    Henry Smith (Harvard Law School)

B8: Institutions and Complexity — Room HZ10

Chair: Eric Alston

  • Coevolution of Everything, Everywhere, all at Once: Institutions, Culture, and the Great Enrichment.

    Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

  • Institutional Dynamics in an Economy Seen as a Complex Adaptive System

    Miguel Vazquez (Sutainability Lab / SDA Bocconi University); Gustavo Andreao (IE/Unicamp); Jose Maria Silveira (IE/Unicamp)

  • Economic and Political Institutional Emergence

    Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel C

C1: Organization: Firm Studies — Room HZ7

Chair: Hideo Owan

  • Supervisor Monitoring and Human Capital Investment: A Field Experiment

    Leonhard Grabe (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)

  • Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Monitoring Practices

    Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto); Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich); Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

  • The Management of Knowledge Work

    Wouter Dessein (Columbia University); Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University); Ruo Shangguan (Jinan University); Hideo Owan (Waseda University)

C2: History: 20th Century — Room HZ12

Chair: Scott Gelbach

  • From Connections to Persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France

    Toke Aidt (University of Cambridge); Jean Lacroix (Universit´e Paris-Saclay, RITM); Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), CEBRIG and Dulbéa)

  • Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution

    Paul Castañeda Dower (University of Wisconsin); Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Dmitrii Kofanov (University of Barcelona); Steven Nafziger (Williams College)

C3: Information and Democracy — Room HZ14

Chair: Jaroslaw Kantorowicz

  • Can Policies Increase Voter Turnout?

    Jaroslaw Kantorowicz (Leiden University)

  • Open-Source Information and Repression

    Manuel Oechslin (University of Lucerne)

  • [CANCELLED] Censorship in Hybrid Authoritarian Regimes: The Role of Voter Mobilization

    Emre Ekinci (Koç University); Esra Issever-Ekinci (Koç University)

C4: SIOE & Management (I): Governance — Room HZ8

Chair: Brian Silverman

  • [CANCELLED] Acquisitions to Overcome Entitlement Constraints: Evidence from Franchise Systems

    Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis); Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado-Boulder); Hugo Leenders (University of Colorado-Boulder)

  • How do Internal and External Contracts Differ? Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

    Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Kyle Mayer (University of Southern California); Beverly Rich (University of Utah)

  • Corporate Innovation and the Organizational Structure of Development

    Jiho Yang (Imperial College); Paola Criscuolo (Imperial College); Brian Silverman (University of Toronto)

C5: Voting — Room HZ9

Chair: Marius Liebald

  • Migration shocks, Elections, and Political Selection

    Zohal Hessami (Ruhr-University Bochum); Sebastian Schirner (Ruhr-University Bochum)

  • The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy

    Ruben Enikolopov (UPF, ICREA); Michael Rochlitz (University of Bremen); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Nikita Zakharov (University of Freiburg)

  • Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany

    Marius Liebald (Goethe University Frankfurt); Navid Sabet (Goethe University Frankfurt); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

C6: Regulation — Room HZ11

Chair: Eric Brousseau

  • Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies

    Jacopo Gambato (University of Mannheim and ZEW Mannheim); Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Mannheim and ZEW Mannheim); Julia Krämer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • The End of Londongrad? The Impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency on Offshore Investment in UK Property

    Matt Collin (EU Tax Observatory); Florian Hollenbach (Copenhagen Business School); David Szakonyi (George Washington University)

  • Regulatory Governance and Decarbonization of the Energy Mix: the Impact of the Independence European National Regulatory Agencies in the 2010s

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

C7: Improving State Capacity and Growth — Room HZ15

Chair: Philip Keefer

  • Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan

    Joshua E. Blumenstock (U.C. Berkeley); Michael Callen (London School of Economics); Anastasiia Faikina (Convoy Inc.); Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi); Tarek Ghani (WUSTL)

  • Improving Local Government Performance by Giving Civil Society a Stake

    Malte Lierl (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)); Marcus Holmlund (World Bank)

  • The Impact of Social Ties and Third-Party Enforcement on Collective Action and Growth: Micro Evidence from Peru

    Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank)

C8: Incentives, Contracts, Norms — Room HZ10

Chair: Karen Bernhardt-Walther

  • A Theory of Regulatory Fine Print

    Juan Jose Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Pablo Ruiz-Verdu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Normative Conflict and Normative Change

