SIOE 2012

Programme

Los Angeles, USA 14 June 2012 – 16 June 2012

157 papers

Provoking preferences: leaders, organizations, and inspiration

John S. Ahlquist, Margaret Levi

Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence From a UK Policy Experminet

Shekhar Aiyar, Charles Calomiris, Tomasz Wieladek

Learning by Supplying

Juan Alcacer, Joanne Oxley

The Grounds For Marriage: Differences Across Sexual Orientation

Douglas Allen

Decentralization and Deforestation:The Moderating Role of Polycentric Governance

Krister Andersson, Tom Evans, Clark Gibson, Glenn Wright

Tax Morale and Pro-Social Behaviour: Evidence from a Palestinian Survey

Luca Andriani

The economics of self-regulation under Sunset legislation in telecommunications

Patrick Anell, Andreas Freytag, Klaus Winkler

Political Connections & Use of Courts in Dispute Resolution: A Survey Analysis of Chinese Private Firms

Yuen Yuen Ang, Nan Jia

Knowledge Inheritance, Vertical Integration and Entrant Survival in the Early U.S. Auto Industry

Nicholas Argyres, Romel Mostafa

Optimal nondiscriminatory auctions with favoritism

Leandro Arozamena, Nicholas Shunda, Federico Weinschelbaum

Property as an economic concept: Reconciling legal and economic conceptions of property rights in a Coasean framework

Benito Arruñada

‘One For All and All For One’? Judicial Ideology and Judicial Professionalism in the House of Lords and Supreme Court

Thiruvallore Thattai Arvind, Lindsay J Stirton

Managerial effort incentives and market collusion

Cécile Aubert

Does International Law Matter?

Shima Baradaran, Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, J. C. Sharman

Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets

Jonathan Barnett

Private and Public Supply of Intellectual Property Rights

Jonathan Barnett

Mission Congruence, Incentives and Autonomy: An Empirical Analysis of Child-Care Facilities in Minnesota, the U.S.

Marco Barrenechea-Mendez, Avner Ben-Ner

Reel Authority: Theory and Evidence on Relational Renegotiation in the Movie Industry

Daniel Barron, Robert Gibbons, Ricard Gil, Kevin J. Murphy

The exchange of Variable-Quality Commodities

Yoram Barzel

Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: evidence from the German States

Thushyanthan Baskaran

Innovation, Tort Law, and Competition

Florian Baumann, Klaus Heine

Market Structure, Quality and Consumer Behavior: Exit Voice and Loyalty Under Increasing Competition

T. Randolph Beard, Jeffrey T. Macher, John W. Mayo

Toward A Theory of State-Owned Property Rights

Abraham Bell, Horacio Spector

When Does Business Get Violent?

Galina V. Belokurova

Unbundling Democracy

Ariel BenYishay, Roger R. Betancourt

Organization's Formation: Collective Action Theory Perspective for HOA

Ekaterina Borisova

Scaffolding: Using Formal Contracts to Build Informal Relations in Support of Innovation

Iva Bozovic, Gillian K. Hadfield

How was Banking-Credit Allocated during Colombia's Industrialisation? The Politics of Finance in a Developing Country

Carlos A. Brando

The regulation of market access in 18th century mercantilist France

Eric Brousseau, Jerome Sgard

Local Determinants of Economic Structure: Evidence from Land Quota Allocation in China

Meina Cai

The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

Nauro Campos, Jeffrey Nugent

Vote Suppression and Insecure Property Rights

Paul Castañeda Dower, Tobias Pfutze

The Law of Small Numbers: Investigating the Benefits of Restricted Auctions for Public Procurement

Lisa Chever, Stéphane Saussier, Anne Yvrande-Billon

The Limits of the International Tax Regime as a Commitment Projector

Arthur J. Cockfield

Programmatic Parties and the Politics of Bureaucratic Reform

Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer

Public-private partnerships and the allocation of demand risk - An Incomplete Contract Theory Approach

julie de brux, claudine desrieux

Reforming Fisheries: Lessons from a Self-selected Cooperative

Robert T Deacon, Dominic Parker, Christopher Costello

Saving Power to Conserve Your Reputation? The effectiveness of private versus public information

