SIOE 2014

Programme

Durham, USA 19 June 2014 – 21 June 2014

160 papers

Regulatory Auditing at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Alex Acs Acs, Charles Cameron

Regulation, ownership and competition in the telecommunication sector: Evidence from MENA countries

Riham AHMED EZZAT

Divided by the facts: Asymmetric preferences over legal rules and bargaining on collegial courts

Caitlin Ainsley, Cliff Carrubba, Georg Vanberg

Biological institutions: The political science of animal cooperation

Erol Akcay, Joan Roughgarden, James Fearon, John Ferejohn, Barry Weingast

Offshore Outsourcing and Buyer-Supplier Matching In The Mobile Phone Industry

Juan Alcacer, Ramon Lecuona, Joanne Oxley

Judicial Politics at the Privy Council: Empirical Evidence

Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Nuno Garoupa

The Institutions of Roman Markets

Benito Arruñada

The Titling Role of Possession

Benito Arruñada

Organizational Structure, Police Activity and Crime

Itai Ater, Yehonatan Givati, Oren Rigbi

Political competition over property rights enforcement

Jan U. Auerbach

Capture for the rich, extortion for the poor

Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassebie

Sustainability and Depth of Outreach: Evidence from Microfinance Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sefa Awaworyi

Good Cause Statues Revisited: An Empirical Assessment

Adi Ayal, Uri BenUliel

Appellate Law-Making in a Judicial Hierachy

Adam Badawi, Scott Baker

Relational Contracts, Unemployment Insurance, and Trade

Daniel Barron

Coasean Keep-Away: Voluntary Transaction Costs

Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers

Presidentialism and Coalition Governments: on the influence of cabinet ministers in the decision-making process

Mariana Batista

Resolving Civil Wars before they Start: The UN Security Council and Conflict Prevention

Kyle Beardsley, David E. Cunningham, Peter B. White

Registries

Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

When Does Business Turn Violent? Elections and Business-Related Violence in Russia, 1995-2010

Galina Belokurova

Political Acceptance as an Alternative or Complement to Political Legitimacy: Concepts, Measurement and Implications.

Roger R. Betancourt, Alejandro Ponce

Endogenous Institutional Selection, Building Trust, and Economic Growth

Aaron Bodoh-Creed

Sarbanes-Oxley: Disciplining Executives or Enriching Attorneys? Evidence from Directors and Officers Liability Insurance

Nicholas F. Bormann

Experimental Evidence of Behavior Based Pricing

Zuzana Brokesova, Cary Deck, Jana Peliova

From the International Telegraph Union to Internet Governance: Organizational vs. Viral Governance

Eric Brousseau

Culture and CEO Compensation

Stephen Bryan, Robert Nash, Ajay Patel

The 1906 San Francisco Fire and the Cost of Zoning

Devin Bunten, James Siodla

Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Agreements

Kristy Buzard

The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Lorenzo Caliendo, Ferdinando Monte, Esteban Rossi Hansberg

Determining the use of contract in Brazilian Feedlot: an empirical analysis

Thiago B. Carvalho, Eder C. Januário, Maria Sylvia M. Saes

Cold Hand Decision-Making

Daniel Chen, Tobias Moskowitz, Kelly Shue

The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives and Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand

Daniel L. Chen, Jo Lind

Universities as Innovators: The Effects of Academic Incubators on Patent Quality

Kolympiris Christos, Klein Peter G.

Economic Calculation and Constraints on Firm Size

Brandon N. Cline, Claudia R. Williamson, Adam Yore

Relational Contracts, Financing Constraints and Social Welfare

Oscar F Contreras

Economic Consequences of Judicial Institutions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

J. Anthony Cookson

Tenure in Office and Public Procurement

decio Coviello, Stefano Gagliarducci

Experimentation Strategies and Entrepreneurial Innovation: Inherited Market Differences in the iPhone Ecosystem

Jason P. Davis, Yulia Muzyrya, Pai-Ling Yin

Throw Away the Jail or Throw Away the Key? The Effect of Punishment on Recividism and Social Cost

Miguel de Figueiredo

When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Miguel de Figueiredo, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Yuri Kasahara

Removing Rents: Why the Legal System is Superior to the Income Tax at Reducing Income Inequality

