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SIOE 2009

Berkeley, USA — Full Programme

  • A Theory of Colonial Governance

    Julius A. Agbor (University of CapeTown); Johannes Fedderke (ERSA & University of CapeTown); Nicola Viegi (ERSA & University of CapeTown)

  • The Golden Halo and Political Transitions

    Toke S. Aidt (University of Cambridge); Facundo Albornoz (University of Birmingham); Martin Gassebner (ETH Zurich)

  • Priests, Property Rights, and Land Tenure in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston (University of Colorado and NBER); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

  • Make or Buy Urban Public Transport Services: A Rational Choice?

    Miguel Amaral (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Anne Yvrande-Billon (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • A New Perspective on Community Governance of Forests in Bolivia:

    Krister Andersson (University of Colorado); Jean Paul Benavides (CERES-Bolivia); Rosario Leon (CERES-Bolivia)

  • Public Works Bidding Process (Procurement): the Case of Brazilian Court of Audit

    Andre C. B. Aquino (University of São Paulo); Dorival I. Ângelo (Brazilian Court of Audit); Ricardo L. Cardoso (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

  • How does foreign aid affect the incentives of public bureaucracies? An institutional rational choice analysis

    Eduardo Araral (National University of Singapore)

  • The effects of property rights on collective action under conditions of missing information and path dependence

    Eduardo Araral (National University of Singapore)

  • Institutions, Fairness, and Contract Enforcement

    Falk Armin (University of Bonn and IZA); David Huffman (Swarthmore College and IZA); Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)

  • The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999

    Ashish Arora (Duke University); Lee G. Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University and NBER); Matej Drev (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • The Influence of Interest Groups on Institutions: Evidence from the American State Courts

    Benito Arrunada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Dean V. Williamson (US Department of Justice); Giorgio Zanarone (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros)

  • The Law of Impersonal Transactions: Meaning and Difficulties

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • A THEORY OF STRATEGIC PROBLEM FORMULATION

    Markus Baer (Washington University in St. Louis); Kurt Dirks (Washington University in St. Louis); Jackson Nickerson (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Transaction Costs and Trolls: the Behavior of Individual Inventors, Small Firms and Entrepreneurs in Patent Litigation

    Gwendolyn Ball (Institutue for Genomic Biology, UIUC); Jay Kesan (College of Law, UIUC)

  • New Modes of Governance of Cooperative Arrangements in Agricultural Markets: The Case of Polish Producer Groups

    Ilona Banaszak (Slovak Academy of Sciences); Volker Beckmann (Humboldt University Berlin)

  • Property as Process: How Innovation Markets Select Innovation Regimes

    Jonathan Barnett (University of Southern California)

  • Producers and Predators: An Agent-Based Perspective

    Jaromir Baxa (Charles University in Prague)

  • Politics-Business Interaction Paths

    Marianna Belloc (Università di Roma); Ugo Pagano (Università di Siena)

  • State-Ownership of Financial Institutions at its Inception: The Performance of Private and State-Owned Banks in Brazil, 1870-1929.

    Aaron Berg (Stanford); Stephen Haber (Stanford)

  • Dynamic Interaction between State Legislatures and State Courts

    Daniel Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh); Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Initial Conditions and the Evolution of Institutions, Chapter 3 & 4

    Daniel Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh); Karen Clay (Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Pipelines, Political Economy and Russian Oil

    Daniel Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh); Yadviga Semikolenova (Colorado School of Mines)

  • Are Bilateral Investment Treaties and Development Aid Home Government Policy Substitutes for Promoting FDI Activities?