    Graham Noblit (University of Toronto); Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto)

  • Incentives and the Nature of Uncertainty

    Karen Bernhardt-Walther (York University)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel D

D1: Compensation — Room HZ7

Chair: Ricard Gil

  • Optimal Incentives for Corporate Innovation

    Marco Celentani (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid); Rosa Loveira (Universidade de Vigo); Pablo Ruiz-Verdu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Standard Wages, Incentive Contracts, and Employment: The Role of Envy Among Unequals

    Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa); Jenny Kragl (EBS University)

  • Gender Pay Differences in Senior Management of Charities

    Eliane Barker (Hamilton College); Ricard Gil (Queen´s University)

D2: Issues of long run development — Room HZ11

Chair: Lee Benham

  • Nation Building in the Andes. Evidence from the Chilean Invasion of Peru in the XIX Century

    Cesar Huaroto (Universidad de Piura)

  • Christian Missionaries and Foreign Trade, 1580-1936

    Zhiwu Chen (University of Hong Kong); Xinhao Li (University of Hong Kong); Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong)

  • Building Loyalty through Personal Connections: Evidence from the Spanish Empire

    Marcos Salgado (FGV Rio de Janeiro)

  • Evolution of Institutional Designs: Endogenizing the History of Allocation Procedures for the Indian Civil Services

    Ashutosh Thakur (National University of Singapore)

D3: Influence in Politics — Room HZ14

Chair: Brenda Van Coppenolle

  • Policymaking under Influence

    Benjamin Blumenthal (ETH Zürich)

  • Which Side are You On? Interest Groups and Relational Contracts

    Álvaro Delgado-Vega (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

  • Unbreakable Legacies? Redistricting, Political Capital and Political Dynasties

    Brenda Van Coppenolle (Sciences Po Paris)

D4: Corporate Governance — Room HZ15

Chair: Victor Bennett

  • Managing Risk in Corporate Groups: Limited Liability, Asset Partitioning, and Risk Compartmentalization

    Sharon Belenzon (Duke University); Honggi Lee (University of New Hampshire); Andrea Pataconni (University of East Anglia)

  • Decentralized Governance and Asset Prices

    Ian Appel (UVA Darden); Jillian Grennan (Santa Clara University & UC-Berkeley)

D5: Property Rights — Room HZ12

Chair: Gary Libecap

  • Property Rights Theory, Bundles of Rights on IoT data, and the Data Act

    Martina Eckardt (Andrassy University Budapest); Wolfgang Kerber (Philipps-University Marburg)

  • Property Rights and Social Institutions: How Informal Institutions and Chiefs Shape Land Formalization in Urban Africa

    Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Augustin Bergeron (University of Southern California); Gabriel Tourek (University of Pittsburgh); Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)

  • Coase and Demsetz: The Limits of Economic Property Rights

    Gary Libecap (UCSB/NBER)

D6: Identity and Culture — Room HZ9

Chair: Andreas Link

  • Does Regional Identity Guide Investments? Evidence from German License Plates

    Thilo R Huning (University of York); Fabian Wahl (University of Hohenheim)

  • Brazil Above Everything, God Above Everyone – The Drivers of the Populist Vote in the 2018 Brazilian Elections

    Stefanie Roost (United Nations University (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht University); Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University)

  • Beasts of Burden, Trade, and Hierarchy: The Long Shadow of Domestication

    Andreas Link (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

D7: Repeated Interactions — Room HZ8

Chair: Rafael Treibich

  • An Evolutionary Theory of the Firm

    JW Stoelhorst (University of Amsterdam)

  • Cooperation, Norms, and Gene-culture Coevolution

    Fabian Mankat (University of Kassel)

  • A Model of Repeated Collective Decisions

    Antonin Macé (Paris School of Economics); Rafael Treibich (University of Southern Denmark)

D8: Regulation and Litigation — Room HZ10

Chair: Yuping Jia

  • (Under) Investment in Cyber Skills and Data Protection Enforcement: Evidence from Activity Logs of the UK Information Commissioner's Office

    Pantelis Koutroumpis (University of Oxford); Farshad Ravasan (University of oxford); Taheya Tarannum (University of Oxford)

  • Bitter Pills to Swallow: the Enforcement Costs of Health Litigation

    Darcio Genicolo-Martins (Insper Institute of Education and Research); Paulo Furquim Azevedo (Insper Institute of Education and Research)