Gerrit De Geest

The Death of Caveat Emptor

Gerrit De Geest

Plural Forms in Brazil’s Automobile Fuel Distribution Sector: Evaluation of the profile and stability of plural governance in São Paulo state

Selene de Souza Siqueira Soares, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

Judicial Independence? Evidence from the Philippine Supreme Court (1970-2003)

Desiree A. Desierto

Consumer Credit on American Indian Reservations

Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl, A. Joseph Guse, Richard M. Todd

Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition: a New Zealand Invention

Benoit Dostie, Ruth Dupre

Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification

Daniel W. Elfenbein, Raymond Fisman, Brian McManus

Bounded Rationality as an Essential Ingredient of the Holdup Problem

Mathias Erlei, Wiebke Ross

Teamwork as a Self-Discipling Device

Matthias Fahn, Hendrik Hakenes

A New Methodology for Evaluating Redistricting Plans

Benjmin Fifield, Michael Higgins, Kosuke Imai

Courts, Legislatures, and Property Rule Changes: Lessons from Eminent Domain During the 19th Century Railroad Boom

Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen

Roman business associations

Andreas M. Fleckner

The Digital Reorganization of Firm Boundaries: IT Use and Vertical Integration in U.S. Manufacturing

Chris Forman, Kristina McElheran

The Indian Reorganization Act, Tribal Sovereignty, and Economic Development

Dustin Frye

Modeling Production in the Creative Commons

Massimiliano Gambardella, Matthijs den Besten

Strategic Spending in Federal Government: Theory and Evidence from the US

Pablo Garofalo

Institutional Economics Meets the Cost of Capital: Implications for Public versus Private Infrastructure Delivery

Rick Geddes, Joshua Goldman

The Reputation Trap of NGO Accountability

Stephen E. Gent, Mark J. C. Crescenzi, Elizabeth J. Menninga, Lindsay Reid

Eurozone Bank Crisis & Federalism

Nicholas Georgakopoulos

Determinants of Corporate Governance Codes

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle

Mergers and Acquisitions in the US Video Game Industry: Assessing Theories of Vertical Integration

Ricard Gil, Frederic Warzynski

Testing for the Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracts

Ricard Gil, Giorgio Zanarone

The Relationship between Population Density and Crime: Evidence from the Government Shutdown of 2013

Ricard Gil, Mario Macis

Nation-building and Institutional Change: Lessons from U.S. Special Forces

Matt Golsteyn, Steve Phelan

Nation-building and Institutional Change: Lessons from U.S. Special Forces

Mathew Golsteyn, Steve Phelan

Land Tenure, Price Shocks and Insurgency: Evidence from Peru

Jenny Guardado

Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes.

Carmine Guerriero

Why would inefficient contractual arrangements persist in agrarian society in Indonesia?

Yohanna M. L. Gultom

THE CARBON MARKET AND ECONOMIC FACTORS THAT CAN AFFECT EMISSIONS REDUCTION SUCCESS

Sara Gurfinkel M. Godoy, Sylvia Saes, Rubens Nunes

Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

Gillian K. Hadfield, Barry R. Weingast

More is less: Why parties may deliberately write incomplete contracts

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Oliver Hart

Demanding Supply: path-dependent informality in Jordan's water sector under King Abdullah II

Allison S. Hartnett

Beyond Asset Ownership: Employment and Asset-less Firms in a Property-Rights Theory of the Firm

LESHUI HE

The High Quality of Piece Rate

Walid Hejazi, Brian S. Silverman, Brent Perekoppi

Impact of Federal Preemption on Competition in the United States Telegraph Market

Aaron M. Honsowetz

England: Dominant Coalition in Transition: The Rise of the Merchant-Navy Alliance After 1600

Jerry F. Hough, Robin Grier

Contagion Entrepreneurship: Institutional Support, Strategic Incoherence and the Social Costs of Over-Entry

Richard Hunt

Demand-Side Drivers of Entrepreneurial Activity: A Cliometric Reassessment Using Socially Embedded Historical Artifacts

Richard Hunt

Increasing Vertical Integration in Brazilian Orange Juice Sector after 1990: Power and Transaction Costs

Nobuiuki C. Ito, Decio Zylbersztajn

Institutional Development, Capital Accumulation, and the Emergence of Civilizations

