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SIOE 2010

Stirling, UK — Full Programme

  • Child Support Guidelines and Divorce Rates

    Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University)

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

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

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

    Laurence Amblard (Cemagref, UMR Métafort); Carsten Mann (Berlin Institute of Technology)

  • The Institutional Framework for China’s Energy Transition

    Philip Andrews-Speed (University of Dundee)

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

    André C. B. Aquino (University of Sao Paulo); Alexsandro B. Lopes (University of Sao Paulo)

  • Institutional Support of the Firm: A Theory of Business Registries

    Benito ARRUÑADA (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • Religion and change: Oxford and madrasas of South Asia

    Masooda Bano (Oxford University)

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

    Marco Barrenechea-Méndez (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona); Eduardo Rodes (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona); Pedro Ortín-Ángel (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)

  • Trust and tax morale in

    Aguirre Basilia (Universidade de Sao Paulo); Rocha Fabiana (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

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

    Andrew Beath (Harvard University); Fotini Christia (MIT); Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School)

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

    Volker Beckmann (Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU)); Claudio Soregaroli (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore); Justus Wesseler (Wageningen University)

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

    Filippo Belloc (University of Siena)

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

    Simona Benedettini (University of Siena)

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

    Simona Benedettini (University of Siena); Antonio Nicita (University of Siena)

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

    Matthew Bird (Harvard Business School)

  • Legal Origin and Size Effects in European Listed Firms

    Per-Olof Bjuggren (Jönköping International Business School); Andreas Högberg (Jönköping International Business School)

  • Do Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship Impact Total Factor Productivity?

    Christian Bjørnskov (Aarhus University); Nicolai J. Foss (Copenhagen Business School)

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

    Roberto Bonfatti (Oxford University)

  • Implicit Contracting Close to Anonymity

    Andrei Bremzen (New Economic School); Paul Dower (New Economic School)

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

    Eric Brousseau (EconomiX, Universite Paris Ouest); Jean-Michel Glachant (European University Institute)

  • Accountability Behind Closed Doors? Legislator Power and Voting Procedures

    Michele Butto (Independent Researcher); Carlos Pereira (Michigan State University and Getulio Vargas Found); Matthew Taylor (University of São Paulo)

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

    Gonzalo Caballero (University of Vigo)

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

    Laura Cabeza-García (University of León (Spain)); Silvia Gómez-Ansón (University of Oviedo (Spain)); María Sacristán-Navarro (Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain))

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

    Sandro Cabral (Fed. U. of Bahia); Sérgio G. Lazzarini (Insper Institute of Education and Research)

  • Outsourcing Failure and Reintegration: Beyond Contractual Approaches

    Sandro Cabral (Fed. U. of Bahia); Valmir Maia (Fed. U. of Bahia)

  • Adverse Selection in a hostile environment

    Montserrat Cachero (European University Institute)

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

    Silvia M.Q. Caleman (University of São Paulo); Decio Zylbersztajn (University of São Paulo)

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

    Lea Cassar (University of Zurich - ETH-Zurich); Bruno S. Frey (University of Zurich)

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

    Yat Hung Chiang (HK Polytechinc Univ,Dept of Building & Real Estate); Lennon Choy (HK Polytechinc Univ,Dept of Building & Real Estate); Jing Li (HK Polytechinc Univ,Dept of Building & Real Estate)

  • Auction versus Negotiation in Public Procurement: Looking for Empirical Evidence

    Eshien Chong (ADIS, Université Paris Sud); Carine Staropoli (CES, University Paris 1); Anne Yvrande-Billon (CES, University Paris 1)

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

    Anthea Coggan (CSIRO Australia)

  • Civil War in a Globalized World: Diplomacy and Trade

    Mathieu Couttenier (Paris 1 Sorbonne); Raphael Soubeyran (INRA-LAMETA and IDEP Montpellier)

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

    Bruno Deffains (University of Paris II Panthéon Assas); Ludivine Roussey (University of Paris Ouest)

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

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

  • Employment Protection Legislations and Economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Canada