Magali Delmas, Neil Lessem

Determinants of public trust towards major political institutions in countries with economies in transition and in the OECD countries: the comparative analysis

Olga Demidova

Transaction Cost Troubles

Harold Demsetz

Creating an appropriate institutional environment for intellectual property rights: Current private reward system and alternative institutional solutions

Maiia Deutschmann

Jurisdiction and Development: The Impact of Public Law 280 in Indian Country

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl, Joseph Guse

Stakeholder Capital and Performance in Tough Times

Sinziana Dorobantu, Witold Henisz, Lite Nartey

The Political Economy Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850

Alan Dye, Sumner La Croix

The Societas Privata Europaea (SPE) – Will it Promote the Internationalization of SMEs?

Martina Eckardt

The Distinctive Role of Social Enterprise

Ofer Eldar

Are Franchisees Well-Informed? Revisiting The Debate Over Franchise Relationship Laws

Robert W. Emerson, Uri Benoliel

Industry Self-Governance and National Security: On the Private Control of Dual Use Technologies

Sebastian Engelhardt, Stephen Maurer

The Institutional Economics of the Globalized Financial Regulation; Example on International Accounting Standards Board

Elif Erdemoglu

Domestic Sanctions to Cross-Border Acts: The Case of Foreign Bribery

Laarni Escresa, Lucio Picci

Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia: Auctions, Contracts and Property Rights

Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez

Incentives to cooperate and fairness norms in the provision of water – cases of Namibian land reform projects

Thomas Falk, Dirk Lohmann, Nadege Azebaze

Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm

Victor Fleischer

REGIONAL TAX COMPETITION: SOME LESSONS FROM RECENT SPANISH FISCAL REFORMS

Cabrillo Francisco

The Common Pool Problem in Municipal Amalgamation

Benedikt Fritz

Disclosure Strategies and Shareholder Litigation Risk: Evidence from Earnings Restatements

Michael Furchtgott, Frank Partnoy

Agency Costs in the Era of Economic Crisis – The Enhanced Connection between CEO Compensation and Corporate Cash Holdings

Mira Ganor

The Psychology of Competition: A Social Comparison Perspective

Stephen Garcia, Avishalom Tor, Tyrone Schiff

The Impact of Bundling on Product Variety: Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948

Ricard Gil

Privateering and its Discontents: Marque and Reprisal, Qui Tam, Citizen Suits, and Patents

John M. Golden

Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework

Sophia Gollwitzer Franke, Marc Quintyn

Implementation in the K-Level Thinking Environment

Olga Gorelkina

Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

Érica Gorga, Michael Halberstam

Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

Érica Gorga, Michael Halberstam

Corporate Governance and Discovery: The Missing Story About the Genius of American Corporate Law

Érica Gorga, Michael Halberstam

Stealing more is better? Marginal Deterrence in Islamic Criminal Law of Theft

Moamen Gouda

Business associations, personal connections and other ways of lobbying by Russian firms

Andrei Govorun

Economic Theory of the Rise of Jus ad Bellum Norms under International Law

Joseb Gudiashvili

Moral Hazard in Mutual Fund Management: The Role of Fees

Michel A. Habib, D. Bruce Johnsen

The impact of who decides the rules for network use: A 'common pool' analysis of the investment dynamics in different gas network regulatory frames

Michelle Hallack, Miguel Vazquez

Institutions, Gender, Age, and the Careers of Hollywood Actors

F. Andrew Hanssen, Robert K. Fleck

The economic implications of law: nineenth centiury legal innovation in New South Wales, the wool lien and stock mortgage

