SIOE 2010

Programme

Stirling, UK 17 June 2010 – 19 June 2010

114 papers

Child Support Guidelines and Divorce Rates

Douglas Allen

De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Lee J. Alston, Edwyna Harris, Bernardo Mueller

Ex-ante institutional compatibility assessment of policy options - A case study on the Nitrate Directive in Auvergne, France

Laurence Amblard, Carsten Mann

The Institutional Framework for China’s Energy Transition

Philip Andrews-Speed

Performance of industrial services outsourcing: A field study of services coordination in a Brazilian steel company

André C. B. Aquino, Alexsandro B. Lopes

Institutional Support of the Firm: A Theory of Business Registries

Benito ARRUÑADA

Religion and change: Oxford and madrasas of South Asia

Masooda Bano

Uncertainty, Job complexity and Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Industrial Firms

Marco Barrenechea-Méndez, Eduardo Rodes, Pedro Ortín-Ángel

Trust and tax morale in

Aguirre Basilia, Rocha Fabiana

Elite Capture of Local Institutions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia, Ruben Enikolopov

Coexistence of genetically modified (GM), conventional and organic crops: Are the two main property rights regimes symmetric?

Volker Beckmann, Claudio Soregaroli, Justus Wesseler

The Dark Side of Shareholder Protection: Cross-country Evidence from Innovation Performance

Filippo Belloc

The Role of Financial Development on Convergence:Evidence from Eastern European and Central Asian Countries

Simona Benedettini

Warning, learning and specific deterrence: evidence from Italian drivers’ demerit points

Simona Benedettini, Antonio Nicita

Unbundling Institutional Reform: A Natural Experiment in a Peruvian Textile Cluster, 1988-2008

Matthew Bird

Legal Origin and Size Effects in European Listed Firms

Per-Olof Bjuggren, Andreas Högberg

Do Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship Impact Total Factor Productivity?

Christian Bjørnskov, Nicolai J. Foss

Foreign Influence and the Cold War History of Democracy in Latin America

Roberto Bonfatti

Implicit Contracting Close to Anonymity

Andrei Bremzen, Paul Dower

‘Reflexive’ Market Regulation: Cognitive Cooperation in Competitive Information Fora

Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant

Accountability Behind Closed Doors? Legislator Power and Voting Procedures

Michele Butto, Carlos Pereira, Matthew Taylor

Electoral Rules and Committee Systems in the Models of Governance of Congress: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Gonzalo Caballero

THE ROLE OF LARGE SHAREHOLDERS IN FIRM PROFITABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM SPANISH LISTED FIRMS

Laura Cabeza-García, Silvia Gómez-Ansón, María Sacristán-Navarro

Guarding the Guardians: An Analysis of Investigations against Police Officers in an Internal Affairs Division

Sandro Cabral, Sérgio G. Lazzarini

Outsourcing Failure and Reintegration: Beyond Contractual Approaches

Sandro Cabral, Valmir Maia

Adverse Selection in a hostile environment

Montserrat Cachero

How does the lack of guarantees influence organizational failures? Evidences from a complex food chain.

Silvia M.Q. Caleman, Decio Zylbersztajn

Should I stay or should I go? An institutional approach to brain drain.

Lea Cassar, Bruno S. Frey

Impersonal Exchange among Elites? The Case of China's Urban Land Market

Yat Hung Chiang, Lennon Choy, Jing Li

Auction versus Negotiation in Public Procurement: Looking for Empirical Evidence

Eshien Chong, Carine Staropoli, Anne Yvrande-Billon

Transaction costs in development offsets: Who bears what and why?