  • Workplace Harassment Risk, Non-disclosure Agreements, and Information Flow

    Yuping Jia (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Xiang Zheng (NHH Norwegian School of Economics); Menghan Zhu (Vrije University Amsterdam)

5:30 pm - 6:45 pm Keynote #2

Gérard Roland (UC Berkeley): “Empires, Nation States and Democracies”

Room HZ2

6:45 pm Reception
Foyer, ground floor of HZ Building
8:15 pm Adjourn

Saturday, August 26

8:45 am - 10:15 am Parallel E

E1: Climate Change, Institutions and Politics — Room HZ12

Chair: Carmine Guerriero

  • The Origins of Culture

    Giacomo Benati (University of Barcelona); Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)

  • Climate Change and State-Building in the World's Most Agricultural Countries

    Giacomo Benati (University of Barcelona); Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)

  • The Ecological Origins of Economic and Political Systems

    Stephen Haber (Stanford University); Roy Elis (Chime Financial); Jordan Horrillo (Stanford University)

E2: Religion and Institutions in Historical Political Economy — Room HZ11

Chair: Jared Rubin

  • Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland

    Irena Grosfeld (Paris School of Economics); Etienne Madinier (Paris School of Economics); Seyhun Orcan Sakalli (King's College London); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics, EHESS, CEPR)

  • Books Go Public: The Consequences of Monastic Libraries Expropriation on Innovation

    Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo); Francesco Cinnirella (University of Bergamo); Elona Harka (University of Bergamo); Marcello Puca (University of Bergamo)

  • Trade, Geography, and Religion: Evidence from South Asia

    Jared Rubin (Chapman University); Avner Seror (Aix-Marseille School of Economics); Rohit Ticku (European University Institute)

E3: Unions and work — Room HZ7

Chair: Marta Troya Martinez

  • Will I Ever Be Satisfied? Job Quality and Unionization

    Jason Sockin (U.S. Treasury); Aaron Sojourner (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)

  • Do Unions Shape Political Ideologies at Work?

    Johannes Matzat (University of Heidelberg, University of Göttingen); Aiko Schmeißer (University of Potsdam, Berlin School of Economics)

  • Once Upon a Time in America: The Mafia and the Unions

    Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto); Andrea Matranga (Chapman University); Marta Troya Martinez (New Economic School)

E4: Trust, Information and Reporting — Room HZ9

Chair: Jean-Etienne de Bettignies

  • The Opaque Scorecard: Environmental, Social and Financial Information during Covid-19

    Mircea Epure (Pompeu Fabra U. and Barcelona School of Economics); Serhat Hasancebi (Pompeu Fabra U.)

  • Trust and Fintech: Lessons from Recent UK Corporate Failures

    Renata Kosova (Imperial College Business School); Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College Business School)

  • Nothing but the Truth? Information and Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility

    Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (University of Toronto); Huafang Liu (Kean University); David T. Robinson (Duke University)

E5: Elitism and Merit — Room HZ8

Chair: Silke Forbes

  • Drain the Swamp: A Theory of Anti-Elite Populism

    Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney); Barton Lee (ETH Zurich)

  • Meritocracy and Inequality

    Paul-Henri Moisson (Toulouse School of Economics)

  • Financial Aid Coordination and Student Debt

    Silke Forbes (Tufts University); Ara Kharazian (Square)

E6: Cooperation and Pro-social Behavior — Room HZ15

Chair: Julia Shvets

  • Unity in Diversity: How Norms of Compromise Enable Cooperation

    Saumya Deojain (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology)

  • How Much do Positions Matter in Drawing Fairness? Evidence from a “Symmetrized” Ultimatum Game

    Francesco Guala (University of Milan); Luigi Mittone (University of Trento); Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento and USI)

  • Pro-social Behaviour in Groups: Evidence from the Field

    Toke Aidt (University of Cambridge); Vivek Roy-Chowdhury (University of Cambridge); Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)

E7: Public Institutions — Room HZ14

Chair: Mitja Kovac

  • (In)dependent Central Banks

    Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School and CEPR); Sotirios Kokas (University of Essex); Thomas Lambert (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College London and CEPR)

  • Public Procurement and the Risk of Severe Weather Events

    Andrea Bafundi (University of Padova); Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Edoardo Grillo (University of Padova); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

  • Estimating the Effects of Political Instability on Institutional Quality: Subnational Evidence from Immature Democracy

    Thomas Emery (University of Western Australia UWA Business School); Mitja Kovac (University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business)

E8: Courts and Prosecutors — Room HZ10

Chair: Mariana Prado

  • When in Rome. . . Do Less Knowledgeable Judges Mimic their Peers?

    Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (Insper); Henrique Wang (Insper)

  • Courtroom Valuation, Rulified Finance, and the Promise (and Perils) of Machine Learning

    Eric Talley (Columbia University)

  • What do Prosecutors Want? : Mapping Institutional Incentives

    Fabio Kerche (UniRIO (Brazil)); Mariana Prado (University of Toronto)

10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am to 12:00 pm Parallel Focus Sessions #6

Session 1: Historical Political Economy (HPE) in SIOE — room HZ7

Chair: Jared Rubin (Chapman)

Participants: Federica Carugati (King’s College London), Scott Gehlbach (U Chicago), Gerard Roland (UC Berkeley), Emily Sellars (Yale University)

Scholars across disciplines have been engaging in historical political economy (HPE) for the last two decades. Only recently, however, have steps been taken to mark HPE as a disciplinary endeavor distinct from its cognates: economic history, political economy, and political history (Jenkins and Rubin 2023) – these include the creation of the blog Broadstreet and the publication of Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Coinciding with the Handbook’s release, this roundtable aims at publicizing current achievements, as well as reflecting on the discipline’s future development. Participants will reflect on thematic, methodological, and strategic developments, including the contribution that HPE can make to SIOE, and vice versa.

Session 2: Anthropology and Economics — room HZ8

Chair: Paul Seabright (Toulouse)

Participants: Bob Gibbons (MIT), Sarah Mathew (ASU), Blanka Misic (University of Vienna)

Evolutionary anthropologists have emphasized that human learning is: cumulative, with succeeding generations building on the accumulated knowledge of earlier ones; distributed, with no single individual mastering all the elements of knowledge required to achieve social objectives; tacit, in the sense that nobody may know how to communicate it explicitly, rather, it has to be acquired by learners through a process of acculturation and observation. Institutions and organizations engage, consciously and unconsciously, in the transmission of knowledge. They do so via processes that are subject to both persistence and innovation. This session will explore what economists and anthropologists can learn from each other about how this happens.

Session 3: Research with and within Firms — room HZ9

Chair: Decio Coviello (Montreal)

Participants: Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen), Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne), Hideo Owan (Waseda University)

Doing research with firm data is a methodological challenge, but offers insights into what managers and workers really do, and hence informs theoretical work. Different approaches co-exist that use different type of data: nation- or industry-wide observational data, firm-level archival data, or data from RCTs with firms. A second dimension of diversity exists across institutional backgrounds. The panel will discuss new developments, challenges and experiences across North America, Europe and Japan.

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Parallel G

G1: Market Power in Economics and Politics — Room HZ7

Chair: Jillian Grennan

  • Crushing the Competition: the Product Market Effects of Relative Performance Evaluation

    Guido Bongioanni (European University Institute); Bruno Pellegrino (Columbia University)

  • Who Benefits from Tax Evasion of Politically Connected Firms?

    Ruben Enikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Sergey Mityakov (Florida State University )

  • Market Power and Political Connections

    Yameng Fan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Feng Zhou (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

G2: SIOE & Management (II): Non-Market Strategy — Room HZ9

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

  • Controversial Corporate Political Activities and Shareholder Activism: A Natural Experiment of the U.S. Capitol Riot

    Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Bo Yang (University of Southern California)

  • The Integration of Market and Nonmarket Strategies Revisited: Market Investments as Political Assets

    Dimitrija Kalanoski (University of Manchester - Alliance); Giovanni Derchi (EHL); Jean-Philippe Bonardi (University of Lausanne - HEC Lausanne)

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

    Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi University); Akhil Ilango (Pompeu Fabra University); Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne)

G3: Centralization, Decentralization, and Political Development: Lessons from Historical Political Economy — Room HZ11

Chair: Emily Sellars

  • When Women Win: Land Lotteries and Individual Prospects in Georgia

    Aaron Childree (Cornell University); Alexandra Cirone (Cornell University); Harry Dienes (Cornell University)