    Marie-Ann Betschinger (ICEF, State University-Higher School of Economics)

  • Lock-in, Reputation and Contractual Dynamics : The Case of Car Parking Services

    Jean Beuve (IAE de Paris I); Claudine Desrieux (CES Université de Paris I)

  • The Economics of Badmouthing: Defamation, Racketeering and the French Financial Press Before World War I

    Vincent Bignon (EconomiX - University Nanterre); Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute - Geneva and CEPR)

  • Democracy, Populism, and (Un)bounded Rationality

    Johannes Binswanger (Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

  • Legal Precedents, Judicial Discretion, and the Diffusion of the Strict Liability Rule for Manufacturing Defects, 1962-87

    Robert Bird (University of Connecticut); Donald J. Smythe (California Western School of Law)

  • Did the Glorious Revolution Contribute to the Transport Revolution? Evidence from Investment in Roads and Rivers

    Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)

  • The Evolution of Bulgarian Land Tenure Institutions: An Application of the Social Conflict Theory

    Natalia Boliari (Manhattan College)

  • Equilibria in a model with a search labour market and a matching marriage market

    Roberto Bonilla Trejos (Newcastle University Business School)

  • The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: the Colombian Institute for Industrial Development, 1940-64

    Carlos A. Brando (LSE)

  • Intellectual Property Regimes: a Comparative Institutional Framework

    Eric Brousseau (EconomiX, University of Paris X); Maria Alessandra Rossi (University of Siena)

  • Markets, Crises and Policies

    Eric Brousseau (EconomiX, Université de Paris Ouest); Jerome Sgard (CERI, Sciences-Po Paris)

  • Legislative Malapportionment and Economic and Political Outcomes: A Political Economy Assessment

    Miriam Bruhn (The WorldBank); Francisco Gallego (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Massimiliano G. Onorato (Bocconi University)

  • Post privatisation ownership concentration: determinants and influence on firm efficiency

    Laura Cabeza-García (University of León, Spain); Silvia Gómez-Ansón (University of Oviedo, Spain); Vanesa Solis-Rodriguez (University of León, Spain)

  • Monitoring the Police: An Empirical Study on the Factors Affecting the Conclusion of Investigation Processes by an Internal Affairs Division

    Sandro Cabral (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil); Sergio Lazzarini (Insper Institute of Education and Research); Allan Claudius Barbosa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

  • What Difference Does a New Justice Make?

    Charles M Cameron (Princeton University); Jee-Kwang Park (Princeton University); Deborah Beim (Princeton University)

  • International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect

    Nauro Campos (Brunel University); Martin Gassebner (ETH Zurich)

  • Imperialists, Native Rulers, and Private Companies: New Evidence on the Efficiency of Indian Railways, 1880-1913

    Latika Chaudhary (Stanford University); Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)

  • Intertemporal Choice and Legal Constraints

    M. Keith Chen (Yale School of Management); Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School and School of Management)

  • A missing spatial link in institutional quality

    Peter Claeys (Universitat de Barcelona); Fabio Manca (Universitat de Barcelona)

  • The Rise of "Plant & Share" Contracts in Côte d'Ivoire. Incomplete Contracting and Land Conflicts.

    Jean-Philippe Colin (IRD and UMR MOISA); François Ruf (CIRAD and UMR Innovation); Raphaël Soubeyran (INRA and UMR LAMETA)

  • Inducing Information Provision through Competition Policy: Prohibitions on False and Unsubstantiated Claims

    Kenneth S Corts (Rotman School of Management)

  • Relationship Between Natural Resources and Institutions

    Mathieu Couttenier (Paris 1 Sorbonne-Ens Cachan)

  • The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Changing the Currents of Trade

    Anna D'Souza (UCLA)

  • The Analysis of Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation Process in Brazil

    José Maria da Silveira (Institute of Economics- University of Campinas); Izaias Carvalho Borges (Dept of Economics - PUCCAMP); Andrea Leda Ojima (Institute of Agricultural Economcis- SASP)

  • Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

    Pedro Dal Bó (Brown University); Andrew Foster (Brown University); Louis Putterman (Brown University)

  • Term Length and Political Performance

    Ernesto Dal Bo (UC Berkeley and NBER); Martin Rossi (Universidad de San Andres)

  • INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTS: TRUST AND INSTITUTIONAL UPDATING

    Xeni Dassiou (CCRP, City University, London); Jon Stern (CCRP, City University, London)

