30th Annual SIOE Conference

AI in Private and Public Law

Chair: Lisa Bernstein

• The Foreseeability Paradox

  Sunayana Rane (Princeton University)

• Redesigning Disclosure Norms for AI-Mediated Commercial Negotiations

  Omer Pelled (Bar-Ilan University); Yifat Naftali Ben-Zion (Tel-Aviv University)

• Predictive Algorithms in the Frontlines of the Administrative State: Empirical Evidence from Child Protection Screening

  Amit Haim (Tel Aviv University); Rhema Vaithianathan (Auckland University of Technology)

Beyond Assumptions: Leveraging Belief and Preference Measurement for Organizational Outcomes

• Measuring Economic Preferences with Behavioral Experiments and Surveys Across the Globe

  Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt); Zahra Sharafi (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management); Maira Sontag Gonzalez (Goethe University Frankfurt); Na Zou (University of Bath)

• Mental Models of Incentives

  Julian Detemple (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

• Targeting Treatment Assignment by combining Behavioral Measurement and Machine Learning

  Florian Hett (University of Mainz); Kevin Bauer (Goethe University); Andreas Grunewald (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management); Johanna Jagow (Jagow Speicher Consulting); Maximilian Speicher (Jagow Speicher Consulting)

Colonial and pre-Colonial Organizations in Africa

• Private Colonialism in Africa

  Etienne Le Rossignol (London Business School)

• En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco

  Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard University); Ariane Salem (Sorbonne)

• Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo

  Sara Lowes (UCSD)

Conflict and Institutions in Historical Political Economy

• Conflict and Growth in Classical Greece

  Federica Carugati (King's College London); Scott Arcenas (University of Montana)

• Demobilization Through Inaction: Bureaucratic Delay, Ambiguity, and Collective Action

  Emily Sellars (Yale University)

• Geopolitics and institutional change: the Napoleonic wars and the abolition of the British slave trade

  Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King's College London)

Cooperation in Organizations

• Management Rotation as a Mechanism to Support Favor Exchanges in Organizations

  Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne)); Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis)

• Cooperation in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food

  Jorge Tamayo (Harvard University)

• Value-Based leadership

  Guido Friebel (Goethe U); Morten Bennedsen (Copenhagen/INSEAD); Esther Bianco; Maria Schlier (Goethe U)

• Connectivity Infrastructure and Innovation: The Effects of Headquarters versus Subsidiary Management

  Catherine Magelssen (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

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

• Can Private Funds Go Public? Rethinking the Future of Funds

  Dorothy Lund (Columbia Law School)

• Fix the Price or Price the Fix? Resolving the Sequencing Puzzle in Corporate Acquisitions

  Eric Talley (Columbia University)

• The Proxy Voting Choice Revolution

  Dorothy Lund (Columbia Law School)

Cultural Consequences of Market Integration

• The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Electrification and Immigrant Labor

  Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia)

• Gilded Apartheid: Market Access & the Forging of Afrikaner National Identity in Colonial South Africa

  Laura Montenegro (London School of Economics)

• Doux Commerce: Markets, Culture, and Cooperation in 1850-1920 U.S.

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

Decentralized organizations

• Decentralized Funding Mechanisms: Evidence from the Field

  Jillian Grennan (Emory University); Ian Appel (University of Virginia); Larry Wu (Emory University); Eliza Oak (Optimism Foundation)

• Power Structures and Consensus Dynamics in DAO Proposals

  Chunghyun Han (Columbia University); Tao Li (University of Florida); Jungsuk Han (Seoul National University); Jongsub Lee (Seoul National University)

• Decentralized Exchanges for Stablecoins

  Wenqian Huang (Bank of Internal Settlement); Natalia Rostova (EDHEC Business School); Zhaogang Song (Johns Hopkins University)

• Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations

  Daniel Rabetti (National University of Singapore); Charles Wang (Harvard Business School); Yu Yan (National University of Singapore); Lin Cong (Nanyang Technological University)

Designing Hybrid Governance: The Architecture of Formal and Relational Contracts

• Configurational Approach to Relationships in Government Contracting

  Lachezar Anguelov (The Evergreen State College); Tyler Scott (University of California - Davis)

• Enforcement without Courts? Combining Formal and Relational Contract Governance

  Ole Helby Petersen (Roskilde University); Thomas Elston (University of Oxford)

• Dual Anchors in the Shadow of the Future: How Renewal Expectations and Relational History Govern Behavior in Public Contracts

