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SIOE 2013

Florence, Italy — Full Programme

  • The Dual Origin of the Duty to Disclose in Ancient Rome

    Barbara Abatino (University of Naples); Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam)

  • Middlemen in value chains: an enabling or constraining institution?

    Gumataw Abebe (Wageningen University); Jos Bijman (Wageningen University); Ruerd Ruben (Radboud University); Annie Royer (Laval University); Onno Omta (Wageningen University)

  • The Loan Shark Welfare State? Electoral Institutions and Political Responses to Economic Polarization

    John Ahlquist (University of Wisconsin); Ben Ansell (University of Minnesota)

  • Nation-building

    Alberto Alesina (Harvard and IGIER Bocconi); Bryony Reich (University College London)

  • What Explains The Rising Popularity of Cash Renting?

    Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University); Allison Borchers (US Department of Agriculture)

  • Beliefs, Leadership and Economic Transitions; Brazil 1964-2012

    Lee Alston (University of Colorado and NBER); Marcus Melo (Federal University of Pernambuco); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia); Carlos Pereira (Getulio Vargas Foundation-FGV)

  • Causal Effect of Income on Trust: Evidence from 2009 Crisis in Russia

    Maxim Ananyev (UCLA); Sergei Guriev (New Economic School)

  • Decentralized Forestry in Guatemala: A Test of Polycentric Governance Theory

    Krister Andersson (University of Colorado at Boulder); Alan Zarychta (University of Colorado at Boulder)

  • Bargaining in Standing Committees

    Vincent Anesi (University of Nottingham); Daniel Seidmann (University of Nottingham)

  • The Effects of Geography on the Evolution of Property Rights in the Commons: Theory, Evidence and Implications

    Eduardo Araral (National University of Singapore)

  • A Process Account of the Endowment Effect: Voluntary Debiasing Through Agents and Markets

    Jennifer Arlen (NYU Law School); Stephan Tontrup (Max Planck Institute of Economics)

  • Recordation vs Registration Assessing land titling in a quasi-experimental context

    Benito Arrunada (Pompeu Fabra University); Veronica Grembi (Catholic University of Milan); Matteo Rizzolli (Free University of Bolzen)

  • The Market for Legal Lemons

    Benito Arruñada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Nuno Garoupa (University of Illinois); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

  • Election Observers and Electoral Fraud

    Joseph Asunka (UCLA); Sarah Brierley (UCLA); Miriam Golden (UCLA); Eric Kramon (UCLA); George Ofosu (UCLA)

  • From PI to IP: Yet Another Unexpected Effect of Tort Reform

    Ronen Avraham (The University of Texas at Austin); John M. Golden (The University of Texas at Austin)

  • A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-Opportunism

    Kenneth Ayotte (Northwestern University); Ezra Friedman (Northwestern University); Henry Smith (Harvard University)

  • On Breach Remedies: Contracting with Bilateral Selfish Investment and Two-sided Private Information

    Sugata Bag (Delhi School of Economics/University of Delhi)

  • Egalitarianism. An evolutionary perspective

    Lidia Bagnoli (Ministry of Economy and Finance); Giorgio Negroni (Bologna University)

  • Cross Regional Comparison of the Efficiency of Public Procurement in Russia

    Anna Balsevich (CInSt, Higher School of Economics); Svetlana Pivovarova (Higher School of Economics); Elena Podkolzina (CInSt, Higher School of Economics)

  • Products Liability and Competition Policy when Firms Share a Collective Reputation

    Andrzej Baniak (Central European University); Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University)

  • Pro-social behavior where we least expect it? The selection and socialization of intrinsically-motivated government (tax!) officials

    Sheheryar Banuri (The World Bank Development Research Group); Philip Keefer (The World Bank Development Research Group)

  • Credit Markets with Ethical Banks and Motivated Borrowers

    Francesca Barigozzi (University of Bologna); Piero Tedeschi (Università Cattolica Milano)

  • Party ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States

    Thushyanthan Baskaran (University of Goettingen)

  • The Accidental Lawyer

    Ido Baum (Haim Striks School of Law, Israel)

  • Environmental Responsibility and FDI: Do Firms Relocate Their Irresponsibilities Abroad?