  • Skill, Luck, and Reputation in Product Diversification Decisions: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry

    Rui de FIgueiredo (Haas School, University of California); Evan Rawley (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

  • The Dynamics of Deregulation

    John M. de Figueiredo (UCLA); Charles H. Fine (MIT); Frank Cross (University of Texas)

  • The Market for Legislative Influence over Regulatory Policy

    Rui de Figueriedo (Haas School, University of California); Geoff Edwards (CRA)

  • The Rule of Law in Brazilian States’ Legislation: Evidences From Brazilian Supreme Court

    Leon Victor de Queiroz Barbosa (Federal University of Pernambuco); José Mario Wanderley Gomes Neto (Federal University of Pernambuco); Ernani Carvalho (Federal University of Pernambuco); Fabrizio Polany Almeida Santos (Catholic University of Pernambuco)

  • What Russians Think about Transition: Evidence from RLMS Survey

    Irina Denisova (Center for Economic and Financial Research); Markus Eller (Oesterreichische Nationalbank); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School)

  • Who Wants To Revise Privatization? The Complementarity of Market Skills and Institutions

    Irina Denisova (New Economic School); Markus Eller (Oesterreichische Nationalbank); Timothy Frye (Columbia University); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School)

  • The Evolution of Institutions: the medium, the long, and the ultra-long, run

    Desiree Desierto (University of the Philippines); John VC Nye (George Mason University)

  • The Evolution of Institutions: the medium, the long, and the ultra-long, run

    Desiree A. Desierto (University of the Philippines); John V.C. Nye (George Mason University)

  • Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law

    Reza Dibadj (University of San Francisco)

  • Rules of Debate: Theory and Experiment

    Eric Dickson (NYU); Catherine Hafer (NYU); Dimitri Landa (NYU)

  • The Knowledge Economics of Cooperatives

    Helmut Dietl (University of Zurich); Martin Grossmann (University of Zurich); Markus Lang (University of Zurich)

  • The Political Economy of Fiscal Prudence in Historical Perspective

    Mark Dincecco (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies)

  • Campaign Contributions and Firm Performance: The 'Latvian Way'

    Vyacheslav Dombrovsky (Stockholm School of Economics in Riga)

  • Low-skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

    Davide Dottori (Catholic University of Louvain (Francophone)); I-Ling Shen (Catholic University of Louvain (Francophone))

  • Role of Third Parties in Licensing Agreements

    Valerie Duplat (Catholic University of Louvain); John Hagedoorn (University of Maastricht)

  • Creative Destruction and Entrepreneurial Obstruction

    Alan Dye (Barnard College, Columbia University)

  • Does Privatization Increase Mortality?

    John Earle (Upjohn Institute and CEU); Scott Gehlbach (UW Madison); Theodore Gerber (UW Madison)

  • The Economic Consequences of US Interventions:An Empirical Inquiry

    William Easterly (NYU); Nathan Nunn (Harvard); Shanker Satyanath (NYU); Daniel Berger (NYU)

  • The Evolution of a Common Public Policy in the EU: Is it Possible at All? - An Institutional Economics Analysis of the EU (Post-) Lisbon Strategy

    Martina Eckardt (Andrássy University Budapest); Werner Ebert (Federal Ministry of Finance Germany)

  • Voting experiments: Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect?

    Henrik Egbert (Giessen University); Ivo Bischoff (Giessen University)

  • System Failure in Iceland and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

    Thrainn Eggertsson (University of Iceland); Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson (University of Reykjavik)

  • Institutions, Culture, and Open Source

    Sebastian Engelhardt (Friedrich Schiller University Jena); Andreas Freytag (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

  • Choosing the Rules for Consensus Standardization

    Joseph Farrell (UC Berkeley); Timothy Simcoe (University of Toronto)

  • Foreign Languages and Trade

    Jarko Fidrmuc (University of Munich); Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University)

  • The Role of Split Estates in Coalbed Methane Production

    Timothy Fitzgerald (Montana State University)

  • How do violence and insecurity affect hybrid organizational forms? A study from Colombia

    Clemente Forero (Universidad de los Andes); Eduardo Wills (Universidad de los Andes); Veneta Andonova (Universidad de los Andes); Luz Elena Orozco (Universidad de los Andes); Oscar Pardo (Universidad de los Andes)

  • How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005.

