SIOE 2024

A1: Clash of Cultures? — Room 1002

Chair: Michael Waldman

• Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics

  michael waldman (Cornell University); Yi Chen (Cornell University); Adam Dearing (Cornell University)

• Explaining the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers

  Jillian Grennan (UC Berkeley); Colleen Chien (UC Berkeley)

• We Don’t Talk About Boys: An Experiment on Masculinity Norms in Brazil

  Ieda Matavelli (UNSW)

A2: (Non)monopoly of Violence — Room 1022

Chair: Anja Shortland

• The Mafia and LGBT Subculture in New York

  Anja Shortland (King's College, London); Federico Varese (Oxford / Science Po)

• Third-party intervention in sequential Wars of Attrition with incomplete information

  Martin Castillo Quintana (University of Chicago)

• Domino Secessions: Evidence from the US

  Jean Lacroix (Université Paris Saclay); Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University); Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles)

A3: Political Attitudes and Activity — Room 0001

Chair: Eric Brousseau

• Political Economy in Restaurants: Evidence from Hong Kong’s 2019 Social Movement

  Derek Huo (University of Hong Kong); KW Chau (University of Hong Kong)

• [CANCELLED] Bank Failures and Elite Democratic Consent: An Exploration with Individual Panel Data

  Francesc Amat (IPERG - University of Barcelona); Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (University of Barcelona); Pau Vall-Prat (University Carlos III Madrid )

• Political polarization dynamic during the covid-19 in developed countries

  Eric Brousseau (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Bruno Chaves Ferreira (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Juan Diego Luksik (University Paris Dauphine|PSL)

A4: Institutions: Past, Present, and Criminal — Room 0007

Chair: Henry Thompson

• The Price of Silence

  Gabriel Benzecry (Northwood University); Garrett Scott (University of Mississippi); Henry Thompson (University of Mississippi)

• A Two-Wave Death History: Fentanyl Overdoses in the US, Bullets in Mexico

  Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University / Department of Economics); Ivan Lopez Cruz (Sabanci University)

• The Emergence of Democratic Constitutions: Comparing the Modern World to Ancient Greece

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

A5: Market Entry — Room 0010

Chair: Sinziana Dorobantu

• Global Entry: Reconceptualizing Multinational Investments as Two-Sided Matches between Governments and Firms

  Sinziana Dorobantu (NYU Stern); Thomas Lindner (Copenhagen Business School); Laurenz Tinhoff (WU Vienna)

• Patent Protection and Innovative Entrepreneurship

  Natalia Lamberova (University of Texas at Dallas); Maxim Ananyev (The University of Melbourne)

• Beyond the Label: Regulatory Slack and Forum Shopping in the Pharmaceutical Industry

  Charu Gupta (UCLA Anderson); Jennifer Kao (UCLA Anderson)

A6: Contracts in Corporate Law — Room 0021

Chair: Kish Parella

• Generalizing Freedom of Contract

  Alan Schwartz (Yale University); Simone M. Sepe (University of Arizona)

• Mandatory Equity Issuances as a First-Best Solution to Punishing Corporate Misconduct

  Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin)

• When should contract obligations be relieved under changed circumstances?

  Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School)

A7: Labor Markets — Room 0023

Chair: Heski Bar-Isaac

• Initial Match and Career Outcomes: Evidence from the NFL Draft

  Miguel Martínez-Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes); Pablo Casas (Arizona State University); Stephen Hansen (University College of London); Asís Martínez-Jerez

• Adverse Selection and Training Distortions for Monopsony Power

  Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto); Raphael Levy (HEC)

• Making the Elite: Top Jobs, Disparities, and Solutions

  Soumitra Shukla (Federal Reserve)

A8: Technology, Privacy, and Regulation — Room 2112

Chair: Carmine Guerriero

• Steering in One Click: Platform Self-Preferencing in the Amazon Buy Box

  Devesh Raval (Harvard Law School)

• The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps

  Bo Bian (University of British Columbia); Xinchen Ma (LSE); Huan Tang (Wharton)

• Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits

  Joseph Kalmenovitz (University of Rochester); Samuel Antill (Harvard Business School)