    Rémi Bazillier (LEO, Université d’Orléans, CNRS); Sophie Hatte (Université de Rouen and Paris School of Economics); Julien Vauday (Université Paris 13 - CEPN and CNRS)

  • The Arrow-Lind Theorem Revisited: Ownership Concentration and Valuation

    Ziemowit Bednarek (California Polytechnic State University); Marian Moszoro (IESE Business School)

  • Modulating Intellectual Property Protection

    Abraham Bell (Bar Ilan University & University of San Diego); Gideon Parchomovsky (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Earthquakes and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

    MARIANNA BELLOC (Universita' La Sapienza); FRANCESCO DRAGO (Universita' Federico II Napoli); ROBERTO GALBIATI (OSC-CNRS and Sciences Po)

  • Diversity and Performance in Teams: Evidence from 10 Seasons of German Soccer

    Avner Ben-Ner (University of Minnesota); John-Gabriel Licht (University of Minnesota); Jin Park (University of Minnesota)

  • Rational parasites

    Jean-Pierre Benoit (LBS); Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po)

  • Beyond the Dyad: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

    Janet Bercovitz (University of Illinois); Jiyoon Chung (University of Illinois); Joseph Mahoney (University of Illinois)

  • Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies

    Andreas Bernecker (University of Mannheim)

  • Emergence and Evolution of Property Rights: an Agent Based Perspective

    Enrico Bertacchini (University of Torino); Jakob Grazzini (Catholic Univesity of Milan); Elena Vallino (University of Torino)

  • Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

    Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia); Monica Bozzano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

  • Courts, Caps, and Medical Malpractice Insurance

    Paola Bertoli (Bologna University); Veronica Grembi (Catholic University of Milan)

  • Competition, Contract Design and Quality of Outsourced Services

    Jean Beuve (University of Paris Sorbonne); Lisa Chever (IAE Sorbonne Business School)

  • Trade Shocks and Pro-Democracy Mass Movements: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle

    Rikhil R. Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

  • The Defeasance of Control Rights

    Carsten Bienz (Norwegien School of Business (NHH)); Antoine Faure-Grimaud (London School of Economics ); Zsuzsanna Fluck (Univ. of Paris-Dauphine & Michigan State Univ. )

  • Organisational changes and the evolution of working life quality: a comparison between the private sector and the state civil service

    Maëlezig Bigi (CEE and LISE); Nathalie Greenan (CEE and TEPP-CNRS); Sylvie Hamon-Cholet (CEE and TEPP-CNRS); Lanfranchi Joseph (CEE and LEM (Panthéon-Assas University))

  • The Price of Media Capture in Interwar France

    Vincent Bignon (Bank of France); Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute - Geneva)

  • Third-party Contract Enforcement: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment in a Peruvian Garment Cluster

    Matthew D. Bird (Universidad del Pacífico)

  • Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes?

    Christian Bjørnskov (Aarhus University); Jacob Mchangama (Cepos, Copenhagen)

  • Corporate political activity: Why and when political knowledge matters

    Jean-Philippe Bonardi (University of Lausanne); Richard G. Vanden Bergh (University of Vermont); Guy L.F. Holburn (University of Western Ontario); Adam Fremeth (University of Western Ontario)

  • An Economic Theory of Import Dependence and War

    Roberto Bonfatti (University of Nottingham); Kevin H. O' Rourke (University of Oxford)

  • Endogenous (In)Formal Institutions.

    Serra Boranbay (University of Mannheim); Carmine Guerriero (ACLE and University of Amsterdam)

  • Cooperation and Identity in a Multiethnic Society

    Stefania Bortolotti (University of Bologna); Marco Casari (University of Bologna); Chiara Monti (University of Bologna)

  • Majority Runoff Elections: Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis

    Laurent Bouton (Boston University); Gabriele Gratton (University of New South Wales)

  • Cooperating With the State: Evidence from Survey Experiments on Policing

    Noah Buckley (Columbia University); Timothy Frye (Columbia University); Scott Gehlbach (UW Madison); Lauren McCarthy (UMass Amherst)

  • Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia

    Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo); Ruben Durante (Science Po); Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna); Paolo Vanin (University of Bologna)

  • Equality under threat by the talented: Evidence from Worker-managed firms

    Gabriel Burdin (Univ. de la Republica, Univ. of Siena and IZA)

  • Shift of Public Expenditures through Debt Brakes: The Swiss Experience

    Heiko T. Burret (Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg); Lars P. Feld (Walter Eucken Institut and University Freiburg)

  • Reputation and Entry

    Jeffrey V. Butler (EIEF); Enrica Carbone (Second University of Naples "SUN"); Pierluigi Conzo (University of Turin); Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics-SITE, Tor Vergata)

