SIOE 2015

Programme

Cambridge, USA 18 June 2015 – 20 June 2015

198 papers

Presidents, Regulators and Policy Disagreement

Alex Acs

Political Institutions, Resources, and War: A General Theory and 900 Years of Empirics from Ancient Rome

Jordan Adamson

Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle

Doug Allen, Peter Leeson

Contractual Choices and Technical Efficiency in Public Procurement : The Case of regional railway Transport in France

Miguel Amaral, Jean-Christophe Thiebaud

Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence From Geographical Discontinuities in Italy

Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Paola Bertoli, Veronica Grembi

Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financing Instruments

Abhay Aneja, Marian Moszoro, Pablo T. Spiller

Mapping the Coevolution of States and Markets: A Dynamic Approach to Development

Yuen Yuen Ang

Coase and the Departure from Property

Benito Arruñada

Incentive and Selection Effects of Judicial Elections: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

Elliott Ash, Bentley MacLeod

The Economics of Rights: The Effect of the Right to Counsel

Itai Ater, Yehonatan Givati, Oren Rigbi

Cultural Biases in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Laure Athias, Pascal Wicht

Trust and Public Private Partnerships

Laure Athias, Pascal Wicht

An Economic Analysis of Debarment

Emmanuelle Auriol, Tina Soreide

Designing a leaky bucket: Meltzer and Richard (1981) with endogenous inefficiency in redistributive institutions

Ahmet F. Aysan, Haldun Evrenk

Russian Regional Institutions: Measurement, Typology, and Dynamics

Alexy Baranov, Egor Malkov, Leonid Polishchuk, Michael Rochlitz, lGeorgiy Syunyaev

From Patent Thickets to Patent Networks: The Legal Infrastructure of the Digital Economy

Jonathan Barnett

Release and Catch: Hybrid Organizational Structures in Innovation Markets

Jonathan Barnett, Ehud Kamar

Policies in Relational Contracts

Daniel Barron, Michael Powell

Is Competition Fair? An Experimental Study

Bjoern Bartling, Manuel Grieder, Christian Zehnder

The Status of Married Women

Yoram Barzel

On The Shoulders of Giants or The Road Less Traveled?: An Experimental Approach to Sequential Innovation in Intellectual Property

Stefan Bechtold, Christopher Buccafusco, Christopher Sprigman

Persistent Effects of Pre-Inca Settlements in North-East Peru

Mariel Bedoya, María A. Gastañanuí

A Productive Efficiency Theory of Fair Use

Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

Priming Ideology? Electoral Cycles Without Electoral Incentives Among U.S. Judges

Carlos Berdejo, Daniel Chen

Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State Owned Enterprises

Daniel Berkowitz, Hong Ma, Shuichiro Nishioka

Private Ordering, Social Capital, and Netowrk Governance

lisa bernstein

Decentralization and progressive taxation

Simon Berset, Mark Schelker

The Bankruptcy Decision in Nineteenth Century France: Cities vs. Banks

Jean Beuve, Martine Carré-Tallon, Jerome Sgard

The Determinants of Emergency Constitutions

Christian Björnskov, Stefan Voigt

The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity

Carl Magnus Bjuggren

The Contingent Effect of Management Practices

Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat

Who to Help? Trust and Preferences over Redistribution in Russia

Ekaterina Borisova, Andrei Govorun, Denis Ivanov, Irina Levina

Is there a deadweight loss of politics in public service provision?

Richard Boylan

Criminals and the Price System: Evidence from Czech Metal Thieves

Tomas Brabenec, Josef Montag

The Economics of Multi-level Governance: on the Benefits of Overlapping Jurisdictions

Eric Brousseau

Paying not to get the match: A behavioral contract theory of retirement plan design

Ryan Bubb, Patrick Warren

Loose-Lipped Leviathan? State Ownership and Transparency in Foreign Direct Investment

Anthony Cannizzaro, Robert Weiner

Rewards and Punishments: Informal Contracting through Social Preferences

Sylvain Chassang, Christian Zehnder

Do Policies Affect Preferences? Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudence

Daniel Chen, Vardges Levonyan, Susan Yeh

Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships

Daniel Chen, Vardges Levonyan, Eric Reinhart, Glen Taksler

Non-Profit Status and Relational Sanctions: Commitment to Quality through Repeat Interactions and Organizational Choice

Albert Choi

Accession, Riparianism, and the Colorado Doctrine

Eric R. Claeys

Missing money for EVs: economics impacts of TSO market designs

Paul Codani, Yannick Perez, Marc Petit

Creating and Capturing Value in Repeated Exchange Relationships: Managing a Second Paradox of Embeddedness

Elfenbein Daniel, Zenger Todd

Mafia in the ballot box

Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca

Social Capital and Incentives in the Provision of Product Quality by Cooperatives

Wendong Deng, George Hendrikse

Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era

Sebastian Dengler, Jens Prüfer

Unenforced Laws: A Field Experiment

Ben Depoorter, Stephan Tontrup

Clubbing in Trade Policies: How Much a Threat to Trade Liberalization?