A9: Decision Making in the Workplace — Room Sky Suite

Chair: Kieron Meagher

• Agreeing to be fooled: Optimal ignorance about information sources

  Takuma Habu (Cornell University)

• A model of job-stress and burnout

  Kieron Meagher (Australian National University); Arghya Ghosh (UNSW)

• Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests

  R. Vijay Krishna (Florida State University)

A10: Ideas in (Macro)history — Room Forum

Chair: Jared Rubin

• From Status to Contract? A Macrohistory from Early-Modern English Caselaw and Print Culture

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

• The Arc of Antitrust: A Text-based Measure of Antitrust Policy Beliefs and Attitudes

  Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

• Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

  Jared Rubin (Chapman University); Ali Almelhem (World Bank); Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado); Austin Kennedy (University of Colorado)

B1: Firm Adaptation — Room 1002

Chair: Ricard Gil

• Moving Away for Growth or from Uncertainty?

  Mircea Epure (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics); Feng Zhou (Toulouse Business School)

• Doing Business Far from Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia*

  Alessandra González (University of Chicago); Xianglong Kong (University of Chicago)

• Management practices and firm performance during the Great Recession: Evidence from Spanish survey data

  Ricard Gil (Queen's University & IESE); Jose Enrique Galdon (UPNA); Florian Englmaier (LMU); Helene Strandt (LMU); Michael Kaiser (LMU)

B2: Political Mechanisms — Room 1022

Chair: Satoshi Fukuda

• A Theory of Developmental Dictatorship

  Hyungmin Park (University of Warwick)

• Shaping Institutions

  Satoshi Fukuda (Bocconi University); William Fuchs (UT Austin and Universidad Carlos III Madri)

• Policymaking Precision and Electoral Accountability

  Dan Alexander (University of Rochester); Mary Catherine Sullivan (FTI Consulting)

B3: Ronald Coase Institute Session: Autocracy and Public Attitudes — Room 0001

Chair: Mary Shirley; Discussant: Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (INSPIR)

• Conflict and Nation-Building: The Case of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War

  Alexey Makarin (MIT Sloan School of Management); Serhii Abramenko (EIEF and LUISS); Vasily Korovkin (UPF)

• Language Identity and Foreign Propaganda: Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine War

  Sergey Sanovich (Stanford University); Andrey Simonov (Columbia University)

• Natural disasters support authoritarian populism: Evidence from the Brazilian shrimp vote

  Francisco Cavalcanti (Federal University of Pernambuco); Diogo Baerlocher (University of South Florida); Renata Caldas (University of South Florida); Rodrigo Schneider (Skidmore College)

B4: Polycentric Governance — Room 0007

Chair: Aparna Howlader

• Local Institutions, Natural Resource Management, and Economic Development: Implication of post-Dust Bowl Institutional Changes on American Agriculture

  Aparna Howlader (Chatham University)

• Polycentric Governance in Collusive Agreements

  W. Benedikt Schmal (Walter Eucken Institute)

• [CANCELLED] Institution, Diversity, and Local Development: Lessons from China's Administrative Village System

  Bin Huang (University of Zurich)

B5: Corruption — Room 0010

Chair: Jordan Gans-Morse

• The Causal Impact of Electoral Rules on Corruption

  Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)); Abel Françoiis (Université de Strasbourg); Nicolas Lagios (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

• Corruption and Property Rights: Evidence from Russian Commercial Courts

  Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University); David Szakonyi (George Washington University)

• Redundancy as a Legal Strategy to Fight Corruption

  Mariana Prado (University of Toronto)

B6: Litigation — Room 0021

Chair: Daniel Klerman

• Third-Party Involvement in Litigation: An Economic Analysis

  Omer Pelled (Bar-Ilan University School of Law)

• Diversity Jurisdiction and Out-of-State Bias: Experimental Evidence

  Daniel Klerman (University of Southern Californiat); Jonathan Nash (Emory Law School)

• Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection

  Amna Salam (Vanderbilt University)

B7: Contracts in Economics — Room 0023

Chair: Francine Lafontaine

• When Talking Doesn’t Help: On the Limits of Communication and the Value of Simple Contracts

  Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne); Oliver Hart (Harvard University); Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)

• Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts: The Threat Point Effect

  Russell Morton (University of Michigan)