    Patricia Funk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Christina Gathmann (Stanford University)

  • Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms

    Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St Louis); Federico Weinschelbaum (UdeSA)

  • Social Status and Corruption

    Sebastian Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis); Federico Weinschelbaum (Universidad de San Andres)

  • Myopic Banditry and Foreign Settlement on the Gold Coast: The Emergence of Bad Institutions in Ghana, 1843-1966

    Giampaolo Garzarelli (SEBS, University of the Witswatersrand); Michele Maraschin (SEBS, University of the Witswatersrand)

  • Electoral Systems, Political Fragmentation and Government Spending

    Christina Gathmann (Stanford University)

  • Platform Contracting and Exclusivity

    Wolfgang Gick (Harvard University); Christiaan Hogendorn (Wesleyan University)

  • The Interplay of Formal, Informal and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Movies.

    Ricard Gil (UC - Santa Cruz)

  • The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence from California Highway Procurement Auctions

    Ricard Gil (UC - Santa Cruz); Justin Marion (UC - Santa Cruz)

  • The cyclical process of production of new regulation by a bounded federal regulatory structure (With application to renewable regulation in India)

    Jean-Michel Glachant (European University Institute); Vishnu Rao (University of Turin)

  • The Rise and Fall of America’s First Bank

    Dror Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)

  • Changing the Paradigm of Stock Ownership from Concentrated Towards Dispersed Ownership? Evidence from Brazil and Consequences for Emerging Countries

    Érica Gorga (Fundacao Getulio Vargas Law School at Sao Paulo)

  • Contracts of society and firm-like organization

    Anna Grandori (Bocconi University)

  • The Role of Geography and History in Cultural Diffusion: A Gravity Approach

    Pauline Grosjean (UC Berkeley)

  • Relationship Building

    Marina Halac (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Political influence behind the veil of peer review: an analysis of public biomedical research funding in the U.S.

    Deepak Hegde (UC - Berkeley)

  • Incompleteness of Chinese fruit and vegetable contracts

    George W Hendrikse (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University); Yamei Hu (School of Economics and management, Beijing Jiaoto)

  • Concentrated Power, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth

    Witold Henisz (Stanford University & University of Pennsylvannia)

  • History Geography and the Market For Mortgages

    Philip T. Hoffman (Caltech); Gilles Postel-Vinay (EHESS); Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)

  • Power Play: Buying Political Support for M&A in the Electricity Sector

    Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario); Rick Vanden Bergh (University of Vermont)

  • To Trust or to Monitor: A Dynamic Analysis

    Fali Huang (Singapore Management University)

  • Managing Agency Problems in Early Shareholder Capitalism: An Exploration of Liverpool Shipping, 1743-1784

    Paul Ingram (Columbia University); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

  • Contracts as Threats: on a Rationale For Rewarding A while Hoping For B

    Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel U. and U of Rome Tor Vergata); Giancarlo Spagnolo (U of Rome Tor Vergata and Stockholm School of Economics)

  • Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Informal Economy

    Emilia Istrate (George Mason University)

  • Formalizing Citizen Participation in Peru: Decentralization and the Role of Local Institutional Arrangements in the Provision of Agricultural Services

    Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE); Glenn D. Wright (University of Colorado at Boulder)

  • Shares, coalition formation and political development: evidence from 17th century England

    Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

  • Rent-Seeking vs. Hazard-Reducing Political Strategies: A Simple Theoretical Model

    Nan Jia (University of Toronto)

  • Cultures of Kindness: A Meta-Analysis of Trust Game Experiments

    Noel D. Johnson (George Mason University); Alexandra Mislin (SUNY at Buffalo)