    Jonathan Deslauriers (HEC Montréal); Benoit Dostie (HEC Montréal); Robert Gagné (HEC Montréal)

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

    Marina Dodlova (EconomiX / University Paris Ouest Nanterre)

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

    Devrim Dumludag (Marmara University)

  • The Institutional Determinants of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Alan Dye (Barnard College, Columbia University); Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont)

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

    Robert N. Eberhart (Stanford University)

  • Political Turnover, Taxes, and the Shadow Economy

    Ceyhun Elgin (University of Minnesota)

  • The Kinetics of Capital Formation and the Making of Economic Organization

    Anthony Endres (University of Auckland); David Harper (New York University)

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

    Thomas Falk (University of Marburg/Germany); Björn Vollan (University of Mannheim/Germany); Michael Kirk (University of Marburg/Germany)

  • Privatization-Liberalization Paths. Does Partisanship Matter?

    Belloc Filippo (Dept. Economics University of Siena Italy); Nicita Antonio (Dept. Economics University of Siena Italy)

  • WORLD HERITAGE LIST: DOES IT MAKE SENSE?

    Bruno S. Frey (University of Zurich); Lasse Steiner (University of Zurich)

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

    Erik Gawel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research); Wolfgang Bretschneider (University of Leipzig)

  • The Transnational Origins of Constitutions: An Empirical Investigation

    Benedikt Goderis (Tilburg University and University of Oxford); Mila Versteeg (University of Oxford)

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

    Ksenia Gonchar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

  • Serfdom and Agricultural Efficiency: Evidence from the Russian Empire

    Andrei Govorun (The Higher School of Economics)

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

    Milena Gradeva (CES, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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

    Anna Grandori (Bocconi University); Marco Furlotti (Tilburg University)

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

    Jana Grittersova (University of California, Riverside)

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

    Brishti Guha (Singapore Management University)

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

    Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California)

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

    Christa Hainz (ifo Institute for Economic Research); Tatjana Nabokin (University of Munich)

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

    Edwyna Harris (Monash University)

  • From Chaos - Dependency

    kevin j heagney (massey university)

  • The Design of Vertical R&D Collaborations

    Patrick Herbst (Goethe University Frankfurt); Uwe Walz (Goethe University Frankfurt)

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

    Joshua Hill (The American University of Iraq–Sulaimani)

  • Complex Incentive Alignment in Bargaining Associations

    Constantine Iliopoulos (AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY RESEARCH INSTITU); Michael L. Cook (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA)

  • Writing Legally Unenforceable Contracts to Facilitate Relationships

    Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi University)

  • A theory of Shared Governance in Higher Education

    Julien Jacqmin (FNRS and Factultés Universitaires Saint-Louis)

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

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

  • The Clicking without Reading Problem

    Dennis W. K. Khong (School of Law, University of Manchester)

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

    Lynne Kiesling (Northwestern University)

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

    Iljoong Kim (SungKyunKwan University (SKKU)); Jaehong Kim (Handong University); Hyunseok Kim (SungKyunKwan University (SKKU))

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

    Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska (CETIP, Slovak Academy of Sciences); Dimitrios Zikos (UFZ Germany); Lenka Slavikova (IEEP, Economic University Prague)

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

    Marie-Joelle Kodjovi (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne)

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

    Gurulingappa Koppa (Institute of Rural management Anand, Gujarat, Indi); Rakesh Saxena (Institute of Rural management Anand, Gujarat, Indi)

  • Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Emergence of Property Rights

    Vimal Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

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

    Tae-hyeong Kwon (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

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

    Alexander Libman (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

  • Indefinite contracting: Evidence from subcontracting agreements

    Susana Lopez-Bayon (University of Oviedo); Manuel Gonzalez-Diaz (University of Oviedo)

  • Occupational Segregation within Establishments and the Gender Wage Gap

    Johannes Ludsteck (Institute for Employment Research (IAB))

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

    Natalia Lyarskaya (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

  • A History of New Institutional Economics: From Intuition to Institutionalization

    Claude Ménard (Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne) & Centre d); Mary M. Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)

  • Making Coasean Property More Coasean

    Thomas Merrill (Clumbia Law School); Henry Smith (Harvard Law School)