• How Do Firms Protect Competitively Sensitive Information? The Case of Franchising

  Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan); Lorenzo Luisetto (University of Michigan); JJ Prescott (University of Michigan)

B8: Societal Collapse and Resilience to Environmental Shocks — Room 2112

Chair: Carmine Guerriero

• The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: A Reinterpretation of the Classic Maya Collapse

  Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg); Melissa Rubio (University of Cologne)

• Climate Change, State-Building and Societal Resilience in Ancient Egypt

  Carmine Guerriero (University of bologna); Amin Gholami (University of Bologna)

B9: Governance and Worker Welfare — Room Sky Suite

Chair: Jack Fisher

• Worker Welfare in the Gig Economy

  Jack Fisher (Harvard Business School)

• Minority Representation at Work

  Anthony Le (Columbia University); Matthias Breuer (Columbia University); Wei Cai (Columbia University); Felix Vetter (University of Mannheim)

• When Should a Firm Employ its Workers? A Relational Contracting Approach

  Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Anja Schöttner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

B10: Economic History: China — Room Forum

Chair: Zhaotian Luo

• [CANCELLED] Merit-based Recruitment and Government Performance: Evidence from Random Assignment of Administrators

  Kevin Liu (University of Hong Kong)

• Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Theory of Power Dynamics and Social Evolution

  Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago); Shuyi Yu (University of Chicago)

• Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860 – 1911

  Yujing Huang (UCLA Anderson School of Management); Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong); Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia)

C1: Identity and Economics — Room 1002

Chair: Max Posch

• How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History

  Max Posch (University of Exeter); Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University); Joseph Heinrich (Harvard University)

• Group Identity and Agency Frictions: Evidence using Big Data

  Jitendra Aswani (MIT Sloan)

• Made in America: The Polarizing Effect of Trump’s Rallies on American Consumption

  Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University); Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Joao Granja (University of Chicago); Sara Moreira (Northwestern University)

C2: Dynamic Incentives and Polarization — Room 1022

Chair: Johannes Schneider

• Signaling Competence Through Policy Revision

  Benjamin Shaver (University of Chicago)

• Embracing the Enemy

  Johannes Schneider (universidad carlos 3 de madrid); Alvaro Delgado-Vega (eth Zurich)

• From Gridlock to Polarization

  Marc Jacob (Stanford); Barton Lee (ETH Zurich); Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney)

C3: Theory of the Firm — Room 0001

Chair: Michael Wong

• Intermediated Trade with Relational Contracts

  Duoxi Li (Conernstone Research); Michael Wong (University of Hong Kong)

• Between Markets & Treaties: International Law, Agency Costs and the Theory of the Firm

  Kish Parella (Washington and Lee Law School)

• Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm

  Jordan Barry (USC Gould School of Law); Victor Fleischer (UC Irvine School of Law)

C4: Institutions of Coordination — Room 0007

Chair: Hagay Volvovsky

• Local Media and the Shaping of Social Norms: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea

  Ada Gonzalez-Torres (Ben-Gurion University)

• Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange

  Hagay Volvovsky (Coller School of Management | Tel-Aviv University)

• Narratives, Trust, and Market Exchange in Developing Countries

  Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Juan Pedro Ronconi (Universidad de los Andes)

C5: Economic Behavior under Weak Institutions — Room 0010

Chair: Marta Troya Martinez

• Family Labor, Enforcement, and Product Quality: Evidence from the Lao Textile Industry

  Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo); Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)

• Payment Uncertainty and Weak Institutions

  Daniel Sonnenstuhl (University of Chicago)

• Public Procurement Relationships in the Shadow of Trial: Evidence from Russia

  Marta Troya Martinez (New Economic School); Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (HEC Lausanne); Gerhard Toews (New Economic School)

C6: Bankruptcy & Firm Boundaries: Asset Transfers, Entity Partitions, and Other Legal Bundles — Room 0021

Chair: Anthony Casey

• Chapter 11’s Inclusivity Problem

  Sarah Paterson (London School of Economics); Adrian Walters (Chicago Kent)

• The Puzzle of Ex Post Asset Partitions

  Anthony Casey (University of Chicago Law School)

• Cryptofraud and the Private Ledger Problem

  Douglas Baird (University of Chicago Law School)

