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SIOE 2014

Durham, USA — Full Programme

  • Regulatory Auditing at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

    Alex Acs Acs (Princeton University); Charles Cameron (Princeton University)

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

    Riham AHMED EZZAT (CES, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

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

    Caitlin Ainsley (Emory University); Cliff Carrubba (Emory University); Georg Vanberg (Duke University)

  • Biological institutions: The political science of animal cooperation

    Erol Akcay (University of Pennsylvania); Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University); James Fearon (Stanford University); John Ferejohn (New York University); Barry Weingast (Stanford University)

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

    Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School); Ramon Lecuona (London Business School); Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)

  • Judicial Politics at the Privy Council: Empirical Evidence

    Sofia Amaral-Garcia (ETH Zurich); Nuno Garoupa (University of Illinois)

  • The Institutions of Roman Markets

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • The Titling Role of Possession

    Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

  • Organizational Structure, Police Activity and Crime

    Itai Ater (Tel Aviv University); Yehonatan Givati (Hebrew University); Oren Rigbi (Ben Gurion University)

  • Political competition over property rights enforcement

    Jan U. Auerbach (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Capture for the rich, extortion for the poor

    Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE); Julie Lassebie (TSE)

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

    Sefa Awaworyi (Monash University, Australia)

  • Good Cause Statues Revisited: An Empirical Assessment

    Adi Ayal (Bar Ilan University); Uri BenUliel (CMB)

  • Appellate Law-Making in a Judicial Hierachy

    Adam Badawi (Washington University in St. Louis); Scott Baker (Washington University in St. Louis)

  • Relational Contracts, Unemployment Insurance, and Trade

    Daniel Barron (Northwestern Kellogg)

  • Coasean Keep-Away: Voluntary Transaction Costs

    Jordan M. Barry (University of San Diego School of Law); John William Hatfield (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Society of Fellows)

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

    Mariana Batista (Federal University of Pernambuco)

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

    Kyle Beardsley (Duke University); David E. Cunningham (University of Maryland); Peter B. White (University of Maryland)

  • Registries

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

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

    Galina Belokurova (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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

    Roger R. Betancourt (U. of Maryland); Alejandro Ponce (World Justice Project)

  • Endogenous Institutional Selection, Building Trust, and Economic Growth

    Aaron Bodoh-Creed (University of California, Berkeley)

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

    Nicholas F. Bormann (George Mason)

  • Experimental Evidence of Behavior Based Pricing

    Zuzana Brokesova (University of Economics in Bratislava); Cary Deck (University of Arkansas); Jana Peliova (University of Economics in Bratislava)

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

    Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine)

  • Culture and CEO Compensation

    Stephen Bryan (Fordham University); Robert Nash (Wake Forest University); Ajay Patel (Wake Forest University)

  • The 1906 San Francisco Fire and the Cost of Zoning

    Devin Bunten (University of California, Los Angeles); James Siodla (Colby College)

  • Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Agreements

    Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

  • The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

    Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University); Ferdinando Monte (Johns Hopkins University); Esteban Rossi Hansberg (Princeton University)

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

    Thiago B. Carvalho (Sao Paulo University); Eder C. Januário (Sao Paulo University); Maria Sylvia M. Saes (Sao Paulo University)

  • Cold Hand Decision-Making

    Daniel Chen (ETH Zurich/Center of Law and Economics); Tobias Moskowitz (University of Chicago/Booth School of Business); Kelly Shue (University of Chicago/Booth School of Business)

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

    Daniel L. Chen (ETH Zurich/Center of Law and Economics); Jo Lind (University of Oslo/Dept. of Economics)

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

    Kolympiris Christos (Wageningen University); Klein Peter G. (University of Missouri and NHH)

  • Economic Calculation and Constraints on Firm Size

    Brandon N. Cline (Mississippi State University); Claudia R. Williamson (Mississippi State University); Adam Yore (Northern Illinois University)

  • Relational Contracts, Financing Constraints and Social Welfare

    Oscar F Contreras (CUNEF)

  • Economic Consequences of Judicial Institutions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    J. Anthony Cookson (University of Colorado at Boulder)

  • Tenure in Office and Public Procurement

    decio Coviello (Hec Montreal ); Stefano Gagliarducci (Tor Vergata)