  • Self-enforcing Trade Agreements, Dispute Settlement and Separation of Powers

    Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

  • The Role of Public Capabilities and Institutional Determinants in Public-Private Partnerships: A Cross-Country Examination

    Sandro Cabral (UFBA - Salvador do Bahia (Brazil)); Ilze Kivleniece (Imperial College (UK) - HEC Paris (France)); Sergio Lazzarini (Insper - São Paulo (Brazil)); Bertrand Quélin (HEC Paris (France))

  • The coordination value of monetary exchange: Experimental evidence,

    Gabriele CAMERA (Chapman University); Marco CASARI (University of Bologna)

  • Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off

    Charles Cameron (Princeton University and New York University); John de Figueiredo (Duke University and Institute for Advanced Study); David Lewis (Vanderbilt University)

  • Economic Growth and European Integration: A Counterfactual Analysis

    Nauro Campos (Brunel University & IZA-Bonn); Fabrizio Coricelli (Paris School of Economics & CEPR); Luigi Moretti (University of Padova)

  • Rewarding Idleness

    Andrea Canidio (Central European University); Thomas Gall (University of Southampton)

  • Rent-Seeking and Litigation: The Hidden Virtues of the Loser-Pays Rule

    Emanuela Carbonara (University of Bologna); Francesco Parisi (Universities of Minnesota and Bologna)

  • Great Recession and labor market anomalies: The German labor market miracle revisited from a decision under risk perspective

    Vivian Carstensen (Bielefeld University ASC)

  • Gender-biased property rights on the commons: A case study from the Italian Alps

    Marco Casari (University of Bologna); Maurizio Lisciandra (University of Messina)

  • A Theory of Conscientiousness

    Simone Cerreia-Vioglio (Università Bocconi); Fabio Maccheroni (Università Bocconi); Massimo Marinacci (Università Bocconi); Aldo Rustichini (Minnesota University)

  • The Effects of Economic Regulation: Evidence from the Istanbul and New York Taxicab Markets

    Tamer Cetin (Yildiz Technical University); Kadir Y. Eryigit (Uludag University); Ali K. Cetinkaya (Istanbul Stock Exchange)

  • Lawyers' Reputation and the Quality of Legal Services : An Economic Analysis of Self-Regulation

    Camille Chaserant (University Le Havre and Paris Ouest Nanterre / Eco); Sophie Harnay (University Paris Ouest Nanterre / EconomiX)

  • When More Discretionary Power Improves Public Procurement Efficiency : An Empirical Analysis of French Negotiated Procedures

    Lisa Chever (Sorbonne Business School); John Moore (Sorbonne Business School)

  • Energy Performance Contracts: An analysis of the French experience through the lenses of contract theories

    Eshien Chong (Sorbonne Business School); Aude Le Lannier (Sorbonne Business School); Carine Staropoli (CES, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • If you want me to stay, pay: a model of asymmetric federalism in centralised countries

    Peter Claeys (Universitat de Barcelona); Federico Martire (Università di Torino)

  • THE IMPACT OF INSPECTOR GROUP SIZE ON ENFORCEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM OIL PLATFORMS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

    Mark A. Cohen (Vanderbilt University and Resources for the Future); Lucija Muehlenbachs (Resources for the Future)

  • Salience, Coordination and Cooperation in Contributing to Threshold Public Goods

    Luca Corazzini (University of Padova); Christopher Cotton (University of Miami); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

  • Rule of Law, Riches, and Rogues: A New Perspective on the Resource Curse

    Mathieu Couttenier (University of Lausanne); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW); Marc Sangnier (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

  • Court Efficiency and Procurement Performance

    Decio Coviello (HEC Montréal); Luigi Moretti (Univ. of Padova); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE – Stockholm School of Economics, EIEF); Paola Valbonesi (Univ. of Padova)

  • Forecasts and Reactivity

    Reto Cueni (University of Zurich); Bruno S. Frey (University of Warwick and Zeppelin University)

  • Civil liberties and economic development: the role of culture in a property rights approach

    Pál Czeglédi (University of Debrecen)

  • Voluntary versus Mandatory Disclosure: The Case of Standard Contracts

    Elena D'Agostino (University of Messina); Giuseppe Sobbrio (University of Messina)

  • Endogenous Property Rights

    Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (University of Amsterdam); Carmine Guerriero (University of Amsterdam)