Anthea Coggan

Civil War in a Globalized World: Diplomacy and Trade

Mathieu Couttenier, Raphael Soubeyran

The Multiplier of Public Expenditure on Justice : The Case of Rental Litigation

Bruno Deffains, Ludivine Roussey

Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Employment Protection Legislations and Economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Canada

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné

Why does the Parliamentary Regime Perform Better: Bureaucratic Power versus Veto Players

Marina Dodlova

The Quality of Institutions and Multinational Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey

Devrim Dumludag

The Institutional Determinants of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Alan Dye, Richard Sicotte

Corporate Governance Systems and Firm Value: Empirical Evidence from Japan’s Natural Experiment

Robert N. Eberhart

Political Turnover, Taxes, and the Shadow Economy

Ceyhun Elgin

The Kinetics of Capital Formation and the Making of Economic Organization

Anthony Endres, David Harper

Analysis of material, social, and moral enforcement in natural resource management in southern Namibia

Thomas Falk, Björn Vollan, Michael Kirk

Privatization-Liberalization Paths. Does Partisanship Matter?

Belloc Filippo, Nicita Antonio

WORLD HERITAGE LIST: DOES IT MAKE SENSE?

Bruno S. Frey, Lasse Steiner

Investigating the affordability of utility services – From the ratio measure to the residual income approach

Erik Gawel, Wolfgang Bretschneider

The Transnational Origins of Constitutions: An Empirical Investigation

Benedikt Goderis, Mila Versteeg

Urban agglomeration effects and company productivity in Russia: Empirical Evidence Based on Manufacturing Industry Survey

Ksenia Gonchar

Serfdom and Agricultural Efficiency: Evidence from the Russian Empire

Andrei Govorun

FDI Integration in an Unstable Institutional Environment: the Case of Bulgaria

Milena Gradeva

Flexible formalization:A study on the components of contractual and extra-contractual formal organization

Anna Grandori, Marco Furlotti

Taming Financiers: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regime Determination in Transition Economies

Jana Grittersova

Collusion at Champagne: Or Who Will Monitor the Monitors?A Lesson from History

Brishti Guha

Law for a Flat World: Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy

Gillian Hadfield

Access to versus Use of Loans: What are the True Determinants of Access?

Christa Hainz, Tatjana Nabokin

Scarcity and the evolution of water rights in the nineteenth century: the role of climate and asset type

Edwyna Harris

From Chaos - Dependency

kevin j heagney

The Design of Vertical R&D Collaborations

Patrick Herbst, Uwe Walz

The Agency Problem of Empire: British Mechanisms for Constraining Governor Behavior

Joshua Hill

Complex Incentive Alignment in Bargaining Associations

Constantine Iliopoulos, Michael L. Cook

Writing Legally Unenforceable Contracts to Facilitate Relationships

Hideshi Itoh

A theory of Shared Governance in Higher Education

Julien Jacqmin

Institutions and Policies of Economic Freedom: Different Effects on Income and Growth

Judit Kapas, Pal Czegledi

The Clicking without Reading Problem

Dennis W. K. Khong

Is There a Neurological Foundation for Institutions? Mirroring, Sympathy, and Institutional Design

Lynne Kiesling

On a Comprehensive Set of the Damage Measures Inducing Optimality and Voluntary Participation

Iljoong Kim, Jaehong Kim, Hyunseok Kim

Communication and local knowledge in common pool resources experiments. Experiences from three new EU member states

Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska, Dimitrios Zikos, Lenka Slavikova

The emergence of participative institutions: a solution for collective action problems or new structures of power?

Marie-Joelle Kodjovi

Emergence and stabilization of Institutions in Major Irrigation Commands A Case Study of Upper Krishna Irrigation Project in Karnataka (India)

Gurulingappa Koppa, Rakesh Saxena

Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Emergence of Property Rights

Vimal Kumar

Comparative analysis of air pollution regulation policies via property rights and transaction cost theory

Tae-hyeong Kwon

Resource Curse in Hybrid Regimes: Do Economic or Political Institutions Matter?