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

    Jason P. Davis (INSEAD); Yulia Muzyrya (University of Michigan); Pai-Ling Yin (Stanford University)

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

    Miguel de Figueiredo (Northwestern University)

  • When Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from Brazil

    Miguel de Figueiredo (Northwestern University); F. Daniel Hidalgo (MIT); Yuri Kasahara (University of Oslo)

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

    Gerrit De Geest (Washington University)

  • The Death of Caveat Emptor

    Gerrit De Geest (Washington University)

  • 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 (Universidade de São Paulo (FEAUSP)); Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes (Universidade de São Paulo (FEAUSP))

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

    Desiree A. Desierto (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  • Consumer Credit on American Indian Reservations

    Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl (Virginia Military Institute); Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); A. Joseph Guse (Washington and Lee University); Richard M. Todd (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

  • Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition: a New Zealand Invention

    Benoit Dostie (HEC Montreal); Ruth Dupre (HEC Montreal)

  • Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification

    Daniel W. Elfenbein (Washington University in St. Louis); Raymond Fisman (Columbia University); Brian McManus (University of North Carolina)

  • Bounded Rationality as an Essential Ingredient of the Holdup Problem

    Mathias Erlei (Clausthal University of Technology); Wiebke Ross (Clausthal University of Technology)

  • Teamwork as a Self-Discipling Device

    Matthias Fahn (University of Munich); Hendrik Hakenes (University of Bonn, CEPR, MPI Bonn)

  • A New Methodology for Evaluating Redistricting Plans

    Benjmin Fifield (Princeton University); Michael Higgins (Princeton University); Kosuke Imai (Princeton University)

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

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

  • Roman business associations

    Andreas M. Fleckner (Max Planck Society)

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

    Chris Forman (Georgia Tech); Kristina McElheran (Harvard Business School & MIT)

  • The Indian Reorganization Act, Tribal Sovereignty, and Economic Development

    Dustin Frye (University of Colorado, Boulder)

  • Modeling Production in the Creative Commons

    Massimiliano Gambardella (Univ. Paris Ouest and Group MoVimento 5 Stelle); Matthijs den Besten (Group Sup De Co-Montpellier Business School)

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

    Pablo Garofalo (University of Houston)

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

    Rick Geddes (Cornell University); Joshua Goldman (Skadden Arps)

  • The Reputation Trap of NGO Accountability

    Stephen E. Gent (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Mark J. C. Crescenzi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Elizabeth J. Menninga (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Lindsay Reid (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

  • Eurozone Bank Crisis & Federalism

    Nicholas Georgakopoulos (Indiana Univ, R.H. McKinney Sch of Law)

  • Determinants of Corporate Governance Codes

    Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (London School of Economics)

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

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School); Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus University)

  • Testing for the Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracts

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins University); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

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

    Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School); Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School)

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

    Matt Golsteyn (Fayetteville State University); Steve Phelan (Fayetteville State University)

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

    Mathew Golsteyn (Fayetteville State University); Steve Phelan (Fayetteville State University)

  • Land Tenure, Price Shocks and Insurgency: Evidence from Peru

    Jenny Guardado (New York University)

  • Endogenous Institutions and Economic Outcomes.

    Carmine Guerriero (ACLE and University of Amsterdam)

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

    Yohanna M. L. Gultom (Universitas Indonesia/Oregon State University)

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

    Sara Gurfinkel M. Godoy (University of São Paulo); Sylvia Saes (University of São Paulo); Rubens Nunes (University of São Paulo)

  • Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Southern California); Barry R. Weingast (Stanford University)

  • More is less: Why parties may deliberately write incomplete contracts

    Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol); Oliver Hart (Harvard)

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

    Allison S. Hartnett (University of Oxford)

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

    LESHUI HE (UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT)

  • The High Quality of Piece Rate

    Walid Hejazi (University of Toronto); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto); Brent Perekoppi (University of Toronto)

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

    Aaron M. Honsowetz (George Mason University)

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

    Jerry F. Hough (Duke University); Robin Grier (University of Oklahoma)

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

    Richard Hunt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

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

    Richard Hunt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)

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

    Nobuiuki C. Ito (University of São Paulo); Decio Zylbersztajn (University of São Paulo)

  • Institutional Development, Capital Accumulation, and the Emergence of Civilizations