  • Scientific Commons Underutilisation: Causes, Consequences and Remedial Strategies

    Paul A. David (Stanford University); W. Edward Steinmueller (University of Sussex)

  • Information Commons between Peer-production and Commodification: the case of Cloud Computing

    Primavera De Filippi (CERSA / CNRS / Université Paris II); Miguel Vieira (University of São Paulo)

  • Beyond Divide and Rule: Weak Dictators, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict

    Giacomo De Luca (University of York); Petros Sekeris (University of Namur); Juan Fernando Vargas (Universidad del Rosario)

  • Demographic behaviour of Labormanaged firms and capitalist firms in Uruguay

    Andres Dean (Universidad de la Republica)

  • Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions

    Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)

  • A Theory of Voluntary Pooled Public Knowledge Goods and Coalition Formation

    Tom Dedeurwaerdere (Université catholique de Louvain); Paolo Melindi Ghidi (Université catholique de Louvain)

  • Spectrum property rights: from theory to policy

    Bruno Deffains (Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris); Thomas Welter (SFR)

  • Control Allocation and Corruption in Public-Private Partnerships

    Claudine Desrieux (University of Paris II Panthéon Assas)

  • Military Conflict and the Economic Rise of Urban Europe

    Mark Dincecco (IMT Lucca); Massimiliano Onorato (IMT Lucca)

  • Property Rights and Natural Resource Curses: Micro Evidence from a Tribal Fishery

    Parker Dominic P. (University of Wisconsin); Rucker Randall R. (Montana State University); Nickerson Peter H. (Nickerson and Associates)

  • Meet The Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

    Francesco Drago (University of Naples, Federico II; CSEF and IZA); Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University; IGIER and IZA); Francesco Sobbrio (European University Institute)

  • Agricultural productivity in the Cape Colony: a story of networks or property rights?

    Sophia du Plessis (Stellenbosch University); Eldridge Moses (Stellenbosch University); Dieter von Fintel (Stellenbosch University)

  • The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid’s Impact on Political Institutions*

    Nabamita Dutta (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse); Peter T. Leeson (George Mason University); Claudia R. Williamson (Mississippi State University )

  • How the U.S. Farm Firm has Evolved: A Conceptual Framework

    Matthew Elliott (University of Missouri)

  • Social Media and Corruption

    Ruben Enikolopov (Institute for Advanced Study, New Economic School); Maria Petrova (Princeton University, New Economic School); Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School)

  • Social networks, peer effects, and protest participation

    Ruben Enikolopov (Institute for Advanced Study, New Economic School); Aleksey Makar'in (Higher School of Economics, New Economic School); Maria Petrova (Princeton University, New Economic School); Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics)

  • Social Stigma, Heuristics and Criminal Law

    Laarni Escresa (European University Institute); Arsen Palestini (MEMOTEF, Sapienza University of Rome)

  • Consensus-seeking in Civil Law Constitutional Courts: The Case of the French Conseil Constitutionnel

    Romain Espinosa (University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)

  • An Economic Theory of the Evolutionary Emergence of Property Rights

    Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia); Hugh M. Neary (University of British Columbia)

  • Hiding information in open auctions with jump bids

    David Ettinger (Université Paris Dauphine PSL); Fabio Michelucci (CERGE-EI)

  • Behavioral Equity

    Yuval Feldman (Bar-Ilan University & Safra Center, Harvard); Henry E. Smith (Harvard Law School)

  • Institutions and the Sectoral Organization of Production

    Ana Fernandes (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

  • Nonprofits are not alike: The Role of Catholic and Protestant Affiliation

    Lapo Filistrucchi (Tilburg University and University of Florence); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

  • The Foundations of Wealth-Enhancing Majority Rule: Lessons from Institutional Design and Redesign in Ancient Greece

    Robert K. Fleck (Clemson University); F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University)

  • Administrative power and state formation. Late medieval Siena

    Mattia Fochesato (University of Siena)

  • Did Chrysler Benefit from Government Assistance? Making Causal Inferences in Small Samples using Synthetic Control Methodology

    Adam Fremeth (University of Western Ontario); Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario); Brian Richter (University of Texas)

  • Two Enduring Lessons from Elinor Ostrom

    Brett Frischmann (Cardozo School of Law)

  • Elections, Protest, and Investment Plans: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Russia

    Timothy Frye (Columbia University); Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics)

