30th Annual SIOE Conference

A1: AI, Markets, and Algorithmic Decisions — Room De Vitry

Chair: Sepehr Shahshahani

• Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection

  Amna Salam (UCSD)

• Aligning Large Language Model Agents with Rational and Moral Preferences

  Daniel Chen (TSE, IAST, CNRS); Wei Lu (CUNY); Amit Dhanda (Amazon); Chris Hansen (University of Chicago)

• Market Design for AI: Beyond the Copyright Binary

  Sepehr Shahshahani (Washington University); Maryam Farboodi (MIT); Negin Golrezaei (MIT)

A2: Bureaucracy, Policing, and State Capacity — Room MBA 70

Chair: Elisa Facchetti

• Misconduct, Metrics, and Motivation: Incentive-Driven Changes in Policing Behavior

  YUKI OTSU (The University of Tokyo)

• How Crisis Reshapes Government Talent

  Hunter Rendleman (University of California, Berkeley); Maria Silfa (The Ohio State University); Jacob Brown (Boston University)

• Opacity as Constitutional Capacity: State Legibility and Privacy Technologies

  Eric Alston (University of Wyoming); Federica Carugati (King's College London)

• Police organization and police performance

  Elisa Facchetti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

A3: China: State, Religion, and Long-Run Development — Room Maag

Chair: Edgard Dewitte

• Local Knowledge and State Development: Evidence from Chinese Gazetteers

  Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong)

• Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China

  Xizi Luo (university of Manchester); Melanie Meng Xue (m.m.xue@lse.ac.uk)

• Seeds of Market-Based Capitalism: Christian Missionaries and China’s Modernization

  Riccardo Di Cato (UC San Diego); Jiachen Li (Renmin University of China)

• Monasteries for Political Survival: the Rise of Buddhism in Mid-Imperial China

  Edgard Dewitte (University of California, Berkeley)

A4: Conflict and Institutions in Historical Political Economy — Room Forster

Chair: Federica Carugati

• 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)

• Political Violence and the Rise of Fascism

  Massimiliano Onorato (University of Bologna); Tommaso Celani (ECB); Luca Colombo (Università Cattolica); Michele Magnani (Bocconi University)

• Conflict and Growth in Classical Greece

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

A5: Dynamic Models of Politics — Room Suddens

Chair: Benjamin Shaver

• Competitive Alliance Formation

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

• Pandering to the Future

  Benjamin Blumenthal (ULB)

• Legislative Bargaining with Heterogeneously Productive/Destructive Legislators

  Antoine LOEPER (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, CIF: Q2818029G)

• A Theory of Illiberal Democracy and Political Transitions with Heterogeneous Policy Preferences

  Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University); Shirleen Manzur (World Bank)

A6: Environment, Climate, and Firms — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Alessandro Melcarne

• Making a Difference? The Impact of Environmental NGO campaigns on Deforestation in Brazil

  Christoph Oberthür (Paris School of Economics)

• Fuel Prices and Carbon Emissions: The Role of Structured Management Practices

  Jieun Shin (IESE Business School)

• Learning with Economists in Petro-Rich Economies: Climate Change Policies in Russia

  Gerhard Toews (NES and UiS)

• Green Regulation Through Climate Litigation: Empirical Evidence

  Alessandro Melcarne (University of Padova); Vittoria Iannuzzi (University of Torino); Giovanni Battista Ramello (University of Torino)

A7: Institutional Trust and Electoral Accountability — Room Rubeli

Chair: Dana Sisak

• Institutional Confidence and Democratic Backsliding

  EDOARDO Grillo (University of Padova)

• Legislative Effectiveness, Trade Shocks, and Electoral Accountability

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

• Voter Resentment and the Strategic Dynamics of Enfranchisement

  Trellace Lawrimore (New York University Abu Dhabi); Anna Denisenko (University of Chicago Harris School)

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

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

A8: Managers and Management Practices in Organizations — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Silvia Castro