    Thorsten Janus (University of Wyoming); Jamus Lim (World Bank)

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

    Thais Jensen (University of Copenhagen); Soren Leth-Petersen (University of Copenhagen); Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School)

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

    Noel Johnson (George Mason University)

  • Business Cycles with Revolutions

    Lance Kent (College of William and Mary); Toan Phan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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

    L. Lynne Kiesling (Northwestern University)

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

    Mwangi S. Kimenyi (Brookings Institution, Africa Growth Initiative); Temesgen T. Deressa (Brookings Institution, Africa Growth Initiative); Jessica E. Pugliese (Brookings Institution, Africa Growth Initiative); Andrew Onwuemele (Nigerian Institute for Social & Economic Research); Micah Mendie (Partnerships Initiatives in the Niger Delta)

  • Reverse Engineering Chinese Censorship

    Gary King (Harvard University); Jennifer Pan (Harvard University); Margaret E. Roberts (Harvard University)

  • Institutional and Organizational Governance: Design Principles and Adaptation

    Peter G. Klein (University of Missouri and NHH); Joseph T. Mahoney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Anita M. McGahan (University of Toronto); Christos N. Pitelis (University of Bath)

  • International Cooperation, Parties and Ideology

    Jan Klingelhöfer (RWTH Aachen University)

  • Unified China and Divided Europe

    Chiu Yu Ko (National University of Singapore ); Mark Koyama (George Mason University ); Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore )

  • Some controversial aspects of the Financial Meltdown of 2008

    John Komlos (Duke)

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

    Renata Kosova (Imperial College London); Giorgo Sertsios (Universidad de los Andes )

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

    Mitja Kovac (Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana); Rok Spruk (Utrecht University Department of economic history)

  • The Price of Justice: International Criminal Accountability and Civil Conflict

    Daniel Krcmaric (Duke University )

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

    Pavel Kuchar (University of Turin)

  • Agency Problems in Entrepreneurial Firms

    Elena Kulchina (Duke University)

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

    Alvaro La Parra-Perez (University of Maryland)

  • Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?

    Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan); Kathryn L. Shaw (Stanford University)

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

    Pierre Larouche (Tilburg University, Tilburg Law School, TILEC)

  • Business Associations, Lobbying, and Welfare

    Maria Larrain (Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg UNiversity)

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

    Vardges Levonyan (ETH Zurich)

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

    Mingzhi Li (Tsinghua University. China); Kai Reimers (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Bin Xie (Tsinghua University, China); Xunhua Guo (Tsinghua University, China)

  • The Burden of Past Promises

    Jin Li (Kellogg M&S, Northwestern University); Niko Matouschek (Kellogg M&S, Northwestern University); Michael Powell (Kellogg M&S, Northwestern University)

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

    Yuan Li (U of Duisburg-Essen; Stockholm School of Economics); Shu Yu (University of Groningen); Yongjing Zhang (University of Ottawa)

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

    Felipe M. Lopes (Sao Paulo School of Economics); Paulo F. Azevedo (Sao Paulo School of Economics)

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

    Jeffrrey Macher (Georgetown University (McDonough))

  • Inside the MNC: Structuring Ownership of Firm-Specific Advantages

    Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Susan Feinberg (Temple University)

  • Vertical Scope and Location Choice

    Octavio J. Martinez (University of Toronto)

  • The rise of deep determinants

    Robbert Maseland (University of Groningen)

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

    Ryan McDevitt (Duke); Paul Grieco (Penn State)

  • Endogenous Parliamentarism

    Stephan Michel (University of Hamburg )

  • Mechanisms of Community Prosecution: Evidence from Cook County

    Thomas Miles (University of Chicago Law School)

  • Ex Ante Investment, Ex Post Adaptation, and Asset Ownership

    Yusuke Mori (University of Tokyo)

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

    Ameet Morjaria (Harvard Academy); Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick)

  • Public-Private Monopoly

    Marian Moszoro (Berkeley-Haas)

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

    Ephraim K Munshifwa (University of Cape Town); Manya M Mooya (University of Cape Town)

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

    Maryam Naghsh Nejad (IZA); Andrew Young (West Virginia University)

  • Career Experience Replaced: Emergence of Japanese Internal Labor Markets

    Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo)