  • Political Machines at Work: Voter Mobilization and Electoral Subversion in the Workplace

    Timothy Frye (Columbia University); Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); David Szakonyi (Columbia University)

  • THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS GROUPS IN BRAZIL, CHILE AND ARGENTINA 1990-2003: HOW THE STATE AFFECTS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE THROUGH BUSINESS FINANCING

    Silvia Garcia de Agnelli (Carleton University)

  • Delegation and Performance Pay: Evidence from Industrial Sales Forces

    Mrinal Ghosh (University of Arizona); Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan); Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University)

  • Information, Regulatory Commitment and the Investment Dilemma

    Ranjan K. Ghosh (Humboldt University Berlin); Christian Kimmich (Humboldt University Berlin)

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

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins University)

  • ‘Make or Buy’ as Competitive Strategy: Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins University); Christian Ruzzier (Universidad de San Andres)

  • A Production Function of Economic Regulation: The Example of Forced Money

    Dror Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)

  • The Effect of Social Interaction on Economic Transactions: An Embarrassment of Niches?

    Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto); Ryan C. McDevitt (University of Rochester); Sampsa Samila (National University of Singapore); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

  • Choosing Channels of Influence in Hybrid Regimes: Direct and Indirect Lobbying across the Russian Federation

    Andrei Govorun (Higher School of Economics); Israel Marques (Columbia University); William Pyle (Middlebury College)

  • Ten theses on the firm as a democratic institution

    Anna Grandori (Bocconi University)

  • Persistent effects of empires: Evidence from the partitions of Poland

    Irena Grosfeld (Paris School of Economics); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

  • Who is Monitoring the Monitor? The Influence of Ownership Networks and Organizational Transparency on Long-Term Resource Commitment in Russian Listed Firms

    Anna Grosman (Imperial College); Aija Leiponen (Cornell University)

  • Sale of Offices, Corruption and Long-term Development in Peru.

    Jenny Guardado Rodriguez (New York University)

  • A Culture Based Theory of Fiscal Union Desirability

    luigi guiso (EIEF); Helios Herrera (Columbia University); Massimo Morelli (Columbia Univrersity)

  • Transaction Costs and Agrarian Institutions in Indonesia: The Case of Cianjur District

    Yohanna M.L. Gultom (Universitas Indonesia)

  • Internal Migration and Interregional Convergence in Russia

    Sergei M. Guriev (New Economic School); Elena S. Vakulenko (Higher School of Economics)

  • The Role of the Constitution in Constraining the Military

    Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg); Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)

  • Voting Islamist or Voting Secular? An Empirical Analysis of Voting Outcomes in “Arab Spring” Egypt

    Shimaa Hanafy (Philipps-University Marburg); May Elsayyad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law & Public Finance)

  • A preliminary examination of the effects of credit instruments on de facto and de jure political power: lien laws in the postbellum United States South and nineteenth century New South Wales, Australia

    Edwyna Harris (Monash University)

  • Local Environmental Quality and Inter-Jurisdictional Spillovers

    John W. Hatfield (Stanford University GSB); Katrina Kosec (IFPRI)

  • Intelligence Moderates Neural Responses to Monetary Reward and Punishment

    Daniel R. Hawes (University of Minnesota); Colin G. DeYoung (University of Minnesota); Jeremy R. Gray (Michigan State University); Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)

  • Explaining Constitutional Change: The Case of Judicial Independence

    Bernd Hayo (University of Marburg); Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)

  • Democracy in Cooperatives

    George W.J. Hendrikse (Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University); John Pencavel (Stanford University)

  • Endogeneity in the Institutions Governing Public Disclosure of Tax Compliance Information

    Jin Kwon Hyun (Korea Economic Research Institute); Iljoong Kim (SungKyunKwan University )

  • Addressing Governance Challenges in the Delivery of Animal Health Services:A transaction Cost Approach

    John Ilukor (University of Hohenheim); Regina Birner (University of Hohenheim); Thea Nielsen (University of Hohenheim)

  • On The Colonial Origins of Agricultural Development in India: A Re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, ‘History, Institutions and Economic Performance’

    Vegard Iversen (Jindal School of Government and Public Policy); Richard Palmer-Jones (University of East Anglia, UK); Kunal Sen (University of Manchester, UK)

  • Minor party's political power and policy outcomes - evidence from European green parties and environmental policies

    Jenni Jaakkola (University of Turku)