Barbara Dluhosch, Daniel Horgos

Lost in Translation: Cultural Differences and Earnings Management Contagion

Nathan Dong

The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis, Stephen Machin

The Limits of Reputation: Lies, Opportunism, and the Evolution of Contract Enforcing Institutions

Catherine S.M. Duggan

Ethno-economic Specialization and Intergroup Conflict

Ruben Durante, Irena Grosfeld, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation

Benjamin Edelman, Julian Wright

What lies beneath? Aquifer heterogeneity and the economics of collective action

Eric Edwards

The Role of Social Enterprise and Hybrid Organizations

Ofer Eldar

Incomplete contracts and the courts - an exploration

Andreas Engert

Long-Term Employment Relations When Agents are Present-Biased

Florian Englmaier, Matthias Fahn, Marco Schwarz

The Upside of Implicit Downsizing Costs

Matthias Fahn, Nicolas Klein

Why do people respect property? Bringing Plato's Ring of Gyges to the lab

Marco Faillo, Matteo Rizzolli, Stephan Tontrup

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Allocation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Caroline Flammer

Curb Your Enthusiasm For Pigovian Taxes

Victor Fleischer

A Talmudic Bankruptcy Solution: The CCC Principle

Vincy Fon

Corporate Political Strategy in Contested Regulatory Environments: Evidence from the Electric Utility Sector

Adam Fremeth, Guy Holburn, Richard Vanden Bergh

Motivations for Corporate Political Activity

Adam Fremeth, Brian Richter, Brandon Schaufele

Innovation Activities and the Incentives for Vertical Acquisitions and Integration

Laurent Fresard, Gerard Hoberg, Gordon Phillips

The Illusory Promise of Pre-emptive Rights

Jesse Fried

The Value of a Statistical Judgment: A New Approach to an Insurer's Duty to Settle

Ezra Friedman

Royalty Stacking and Standard Essential Patents: Theory and Evidence from the World Mobile Wireless Industry

Alexander Galetovic, Kirti Gupta

How information shapes interpersonal conflict. From prisons to the lab.

Diego Gambetta, Aron Szekely

Why Do Dual Class Firms Have Staggered Boards?

Mira Ganor

Power Struggle and Government Oversizing: Unintended Consequences of Checks-and-Balance in a One-party Regime

Nan Gao, Philip Keefer, Pinghan Liang, Lixin C. Xu

Subprime Governance: Managerial Agency Costs in Vertically Integrated Banks

Claudine Gartenberg, Lamar Pierce

Can Globalized Board Room Help with Cross-Listing? The Effects of U.S. Directors on Cross-Listed Foreign Firms

chinmoy ghosh, fan he, Haoyong zhou

Has state-level regulation improved efficiency of thermal power generation in India?

Ranjan Ghosh, Vinish Kathuria

The role of access to de jure rights in resettlement of displaced farmers

Ranjan Ghosh, Vikram Patil, Vinish Kathuria

The Governance of Surface Transportation in the 21st Century: Understanding the Emergence of the Public-Private Partnership Model

Jonathan Gifford, Lisardo Bolaños, Nobuhiko Daito, Jeong Yun Kweun

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

Ricard Gil, Frederic Warzynski

On the Determinants and Consequences of Informal Contracting

Ricard Gil, Giorgio Zanarone

Segregation, Discrimination, and Firm Entry: Evidence from Post-war African-American Movie Theaters

Ricard Gil, Justin Marion

Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself

John M. Golden

Monitoring and the Value of Public Office in the Spanish Empire

Jenny Guardado

Information and Censorship in Non-Democratic Regimes

Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman

Mapping the Road to Freedom – The Correlates and Roots of the Rule of Law

Jerg Gutmann, Stefan Voigt

Why Do Inventors Sell to Patent Trolls? Experimental Evidence for the Asymmetry Hypothesis