  Deanna Malatesta (Indiana University); Faisal Cheema (Indiana University)

Dynamic Models of Politics

• Competitive Alliance Formation

  Álvaro Delgado-Vega (University of Chicago); Spencer Pantoja (Stanford University)

• Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning

  Benjamin Blumenthal (ULB)

• Dynamic Policy Development and Implementation: An Electoral Accountability Model

  Benjamin Shaver (Northwestern University); Daniel Gibbs (Virginia Tech)

Economic Governance for Addressing Societal Issues

• STRATEGIES AT ENTRY OF FOR-PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT FIRMS IN PUBLIC SERVICES: INSIGHTS FROM PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

  Thomaz Teodorovicz (Copenhagen Business School); Carlos Inoue (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign); Deepak Somaya (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)

• Structural Power in Multinational Investments: A Matching Approach

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

• LEVIATHAN AS A CLIENT: PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE PROMOTION OF DESALINATION TECHNOLOGIES TO ADDRESS WATER SCARCITY

  Ilze Kivleniece (INSEAD); Leandro Pongeluppe (Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania); Sergio Lazzarini (Insper)

Elite Incentives, Networks, and Violence

• Banking on Family: Do Family Ownership Networks Matter for the Survival of Russian Banks?

  Alexander Soldatkin (University of Oxford)

• Monopolizing Violence? Assessing the Function of Private Security Companies in the Provision of Property Rights Enforcement in Putin’s Russia

  Aymen Aulaiwi (University of Oxford)

• Oligarchs and Geopolitical Realignment: Evidence from the Russo-Ukrainian War

  Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)

• Cycles of Nepotism: How Electoral Incentives and Political Connections Undermine Public Procurement

  Nico Ravanilla (University of California San Diego); Felix Harmann (Copenhagen Business School)

Firm Networks: Evidence from Developing Countries

• Evaluating a Supplier Development Program in Mexico: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

  Golvine de Rochambeau (World Bank Group)

• Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garments

  Julia Cajal-Grossi (Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)); Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School); Canyon Can (Yale University); Rocco Macchiavello (LSE)

• Firm Networks and Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

  Lin Tian (INSEAD)

Formal and Informal Norms of Conducts

• The Origins of the State's Institutional Capacity

  Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)

• Endogenous Kinship Institutions

  Yasir Amin (University of Bologna); Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna); Amin Gholami (New York University)

• Primordial Legal Origins

  Giancarlo Lago (University of Bologna); Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna); Giacomo Benati (University of Barcelona); Amin Gholami (New York University); Barbara Luppi (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia); Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota)

Gender in organizations

• The Cultural Origin of Gender Gaps in Pay and Mobility: Evidence from Canada

  Kieu-Trang Nguyen (University of Melbourne & Northwestern University)

• Empowering Women through Safety at Work: An Experiment with SMEs in Urban India

  Livia Alfonsi (Harvard)

• Gender and the demand and supply of advice in teams

  Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University); Shan Aman Rana (University of Virginia); Clement Minaudier (City University of London); Brais Alvarez Pereira (NOVA); Shamyla Chaudry

Geoeconomics

• Peace Rules! The impact of a rule-based international order on peace

  Francisco Eslava (Geneva Graduate Institute); Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute); Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute)

• The Geoeconomics of Contract Enforcement

  Marta Troya Martinez (UAB, BSE and NES)

• American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922

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

Governance of Interfirm Relationships

• Acquisitions and Relational Management Practices

  Ameet Morjaria (MIT)

• Why firms make when they can buy? Resource redeployability & firm vertical boundaries

  George Chondrakis (Esade Business School)

• What Does Governance Do? Evidence From Airlines

  Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne)); Silke Forbes (Tufts University); Ricard Gil (IESE Business School)

Human capital and training in organizations

• REORGANIZING WORK INSIDE THE FIRM: TASK CHANGE AFTER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION

  Raffaella Sadun (Harvard)

• Supervision and worker performance: Evidence from a hospital emergency department

  Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi University)

• Beyond Training: Worker Agency, Informal Learning, and Competition

  Mikko Silliman (Aalto University)

Impact of the Judiciary

• Political Appointments, Careers, and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from U.S. Federal Judges

  Massimo Pulejo (Roma Tre University); Carlo Medici (University of California Los Angeles)

• The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing Contracts When the State Does Not

  Federica Braccioli (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

• Improving Judicial Protection in Intimate Partner Violence Cases: The Role of Specialized Courts and Judges