  • Local leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia

    B. Kelsey Jack (Tufts University); María P. Recalde (University of Pittsburgh)

  • Service procurement in public sector: The influence of the institutional context on the decision makers’ attentiveness to transaction cost considerations

    Roar Jakobsen (Norwegian Tax Administration); Jon B. Sande (Norwegian Business School); Sven A. Haugland (Norwegian School of Economics)

  • The Aftermath of War: Non-Elite Organizational Capacity and Political Mobilization

    Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business); Steven Wilkinson (Yale University)

  • From Nudges to Mandates: Dodd-Frank Mortgage Regulation as a Case Study in Behavioralist Policy Paradox

    Jason Scott Johnston (University of Virginia)

  • Contractual Networks and the Access of Small and Medium Enterprises to Global Value Chains: the Case of the Brazilian Aircraft Industry

    Luana F. Joppert Swensson (European University Institute)

  • Mergers, Managerial Incentives, and Efficiencies

    Dragan Jovanovic (Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • Regulation and Contract Design: The Impact of Relationship Specific Investment

    Kanishka Kacker (University of Maryland College Park)

  • Political Connections, Entrepreneurship, and Social Network Investment

    Raja Kali (University of Arkansas); Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne)

  • Derangement or Development? Political Economy of EU Structural Funds Allocation in New Member States - Insights from the Hungarian Case

    Judit Kalman (Hungarian Academy of Sci., Institute of Economics)

  • Political and Economic Freedom, and the Social Orders

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

  • A “De Soto Effect” in Industry? Evidence from the Russian Federation

    Alexei Karas (Roosevelt Academy); William Pyle (Middlebury College); Koen J.L. Schoors (Ghent University)

  • The Right to Include

    Daniel B. Kelly (University of Notre Dame)

  • Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting

    Marko Klasnja (NYU); Joshua A. Tucker (NYU); Kevin Deegan-Krause (Wayne State University)

  • Public Capabilities and Public Entrepreneurship

    Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)

  • Transaction Cost Entrepreneurship

    Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri)

  • The Dynamics of the Political Budget Cycle: An empirical examination of municipal spending in Austria

    Michael Klien (Sorbonne Business School)

  • Lobbying and Elections

    Jan Klingelhöfer (RWTH Aachen University)

  • Aid, Eligibility Rules and Manipulation of Reported Income Levels

    Stephen Knack (World Bank); Colin Xu (World Bank); Ben Zhou (University of Maryland)

  • Why Do Socially Concerned Firms Provide Low-powered Incentives to Their Managers?

    Michael Kopel (University of Graz); Björn Brand (University of Graz)

  • Forest management: Field experimental study from the Czech and Slovak Republic

    Urban Kovac (Comenius University, UEL SAS); Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska (CETIP, SPECTRA STU and UEL SAS); Lenka Slavikova (IEEP, University of Economics in Prague)

  • Misunderestimating Corruption

    Aart Kraay (World Bank); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

  • Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database

    Jackie Krafft (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS-GREDEG); Yiping Qu (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS-GREDEG); Francesco Quatraro (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS-GREDEG); Jacques-Laurent Ravix (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS-GREDEG)

  • Technological Foundations of Political Change

    Natalia Lamberova (University of Maryland); Dagaev Dmitry (Higher School of Economics); Anton Sobolev (Higher School of Economics); Konstantin Sonin (New Economic School)

  • What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

    Sergio Lazzarini (Insper Institute of Education and Research); Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School and NBER); Rodrigo Bandeira de Mello (EAESP-FGV); Rosilene Marcon (Univali)

  • Hot Spot Policing: A Theoretical Study of Place-Based Strategies to Crime Prevention

    Natalia Lazzati (Department of Economics, University of Michigan); Amilcar Menichini (School of Business, Naval Postgraduate School)

  • Do higher government wages reduce corruption? Evidence based on a novel dataset

    Van Ha Le (The University of Groningen); Jakob de Haan (The University of Groningen); Erik Dietzenbacher (The University of Groningen)

  • Can Antitrust Law Incorporate Insights from Behavioral Economics?