C7: Mobility — Room 0023

Chair: Eric Alston

• A theory of discriminatory institutions, with applications to apartheid and to the political economy of migration

  James Choy (University of York)

• Geographical mobility as a bridge to opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service

  Antoni-Italo De Moragas (CUNEF Universidad); Ignacio González (American University); Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway University of London); Julio Cáceres-Delpiano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

• Did Improving the Lot Improve the Lots of the People? Evaluating the Economic Mobility from the Homestead Act

  Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

C8: Race and Ethnicity — Room 2112

Chair: Jenny Guardado

• Unequal Burden: Colonial Taxation and Living Standard Disparities Within Minorities

  Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University)

• Other people's children: Racial diversity and community support for public schools in the United States

  Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Farzam Boroomand (University of Minnesota)

• Race and Science

  Gaia Dossi (LSE)

C9: Teams — Room Sky Suite

Chair: David Schindler

• Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap

  Matteo Camboni (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Michael Porcellacchia (Kiel Institute for World Economy)

• The (Mis)Perceived Determinants of Team Success in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks

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

• Do Teams Perform Differently Under Black and Hispanic Leaders? Evidence from the Chicago Police Department

  Taeho Kim (University of Toronto); Matthew Gudgeon (Tufts University); Andrew Jordan (Washington University in St. Louis)

C10: Historical Political Economy: China — Room Forum

Chair: Lilac Zihui Zhao

• Land Tax Reforms and Peasant Revolts: Evidence from Imperial Qing China

  Lilac Zihui Zhao (Cornell University); Zongge Zhu (Wuhan University)

• The Balancing Act of Indirect and Direct Rule: Evidence from the Qing Empire

  Jun Fang (University of Michigan); James Kung (University of Melbourne)

• The Economics of Mobilizing Free-riders: Evidence from the Chinese Civil War 1945-1949

  Peiyuan LI (Duke Kunshan University)

D1: Political Culture — Room 1002

Chair: Fiona Shen-Bayh

• Idioms of Empire: Political Narratives of Colonialism in the French Parliament, 1881-2005

  Fiona Shen-Bayh (University of Maryland); Risa Kitagawa (Northeastern University)

• Bad Democracy Traps

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

• Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition

  Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); A. Arda Gitmez (Bilkent University); James A. Robinson (University of Chicago)

D2: Organizations and Reputation Building — Room 1022

Chair: Álvaro Delgado-Vega

• A Model of Succession

  ALVARO DELGADO-VEGA (ETH Zurich & University of Chicago); Ben Shaver (University of Chicago)

• Reputational Bargaining and Inefficient Technology Adoption

  Maren Vairo (Northwestern University)

• An Organizational Theory of Political Parties

  Spencer Pantoja (Stanford University)

D3: The Political Economy of War: Civil Conflict — Room 0001

Chair: Jeffrey Jenkins

• Conflict and Female Leadership: Evidence from Colombia

  Francisco Eslava (UBC)

• The Long Civil War: Battle Exposure and Anti-Black Racism in the US South

  Federico Masera (University of New South Wales); Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Sarah Walker (University of New South Wales)

• War’s Effects on Legislative Voting Behavior: Evidence from the US Civil War

  Jeffery Jenkins (University of Southern California); Nicholas Napolio (UC-Riverside)

D6: Institutional Perspectives on Regulatory Law & Economics in Energy — Room 0021

Chair: Lynne Kiesling

• Neo-Corporatism and Energy Efficiency Regulation

  Dean Williamson (Independent Researcher)

• The Public Law of Public Utilities

  Joshua Macey (University of Chicago Law School); Brian Richardson (Cornell University Law School)

• Energy Prosumers and Behavioral Interventions

  Rimvydas Baltaduonis (Gettysburg College & SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University); Jurate Jaraite (Vilnius University); Andrius Kazukauskas (Vilnius University)

D7: Norms and Reciprocity — Room 0023

Chair: Gillian Hadfield

• Reciprocity: On the Relative Importance and Interaction of Intention and Outcome Effects

  Simon Dato (EBS University of Business and Law); Tim Friehe (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

• Norms as a Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons: A Co-evolutionary Model

  Fabian Mankat (University of Kassel)

