Instructions for SIOE 2024
All talks and both receptions are at the Keller Center (home to the Harris School), 1307 East 60th Street. For those staying at the Study, this is the building directly to the east.
The program assigns 30 minutes to each paper: 20 minutes for the presentation, followed by 10 minutes of open discussion. The SIOE norm is strict adherence to time limits, so please plan your talk accordingly.
You should bring your slides to the panel on a flash drive in PDF or PowerPoint format. If you prefer to send your slides ahead of time, please do so by Wednesday, June 26. You may email lingnan@uchicago.edu, indicating "SIOE 2024, presentation" in the subject line.
You may see your name listed on the program as a panel chair. If so, you are responsible for keeping time. It would be good to be in the room a few minutes early to help participants upload presentations.
We have technical support that will rotate across rooms.
Have a good conference!
All times are shown in Paris time (CEST, UTC+2) · Underlined = presenting author
Thursday, June 27
AI Bootcamp - Room 1022
(optional pre-conference activity)
Registration opens
Welcome
Keynote #1 - Forum
Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago): How Organized Crime Is Organized: Lessons from the Gangs of Medellin
Reception
Adjourn
Friday, June 28
Parallel A
A1 Clash of Cultures?
3 papers
A2 (Non)monopoly of Violence
3 papers
A3 Political Attitudes and Activity
3 papers
A4 Institutions: Past, Present, and Criminal
3 papers
A5 Market Entry
3 papers
A6 Contracts in Corporate Law
3 papers
A7 Labor Markets
3 papers
A8 Technology, Privacy, and Regulation
3 papers
A9 Decision Making in the Workplace
3 papers
A10 Ideas in (Macro)history
3 papers
Coffee Break
Parallel B
B1 Firm Adaptation
3 papers
B2 Political Mechanisms
3 papers
B3 Ronald Coase Institute Session: Autocracy and Public Attitudes
3 papers
B4 Polycentric Governance
3 papers
Local Institutions, Natural Resource Management, and Economic Development: Implication of post-Dust Bowl Institutional Changes on American Agriculture
Polycentric Governance in Collusive Agreements
B5 Corruption
3 papers
B6 Litigation
3 papers
B7 Contracts in Economics
3 papers
B8 Societal Collapse and Resilience to Environmental Shocks
2 papers
B9 Governance and Worker Welfare
3 papers
B10 Economic History: China
3 papers
Lunch
Parallel C
C1 Identity and Economics
3 papers
C2 Dynamic Incentives and Polarization
3 papers
C3 Theory of the Firm
3 papers
C4 Institutions of Coordination
3 papers
C5 Economic Behavior under Weak Institutions
3 papers
C6 Bankruptcy & Firm Boundaries: Asset Transfers, Entity Partitions, and Other Legal Bundles
3 papers
C7 Mobility
3 papers
A theory of discriminatory institutions, with applications to apartheid and to the political economy of migration
Geographical mobility as a bridge to opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service
Did Improving the Lot Improve the Lots of the People? Evaluating the Economic Mobility from the Homestead Act
C8 Race and Ethnicity
3 papers
C9 Teams
3 papers
C10 Historical Political Economy: China
3 papers
Coffee Break
Parallel D
D1 Political Culture
3 papers
D2 Organizations and Reputation Building
3 papers
D3 The Political Economy of War: Civil Conflict
3 papers
D6 Institutional Perspectives on Regulatory Law & Economics in Energy
3 papers
D7 Norms and Reciprocity
3 papers
D8 AI for Social Change and Benefit
3 papers
D9 Governance within Organizations I
3 papers
D10 Historical Political Economy: Old World and New
4 papers
Keynote #2 - Forum
Wioletta Dziuda (University of Chicago): The (De)Polarizing Effect of Checks and Balances
Reception
Adjourn
Saturday, June 29
Parallel E
E1 Corporate and Household Finance
3 papers
E2 Mechanism Design and Social Choice
3 papers
E3 Political Organization and Lobbying
3 papers
E4 State Capacity
3 papers
E5 Competition: Conflict, Coordinates, and Connections
3 papers
E6 Law and Development
3 papers
E7 Elections
3 papers
E8 Governing Artificial Intelligence Around the Globe
3 papers
E9 Culture and Culture Change in Organizations
3 papers
E10 Institutions and Development in Late Imperial Russia
3 papers
Coffee Break
Parallel Focus Sessions #6
Law and Development — Room 0001
Lisa Bernstein (organizer), Francine Lafontaine (moderator), Pablo Balan, Ameet Mojaria, and Jared Rubin
This session focuses on a key challenge facing market participants and economic reformers around the world, namely, how to understand and better manage the ways in which informal social institutions affect the performance of formal institutions/institutional reforms, and similarly the ways that social institutions may deflect the intended goal of policy interventions. Our presenters will speak to this issue by drawing on case studies from developing countries that demonstrate the importance of this interaction while situating their findings in the broader theoretical literature. The session should also be of interest to scholars of contracts who are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of understanding how the formal institutions of contract interacts with the pattern of social relations within, between and around each of the contracting parties.