Thorsten Janus, Jamus Lim

Wealth Effects versus Credit Constraints as Drivers of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Mortgage Reform

Thais Jensen, Soren Leth-Petersen, Ramana Nanda

Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France

Noel Johnson

Business Cycles with Revolutions

Lance Kent, Toan Phan

Incumbent Vertical Market Power, Experimentation, and Institutional Design in the Deregulating Electricity Industry

L. Lynne Kiesling

Evaluation of Community-Driven Development in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region: Use of the Institutional Analysis in Development (IAD) Framework

Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Temesgen T. Deressa, Jessica E. Pugliese, Andrew Onwuemele, Micah Mendie

Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship

Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts

Institutional and Organizational Governance: Design Principles and Adaptation

Peter G. Klein, Joseph T. Mahoney, Anita M. McGahan, Christos N. Pitelis

International Cooperation, Parties and Ideology

Jan Klingelhöfer

Unified China and Divided Europe

Chiu Yu Ko, Mark Koyama, Tuan-Hwee Sng

Some controversial aspects of the Financial Meltdown of 2008

John Komlos

An Empirical Analysis of Self-Enforcement Mechanisms: Evidence from Hotel Franchising

Renata Kosova, Giorgo Sertsios

Institutional development, non-market transaction costs and economic growth: evidence from a cross-country investigation

Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk

The Price of Justice: International Criminal Accountability and Civil Conflict

Daniel Krcmaric

The Birth of Surrogate Motherhood Law: An Economic Analysis of Institutional Reform

Pavel Kuchar

Agency Problems in Entrepreneurial Firms

Elena Kulchina

Fighting Against Democracy. Military Factions in the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931-1939)

Alvaro La Parra-Perez

Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?

Francine Lafontaine, Kathryn L. Shaw

Regulatory Design Choices in Communications Policy – Investment in Infrastructure and Net Neutrality in the USA and the EU

Pierre Larouche

Business Associations, Lobbying, and Welfare

Maria Larrain, Jens Prüfer

What Led to the Ban on Same-Sex Marriage in California?: Structural Estimation of Voting Data on Proposition 8

Vardges Levonyan

Filling the Institutional Void: Roles of Associations in China’s HealthCare Sector

Mingzhi Li, Kai Reimers, Bin Xie, Xunhua Guo

The Burden of Past Promises

Jin Li, Niko Matouschek, Michael Powell

The Successor’s Dilemma in Authoritarian Regimes: Theory and Evidence

Yuan Li, Shu Yu, Yongjing Zhang

Independence of the Judiciary: Measuring the Political Bias of the Brazilian Courts

Felipe M. Lopes, Paulo F. Azevedo

Make Or Buy Decisions For Strategic Problem Solving: A Knowledge-Based Examination in Medical Device Manufacturing

Jeffrrey Macher

Inside the MNC: Structuring Ownership of Firm-Specific Advantages

Catherine Magelssen, Susan Feinberg

Vertical Scope and Location Choice

Octavio J. Martinez

The rise of deep determinants

Robbert Maseland

Productivity and Quality in Health Care: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry

Ryan McDevitt, Paul Grieco

Endogenous Parliamentarism

Stephan Michel

Mechanisms of Community Prosecution: Evidence from Cook County

Thomas Miles

Ex Ante Investment, Ex Post Adaptation, and Asset Ownership

Yusuke Mori

Trust, Organization and Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Wet Mills

Ameet Morjaria, Rocco Macchiavello

Public-Private Monopoly

Marian Moszoro

Theorizing urban form in developing countries: Informal property markets and the production of the built environment

Ephraim K Munshifwa, Manya M Mooya

Female Brain Drains and Women’s Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Andrew Young

Career Experience Replaced: Emergence of Japanese Internal Labor Markets

Masaki Nakabayashi

The Regulation of Exit: Political Economy of Passport Costs

Timur Natkhov, Leonid Polishchuk

The Effects of Prenatal Testosterone on Adult Wages: Evidence from Russian RMLS Data and Measured 2D:4D Digit Ratios

John V.C. Nye, Ekaterina Kochergina, Ekaterina Orel, Maria Yudkevich

A Blessing and a Curse: How Oil Impacts Center-Seeking and Separatist Civil Wars

Jack Paine

Does Trade reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Pallavi Panda

Liability Rule Failures? Evidence from German Court Decisions

Annika Pape

Resource Cursed or Policy Cursed? The Violent Consequences of Conflict Mineral Legislation in the DRC

Dominic Parker, Bryan Vadheim

Seduction and Violence in Autocratic Regimes

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Petros Sekeris

Legislative Changes and their Impact on Divorce, Separation and Marriage Rates in Brazil

Antonio J. Porto, Pedro H. Butelli

If Congestion Pricing is so wonderful why are there so few examples?

