Programme

Fontainebleau, France 13 July 2026 – 15 July 2026

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

14:30

Board Meeting

From 15:00

Registration

16:45 – 17:30

Opening

Conference Opening & SIOE at 30 Commemoration

Suddens amphitheatre

Gary Libecap, Bob Gibbons, Pauline Grosjean

17:30 – 18:45

Keynote

Keynote Address #1

Suddens amphitheatre

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (PSE): The rise of mobile broadband and the fall of incumbency advantage

18:45 – 20:30

Reception

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Parallel A

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Parallel B

12:30

Lunch

INSEAD restaurant

13:30 – 15:00

Parallel C

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00

Parallel D

17:15 – 18:30

Keynote

Keynote Address #2 - Introduction by Mark Stabile (INSEAD, Dean of DP and Stone Center Co-director)

Suddens amphitheatre

Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi): Long Run Wealth and Income Inequality

18:30 – 22:00

Programme

Board Meeting

Registration

Conference Opening & SIOE at 30 Commemoration

Keynote Address #1

Reception

Registration

Parallel A

A1 AI, Markets, and Algorithmic Decisions

A2 Bureaucracy, Policing, and State Capacity

A3 China: State, Religion, and Long-Run Development

A4 Conflict and Institutions in Historical Political Economy

A5 Dynamic Models of Politics

A6 Environment, Climate, and Firms

A7 Institutional Trust and Electoral Accountability

A8 Managers and Management Practices in Organizations

A9 Politics of the Rule of Law

A10 Violence, Gender, and Identity

Coffee Break

Parallel B

B1 AI, Technology, and Work

B2 Cooperation in Organizations

B3 Decentralized organizations

B4 Economic Governance for Addressing Societal Issues

B5 Firms, Power, and Politics

B6 Gender in Organizations and Politics

B7 Historical Roots of Inequality and Trust

B8 Law, Legal Origins, and Regulatory Design

B9 Power Games: Conflict, Division, and Control

B10 State Formation, Borders, and Identity

Lunch

Parallel C

C1 Autocracy, Corruption, and Democratic Survival

C2 Commitment, Enforcement, and Sovereign Risk

C3 Firms, Workers, and Productivity

C4 Geoeconomics

C5 Governance of Interfirm Relationships

C6 Impact of the Judiciary

C7 Knowledge, Persuasion, and Institutional Emergence

C8 Salary regulation and workers’ sorting

C9 The Economics of Working Environment

Coffee Break

Parallel D

D1 Agency, Incentives, and Promotion

D2 Anticorruption, Taxation, and Bureaucratic Reform

D3 Cultural Consequences of Market Integration

D4 Designing Hybrid Governance: The Architecture of Formal and Relational Contracts

D5 Human capital and training in organizations

D6 Improving the Judiciary

D7 Procurement, Competition, and Market Structure

D8 Public Services and Policy Reform

D9 Ronald Coase Institute session : Elite Incentives, Networks, and Violence

Keynote Address #2 - Introduction by Mark Stabile (INSEAD, Dean of DP and Stone Center Co-director)

Bastille Day BBQ

Parallel E

E1 AI in Private and Public Law

E2 Contracts, Cooperation, and Property Rights

E3 Corporate Foundations in Flux: The Transformation of Voting, M&A Contracting, and Investment Funds

E4 Institutions, Authority, and Governance

E5 Management Practices and Productivity

E6 Media, Narratives, and Political Behavior

E7 Organizational Design and Culture

E8 Political Institutions, Economic Competition, and Repression

E9 Relational Contracts and Firm Boundaries

Coffee Break

Plenary Panel: “Organizing for Societal Change”

Lunch

Parallel F

F1 Colonial and pre-Colonial Organizations in Africa

F2 Beyond Assumptions: Leveraging Belief and Preference Measurement for Organizational Outcomes

F3 Firm Networks: Evidence from Developing Countries

F4 Firms, Industrial Policy, and Performance

F5 Formal and Informal Norms of Conducts

F6 Gender in organizations

F7 Labor, Migration, and Regulation

F8 Managing Workers: Supervision, Hiring, and Productivity

F9 State-building, inequality and markets in historical perspective

Coffee Break

Presidential Address

Business Meeting & Awards Ceremony