Stephen Haber, Seth Werfel

Reputation and Ownership of Public Goods

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Evagelos Pafilis

Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Oliver Hart

The Property Rights Theory of Vertical Relations: Evidence from the Hollywood Studio Era

F. Andrew Hanssen, Alexander Raskovich

The Dynamics of Political Embeddedness in China

Heather Haveman, Nan Jia, Jing Shi, Yongxiang Wang

Auctions vs. Negotiations: The Effects of Inefficient Renegotiation

Fabian Herweg, Klaus M. Schmidt

Information Acquisition, Decision Making, and Implementation in Organizations

Hideshi Itoh, Kimiyuki Morita

The Impact of Formality on Microenterprise Performance: Evidence from downtown Lima

Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar

Reframing Court Intervention in Relational Contracts

Matthew Jennejohn

Market-Political Complementarity in Firm Capabilities: An Integrated Theoretical Perspective

Nan Jia, Kyle Mayer

Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness: A Field Experiment in China

Chen Jidong, Pan Jennifer, Xu Yiqing

What Drives Dodd-Frank Act Compliance Cost for Private Funds?

Wulf Kaal

The comparative performance of long term contracts

Kanishka Kacker

Behavioral impediments to water transfers: Some evidence from California groundwater management

Mark Kanazawa

THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY FOR TODAY’S FISCAL OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM POLISH MUNICIPALITIES

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz

Bargaining under Institutional Challenges

Leyla D. Karakas

The Structure of Negotiations: Incomplete Agreements and the Focusing Effect

Heiko Karle, Andrea Canidio

Managing Careers in Organizations

Rongzhu Ke, Jin Li, Michael Powell

Categorical Versus Ad Hoc Fiduciaries and the Domain of Fiduciary Duties

Daniel B. Kelly

Lessons from Variations in Internal Structures and Dynamics about Behaviors of Government Bodies in the Fields of Innovation and Finance

F. Scott Kieff, Troy A. Paredes

Aligning to Trust, Patience, and Expectations? Behavioral determinants of value chain governance

Christian Kimmich, Urs Fischbacher

The complexity of private actor interests in public-private arrangements: The nature of the firm and its social value orientation

Ilze Kivleniece, Bertrand V. Quelin

Outsourced R&D and GDP growth

Anne Marie Knott

Cronyism and Competition in Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto

Anna Kochanova, Bob Rijkers, Mary Hallward-Driemeier

The Impact of Decentralization on Public Service Delivery: A Spatial Regression Discontinuity Approach

Katrina Kosec, Tewodaj Mogues

Is It Worth Trusting Your Manager?

Elena Kulchina

Are There Cultural Prerequisites to Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India

Parashar Kulkarni

A New Cross-National Measure of Corruption

Escresa Laarni, Picci Lucio

Lobbying on Regulatory Enforcement Actions: Evidence from Banking

Thomas Lambert

The Political Cycle of Public-Private Contract Renegotiations: Evidence from the French car park sector

Zoe Le Squeren, John Moore

From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anticommons and Unintended Consequences of Land Privatization

Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker

The Economics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water

Bryan Leonard, Gary D. Libecap

The Economics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water

Bryan Leonard, Gary Libecap

The Legacy of Empires on Political Outcomes in Romania

Roman Levkin

Pay for Play: A Theory of Hybrid Relationships

Tracy R. Lewis, Alan Schwartz

Designated Succession: When Does It Work in Authoritarian Regimes?

Yuan Li, Shu Yu, Yongjing Zhang

Discretion in Hiring

Danielle Li, Mitch Hoffman, Lisa Kahn

Logrolling under Fragmented Authoritarianism: Theory and Evidence from China

Yuan Li, Mario Gilli, Jiwei Qian

Measuring firm size in empirical corporate finance

FRANK LI, CHONGYU DANG

Lord Eldon Redux: Information Asymmetry, the Roots of Accountability, and the Structure of Fiduciary Loyalty

Amir Licht

Roads or Schools? Political Budget Cycles with different types of voters

Maria del Pilar Lopez Uribe

Corporate Performance and Governmental Favoritism in Administrative Restructuring: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China

Shengfeng Lu, Ziming Li

The Effect of Checkerboard Land Ownership Pattern on Land Markets

Dean Lueck, Sidra Haye

Relational Adaptation and the Costs and Benefits of Vertical Integration: Evidence from Costa Rica Coffee

Rocco Macciavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa

Naxalites and Extralegal Governance

Pavan Mamidi

Oligarchs, State, and Wealth Defense in Unconsolidated Democracies

Stanislav Markus, Volha Charnysh

Factor endowments and institutional specialization: why some countries have different forms of corruption than others