• Banking on Conflict: Managers and Organizational Design

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

• Back Office Matters: Managerial Quality in Retail

  Jorge Tamayo (Harvard); Parker Howell (University of Michigan); Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan); Ach Adhvaryu (UCSD)

• Cultural Constraints on Managerial Productivity: Evidence from World Bank Lending

  Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School, University of Gothenburg and World Bank); Bob Rijkers (World Bank); Yves Froude (World Bank); Aaditya Mattoo (World Bank)

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

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

A9: Politics of the Rule of Law — Room MBA 72

Chair: Amy Pond

• Preferences for Formalization in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector: Evidence from a Conjoint in Peru's Madre de Dios Province

  Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern); Stefano Jud (University of Bern)

• Where’s Coase? Transaction Costs Reduction or Rent-Seeking in Forming Institutions

  Gary Libecap (University of California)

• Fragmenting Commercial Governance: The Political Economy of Place-Based Industrial Policy in Africa

  Michael Allen (Stanford University); Zoe Ge (IE University)

• Production Networks and Preferences for Property Rights

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

A10: Violence, Gender, and Identity — Room BCG

Chair: Claudia Marangon

• Coercive Policies and the Persistence of Violence: Evidence from Male Sterilizations in India

  Aditi Singh (Vancouver School of Economic); Sarah Vincent (Columbia University)

• Protecting LGBTQ* Social Spaces in 1950s and 1960s New York: Mafia vs Self-protection

  Anja Shortland (King's College London)

• The long-term effects of historical gender imbalances on children's educational achievement in Australia

  Aleksandra Erakhtina (University of Technology Sydney)

• Identity in Journalism: Evidence from News Reporting of Violence Against Women

  Claudia Marangon (Harvard University)

B1: AI, Technology, and Work — Room De Vitry

Chair: Hanzhe Li

• AI v.s. Humans as Managers

  Hanzhe Li (University of Hong Kong); Jin Li (University of Hong Kong); Andrew Yunchou Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

• The Turing Valley: How AI Capabilities Shape Labor Income

  Eduard Talamas (IESE Barcelona); Enrique Ide (IESE)

• The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-Curve(s)

  Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto); Mu-Jeung Yang (Colorado); Zachary Kroff (Analysis Group); Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford)

B2: Cooperation in Organizations — Room MBA 70

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

• 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)

• 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)

B3: Decentralized organizations — Room Maag

Chair: Jillian Grennan

• Decentralized Exchanges for Stablecoins

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

• 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)

• Campaign Progress Disclosure in Crowdfunding: Information Design and Counterfactual Evidence

  Keiichi Kawai (Keio University); Akira Matsushita (Kyoto University)

B4: Economic Governance for Addressing Societal Issues — Room Forster

Chair: Ilze Kivleniece

• Structural Power in Multinational Investments: A Matching Approach

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

• 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)

• NAVIGATING PHILANTHROPY ALLOCATION AMIDST CHANGE: BALANCING INSTITUTIONAL AND FIRM-LEVEL DRIVERS OF GIVING

  Octavio Augusto de Barros (HEC Paris)

• 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)

B5: Firms, Power, and Politics — Room Suddens

Chair: Marco Mari

• From Economic to Political Power

  Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University and University of East Anglia)

• Does Politics Matter in Entrepreneurship? Political Polarization, Nonpartisans, and Entrepreneurial Team Performance

  John de Figueiredo (Duke University); Brian Silverman (University of Toronto); Christopher Eaglin (Duke University); Trijeet Sethi

• Captain on the Bridge: Corporate Restructuring in the U.S.-China Trade War

  Xinyu Fan (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Wei Li (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Yi Zhou (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

• The Political Nature of the Firm

  Marco Mari (MIT)

B6: Gender in Organizations and Politics — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Müge Süer

• Productivity under Hostility

  Clementine VAN EFFENTERRE (University of Toronto); Manuela Collis (University of Toronto)

• From Boardroom to Courtroom: Gender Diversity and Legal Strategies

  Jae Cho (University of Lausanne, HEC Lausanne); Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF, MoFiR)

• Necessary or Optional? Gender and Coalition Strategies in French Municipal Elections