• Normative Infrastructure Supports Within-Group Adaptation Among the Turkana

  Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto); Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University); Danson Mwangi (Institute for Primate Research, Nairobi)

D8: AI for Social Change and Benefit — Room 2112

Chair: Patricia Prüfer

• Using AI to solve labor market matching problems

  Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University); Marcia Den Uijl (Centerdata)

• Algorithmic Predictions and Bureaucratic Behavior Adjustment

  John Körtner (University of Lausanne); Patrick Arni (University of Bristol)

• Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya

  Daniel Chen (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST, CNRS)

D9: Governance within Organizations I — Room Sky Suite

Chair: Aloysius Siow

• Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck

  Mikhail Drugov (New Economic School); Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford); Marc Moller (University of Bern)

• What do managers do?

  Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto); Kevin Lim (University of Toronto)

• Productive Narratives

  Théo Durandard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

D10: Historical Political Economy: Old World and New — Room Forum

Chair: Ali Cirone

• Writing and the Early State: An Empirical Study of Mesopotamia

  Federica Carugati (King's College London); Giacomo Benati (University of Barcelona)

• [CANCELLED] Demobilization Through Inaction: Bureaucratic Delay, Ambiguity, and Frustrated Collective Action

  Emily Sellars (Yale University)

• Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe

  Volha Charnysh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford)

• Lotteries and Democracy

  Ali Cirone (Yale University, Cornell University)

E1: Corporate and Household Finance — Room 1002

Chair: M. Yasir Khan

• Finance, Employment, and Survival: Evidence from Bank Liquidations in Ukraine

  John S. Earle (George Mason University); Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Solomiya Shpak (George Mason University)

• Credit Scores and Committed Relationships

  Geng Li (Federal Reserve Board); Jane Dokko (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago); Jessica Hayes (Rand Corporation)

• Equilibrium Effects of "Financial Affirmative Action": Evidence from India

  M. Yasir Khan (University of Pittsburgh)

E2: Mechanism Design and Social Choice — Room 1022

Chair: Nathan Atkinson

• Mechanism Design by a Politician

  Giovanni Valvassori Bolgè (ETH Zürich)

• Decentralizing Content Moderation

  Dongkyu Chang (City University of Hong Kong); Adrian Segura (Pompeu Fabra University); Pengfei Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas)

• The Strong Maximum Circulation Algorithm: A New Method for Aggregating Preference Rankings

  Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin); Scott Ganz (Georgetown); Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley); James Orlin (MIT)

E3: Political Organization and Lobbying — Room 0001

Chair: John Ahlquist

• Political Organizations and Organizational Politics: Reintegrating Organization Science into the Study of Political Actors and Institutions

  John Ahlquist (UC San Diego); Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford)

• Corporate Lobbying in the European Union

  Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi University); Nel Dutt (Bocconi University); Elie Sung (HEC)

• Policy-advising competition and endogenous lobbies

  Daniel Habermacher (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Manuel Foerster (Bielefeld University)

E4: State Capacity — Room 0007

Chair: Mateo Uribe-Castro

• Elite Factions, Inequality, and Taxation

  Diana Ricciulli-Marin (UBC-VSE); Mateo Uribe-Castro (Universidad de los Andes)

• Private Colonization and State Capacity: Evidence from the Brazilian Donatary Captaincies

  Fernando Secco (University of British Columbia); Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia); Humberto Laudares (University of Geneva)

• [CANCELLED] Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan

  Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Clement Minaudier (City University of London)

E5: Competition: Conflict, Coordinates, and Connections — Room 0010

Chair: Quoc-Anh Do

• Green Gold: Avocado Production and Conflict in Mexico

  Juan Carlos Angulo (University of Maryland, College Park)

• To Enter or Not to Enter Agglomerations? Navigating Multinational Corporations’ Internal Sourcing in Foreign Investment Locations

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

• Power, Scrutiny, and Congressmen's Favoritism for Friends' Firms

  Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Yen-Teik Lee (National University of Singapore); Bang Nguyen (Cambridge University); Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University)

E6: Law and Development — Room 0021

Chair: Jun Goto

• Reform Multiplier

  Bakhtawar Ali (Aix-Marseilles School of Economics)