  • An Economic Analysis of Legal Rules for Transboundary Pollution

    Jason Johnston (University of Pennsylvania); Michael Faure (Maastricht and Rotterdam Universities)

  • An experimental study of investment incentives mechanisms in the electricity industry

    Céline Jullien (GAEL, Grenoble University, France); Mohamed Haikel Khalfallah (GATE, Lyon 2 University); Virginie Pignon (EDF-R&D); Stéphane Robin (GATE, Lyon 2 University); Carine Staropoli (CES, University Panthéon Sorbonne)

  • Making and breaking property rights: Political foundations of institutional inefficiency

    Mogens K Justesen (University of Southern Denmark)

  • Economic Freedom and the Process of Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis Based on a New Measure

    Judit Kapas (University of Debrecen); Pal Czegledi (University of Debrecen)

  • What Influences Firms’ Perceptions?

    David S. Kaplan (World Bank); Vikram Pathania (Cornerstone Consulting Group)

  • The Constitutionalization of American Direct Democracy? An Experimental Evaluation of Voters Attitudes Toward Constitutional Initiatives

    Daniel Katz (University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science); Spencer Piston (University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science); Yanna Krupnikov (University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science)

  • Democracy and inequality: New data and exact tests

    Philip Keefer (The World Bank); Branko Milanovic (The World Bank)

  • ‘Red Flags of Corruption’ in World Bank Projects: An Analysis of Infrastructure Contracts

    Charles J. Kenny (The World Bank); Maria Musatova (The World Bank)

  • Competition, Innovation, and Maintaining Diversity through Competition Law

    Wolfgang Kerber (University Marburg)

  • Understanding the Determinants of Innovation in U.S. Local Governments: Does Fiscal Health Matter?

    Kseniya M. Khovanova (University of Illinois, Chicago)

  • Beneficial Complexity: A Field Experiment in Technology, Institutions, and Institutional Change in the Electric Power Industry

    Lynne Kiesling (Northwestern University); David Chassin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

  • Legal Fictions as Strategic Instruments

    Daniel Klerman (USC Law School)

  • Inefficient but Effective? A field experiment on the effectiveness on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms

    Hannes Koppel (Max-Plank-Institute of Economics Jena); Günther G. Schulze (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg)

  • The Child Health Implications of Water Privatization in Africa

    Katrina Kosec (Stanford University)

  • Scale, Scope, and Takeovers: Evidence from Franchising

    Renata Kosova (Cornell University); Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan); Bo Zhao (University of Michigan)

  • Individual vs. Relative Performance Pay with Envious Workers and Non-verifiable Performance

    Jenny Kragl (European Business School)

  • The Regional Dimension of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Host Economies: The Case of Ukraine

    Victoria Kravtsova (University of Glasgow)

  • Using hostages to improve the quality of financial disclosure

    Jenny Kuan (Stanford University); Steve Diamond (Santa Clara University)

  • Contractual Design and Renegotiation: Impacts on Yardstick Competition Efficiency

    Aude Le Lannier (University Paris 1 & Paris 11)

  • Heterogeneity in power status and its effect on rule compliance in self-governed irrigation systems

    Els Lecoutere (Conflict Research Group, Ghent University); Ben D'Exelle (Center International Development Issues Nijmegen); Björn Van Campenhout (Institute of Development Policy and Management, UA)

  • Alliance Organization and Technological Performance: Dissaggregating the Causes and Consequences of Ownership and Co-Location

    Michael Leiblein (The Ohio State University); Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown University); Arvids Ziedonis (University of Michigan)

  • A Theory of Dynastic Cycles

    Yinan Li (Stockholm University)

  • Pricing Formats for Branded Components: An Investigation in Business-to-Business Markets

    Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo (Santa Clara University); Kelli Frias-Gutierrez (University of Arizona); Mrinal Ghosh (University of Arizona)

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REFERENCE SHAREHOLDERS: AN ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN FIRMS

    Felix Lopez-Iturriaga (University of Valladolid); Oscar Lopez-de-Foronda (University of Burgos); Natalia Martin Cruz (University of Valladolid)