Alexander Libman

Indefinite contracting: Evidence from subcontracting agreements

Susana Lopez-Bayon, Manuel Gonzalez-Diaz

Occupational Segregation within Establishments and the Gender Wage Gap

Johannes Ludsteck

What Does Success Look Like? The Role of Contractual Design in Performance of Technology Licensing Deals

Natalia Lyarskaya

A History of New Institutional Economics: From Intuition to Institutionalization

Claude Ménard, Mary M. Shirley

Making Coasean Property More Coasean

Thomas Merrill, Henry Smith

Towards a Theory of Policy Timing

Klaus Mittenzwei, David S. Bullock, Klaus Salhofer, Jukka Kola

Regulatory Federalism and Industrial Policy in Broadband Telecommunications

Daniel Montolio, Francesc Trillas

Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights

Peter Murrell

Growth And Local Political Institutions: The Mexican Case

Elvira E. Naranjo Priego

Human Capital, Economic Institutions, and World Poverty

Seth Norton

Population Growth, Institutions, and Human Well-Being

Seth Norton

Unionism and Peer-Referencing

Georgios A. Panos, Ioannis Theodossiou

Veto Players and Corruption

Nara Pavao

Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes

Maria Petrova, Robert H. Bates

Nested markets with common pool resources in multifunctional agriculture

Nico Polman, Krijn J. Poppe, Jan Willem van der Schans, Jan-Douwe van der Ploeg

The composition and interests of business lobbies: Testing Olson’s “encompassing organization” hypothesis

Willaim Pyle, Laura Solanko

Entrepreneurs as Surrogate Forward Traders of Goods and Services

Rudolf Richter

Institutional Determinants of International Technological Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Ticketing among Airlines

Galang Roberto N.

Do aggregation methods influence EFW Index performance? An examination using cluster analysis

Martin Rode

Governing the Resource: Scarcity-Induced Institutional Change

James Roumasset, Nori Tarui

Detailed contract drafting in industrial buyer-supplier relationships: strategic consequences of misaligned contractual governance

Jon Bingen Sande, Sven A. Haugland

Auditor Expertise: Evidence from the Public Sector

Mark Schelker

Selection Wages and Discrimination

Ekkehart Schlicht

support for political leaders

norman schofield, evan schnidman, maria gallego

Why did Botswana end up with Good Institutions: The Role of Culture and Colonial Rule.

Valentin Seidler

Market discipline and banking system transparency: do we need more information?

Maria Semenova

Language, Legal Origins, and Culture before the Courts: Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe

Mathias Siems, Martin Gelter

An Economic Analysis of Law versus Equity

Henry Smith

Economic and Political Preferences of Different Religions: Catholic versus Orthodox Groups of Population in Ukraine

Maria Snegovaya

How to Design Franchise Contracts: The Role of Contractual Hazards and Experience

Vanesa Solis-Rodriguez, Manuel Gonzalez-Diaz

The joint effect of participatory governance, elections, and access to information on local government responsiveness in Guatemala

Johanna Speer

Debtor – Oriented Bankruptcy Institutions: The Case of Spain

Frank H. Stephen, Stefan van Hemmen

Strategic decision-making by donors and aid intermediaries on the allocation of development assistance for health in sub-Saharan Africa

Katharina M.K. Stepping

Developing Upstream Competition in the England and Wales Water Supply Industry: A New Approach

Jon Stern

Meaningful talk

Jorge M. Streb, Gustavo Torrens

Productive Governance of Interfirm Innovation Projects

Per Anders Sunde, Svein Ulset

From Vikings to Welfare: Early State Building and Social Trust in Scandinavia

Gert T. Svendsen, Gunnar L.H. Svendsen

Pricing Procedural Fairness

Stephan Tontrup, Dennis Dittrich

INDEPENDENT REGULATORS: THEORY, EVIDENCE AND REFORM PROPOSALS

Francesc Trillas

Regulatory Fog: The Informational Origins of Regulatory Persistence

Patrick L. Warren, Tom S. Wilkening

Volunteer Militaries, The Draft, and Support for War

Patrick L. Warren

How Do Research Joint Ventures Exploit Government R&D Programs?: Evidence from the National Cooperative Research Act, the Advanced Technology Program, and the Department of Defense

Dean Williamson

State-business relations in Russia in the 2000s: From the capture to a variety of exchange models?

Andrei Yakovlev