  Chloe Nibourel (Stockholm University)

• Economic Behavior and Gender Typicality: The Predictive Power of Femininity and Masculinity

  Müge Süer (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)); Stefano Piasenti (University of Milan)

B7: Historical Roots of Inequality and Trust — Room Rubeli

Chair: Marie Beigelman

• On the Other Side of the Creek: Historical segregation, neighborhood social capital, and human capital accumulation

  Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics)

• Ancestral Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution

  Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and EIEF); Arcangelo Dimico (QUB); Gian Luca Tedeschi (Bergamo)

• In-Group---Out-Group Trust: Origins and Consequences

  Etienne Le Rossignol (London Business School); Sara Lowes (UCSD)

• Sugar, Hardship, and Aftermath of Slavery

  Marie Beigelman (King's College London)

B8: Law, Legal Origins, and Regulatory Design — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Miguel de Figueiredo

• Obviously Strategy Proof Liability Rules

  Omer Pelled (Bar-Ilan University); Michael Goldboim (Bar-Ilan University)

• The Private Law Architecture of Intellectual Property

  Henry Smith (Harvard)

• Anti-Precaution

  Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University); Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania)

• Legal Origin from Outer Space (and on Foot): A Geographic Regression Discontinuity Approach

  Miguel de Figueiredo (Univerrsity of Connecticut)

B9: Power Games: Conflict, Division, and Control — Room MBA 72

Chair: Freddie Papazyan

• Competitive Dynamics in Organizations

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

• Divide and Diverge

  Giampaolo Bonomi (Princeton University)

• Replacement and Patronage

  Zanhui Liu (Tsinghua University); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago); Yucheng Qiu (Peking University); Shuyi Yu (University of Chicago)

• The Economics of Power Consolidation

  Freddie Papazyan (Texas Tech University)

B10: State Formation, Borders, and Identity — Room BCG

Chair: Berkeren Buyukeren

• Political border designs and the salience of ethnicity in politics

  Richard Bluhm (University of Stuttgart); Roland Hodler (University of St. Gallen); Paul Schaudt (KU Leuven)

• "Jurisdictional Havens": The Geography of Indigenous Identity in Mexico

  Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University); Edgar Franco-Vivanco (University of Michigan)

• Des nôtres? The Political Effects of Hosting Internal Evacuees

  Jean Lacroix (Université Paris saclay); Ricardo Piqué (Texas A&M)

C1: Autocracy, Corruption, and Democratic Survival — Room De Vitry

Chair: Anastasiia Arbuzova

• Good Lord, Bad Democrat: When Effective Autocracy Undermines Civic Capacity

  Makoto Fukumoto (Waseda University)

• Labor Unions and Democratic Survival: unions won't be the “bulwark of democracy”

  John Ahlquist (UC San Diego); Theodoros Ntounias (UCSD)

• Bureaucratic Deliberation and Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

  Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia)

• Fraud and Legitimacy: The Economics of Autocratic Elections

  Anastasiia Arbuzova (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE))

C2: Commitment, Enforcement, and Sovereign Risk — Room MBA 70

Chair: Michele Fioretti

• Collateral Law and Enforcement Risk: Evidence from Native American Reservations

  Leo Leitzinger (Goethe University Frankfurt)

• Compliance with International Law in a Dynamic Equilibrium

  Mitja Kovac (School of Economics and Business University of Ljubljana); Shai Dothan (University of Copenhagen); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business)

• (Dis-)Alignment and Government Transfers: Insights from Cassa per il Mezzogiorno

  Christoph Koenig (University of Padova)

• Sovereign Hold-Up and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Oil & Gas

  Michele Fioretti (Università Bocconi); Clément Mazet-Sonilhac (Bocconi)

C3: Firms, Workers, and Productivity — Room Maag

Chair: Juan Pablo Chauvin

• Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?