  Gustavo J. Bobonis (University of Toronto); Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto); Paola Salardi (University of Toronto); Dario Toman (University of Toronto)

Improving the Judiciary

• The effects of the reform of the judicial map on the functioning of civil justice

  Sauro Mocetti (Bank of Italy)

• Gender diversity and decision-making in teams

  Viola Salvestrini (Bocconi University); Maddalena Ronchi (Northwestern University)

• Monitoring Judges: The Impact of Randomly Assigned Observers in Immigration Courts

  decio coviello (HEC Montreal)

Institutional Trust and Electoral Accountability

• Trust and Policy Capacity - Strategic Bureaucrat Appointments under Electoral Incentives

  Dana Sisak (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Otto Swank (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

• Legislative Effectiveness, Trade Shocks, and Electoral Accountability

  Barton Lee (ETH Zürich); Davide Cipullo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

• Institutional Confidence and Democratic Backsliding

  EDOARDO Grillo (University of Padova)

Institutions, Authority, and Governance

• Policymaking in the American States, 1787-2020

  Charles Angelucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• When the Dicator is in Town

  Nicola Mastrorocco (University of Bologna)

• The Global Incumbency Advantage

  Benjamin Marx (Boston University); Raphaël Descamps (Ecole Polytechnique); Vincent Pons (Harvard University); Vincent Rollet (MIT)

Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Organizations

• Making Help Visible: Experimental Evidence from a Recognition Program in the Workplace

  Silvia Castro (INSEAD); Hoa Ho (University of Munich (LMU)); Maren Mickeler (ESSEC)

• It’s a match! Team formation and performance in innovation-related tasks

  Nathalie Römer (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business); Joshua Graff-Zivin (UCSD)

• Banking on Conflict: Managers and Organizational Design

  Tom Schwantje (Bocconi University); Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University); Luca Picariello (Univ. of Naples Federico II)

Political Institutions, Economic Competition, and Repression

• The Cost of State-Building: Evidence from Germany

  Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)

• Competition and expropriations in WWII Bordeaux

  Juha Tolvanen (Tor Vergata University of Rome); Stephanos Vlachos (University of Vienna); Julien Senn (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Jewish deportation in wartime France

  Pauline Grosjean (University of New South Wales); Sascha Becker (Monash and Warwick); Camille Remigereau (UNSW)

Politics of the Rule of Law

• Production Networks and Preferences for Property Rights

  Amy Pond (Washington University in St. Louis); Timm Betz (Washington University in St. Louis)

• When Green Trade Backfires: The Uneven Effects of the EU Timber Regulation on Deforestation

  QUYNH NGUYEN (University of Bern); Stefano Jud (University of Bern)

Power Games: Conflict, Division, and Control

• The Economics of Power Consolidation

  Freddie Papazyan (Texas Tech University)

• Competitive Dynamics in Organizations

  Jingran Yang (University of Kansas); Qijing Yang (Renmin University of China)

• Divide and Diverge

  Giampaolo Bonomi (Princeton University)

Salary regulation and workers’ sorting

• Salary Caps for Public Managers and Public Sector Performance

  Chiara Giannetto (University College London (UCL)); Lorenzo Incoronato (University of Naples Federico II); Edoardo Di Porto (Sapienza University of Rome); Christian Dustmann (University College London (UCL))

• Mind the Cap? The effects of regulating bankers' pay

  Maddalena Ronchi (Northwestern University); Matteo Paradisi (EIEF); Jordy Meekes (Leiden University)

State-building, inequality and markets in historical perspective

• When Did Gold Clauses Die?

  Gabriel Mesevage (King's College London); Marc Flandreau (UPenn)

• Resisting Absolutism and Empire Centralization: How Early Institutions Shape Conflict

  Francesc Amat (University of Barcelona - IPERG); Pablo Beramendi (Duke); Carles Boix (Princeton); Barend Ruesink (Duke); Shanker Satyanath (NYU)

• The Sources of Inequality

  Giacomo Benati (UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA); Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi University)

The Economics of Working Environment

• The Scarring Effects of Workplace Sexual Harassment

  Birthe Larsen (Copenhagen Business School); Natalie Duncombe (U.S. Government Accountability Office,); Nisha Chikhale (University of Delaware)

• Pay Transparency and Mental Health

  Daniela Scur (Cornell University); Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen); Elena Simintzi (UNC); Margarita Tsoutsoura (Washington University, St Louis); Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)

• Neighborhood CEOs

  Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University)