  • Deliberately Incomplete Censorship

    Peter Lorentzen (UC Berkeley)

  • Dispute Resolution in Vertical Exchange Contracts

    Fabrice Lumineau (IMD); Joanne E. Oxley (University of Toronto)

  • Design of Technology Licensing Agreements: New Empirical Evidences

    Natalia Lyarskaya (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

  • OUT OF THE GRAY: The Impact of Provincial Institutions on Business Formalization in Vietnam

    Edmund Malesky (UCSD); Markus Taussig (Harvard Business School)

  • Appropriate IPRs, Human Capital Composition and Economic Growth

    Fabio Manca (AQR- IREA, University of Barcelona)

  • Developing Property Rights in Developing Countries: a firm-level perspective

    Stanislav Markus (University of Chicago)

  • The Delivery of Public Development Aid: A Buy-or-Assembly Decision

    Natalia Martin Cruz (University of Valladolid)

  • Can Endowments Explain Regional Inequality? State Governments and the Provision of Public Goods in Brazil, 1889-1930

    Andre Martinez (Boston University); Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School)

  • Food safety, hybrid structures and preferences for contractual rules: theory and evidence from the Italian poultry sector

    Gaetano Martino (University of Perugia); Paolo Polinori (University of Perugia)

  • How United is Germany? Cultural Differences

    Robbert Maseland (Radboud University Nijmegen/ IZA Bonn); André van Hoorn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

  • Transaction risks and trust in African markets: sesame markets in Ethiopia

    Gerdien W. Meijerink (LEI Wageningen UR)

  • Beyond the Colored Revolutions: A Dynamic Model of Policy Making and Protest

    Adam Meirowitz (Princeton University); Joshua A. Tucker (New York University)

  • Ulysses and the Sirens: Governing Multilateral Alliances

    Claude Ménard (CES (University of Paris I)); Emmanuel Raynaud (INRA SADAPT & CES (U. Paris I))

  • Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector - A "Fair" vs. a "Welfare"-Approach

    Georg Meran (TU Berlin, and DIW); Christian von Hirschhausen (TU Dresden, and DIW)

  • Democracy Rules: The Prevalence of Political Approach in Determining the Quality of Private Property Rights Institutions

    Abdoul Mijiyawa (CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne)

  • Fighting Inflation in Developing Countries: Does Democracy Help? An Empirical Investigation

    Abdoul Mijiyawa (CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne)

  • Individuals vs. Institutions. The Impact of Political Leaders’ Education and Profession on Public Deficits

    Heiner F. Mikosch (ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute); Frank Somogyi (ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute)

  • Arresting Banking Panics: Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929

    Kris J. Mitchener (Santa Clara University & NBER); Mark Carlson (Board of Governors); Gary Richardson (UC Irvine & NBER)

  • The Role of The Entrepreneur in Strategy Decision in the Context of Agribusiness

    Fabio Mizumoto (University of Sao Paulo); Maria Sylvia Saes (University of Sao Paulo)

  • Property Rights and Strategy: Market Structure and Competition in the Brazilian Soybean Seed Industry

    Guilherme F. de A. Monteiro (University of Sao Paulo)

  • Negative Vote Buying and the Secret Ballot

    John Morgan (UC Berkeley); Felix Vardy (World Bank)

  • Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

    Petra Moser (Stanford and NBER); Alessandra Voena (Stanford)

  • Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

    Petra Moser (Stanford University); Ryan Lampe (Stanford University and NBER)

  • Property Frames

    Jonathan R. Nash (Emory University School of Law); Stephanie M. Stern (Chicago-Kent Law School)

  • Do multidivisional and focused firms invest differently? Project-level evidence

    Gabriel Natividad (New York University)

  • "Political Connections in China's Market Economy"

    Victor Nee (Cornell University); Sonja Opper (Lund University)

  • Rational Drivers, Irrational Enforcers, and Road Safety

    ANTONIO NICITA (UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, ITALY); SIMONA BENEDETTINI (UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, ITALY)

  • On the Near Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights

    Seth Norton (Wheaton College)

  • The Potato's Contribution to World Population and Urbanization: A Historical Natural Experiment

    Nathan Nunn (Harvard University); Nancy Qian (Brown University)

  • Do Black Mayors Improve Black Employment Outcomes?