    Christopher R. Leslie (University of California Irvine)

  • Institutions and Political Instability in Kenya: Measurement and Tests of Institutional Persistence and Interdependence

    Emmanuel M. Letete (University of Cape Town ); Mare Sarr (University of Cape Town ); Johannes Fedderke (Pennsylvania State University)

  • Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony and the Power of the State

    David K Levine (WUSTL); Salvatore Modica (Palermo)

  • Pooling and the Yardstick Effect of Cooperatives

    Qiao Liang (Zhejiang University); George W.J. Hendrikse (Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University)

  • Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations

    Gary Libecap (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • The Outcome of NGOs Activism on Domestic Firms in Developing Countries

    Michela Limardi (University of Lille 1); Lionel Fontagne (Paris School of Economics and CEPII)

  • Knowledge Accumulation within an Organization

    Ngo Van Long (McGill University); Antoine Soubeyran (AMSE); Raphael Soubeyran (INRA-LAMETA)

  • An Economic History of Wildfire Suppression in the United States

    Dean Lueck (University of Arizona); Jonathon Yoder (Washington State University)

  • Land Demarcation and the Great Roman Network

    Dean Lueck (University of Arizona); Gary Libecap (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • The “Black Box” of Strategy: Competitive Responses to and Performance from Adverse Regulatory Events

    Jeffrey T. Macher (Georgetown University); James B. Wade (Emory University)

  • Land Reform and Technical Efficiency: theory and panel data evidence from Brazil

    Marcelo M. Magalhães (Campus of Tupã, Universidade Estadual Paulista); Guilherme B. R. Lambais (International Policy Centre, UNDP); José Maria F. J. da Silveira (Institute of Economics, University of Campinas)

  • The Enterprise as Community: Firms, Towns, and Universities

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  • The Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions in Development: The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and Social Capital in Sesame Markets

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  • Ownership and Possession

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  • Measuring Economic Consequences: Property Rights, Commercial Resource Industries and Aboriginal Rights in Canada

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  • TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF ISLAM

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  • Evil Social Institutions

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  • Regulatory Environment and Firms’ Performance in EU Telecommunications Services

    Daniel Montolio (University of Barcelona); Francesc Trillas (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Elisa Trujillo-Baute (University of Barcelona)

  • Local financial development, socio-institutional environment, and firm productivity: evidence from Italy

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  • A Formal Behavioral Model of Firm Boundaries: Why Does Authority Relation Mitigate Ex Post Disputes over Trade Value?

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  • Credible Commitments: Using Options to Support Partnerships

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  • The Rigidity of Public Contracts

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  • Group Violence, Ethnic Diversity and Citizen Participation

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  • Leviathan Evolving: Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond

    Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School); Sergio Lazzarini (Insper Institute of Education and Research)

  • Choosing the Form of Government: Theory and Evidence from Brazil

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  • Rethinking the Principal-Agent Theory of Judging

    Jonathan R. Nash (Emory University School of Law); Rafael I. Pardo (Emory University School of Law)

  • Colonization, Human Capital and Development: The Long-term Effect of Russian Settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s-2000s

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  • Criminal Persecution of Business in Russia's Regions: Private Interests vs. "Stick" System

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  • How Judges Think in the Brazilian Supreme Court: Estimating Ideal Points and Identifying Dimensions

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  • Outcomes and Precedents

    Anthony Niblett (Univ. of Toronto, Faculty of Law)

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  • Do institutions play a role in skilled migration? The case of Italy.

    ANNAMARIA NIFO (UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO (ITALY)); GAETANO VECCHIONE (SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES (ITALY))

  • Firm productivity and institutional quality: Evidence from Italian industry

    ANNAMARIA NIFO (UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO (ITALY)); ANDREA LASAGNI (UNIVERSITY OF PARMA (ITALY)); GAETANO VECCHIONE (SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES (ITALY))

  • Does Education or Underlying Human Capital Explain Liberal Economic Attitudes?

    John Nye (George Mason University); Sergiy Polyachenko (Higher School of Economics)

  • What Determines Trust? Human Capital vs. Social Institutions: Evidence from Manila and Moscow

    John V.C. Nye (George Mason U and NRU-Higher School of Economics); Gregory Androuschak (NRU-Higher School of Economics); Desiree Desierto (University of the Philippines); Garett Jones (George Mason University); Maria Yudkevich (Higher School of Economics)

  • Local Resource Management and the Consequences of Institutional Change: Evidence from Napoleon's Intervention in the Italian Alps

    Trevor O'Grady (University of California, Santa Barbara); Claudio Tagliapietra (University of Bologna)

  • Athens on the Doorstep

    Josh Ober (Stanford University); Barry Weingast (Stanford University)