  • The Regulation of Exit: Political Economy of Passport Costs

    Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics); Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics)

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

    John V.C. Nye (George Mason University); Ekaterina Kochergina (Higher school of economics, Moscow); Ekaterina Orel (Higher school of economics, Moscow); Maria Yudkevich (Higher school of economics, Moscow)

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

    Jack Paine (University of California, Berkeley)

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

    Pallavi Panda (University of California, Riverside)

  • Liability Rule Failures? Evidence from German Court Decisions

    Annika Pape (Leuphana University Lueneburg)

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

    Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Bryan Vadheim (London School of Economics)

  • Seduction and Violence in Autocratic Regimes

    Jean-Philippe Platteau (U. of Namur & U. of Oxford); Petros Sekeris (U. of Portsmouth)

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

    Antonio J. Porto (Getulio Vargas Foundation); Pedro H. Butelli (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

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

    Charles Prestrud (Washington State Dept. of Transportation)

  • Trusting Privacy in the Cloud

    Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

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

    Jiwei Qian (National University of Singapore)

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

    Jiwei Qian (National University of Singapore); Araral Eduardo (National University of Singapore)

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

    Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris, France); Sandro Cabral (Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil); Sergio Lazzarini (Insper, Brazil); Ilze Kivleniece (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Providing public access to confidential, big social science datasets

    Jerome P. Reiter (Duke University)

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

    Barak Richman (Duke University)

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

    Luz A. Rodriguez (Duke University); Alex Pfaff (Duke University); Maria Alejandra Velez (Universidad de los Andes)

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

    Maïva Ropaul (Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II))

  • Small is Beautiful? Firm Size, Prevention and Food Safety

    Elodie Rouvière (AgroParisTech); Raphael Soubeyran ( INRA-LAMETA)

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

    Mayo Sakai (The University of Tokyo)

  • Democracy versus Dictatorship? The Political Determinants of Growth Episodes

    kunal sen (University of Manchester); Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth, India); Selim Raihan (University of Dhaka)

  • How to Indirectly Measure Market Transaction Costs

    Felippe Serigati (São Paulo School of Economics - FGV); Paulo Azevedo (São Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

  • Economists and lawyers: implacable enemies or potential best friends.

    Anastasia Shastitko (Lomonosov Moscow State University )

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

    Andrei Shastitko (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University); Svetlana Golovanova (National Research University - Higher School of Ec)

  • Relational Influence Buying

    Orie Shelef (Stanford University)

  • How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production

    Janis Skrastins (London Business School); Vikrant Vig (London Business School)

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

    Steven M. Smith (Haverford College)

  • The Elements of Possession

    Henry E. Smith (Harvard Law School)

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

    Evan Starr (University of Michigan); Natarajan Balasubramanian (Syracuse University); Mariko Sakakibara (University of California Los Angeles)

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

    Katharina M. K. Stepping (German Development Institute (DIE)); Lilli Banholzer (German Development Institute (DIE))

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

    Marvin Suesse (Humboldt University of Berlin / UC Berkeley)

  • Franchising and Productivity in the Retail Establishment Sector

    Matthew Sveum (University of Missouri); Michael Sykuta (University of Missouri)

  • Did the Military spearhead the Fight against Corruption in Thailand?

    Supruet Thavornyutikarn (Thammasat University)

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

    Stavros B. Thomadakis (University of Athens, Greece); Konstantinos I. Loizos (University of Athens, Greece)

  • Relational Contracts and Corruption

    Marta Troya Martinez (University of Oxford); Liam Wren-Lewis (Paris School of Economics)

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

    Patrick L. Warren (Clemson University)

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

    birger wernerfelt (mit)

  • Colonial Democratic Legacies

    Steven Wilkinson (Yale University); Massimiliano G. Onorato (IMT Lucca)

  • Culture and the Cost of Contract Enforcement

    Claudia Williamson (Mississippi State University)

  • Raising dragons

    Melanie Meng Xue (George Mason University); John Nye (George Mason University; )

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

    Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics); Andrey Tkachenko (Higher School of Economics); Olga Demidova (Higher School of Economics); Olga Balaeva (Higher School of Economics)

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

    Jong-sung You (UC San Diego)

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

    Martin Zelder (Duke University)

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

    Jan Zilinsky (University of Chicago)