Creating the Field of IOE: The Role of Teaching — Room 1002
Tore Ellingsen (organizer and moderator), Tom Clark, Maria Guadalupe
Institutional and organizational economics (IOE) is successful as a research enterprise, but less successful as a teaching enterprise. Most economics departments have courses, and thus teaching slots, in labor, public, and development economics. Far fewer have similar slots for IOE. Similarly, political science departments tend to assign more courses in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations than, for example, institutional change. Business schools are the exception, with many offering versions of organizational economics (albeit sometimes branded as strategy). The panelists have all found ways to teach their favorite IOE-material. They are hopeful that the discussion will be lively, whether it provides new reasons to be satisfied with the current situation or triggers new ideas for establishing IOE as a field – not only for research, but also for teaching and recruitment.
AI and Autocracy — Room 1022
Jens Prufer (organizer and moderator), Ruben Enikolopov, Maryam Saeedi, Angela Zhang, Yoshua Bengio (joining us online)
In nearly all concurrent discussions about the threats of artificial intelligence (AI), the implicit assumption is that high-risk AI will be developed in Western countries, most likely in the United States. Here, they would be subject to regulation and democratic checks, which may avoid the worst risks. What, however, might occur if critical breakthroughs in AI technologies are achieved in an autocratic country? In autocracies, institutional checks and balances are much weaker and incentives to take risky shortcuts in AI-development are different. In this focus session, we will take the possibility of an AI-breakthrough in autocracies serious and discuss both the current and (speculating a bit) the potential future situation.
Socioeconomic Consequences of Gender Identity — Sky Suite
Pauline Grosjean (organizer, though Pauline will not be in attendance), Marianne Bertrand (moderator), Alexia Delfino, Gaia Dossi, Ieda Matavelli, Guido Friebel, Josh Dean
This session will explore frontier topics in the economics of identity, with a specific focus on gender. While norms towards gender roles have become more equal, gender equality has stalled in several advanced economies in the last 20 years; while barriers to girls’ and women’s inclusion remain high in developing countries. This session will explore recent advances in our understanding of remaining obstacles to gender equality: from the impact of gender identity on occupational choice and firm organization, the inclusion of women and minorities in science, to the roles of masculinity norms.
Lunch
Parallel G
G1 Religion
4 papers
Institutions and Rapid Religious Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada
Ear-Witnessing Sin: The Law and Economics of Puritan Organization
Faith in the Storm: Exploring the Dynamics of Evangelical Religiosity in Response to Natural Disasters
G2 Innovation and Technology Adoption
4 papers
Determinants and Social Dividends of Digital Adoption
Competition, social learning, and technology adoption: The case of mobile money in Peruvian markets
Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?
G3 The Political Economy of War: External Conflict
4 papers
G4 Land and Property Rights
4 papers
Development Mismatch: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa
Institutional Diversity in Spectrum Sharing: Exclusive and Nonexclusive Property-Rights Regimes
A model of enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Property Rights to Land
Incomplete Property Rights and Farm Size: Evidence from Haiti
G5 Markets, Identity, and Culture
4 papers
Statelessness in an Era of Nationalism: The Diamond Cartel and the Nazi War Machine
Dream of Californication - Trade, Human Rights and the California Effect
How Much Should You Pay to Speak Esperanto? Quantifying Cultural Impacts on Trade through Wikipedia Network Statistics
Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States
G6 State Ownership and Privatization
4 papers
The Exclusive Nature of Private Solutions to Public Problems: Evidence from (For-profit) Charter Schools in the US
Business Environment after SOE Reforms: How Unemployment Discourages Foreign Investments
Relationships in the wild: how institutions affect the governance of firms
Career Incentives and Employee Productivity in State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from India
G7 Media
4 papers
G8 Bureaucracy
4 papers
G9 Governance within Organizations II
4 papers
G10 Economic History: Old World and New
4 papers
Coffee Break
Keynote #3: Presidential address - Forum
Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt): “RCTs with and within Firms: What We Have Learnt and What We Might Want to Learn”