• When Judges Rewrite the Constitution: Evidence from Indian High Courts

  Jun Goto (GRIPS, Tokyo)

• Ethnic Disparity in Criminal Sentences in China: Evidence from the Universe of Court Verdicts

  WENWEI PENG (Harvard University); Takanao Tanaka (UC Berkeley)

E7: Elections — Room 0023

Chair: Monika Nalepa

• Accountability, Identity Politics, and Democratic Decay: Experimental Evidence from the World’s Third Largest Democracy

  Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore); Piero Stanig (Bocconi University)

• Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections

  Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal); Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School); Randy Kotti (CREST); Rafael Di Tella (Harvard Business School)

• Legacies of Authoritarian Resistance and Present-day Democratic Resilience in Poland

  Monika Nalepa (The University of Chicago); Hanna Folsz (Stanford)

E8: Governing Artificial Intelligence Around the Globe — Room 2112

Chair: Jens Prüfer

• Generative AI and Copyright: A Dynamic Perspective

  Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

• The birth of comparative AI governance

  Pierre Larouche (Université de Montréal)

• The Evolution of AI Regulation in the U.S.

  Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto)

E9: Culture and Culture Change in Organizations — Room Sky Suite

Chair: Laura Boudreau

• Measuring Organizational Capital

  Wei Cai (Columbia Business School); Andrea Prat (Columbia Business School)

• Meaning at Work

  Virginia Minni (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

• Beyond bonuses: the incentive effect of a prosocial initiative on bankers

  Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University)

E10: Institutions and Development in Late Imperial Russia — Room Forum

Chair: Steven Nafziger

• Democratization and Public Finances: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire

  Dmitrii Kofanov (Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh)

• Cultural Links and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Industry in Late Imperial Russia

  Tamar Matiashvili (Stanford University); Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics)

• Customary Institutions and the Demand for Land Titling in Late Imperial Russia

  Natalia Vasilenok (Stanford University)

G1: Religion — Room 1002

Chair: Peter Hazlett

• [CANCELLED] An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions

  Weijia Li (Monash University); Shaoda Wang (The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)

• Institutions and Rapid Religious Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada

  Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (Stanford)

• Ear-Witnessing Sin: The Law and Economics of Puritan Organization

  Peter Hazlett (New York University); Peter Leeson (George Mason University)

• Faith in the Storm: Exploring the Dynamics of Evangelical Religiosity in Response to Natural Disasters

  chak sang chan (Stockholm School of Economics)

G2: Innovation and Technology Adoption — Room 1022

Chair: Philip Keefer

• Determinants and Social Dividends of Digital Adoption

  Mariano Moszoro (IMF); Utkarsh Kumar (Columbia University); David Amaglobeli (IMF)

• [CANCELLED] Demand-Driven Innovation and Spillover Effects on Adjacent Technological Domains: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Technologies

  Jino Lu (University of Southern California)

• Competition, social learning, and technology adoption: The case of mobile money in Peruvian markets

  Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Alvaro Espinoza (GRADE); Mauricio Espinoza (GRADE); Ricardo Fort (GRADE); Rodrigo Rivarola (GRADE)

• Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?

  Tarek Ghani (WUSTL)

G3: The Political Economy of War: External Conflict — Room 0001

Chair: Federico Masera

• Enigma

  Jens Oehlen (Stockholm University)

• The effect of war on redistribution preferences

  Alexei Zakharov (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago); Philipp Chapkovski (Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn)

• Bargaining over State Building in the Shadow of War

  Daniel Goldstein (University of Oslo); Yusuf Magiya (NYU Abu Dhabi)

• When War Sparks Unrest: Evidence from the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution

  Vladimir Novikov (University of Chicago)

G4: Land and Property Rights — Room 0007

Chair: Jonathan Conning

• Development Mismatch: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa

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

• Institutional Diversity in Spectrum Sharing: Exclusive and Nonexclusive Property-Rights Regimes

  Ali Palida (University of Pittsburgh); Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh)

• A model of enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Property Rights to Land

  Jonathan Conning (CUNY Hunter College and Th Graduate Center); Matthew Baker (CUNY Hunter College and The Graduate Center)

• Incomplete Property Rights and Farm Size: Evidence from Haiti

  Craig Palsson (Utah State University); Parker Sonnenberg (Florida State University)