  • Towards a Theory of Policy Timing

    Klaus Mittenzwei (Norw. Agric. Econ. Research Institute); David S. Bullock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Klaus Salhofer (Technical University of Munich); Jukka Kola (University of Helsinki)

  • Regulatory Federalism and Industrial Policy in Broadband Telecommunications

    Daniel Montolio (University of Barcelona); Francesc Trillas (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

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

    Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

  • Growth And Local Political Institutions: The Mexican Case

    Elvira E. Naranjo Priego (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

  • Human Capital, Economic Institutions, and World Poverty

    Seth Norton (Wheaton College)

  • Population Growth, Institutions, and Human Well-Being

    Seth Norton (Wheaton College)

  • Unionism and Peer-Referencing

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

  • Veto Players and Corruption

    Nara Pavao (University of Notre Dame)

  • Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes

    Maria Petrova (New Economic School); Robert H. Bates (Harvard University)

  • Nested markets with common pool resources in multifunctional agriculture

    Nico Polman (LEI Wageningen UR); Krijn J. Poppe (LEI Wageningen UR); Jan Willem van der Schans (LEI Wageningen UR); Jan-Douwe van der Ploeg (Wageningen University)

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

    Willaim Pyle (Middlebury College); Laura Solanko (Bank of Finland Institute for Econ. in Transition)

  • Entrepreneurs as Surrogate Forward Traders of Goods and Services

    Rudolf Richter (Universitaet des Saarlandes)

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

    Galang Roberto N. (IESE Business School)

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

    Martin Rode (University of Cantabria)

  • Governing the Resource: Scarcity-Induced Institutional Change

    James Roumasset (University of Hawaii); Nori Tarui (Unversity of Hawaii)

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

    Jon Bingen Sande (BI Norwegian School of Management); Sven A. Haugland (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Adminis)

  • Auditor Expertise: Evidence from the Public Sector

    Mark Schelker (University of St. Gallen)

  • Selection Wages and Discrimination

    Ekkehart Schlicht (University of Munich)

  • support for political leaders

    norman schofield (washington university); evan schnidman (harvard university); maria gallego (wilfrid laurier university, waterloo, canada)

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

    Valentin Seidler (Vienna University of Economics (WU Wien))

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

    Maria Semenova (State University - Higher School of Economics)

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

    Mathias Siems (University of East Anglia); Martin Gelter (Fordham University)

  • An Economic Analysis of Law versus Equity

    Henry Smith (Harvard Law School)

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

    Maria Snegovaya (Higher School of Economics)

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

    Vanesa Solis-Rodriguez (University of León); Manuel Gonzalez-Diaz (University of Oviedo)

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

    Johanna Speer (Humboldt University)

  • Debtor – Oriented Bankruptcy Institutions: The Case of Spain

    Frank H. Stephen (School of Law, The University of Manchester); Stefan van Hemmen (Business Economics Department, Autonomous Universi)

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

    Katharina M.K. Stepping (IEL Carlo Alberto/Philipps-University Marburg)

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

    Jon Stern (CCRP, City University, London)

  • Meaningful talk

    Jorge M. Streb (Universidad del Cema); Gustavo Torrens (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Productive Governance of Interfirm Innovation Projects

    Per Anders Sunde (Statoil); Svein Ulset (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Adm)

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

    Gert T. Svendsen (Aarhus University, Denmark); Gunnar L.H. Svendsen (University of Southern Denmark)

  • Pricing Procedural Fairness

    Stephan Tontrup (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena); Dennis Dittrich (Jacobs University, Bremen)

  • INDEPENDENT REGULATORS: THEORY, EVIDENCE AND REFORM PROPOSALS

    Francesc Trillas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Regulatory Fog: The Informational Origins of Regulatory Persistence

    Patrick L. Warren (Clemson University); Tom S. Wilkening (University of Melbourne)

  • Volunteer Militaries, The Draft, and Support for War

    Patrick L. Warren (Clemson University)

  • 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 (US Department of Justice)

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

    Andrei Yakovlev (Univiersity - Higher School of Economics)