    John VC Nye (George Mason University); Ilia Rainer (George Mason University); Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University)

  • Big is beautiful: How state shareholders discipline their CEOs in China

    Sonja Opper (Lund University); Sonia Wong (Lingnan University); Yang Yong (USTC)

  • Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution

    Christopher Paik (Stanford University)

  • Union Mediation and Adaptation to Reciprocal Loyalty Arrangements

    Georgios Panos (University of Aberdeen & CELMR); Ioannis Theodossiou (University of Aberdeen & CELMR)

  • Judicial versus Private Auctions: Better without Protection?

    Ricardo D. Paredes (Universidad Católica de Chile); Andres Crisosto (Universidad Católica de Chile); Phillipe Marti (Universidad Católica de Chile)

  • Water supply: Public or private? An approach based on cost of funds, transaction costs, efficiency and political costs

    Edouard Perard (The World Bank)

  • Creative Accounting and the Quality of Audit Institutions: The Achilles’ heel of the Fiscal Responsibility Law in Brazil

    Carlos Pereira (Michigan State University and Getulio Vargas Found); Marcus Melo (Federal University of Pernambuco); Saulo Souza (Federal University of Pernambuco and Cambridge Uni)

  • The public promotion of wind energy in Spain from the transaction costs perspective 1986–2007

    Yannick Perez (European University Institute); Franscico-Javier Ramos-Réal (La Laguna University)

  • Incentives or Background of Party Chiefs? Determinants of Variation in Provincial Policy Outcomes in China

    Petra Persson (Columbia University); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School)

  • Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press

    Maria Petrova (New Economic School)

  • Cultural Preferences in the Choice of Coordination Mechanisms- A Comparison of Sweden and China.

    Håkan Pihl (Kristianstad University College, Sweden); Marcus Bornholt (Kristianstad University College, Sweden); Marianne Elfversson (Kristianstad University College, Sweden); Andreas Johnsson (Kristianstad University College, Sweden)

  • Institutional Change and the Establishment of Strategic Networks – The Rich Wetlands of Kristianstad.

    Håkan Pihl (Kristianstad University College, Sweden)

  • The Egalitarian Battlefield: On the Origins of the Majority Rule in Archaic Greece

    Athanassios Pitsoulis (Brandenburg University of Technology)

  • Corporate Social Responsibility vs. Government Regulation: Institutional Analysis with an Application to Russia

    Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics)

  • Semi-Public Contests

    Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

  • Regulatory governance, Multinational Firms and Entry Strategies: the European Telecommunications Mobile Industry

    Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris); Jean-Philippe Bonardi (University of Lausanne); Santiago Urbitondo (Fundación de Investigaciones Económicas Latinoamer)

  • The Effect of §363 Sales on Recovery Rates: Allowing for Self-Selection Bias

    Branko Radulovic (Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade)

  • Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

    ilia rainer (George Mason University); raphael franck (Bar Ilan University)

  • The Antitrust of Reputation Mechanisms: Institutional Economics and Concerted Refusals to Deal

    Barak Richman (Duke University)

  • An Empirical Investigation into the Political Economy of the Firm in a Globalizing World Economy: How Domestic Political Connections Affect Cross-listing Choices

    Brian Richter (UCLA Anderson School of Management)

  • The role of transmission investment in the coordination between generation and transmission in the liberalized power systems

    Vincent Rious (SUPELEC)

  • Industry Concentration and Credit Card Pricing Puzzles

    Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse University); Zhu Wang (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

  • Political Dynasties: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Argentina

    Martin A Rossi (Universidad de San Andres)

  • From punishment to prevention: The introduction of co-regulation in the enforcement of food safety regulation.

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