Edwyna Harris

Physical, Human, and Social Capital as Barriers to Environmental Policy Reform

Shi-Ling Hsu

Physical, Human, and Social Capital as Barriers to Environmental Policy Reform

Shi-Ling Hsu

From Coercion to Politics to Law: The Evolution of Property Rights Protection

Fali Huang

CONSIDERATION DOCTRINE AND REGULATORY ARBITRAGE IN MORTGAGE SECURITIZATION

John P. Hunt, Nancy Wallace, Richard Stanton

Parity, Paternalism and Peonage in the Informal Economy: an Empirical Study of Off-the-books Loans

Richard Hunt

Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Understanding Urban Land Use

Siodla James

Regulation with Interested Experts

Jason Johnston

Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa

Mogens K. Justesen, Christian Bjørnskov

Political Connections, Entrepreneurship, and Social Network Investment

Raja Kali, Nisvan Erkal

Rankings as a Driver Of Institutionalization: The Case of Governance Reform

Alison Kemper

De Soto, Russian Style: Property Rights and Red Tape

Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya, Rinat Menyashev

Domestic Institutions and the Political Economy of International Agreements

Florian Kiesow Cortez

Entrepreneurship and Desperate Poverty: Biopharmaceutical Innovation in China, India, and Brazil

Peter G. Klein, Anita M. McGahan, Rahim Rezaie

Public and Private Enforcement of Law under the High Risk of Type I Errors: the Russian Case

Polina Kryuchkova, Svetlana Avdasheva

Born in Transition: The Effect of Economic Shocks in Early Childhood on Health and Educational Outcomes

Olga Lazareva

Downward Accountability in Response to Collective Actions: The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in China

Yuan Li

Roving Bandits in Action: Outside Option and Governmental Predation in Autocracies

Alexander Libman, Vladimir Kozlov, André Schultz

Institutions of flexicurity in labor markets: culture against incentives

Maria Lissowska

The freer the fatter? A cross-country panel study of the relationship between changes in body-mass index and economic freedom

Åsa Ljungvall

The Strategic Use of Early Bird Discounts for Dealers

Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo, Stephen W Salant

The Problem of Inefficiency: Market Failure or Modeling Failure?

Kevin Lyons

Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children's Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Indonesia

MUHAMMAD FARHAN MAJID

Is Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? Debating the Islamic Law Matters Thesis

Adeel Malik

Wast the Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? Debating the Islamic Law Matters Thesis

Adeel Malik

From Competition to Dominance: Political Determinants of Federal Transfers in the Russian Federation

Israel Marques, Eugenia Nazrullaeva, Andrei Yakovlev

Outsourcing and Ownership: Theory and Evidence from California General Care Hospitals

Christina Marsh, Patrick Warren

The Incoherence of U.S. Tax Policy: The Environment as Case Study

Leo P. Martinez

The Corporation as Imperfect Society

Brian McCall

Property Rights & Attitudes toward Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Investigation

Cherie Metcalf

Fragmentation and Governance Risk in International Energy

Timothy Meyer

Path Dependence, Social Capital, and Violent Conflict in Ethnically Polarized Developing Countries

Theresa Miedema

Estimating the effect of Quotas across India using satellite imagery

Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal

Wireless Taxes and Fees: A Tragedy of the Anticommons

Matt Mitchell, Thomas Stratmann

The INstitutional Foundations of Propertry Rights Strategies

Guilherme,F Monteiro, Zylbersztajn Decio

External Stability and Bidding Aggressivity of Cartels in Public Procurement : An Empirical Analysis

John Moore

Third-Party Opportunism and the (In)Efficiency of Public Contracts

Marian Moszoro, Pablo T. Spiller

Less Protection, More Innovation ?