G5: Markets, Identity, and Culture — Room 0010

Chair: Barak Richman

• Statelessness in an Era of Nationalism: The Diamond Cartel and the Nazi War Machine

  Chaim Even Zohar (n/a); Barak Richman (Duke University)

• Dream of Californication - Trade, Human Rights and the California Effect

  Jonathan Bothner (University of Bayreuth); Tim Röthel (University of Bayreuth)

• How Much Should You Pay to Speak Esperanto? Quantifying Cultural Impacts on Trade through Wikipedia Network Statistics

  Matthew Histen (California State University, Northridge); Alex Yukhov (California State University, Northridge)

• Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States

  Itzchak Tzachi Raz (Hebrew University); Max Posch (University of Exeter)

G6: State Ownership and Privatization — Room 0021

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

• The Exclusive Nature of Private Solutions to Public Problems: Evidence from (For-profit) Charter Schools in the US

  Farzam Boroomand (Carlson School of Management)

• Business Environment after SOE Reforms: How Unemployment Discourages Foreign Investments

  Jing Xu (Tsinghua University); Jian Xu (National University of Singapore)

• Relationships in the wild: how institutions affect the governance of firms

  Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne); Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); Heikki Rantakari (University of Rochester)

• Career Incentives and Employee Productivity in State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from India

  Samarth Gupta (Ahmedabad University); Kaushendra Kishore (CAFRAL); Tanisha Agrawal (University of Texas, Austin)

G7: Media — Room 0023

Chair: Roya Talibova

• Democracy and Internet Control: Theory and Evidence from Transparency Reports

  Shreyas Meher (The University of Texas at Dallas); Pengfei Zhang (The University of Texas at Dallas)

• From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information

  Andrew Dickens (Brock University); Mathias Bühler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

• Crisis? What crisis? Bank Stability, financial development and propaganda

  Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Karolin Kirschenmann (ZEW); Konstantin Sonin (The University of Chicago, Harris School for Public Policy University); Ruben Enikolopov (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona IPEG)

• #Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support

  Roya Talibova (Vanderbilt University); Erik Wibbels (University of Pennsylvania); Ernesto Calvo (Maryland University)

G8: Bureaucracy — Room 2112

Chair: Mahvish Shaukat

• Turnover, Morale, and Performance in Bureaucracies: Evidence from Indonesian Villages

  Mahvish Shaukat (World Bank DECRG); Samuel Bazzi (UCSD); Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW Sydney); Benjamin Marx (Boston University); Andreas Stegmann (University of Warwick)

• Crisis Control in Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China’s Zero-Covid Policy

  Andong Yan (University of California, Riverside); Da Gong (University of California, Riverside); Ziao Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Governing like China: The Control of Local Bureaucrats in a Centralized State

  Tianyang Xi (Peking University); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago); Zanhui Liu (Tsinghua University); Yuchen Qiu (Peking University); Hongding Zhu (University of Chicago)

• Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle

  Philipp Barteska (LSE); Jay Euijung Lee (Stockholnm)

G9: Governance within Organizations II — Room Sky Suite

Chair: Scott Masten

• The Inner Beauty of Firms

  Jacob Kohlhepp (UNC Chapel Hill)

• Faculty Privilege: Research and the Rise of Tenure and Faculty Authority in American Higher Education

  Scott Masten (University of Michigan)

• Big-Bang Reforms

  Hongyi Li (UNSW Sydney); Anton Kolotilin (UNSW Sydney)

• Barriers to Organizational Performance: Experimental Evidence of the Importance of Relational Contracts

  Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Catolica); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Jose Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)

G10: Economic History: Old World and New — Room Forum

Chair: Natalya Naumenko

• Ink and Ire: The Revolutionary Impact of Russian Literature

  Vladimir Avetian (University Paris-Dauphine); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)

• Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire

  Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King's College London)

• American relief and the Soviet famine of 1921-22

  Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University); Volha Charnysh (MIT); Andrei Markevich (NES and the University of Helsinki)

• From Salt to Strife: Fiscal Fragmentation and Conflict

  Joseph Enguehard (ENS Lyon); Eva Davoine (UC Berkeley); Igor Koleskinov (UC Berkeley)