  • Governance Archaeology: Collective Governance in Global History

    Federica Carugati (King's College London)

  • How State Building Backfires

    Francisco Garfias (University of California, San Diego); Emily Sellars (Yale University)

G4: Bureaucracies and Public Leadership — Room HZ8

Chair: Morten Bennedsen

  • Curbing Bureaucratic Information Manipulation: Evidence from a Statistics Reform in China

    Yongwei Nian (Bocconi University)

  • Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan

    Debin Ma (University of Oxford); Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

  • Public Sector Leadership

    Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen / INSEAD); Francisco Perez-Gonzales (ITAM Mexico); Margarita Tsoutsoura (Washington U); Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia Business School)

G5: Hierarchy — Room HZ14

Chair: Stefanie Brilon

  • Why do Security Agents Repress? Enforcement in Hierarchical Organizations

    Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King's College London)

  • Delegation and Decision Process in Organizations

    Hideshi Itoh (Waseda Business School); Kimiyuki Morita (Senshu University)

  • The Insider Threat: An Economic Analysis of Monitoring Instruments

    Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics); Stefanie Brilon (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

G6: Labor — Room HZ15

Chair: Theresa Geißler

  • Occupational Coherence and Local Labor Market Performance: Evidence from France.

    Charlie Joyez (Universite Cote d'Azur); Raja Kali (University of Arkansas); Catherine Laffineur (Universite Cote d'Azur)

  • Self-selection between Payment Methods Based on Quantitative and Subjective Performance Measures

    Marco Barrenechea Méndez (Public University of Navarre)

  • What an Unfavourable Match!? The Mitigating Effect of the Employment Sector on the Relationship Between Overeducation and Job Satisfaction

    Theresa Geißler (Trier University/ IAAEU)

G7: Cultural Evolution and Organizations — Room HZ10

Chair: Francisco Brahm

  • Decoding Culture: Tools for Behavioral Strategists

    Özgecan Koçak (Emory University); Phanish Puranam (INSEAD)

  • Exposure to the Views of Opposing Others with Latent Cognitive Differences Results in Social Influence, But Only When Those Differences Remain Obscured

    Douglas Douglas (University of California Berkeley); Amir Goldberg (Stanford University); Katharina Lix (Stanford University); Sameer Srivastava (University of California Berkeley); Austin van Loon (Stanford University)

  • Organizational Culture, Adaptation and Performance

    Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Joaquin Poblete (Catholic University of Chile)

G8: The Organization of Work — Room HZ12

Chair: Erina Ytsma

  • Adaptive Design in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Paul M. Gorny (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Louis Schäfer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

  • People Management Skills, Senior Leadership Skills and the Peter Principle

    Yoko Asuyama (IDE-JETRO); Sachiko Kuroda (Waseda University); Hideo Owan (Waseda University)

  • Workload, Time Use and Efficiency

    Austin Sudbury (Carnegie Mellon University); George Westerman (MIT); Erina Ytsma (Carnegie Mellon University)

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm Parallel H

H1: Organization of Historical States — Room HZ10

Chair: Leander Heldring

  • Shifting Elites: State Formation, Absolutism, and the Thirty Years’ War

    Luis Bosshart (LSE); Matthias Weigand (Harvard University)

  • How to Make Bureaucrats Engage in New Challenges? Evidence from German Reunification

    Agustin Faure (LMU Munich); Giuseppe Cappellari (University of Hohenheim); Nadja Dwenger (University of Hohenheim); Anna Gumpert (University of Tübingen)

  • Elite Selection in an Autocracy: The Career Costs of Political Ties

    Leonie Bielefeld (University of Munich); Cathrin Mohr (University of Bonn)

  • Bureaucracy as a Tool for Politicians: Evidence from Germany

    Leander Heldring (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management)

H2: Corruption and the Mafia — Room HZ12

Chair: Anke Kessler

  • Corruption, Protection Rackets, and Cash Policy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    Dhruv Aggarwal (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law); Lubomir Litov (University of Oklahoma)

  • Business and Low Corruption: Evidence from Southern Italy

    Michela Limardi (University of Lille and University Paris 1); Dorothy Louise Zinn (Free University of Bolzano)

  • Norms of Corruption in Politicians’ Malfeasance

    Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto); Anke Kessler (Simon Fraser University); Xin Zhao (University of International Business and Economics)

H3: Entrepreneurship and Institutions — Room HZ11

Chair: Lyda Bigelow

  • Are Angel Investors More Likely than Venture Capitalists to Drive Entrepreneurial Experimentation?