  • Competition in a Media Market: The Case of Magazines

    Hiroshi Ohashi (University of Tokyo); Mitsuru Sunada (Osaka Prefecture University)

  • Foreign Land Acquisitions in Nigeria: Forces from Above and Voices from Below

    Evans S Osabuohien (GIGA,Germany/Covenant University,Nigeria)

  • Learning from Ancient Athens: Demarchy and Corporate Governance

    Margit Osterloh (University of Warwick); Hossam Zeitoun (University of Warwick); Bruno S. Frey (University of Warwick)

  • Knowledge intensive economy firms between participation and exclusion

    Ugo Pagano (University of Siena and CEU Budapest)

  • How Social Ties Affect Peer-Group Effects: A Case of University Students

    Oleg Poldin (Higher School of Economics); Diliara Valeeva (Higher School of Economics); Maria Yudkevich (Higher School of Economics)

  • Do Markets Reduce Prices?

    Simon Porcher (IAE Sorbonne Business School)

  • An Influence-Cost Model of Organizational Practices and Firm Boundaries

    Michael Powell (Northwestern University)

  • Land ownership as a safety net and land sales : a study among rural-urban migrants in Thailand

    Gwendoline Promsopha (EconomiX Université Paris Ouest nanterre La Défens)

  • Campaign Contributions from Corporate Executives in lieu of Political Action Committees

    Brian Richter (University of Texas at Austin); Timothy Werner (University of Texas at Austin)

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  • Institutions for spatially managing the harvest of wild forest products: Implications for welfare and ecology

    Brian Robinson (McGill University)

  • Impact of Liability Rule on Modes of Coordination to Food Safety in Supply Chain

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  • Co-regulating Food Safety through Public Private Partnerships: a Road to Success?

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  • A supply-side story for a threshold model: endogenous growth of open collaborative innovation communities

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  • Self-Commitment-Institutions and Cooperation in Overlapping Generations Games

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  • Privatization as a Political Strategy: Evidence from Brazilian Basic Sanitation

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  • Judicial Alignment and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Russian Courts

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  • Mind the Gap! Transaction Cost Disequilibrium and Network Inertia in Commercial Real Estate Investment

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  • Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions

    Jenny Simon (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics); Justin Valasek (WZB Berlin)

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Toward Corruption

    Alberto Simpser (University of Chicago)

  • Prison Gangs and Polycentric Governance Regimes

    David Skarbek (King's College London)

  • Property as Platform: Coordinating Standards for Technologial Innovation

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  • Trust, Repeated Interactions, and User Group Disturbances in Common Property Irrigation

    Steven Smith (University of Colorado)

  • The Effect of Discretion on Procurement Performance

    Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE & EIEF & University of Rome Tor Vergata); Decio Covielloy (HEC Montreal & Tor Vergata); Andrea Guglielmo (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

  • Bounded Rationality and Voting Decisions Exploring a 160-Year Period

    David Stadelmann (University of Bayreuth); Benno Torgler (Queensland University of Technology)

  • Firm Size, Market Liberalization and Growth

    Petar Stankov (CERGE-EI, Prague; UNWE, Sofia)

  • Sham Transactions in the United States

    Nancy Staudt (University of Southern California); Joshua Blank (NYU)

  • Political Firms, Public Procurement and the democratization Process

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  • Implications of Behavioral Antitrust

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  • Does democracy deliver in Islamic societies?

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    André van Hoorn (University of Groningen)

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    Olga Vasilyeva (Economic Research Institute Far East Branch Russia); John V.C. Nye (George Mason University and HSE)

  • Do People Drive Safer When Accidents are More Expensive: Testing for Moral Hazard in Experience Rating Schemes

    Tomislav Vukina (North Carolina State University); Danijel Nestic (Ekonomski Institut Zagreb)

  • Choosing among Contractor Ownership Types with Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

    Patrick L. Warren (Clemson Universtiy)

  • Adaptive, Sequential Decision Making: TCE in the Early Years

    Oliver Williamson (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Eco-regional Biodiversity Cartels on the Genetic Resource Market: the Andean Community's response to the Convention on Biological Diversity

    Sarah Winands (Bonn University); Karin Holm-Müller (Bonn University)

  • Motivating informed decisions

    Andres Zambrano (Universidad de los Andes)

  • Are Family Firms Better Performers During the Financial Crisis?

    Haoyong Zhou (Keele Management School)

  • Public good provision and communication in the household.

    Roberta Ziparo (University of Namur)