  Eleanor Dillon (Microsoft Research); Lisa Kahn (University of Rochester); Joanna Venator (Boston College); Michael Dalton (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

• Who Responds to Team Incentives? Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Retail Bank

  Jakob Alfitian (Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics); Max Thon (University of Zurich)

• Connectivity and Misallocation in Multi-Unit Firms

  Juan Pablo Chauvin (Inter-American Development Bank); Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown University McDonough School of Business); Giovanna Chaves (New York University, Department of Economics)

• Labor Market Effects of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany

  Marina Dodlova (University of Münster, CESifo); Marcel Kossack (University of Münster); Lukas Möller-Sappelt (University of Münster)

C4: Geoeconomics — Room Forster

Chair: Marta Troya-Martinez

• The Geoeconomics of Contract Enforcement

  Marta Troya Martinez (UAB, BSE and NES)

• 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)

• American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922

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

• Cooperation between National Armies: Evidence from the Sahel borders

  Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics, CNRS); Marion Richard (Nova SBE)

C5: Governance of Interfirm Relationships — Room Suddens

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

• 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)

• Markets, Contracts, and Hierarchies: How Do Bargaining Frictions Affect Governance?

  Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Topi Miettinen (Hanken School of Economics)

• What Does Governance Do? Evidence From Airlines

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

C6: Impact of the Judiciary — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Federica Braccioli

• 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)

• 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)

• Does Rule of Law Enhance Growth? Evidence from Indian Judicial Appointments

  W Bentley MacLeod (Yale University); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School, Moscow); Jun Goto (GRIPS, Japan)

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

  Federica Braccioli (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

C7: Knowledge, Persuasion, and Institutional Emergence — Room Rubeli

Chair: Sascha Becker

• Coffeehouses and the Rise of Science

  Monir Bounadi (Stockholm University); Jens Oehlen (Stockholm University)

• Why and How: Public-Sphere Persuasion and Institutional Legitimacy

  Laure Athias (University of Lausanne)

• Bootstrapping Sustainability Norms in Cultural–Institutional Coevolutionary Systems

  Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan); Scott Page (University of Michigan Ross School of Business)

• Forced Displacement of Scholars and Academic Output During the Scientific Revolution

  Sascha Becker (University of Warwick and Monash University); David de la Croix (UC Louvain); Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-E); Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)

C8: Salary regulation and workers’ sorting — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Maddalena Ronchi

• 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))

• Buying Out the Means of Production: Wages and Productivity in Labor-Managed Firms

  Elia Benveniste (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

• Local effects of regulation on income, unemployment, and inequality: Evidence from U.S. commuting zones over the past half-century

  Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz); Andrey Stoyanov (York University)

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

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

C9: The Economics of Working Environment — Room MBA 72

Chair: Morten Bennedsen

• The Scarring Effects of Workplace Sexual Harassment

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

• An unconditional quantile analysis of employee depression

  Andrew Wait (University of Sydney); Kieron Meagher (Australian National University)

• Workload, Time Use and Efficiency

  Erina Ytsma (Carnegie Mellon University); Austin Sudbury (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Public Sector Management Practice and Employee Well-being

  Jihye Jang (Cornell); Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen); Maria Schlier (University of Copenhagen); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

D1: Agency, Incentives, and Promotion — Room De Vitry

Chair: Takuma Habu

• Misaligned agents

  Nicolas Sahuguet (Hec Montreal); Pierre Chaigneau (Queen's University)

• A Theory of Managerial Conservatism Arising From Private Information About Job Performance

  James Stratton (Harvard)

• Managerial Human Capital and Investment Strategy in Organizations

  Jean de Bettignies (Queen's University); Hua Fang Liu (Baruch College)

• Hiding Lemons among Peaches: Optimal Retention and Promotion Policy Design

  Takuma Habu (Cornell University); Andrew Choi (University of Michigan)

D2: Anticorruption, Taxation, and Bureaucratic Reform — Room MBA 70

Chair: Quoc-Anh Do

• The Political Costs of Tax Enforcement

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

• Optimal Patronage

  Mikhail Drugov (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / New Economic School)

• Fire At Will: Civil Service Reform and Bureaucratic Accountability

  Dan Alexander (University of Rochester); Ruth Holloway (University of Rochester)

