Programme

Sydney, Australia 24 August 2025 – 26 August 2025

All times are shown in Paris time (CEST, UTC+2) · Underlined = presenting author

Morning

Social outdoor activities

1:00 pm

Registration

Ground floor of the Colombo House building (see map)

2:00 pm Board meeting begins

UNSW Business School 6th floor Lounge

(we can meet at the registration desk in Colombo House at 1.45 and go to the meeting room together)

4 pm

Welcome

4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Keynote

Keynote #1 - Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Andrea Prat (Columbia): Measuring Organizational Capital

5.30 pm

Reception

7:00 pm

Adjourn

8:30 to 9

Breakfast

9 am to 10.30 am

Parallel A

10.30 am to 10.45

Coffee Break

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Parallel B

12.15 pm to 1.30 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm to 3.00 pm

Parallel C

3.00 pm to 3.30 pm

Coffee Break

3.30 pm to 5.00 pm

Parallel D

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm

Keynote

Keynote #2 - Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Rosalind Dixon (UNSW Law): The Economics of Constitutions

6:30 pm

Reception

8:00 pm

Adjourn

8:30 am to 9

Breakfast

9.00 am to 10.30

Parallel E

10.30 am to 10.45

Coffee Break

10.45 am to 12.15 pm

Parallel F

12.15 pm to 1.30 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm to 2.30 pm

Policy Focus Sessions

Panel 1: “Rebooting Productivity” Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Catherine de Fontenay (Productivity Commission), Guido Friebel (Frankfurt), Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD), Andrea Prat (Columbia).
Chair: Richard Holden (UNSW)

Panel 2: “Autocracy and Conflict in the Age of Trump” Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Gérard Roland (UC Berkeley), Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago), Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago).
Chair: Pauline Grosjean (UNSW)

Panel 3: “Workplace Mental Health” Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Sam Harvey (Black Dog Institute, UNSW), Daniela Scur (Cornell), Elizabeth Seeley (Northern and Western Sydney Psychology Clinics and University of Sydney), Andrew Wait (University of Sydney).
Chair: Kieron Meagher (ANU)

2.30 pm to 3.00

Coffee Break

3.00 pm to 4.15 pm

Keynote

Keynote #3: Presidential address - Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Scott Gehlbach (Chicago): “How Is a Dictatorship (Not) Like a Firm?”

4:15 pm – 4:45

Business meeting and awards ceremony

5.00 pm

Public Transportation to Circular Quay

Tramway L3 from ANZAC Parade to Circular Quay or L2 line from High Street – we will give more detail.

6:00 - 10 pm

Gala Reception

Harbourside Room of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tallawoladah, Gadigal Country, 140 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000)

Programme

Social outdoor activities

Registration

UNSW Business School 6th floor Lounge

Welcome

Keynote #1 - Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Reception

Adjourn

Breakfast

Parallel A

A1 Corruption

A2 Environmental Governance and Policy

A3 Measurement, Incentives, and Methodological Innovation

A4 Information and People Flows in History

A5 Gender Norms in and across Organizations

A6 Externalities Across International Borders

A7 Organizational Culture

A8 Political Institutions and Governance

Coffee Break

Parallel B

B1 Media, Social Media, and Politics I

B2 Political Protests I

B3 Environmental Cooperation and Collective Action

B4 Historical Socioeconomics

B5 Labor Market Policies

B6 Pay and Incentives

B7 Knowledge and Communication

B8 Adaptive Organizations

B9 Post-Conflict Politics & Transitions

Lunch

Parallel C

C1 Media, Social Media, and Politics II

C2 Political Protests II

C3 Self-Organisation, Public Goods, and Local Institutions

C4 Historial Political Economy: Colonialism

C5 Households as / and Firms

C6 Culture and Diversity

C7 Organizational Leaders

C8 Structure of the Firm

C9 Elites and Leadership

C10 Origins and Boundaries of the State

Coffee Break

Parallel D

D1 Socio-Economic Consequences of Conflict and Conscription

D2 Technology and the Boundary of the Firm

D3 Historical Political Economy: Origins and Legacies of Institutions

D4 Discrimination in Institutions & Organizations

D5 Global Religions

D6 Connections and Politics

D7 State Capacity

D8 The Political Economy of China's Legal System

Keynote #2 - Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Reception

Adjourn

Breakfast

Parallel E

E1 Legal Systems

E2 Humans and Technology in Institutions and Organizations

E3 Historical Political Economy: Finance

E4 Long-Run Drivers of Economic Development

E5 Employment and Opportunities

E6 Institutions, Organizations and Gender Equality in Emerging Economies

E7 Institutions and Migration

E8 Bureaucracies

E9 Autocracy

E10 Chinese Institutions and Policies

Coffee Break

Parallel F

F1 Beliefs, Narratives, and Political Identity

F2 Ronald Coase Institute Alumni Panel: Effects of Shocks, Polarization, and Anti-Corruption Campaigns on Political Behavior: Studies from China, Mexico, and Russia

F3 Industrial and Public Policy

F4 Historical Political Economy: Religion

F5 Personnel Economics Getting Personal

F6 Corporate Governance and Regulation

F7 Strategy

F8 Geoeconomics

F9 Voting, Politics, and Elections

Lunch

Policy Focus Sessions

Panel 1: “Rebooting Productivity” Colombo LG03 - Theatre A