    Amir Sariri (Purdue University)

  • Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Strategy: The Role of Political Threat Perceptions

    Huiquing Hu (Iowa State University); Peter Klein (Baylor University); Ileana Maldonado-Bautista (Iowa State University)

  • The Effects of National Culture on Entrepreneur and Joiner Financial Incentive Preferences

    Ryan W. Angus (West Virginia University); Lyda Bigelow (University of Utah); Amit Pazgal (Rice University)

H4: Voting in Transition — Room HZ7

Chair: William Pyle

  • Decay of Long-established Democracies

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

  • Distribution of Political Rents and Voter Support: Some Evidence on Farm Subsidies and Electoral Performance of a Peasant Party in Poland

    Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw); Piotr Wójcik (University of Warsaw)

  • Revealed in Transition: The Political Effect of Planning's Legacy

    Timur Natkhov (HSE University); William Pyle (Middlebury College)

H5: Machine Learning and Online Communities — Room HZ14

Chair: Patricia Prüfer

  • Authority and Delegation in Online Communities

    Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

  • Using Machine Learning to Enforce the CCPA: An Experimental Study

    Jens Frankenreiter (Washington University in St. Louis); Julian Nyarko (Stanford Law School); Dane Thorley (BYU Law School)

  • Economies of Scope in Data Aggregation: Evidence from Health Data

    Bruno Carballa-Smichowski (Joint Research Committee); Nestor Duch Brown (Joint Research Committee); Seyit Höcük (Centerdata); Pradeep Kumar (Centerdata); Bertin Martens (Joint Research Committee); Joris Mulder (Centerdata); Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University)

H6: Firm Productivity and Shocks — Room HZ15

Chair: Sam Cao

  • Natural Disasters and Creative Destruction: Evidence from Indonesian Firms

    Marina Dodlova (University of Passau, CESifo); Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Goettingen); Anna Kochanova (Cardiff Business School)

  • Organizational Barriers to Transforming Large Finance Corporations: Cloud Adoption and the Importance of Technological Architecture

    Sam Cao (Stockholm School of Economics); Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School)

  • [CANCELLED] Technology and Performance Pay in Organizations

    Elisa Gerten (University of Cologne)

H7: Social Hierarchy, and Propaganda — Room HZ9

Chair: Wentian Diao

  • Preserving the Hierarchy Across the Atlantic: The Enduring Legacy of Tsarist Elites in the Modern Wage Distribution of Russian Emigrants to the US and Canada

    Tom Eeckhout (Ghent University); Andrei Markevich (New Economic School; University of Helsinki ); Koen Schoors (Ghent University)

  • Can Authoritarian Propaganda Compete with the Opposition on Social Media? Experimental Evidence from Russia

    Michael Rochlitz (university of Bremen); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Nikita Zakharov (University of Freiburg)

  • Mega-events and Human Right Violations: Empirical Evidence from the Long-term Perspective

    Gaygysyz Ashyrov (Estonian Business School); Denis Ivanov (Corvinus University of Budapest)

  • Rooted in the Land: Clanship and Land Transfer in China

    Wentian Diao (National University of Singapore); Changwei Zhan (National University of Singapore)

H8: Long-run effects of culture and institutions — Room HZ8

Chair: Maria Krvavtsova

  • The Terms of Freedom: Black Labor Contracts in the Reconstruction South

    Zehua Li (Stanford University); Julian Nyarko (Stanford University); Sarath Sanga (Yale University)

  • Historic Moral Foundations Cast a Long Shadow: Insights From a Novel Folktale Dataset

    Mahdi Khesali (University of Hamburg); Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg); Nadia von Jacobi (Uni Trento)

  • Historical Family Structure as a Predictor of Liberal Voting: Evidence from a Century of Russian History

    Maria Kravtsova (Free University of Berlin); Alexander Libman (Free University of Berlin)

5:00 pm Reception
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Keynote #3: Presidential address

Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto): “Institutions, Organizations and Transformative AI”

Metzler Room (Casino)

6:30 pm Music
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Awards, Business Meeting and Outlook on the state of SIOE
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Barbecue Party on Terrace of Casino
(if weather does not permit, inside)
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