• Handcuffing the Grabbing Hand: Evidence from China's Anticorruption Campaign

  Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Jonathan Norris (University of Strathclyde); Fei Xu (Umeå University)

D3: Cultural Consequences of Market Integration — Room Maag

Chair: Max Posch

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

  Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia)

• Winning Stomachs and Minds: Ethnic Restaurants and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the US

  Dean Hoi (University of Melbourne); Marco Lecci (Monash University)

• How Market Access Shapes Wellbeing and Values: Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo

  Clara Sievert (CERGE-EI); Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia); Jonathan L. Weigel (Berkeley Haas); Marina Ngoma (World Bank); Xavier Jaravel (The London School of Economics and Political Science)

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

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

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

Chair: Deanna Malatesta

• Enforcement without Courts? Combining Formal and Relational Contract Governance

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

• Coalitions and Recurrent Negotiation in Multilateral Relational Contracts

  Joel Watson (UC San Diego); David Miller (Univ Michigan)

• Alternate Strategies for Incomplete Public Contracting - Assessing Cost Effectiveness

  Elaine De Gruyter (University of Oxford); Maria Patouna (University of Oxford); Eleanor Carter (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)

D5: Human capital and training in organizations — Room Suddens

Chair: Raphaël Lévy

• 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)

• Soft Skills, Unemployment and Job Search

  Johanna Roth (Sciences Po and Insead); Maria Guadalupe (Insead); Alexandra Roulet (Insead)

D6: Improving the Judiciary — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Decio Coviello

• 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)

• The Predictable Court

  Jed Stiglitz (Cornell University)

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

  decio coviello (HEC Montreal)

D7: Procurement, Competition, and Market Structure — Room Rubeli

Chair: Juan Sebastián Ivars

• Beneath the Surface: Investigating Anti-Competitive Signals in Brazilian Public Procurement

  Darcio Genicolo-Martins (Insper Institute of Education and Research / Assistant Professor); Sergio Galletta (ETH Zürich and Sapienza University of Rome / Senior Researcher and Associate Professor); Tommaso Giommoni (University of Amsterdam / Assistant Professor)

• Can Protective Tariffs Induce Industrial Consolidations? Theory and Evidence from the Great Merger Movement

  Alonso Ahumada (University of Edinburgh)

• Uniform Pricing, Demand Shocks, and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Hotel Industry

  Silke Forbes (Tufts University); Renata Kosova (Imperial College)

• Contract Shifting vs. Contract Splitting in Public Procurement

  Juan Sebastián Ivars (University of Balearic Islands); Isac Antonio Olave-Cruz (University of Rouen Normandy - LERN)

D8: Public Services and Policy Reform — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Juan Castro

• Drought of Learning: Can private sanitation systems exacerbate the impact of droughts on student learning?

  Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (Insper); Thayla Soares (Insper); Francisco Cavalcanti (UFPE)

• How do communication technologies impact the state provision?

  Juan Castro (Queen Mary University of London)

• Remaking the State from Below: Local Government Formation in Ukraine

  Berkeren Buyukeren (EIEF and LUISS)

D9: Ronald Coase Institute session : Elite Incentives, Networks, and Violence — Room MBA 72

Chair: Mary Shirley

Discussant: Konstantin Sonin

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

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

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

  Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)

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

  Alexander Soldatkin (University of Oxford)

• Corporate Dark Money in Politics: Evidence from India

  Sukrit Puri (London Business School); Boris Vallée (INSEAD)

E1: AI in Private and Public Law — Room De Vitry

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)

E2: Contracts, Cooperation, and Property Rights — Room MBA 70

Chair: David Miller

• Religious Identity, Contracts, and Hold-Up Problems

  Lucas López (University of Vigo)

• Using Advice Without Considering Its Quality: A Laboratory Experiment of Demand for Advice

  Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool); Elena Panova (TSE); Astrid Hopfensitz (EMLyon)

• Seeking Relationship Support: Strategic network formation and robust cooperation

  David Miller (University of Michigan); Xu Tan (University of Washington)

• Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights

  Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago); Sara Lowes (UC San Diego); Etienne LeRossignol (Universite de Namur)

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

Chair: Gabriel Rauterberg

• The Proxy Voting Choice Revolution

  Dorothy Lund (Columbia Law School)

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

  Dorothy Lund (Columbia Law School)

• Foundation Ownership and Financial Performance: International Evidence

  Steen Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School); David Schroeder (Copenhagen Business School)

E4: Institutions, Authority, and Governance — Room Forster

Chair: Charles Angelucci

• 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)

• The Reverse Cargo Cult: Why Authoritarian Governments Lie to Their People

  Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)

• Policymaking in the American States, 1787-2020

  Charles Angelucci (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

E5: Management Practices and Productivity — Room Suddens

Chair: Stefanie Wolter

• Microaspects of Leadership: Evidence from Audio and Tracking Data

  Dominik Grothe (LMU Munich); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Yutaka Makabe (LMU Munich); Simeon Schudy (Ulm University); David Schindler (Tilburg University)

• Neighborhood CEOs

  Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University); Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen); Birthe Larsen (Copenhagen Business School); Maithili Modi (London School of Economics and Political Science)

• Personality Traits and Career Success: Understanding Workplace Dynamics

  Hideo Owan (Waseda University); Liya Wang (Waseda University); Yingchao Zhang (Durham University); Yukiko Asai (University of Chicago)

• Mapping the Dynamics of Management Styles —Evidence from German Survey Data

  Stefanie Wolter (Institute for Employment Research); Florian Englmaier (LMU); Michael Hofmann (LMU)

E6: Media, Narratives, and Political Behavior — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Adam Brzezinski

• The Market for Stories: How Market Consolidation Shaped Narratives in US History Textbooks

  Vitalia Eliseeva (Paris School of Economics); Pedro Aldighieri (Northwestern University)

• The age of content: How content fuels protests on visual social media

  Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)); Annalí Casanueva Artís (CESifo); Paul Stephan (ETH)

• Narrative Entanglement

  Adam Brzezinski (LSE); Luis Garicano (LSE)

E7: Organizational Design and Culture — Room Rubeli

Chair: Karen Bernhardt-Walther

• Identity, Coordination, and Organizational Culture

  Alison Zhao (Northwestern University)

• Overshooting of (Useful) Cultural Practices

  Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Christoph Loch (IESE); Joaquin Poblete (Catholic University of Chile)

• High-Fidelity Social Learning

  Rosario Macera (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

• Between Evolution and Efficiency: Belonging, Non-Verbal Communication, and Organizational Design

  Karen Bernhardt-Walther (York University)

E8: Political Institutions, Economic Competition, and Repression — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Pauline Grosjean

• 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)

• Roots of Courage: Persistence of Past Repression and Anti-War Dissent

  Nikita Zakharov (University of Freiburg); Andrey Tkachenko (Nazarbayev University); Amir Saimassay

• Contagious Prejudice: The Marocchinate

  David Schindler (Tilburg University); Riccardo Ghidoni (University of Bologna)

• Jewish deportation in wartime France

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

E9: Relational Contracts and Firm Boundaries — Room MBA 72

Chair: Ana Toldra Simats

• Complementarities between Long-Term Relationships and Short-Term Contracts: Case of Early Modern Japan

  Hideshi Itoh (Waseda University); Takashi Shimizu (Kobe University); Yasuo Takatsuki (Osaka University)

• A Theory of Firm Boundaries and Knowledge Sharing

  Michael Powell (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

• Supply chain resilience via partial integration

  Aroon Narayanan (MIT); Vishan Gandhi Nigam (MIT)

• Authority in Relational Contracts with Asymmetric Information

  Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

F1: Colonial and pre-Colonial Organizations in Africa — Room De Vitry

Chair: Sara Lowes

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

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

• Private Colonialism in Africa

  Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo); Etienne Le Rossignol (London Business School); Elias Papaioannou (London Business School); Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

• The Arab Slave Trade and the Diffusion of Islam in Africa

  Lydia Assouad (LSE); Giulia Buccione (CEMFI)