Murat C. Mungan

The Law and Economics of Fluctuating Criminal Tendencies and Incapacitation

Murat C Mungan

Expertise and Judicial Opinion Assignments on the Courts of Appeals

Jonathan R. Nash

Exit and Firm Boundaries after an Industry Shock

Gabriel Natividad, Natarajan Balasubramanian

Spread Too Thin: Uncertainty Shocks and Diseconomies of Scope

Gabriel Natividad, Olav Sorenson

Institutions and Allocation of Talent

Timur Natkhov, Leonid Polishchuk

Trust and Economic Behavior in a Low-Trust Society

Victor Nee, Sonja Opper, Hakan Holm

Consumer Promotion, Exclusive Dealings and ‘Hold-Up Defense’

Antonio Nicita, Massimiliano Vatiero

Regulating opportunism in the electricity industry and consumer interests

Eva Niesten, Albert Jolink

Administrative Patent Levers

David Orozco

Draining the Moat: Considerations for the Regulation of Defensive Patent Pools

Daniel R. Paluch

Securities Class Actions and Bankrupt Companies

James Park

The Effects of Legal Institutions on Access to Credit: Evidence from American Indian Reservations

Dominic Parker

Nonprofits in Post-Soviet and Developed Economies: Comparative Study of Marketing-driven Efficiency

Khrystyna Pavlyk

An experiment in social orders: the development of property rights in small landholdings in Brazil (1850 – 1889)

Thales Pereira

Identity, Consumption and Financial Security of Households in Poland

Maria Piotrowska

The U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council: Understanding Polycentric Governance

Margaret M. Polski, Mohamad Elbarasse

Over-indebtedness in Brazil: Do we need more regulation?

Antonio J. Porto

Plant Variety Rights in the International Law of Intellectual Property. A Law & Economics Approach

Viola Prifti

Political Uncertainty and Public Financing Costs: Evidence from U.S. Municipal Bond Markets

Yaxuan Qi, Pengjie Gao

Social Capital and Economic Growth

Sumant K. Rai

Why are Peasant Migrations so low in India? Economic Spaces, Transition Costs and Positive Externality

Vijay Regulagadda

Contracts & Cartels: Reconciling Competition and Development Policy

Barak Richman

Norms and Law: Putting the Horse Before the Cart

Barak Richman

A New System for Managing and Resolving Monetary Claims

James F. Ring

Implementing Incentive Regulation with Bounded Regulators

Vincent Rious, Marcelo Saguan, Jean-Michel Glachant, Haikel Khalfallah, Yannick Perez

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Lorenzo Sacconi

Creditors’ Protection Law and Financial Development in France, Germany, UK and USA, 1970-2005

Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin

Is There a Local Knowledge Advantage in Federations? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Andre Schultz, Alexander Libman

Impact of Country Risk and New Institutional Economics on Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Analysis for MENA Region (1999-2010)

Wesam M. Sedik, Hussien Seoudy

Hate Crimes in India: An Economic Analysis of Violence and Atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Smriti Sharma

Illusory Stock Ownership Policies

Nitzan Shilon

Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response

Saurabh Singhal

The Effect of recessions on firms' insourcing- and outsourcing decisions

Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen, Kirsten Foss

On the Economy of Concepts in Property

Henry E. Smith

Trust in the State and Participation in the Russian Bank Deposit Market

Andrew Spicer, Ilya Okhmatovskiy

Federal Tax Reform and the Deduction for State & Local Taxes

Kirk Stark

Supercharged IPOs

Nancy Staudt, Victor Fleischer

A Technological Revolution in ‘lawyering’?

Frank H Stephen

A Positive Model of Expenditure Growth: Toward Closure of The Organizational Process Theory of Budgeting

Fred Thompson, Mike Hand, Michael Dothan

Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason

Daniel Treisman

Coordination and Coercion: The Nature of Rules, Governments, States, and Social Dynamics

John Wallis, Douglass North

Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Policy: Evidence from the Advanced Technology Program, the Department of Defense

Dean V. Williamson

Transaction Cost Economics: What Are the Questions?

Oliver E Williamson

STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN RELIGIONS

donald wittman

In the Shadows of Sunlight: The Effects of Transparency in State Political Campaigns

Abby Wood, Douglas Spencer

The Impact of Changing Agricultural Technology on Land Tenancy in Preindustrial China: Evidence from Confucius's Manors (1759-1901)

Helen Yang

Endogenous Enforcement Institutions

Giorgio Zanarone, Gani Aldashev

Poverty Traps and Institutions in Ethiopia

Daniel Zerfu