Charles Prestrud

Trusting Privacy in the Cloud

Jens Prüfer

China’s expanding social assistance programs and “Fragmented authoritarianism”

Jiwei Qian

The Politics of Redistribution: Beliefs, Institutions and Evidence from 63 countries

Jiwei Qian, Araral Eduardo

Private Scope in Public-Private Partnerships: Experience and Institutional Determinants

Bertrand V. Quelin, Sandro Cabral, Sergio Lazzarini, Ilze Kivleniece

Providing public access to confidential, big social science datasets

Jerome P. Reiter

Organizational Rigidities in and Organizational Innovation in Non Profits: the Marketplace for American Jewish Institutions

Barak Richman

Institutional Innovations for Environmental Governance when Monitoring is Limited: The Case of Small-Scale Gold Mining

Luz A. Rodriguez, Alex Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez

A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Perceptions of Justice on the Use of Social Sanctions

Maïva Ropaul

Small is Beautiful? Firm Size, Prevention and Food Safety

Elodie Rouvière, Raphael Soubeyran

How to Screen Miners’ Skills: Recruiting in the Coal Mining in Early Twentieth Century Japan

Mayo Sakai

Democracy versus Dictatorship? The Political Determinants of Growth Episodes

kunal sen, Sabyasachi Kar, Selim Raihan

How to Indirectly Measure Market Transaction Costs

Felippe Serigati, Paulo Azevedo

Economists and lawyers: implacable enemies or potential best friends.

Anastasia Shastitko

One case that illustrates the role of institutional analysis in overcoming the hostility tradition in antitrust

Andrei Shastitko, Svetlana Golovanova

Relational Influence Buying

Orie Shelef

How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production

Janis Skrastins, Vikrant Vig

From Communal Irrigation to Irrigation Districts: An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition

Steven M. Smith

The Elements of Possession

Henry E. Smith

Enforcing Covenants Not to Compete: The Life-Cycle Impact on New Firms

Evan Starr, Natarajan Balasubramanian, Mariko Sakakibara

Are autocrats more environment-friendly than democrats? Investigating the impact of the regime type on environmental targets in developing countries

Katharina M. K. Stepping, Lilli Banholzer

Accounting for the Size of Nations: Empirical Determinants of Secessions and the Soviet Breakup

Marvin Suesse

Franchising and Productivity in the Retail Establishment Sector

Matthew Sveum, Michael Sykuta

Did the Military spearhead the Fight against Corruption in Thailand?

Supruet Thavornyutikarn

Financial Regulation and Financial Development: tradeoff or synergy? A Transaction Costs Approach

Stavros B. Thomadakis, Konstantinos I. Loizos

Relational Contracts and Corruption

Marta Troya Martinez, Liam Wren-Lewis

Forensic Laboratory Independence, Control, and the Quality of Forensic Testimony

Patrick L. Warren

Employment, Markets, Contracts, and the Scope of the Firm

birger wernerfelt

Colonial Democratic Legacies

Steven Wilkinson, Massimiliano G. Onorato

Culture and the Cost of Contract Enforcement

Claudia Williamson

Raising dragons

Melanie Meng Xue, John Nye

An Impact of Different Regulatory Regimes on the Effectiveness of Public Procurement

Andrei Yakovlev, Andrey Tkachenko, Olga Demidova, Olga Balaeva

Inequality and Corruption: The Role of Land Reform in Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines

Jong-sung You

The Intrinsic Social Cost of Public Goods: Revising (Downward) the Optimal Size of Government

Martin Zelder

Perceptions of Fairness and Preferences for Redistribution after Information Exposure: Evidence from an On-line Experiment

Jan Zilinsky