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

  Sara Lowes (UCSD)

F2: Beyond Assumptions: Leveraging Belief and Preference Measurement for Organizational Outcomes — Room MBA 70

Chair: Holger Herz

• 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)

• Who wants Power? Measuring Intrinsic Preferences for Power and their Behavioral Signature

  Holger Herz (University of Fribourg); Francisco Gomez Martinez (University of Fribourg)

F3: Firm Networks: Evidence from Developing Countries — Room Maag

Chair: Golvine de Rochambeau

• 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)

• How do floods change international supply chains: Evidence from Uganda

  Anna Kochanova (Cardiff Univercity); Marina Dodlova (University of Münster); Krizstina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen)

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

  Golvine de Rochambeau (World Bank Group)

F4: Firms, Industrial Policy, and Performance — Room Forster

Chair: Wouter Dessein

• Strategically Small Firms and the Real Effects of Public Grants During a Crisis

  Mircea Epure (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF-BSM, and BSE); Ozan Güler (CUNEF); Amedeo Pugliese (University of Padua)

• Welfare Effects of Industrial policies: Theory and Evidence from India’s De-reservation Policy

  Alina Mulyukova (University of Goettingen); Victor Gimenez-Perales (University of Southern Denmark)

• Corporate Social Responsibility, Firm Performance, and Environment: Evidence from Mandatory CSR in Indonesia

  Kotaro Fujisaki (University College London)

• Nimble Banks

  Wouter Dessein (Columbia University); Balint Horvath (University of Arizona); Wolf Wagner (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Wei Zhai (Central University of Finance and Economics)

F5: Formal and Informal Norms of Conducts — Room Suddens

Chair: Carmine Guerriero

• 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)

• Revealed Social Norms

  Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge); Toke Aidt (University of Cambridge)

• The Origins of the State's Institutional Capacity

  Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)

F6: Gender in organizations — Room MBA 90D

Chair: Alexia Delfino

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

  Livia Alfonsi (Harvard); Lori Beaman (Northwestern University); Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University); Karmini Sharma (Imperial College London)

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

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

• From Equal Access to Unequal Returns: Networks and Gender

  Michelle Hansch (Humboldt University Berlin and RFBerlin); Catharina Behrens (RFBerlin); Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt University / RFBerlin); Jan Nimczik (ESMT / RFBerlin)

• Friendly workplaces for working mothers

  Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University); Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University)

F7: Labor, Migration, and Regulation — Room Rubeli

Chair: Lorenzo Luisetto

• Engines of Empowerment: Cattle Tending, the Milking Machine, and Women in Politics

  Eva Forslund (Stockholm School of Economics); Céline Zipfel (Stockholm School of Economics); Jaakko Meriläinen (Stockholm School of Economics)

• Beneath the Ban of Abortion: Evidence from the USSR

  Yaroslav Prokhorskoy (ESSEC); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School); Hosny Zoabi (New Economic School)

• Collective bargaining and monopsony: The regulation of noncompete agreements in France

  Tito Boeri (Bocconi University); Tommaso Crescioli (Bocconi University); Andrea Garnero (OECD); Lorenzo Luisetto (Cleveland State University)

F8: Managing Workers: Supervision, Hiring, and Productivity — Room Dean Berry

Chair: Ritwika Sen

• Onboarding, Matching and Employee Turnover - A Field Experiment

  Paula Scholz (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

• Firm Centralization and Redeployment via Internal Labor Markets

  Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown University); Timothy Folta (University of Connecticut); Christopher Poliquin (UCLA Anderson School of Management)

• Subordinates in Charge: Does Delegation Improve Bank Supervision?

  Thomas Lambert (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

• Supervision at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Ritwika Sen (LMU Munich)

F9: State-building, inequality and markets in historical perspective — Room MBA 72

Chair: Giacomo Benati

• 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)

• Random Revolutionary Connections: Violence in the French Revolution 1789-1794

  Brenda Van Coppenolle (Sciences Po); Oliver Vanden Eynde (Paris School of Economics, CNRS)

• The Sources of Inequality

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