Robbert Maseland, Rok Spruk

Bridging gaps between policies for sustainable markets and market practices

Lars-Gunnar Mattsson

Coordination in Agribusiness: an Empirical Analysis among Brazilian Natural Rubber Producers and Processors

Luís G. Mazzaro, Antonio C. Manfredini-Oliveira

Coordination in Agribusiness: an empirical analysis among Brazilian natural rubber producers and processors

Luís G. Mazzaro, Antonio C. Manfredini-Oliveira

The Difficult Transition from Limited to Open Access Society: The Illustrative Case of Tunisia

Claude Menard, Fahmi Ben-Abdelkader

Institutions & Information: Public Perception of Climate Change Information provided by Government vs. the Market

Cherie Metcalf, Jonathan Nash

The Effects of Governance on Relational and Formal Contracts: Theory and Evidence from Groundwater Irrigation Markets

Jeffrey Michler, Steven Wu

Fiduciary Governance

Paul B. Miller, Andrew S. Gold

The Organization of Non-market Strategy

Dylan Minor

A Theory of Mindsets in Organizations

Kimiyuki Morita

Institutional and Political Determinants of Private Participation in Infrastructure

Marian Moszoro, Gonzalo Araya, Fernanda Ruiz-Nunez, Jordan Schwartz

Contracting in Networks: What is New and Why it Matters

Stefanos Mouzas

Beliefs and the Persistence of Inefficient Institutions

Bernardo Mueller

Economic Globalization and Governance: The Role of Social Globalization

Deepraj Mukherjee, Nabamita Dutta

On the Sealing of Criminal Records, Stigma and Deterrence

Murat Mungan

Strategic Determination of Renegotiation Costs

Akitoshi Muramoto

Offset Credits in the EU Emissions Trading System : A Firm-Level Evaluation of Transaction Costs

Helene Naegele

Examining Federal District Judges' Referrals to Magistrate Judges

Jonathan Nash

Exposure to Offshoring and the Politics of Trade Liberalization: Debate and Votes on Free Trade Agreements in the 108th U.S. Congress

Erica Owen

Citizens, dictators and networks: A game theory approach

Wilson Perez-Oviedo

Content and Coordination Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes

Maria Petrova, Galina Zudenkova

Politicians' Twitter and Political donations

Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, Pinar Yildrim

Emergence of Cooperatives and Farmer Heterogeneity

Anna Petruchenya, George Hendrikse

Believing in Making a Difference

Jens Prüfer, YiLong Xu

Creating A TDRs Market: A Key to Chinese Land Reform?

Shitong Qiao

Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion and Social Capital in Japan

J. Mark Ramseyer

Why Use Requirement Contracts? The Tradeoff between Hold Up and Breach

Eric Rasmusen

The Essential Role of Agency Law: Agency Law as Asset Partitioning

Gabriel Rauterberg

PPP Procurement in the United Kingdom: An Analysis of Tendering Periods

Eoin Reeves, Darragh Flannery, Donal Palcic

Performance Incentives and Economic Growth: Regional Officials in Russia and China

Michael Rochlitz, Vera Kulpina, Thomas Remington, Andrei Yakovlev

More than just a pig story: Explaining the evolution of chain coordination and structures in the hog industry in Quebec

Annie Royer, Michel Morisset

Abuse of Authority and Active Citizenship: an endogenous explanation

Lorenzo Sacconi, Virginia Cecchini Manara

Does Institutional Shareholding Affect Firm Value? An Empirical Analysis in Indian Market

Amiya K. Sahu

Screening and Monitoring Miners: Recruitment and Personnel Management in Japanese Coal Mining

Mayo Sakai

Turning the Virtual Tables: Government Strategies for Addressing Online Opposition with an Application to Russia

Sergey Sanovich, Denis Stukal, Duncan Penfold-Brown, Joshua A Tucker

Does labour law increase youth and total unemployment? Analysis of a new dataset

Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin

Does labour law increase youth and total unemployment? Analysis of a new dataset

Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin

Using Public Procurement to Implement Social Policy. A First Empirical Study

Stephane Saussier, Louise Vidal

The relationship between inclusive institutions, proximate causes of growth and economic growth: A case study of four Mandate territories, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Trans-Jordan, 1918-1946/48

Andrew Schein

Private Access Fees and Congestion: Is There a Role for Government After All?

Nathan Seegert, Stephen Salant

Bureaucratic capacity and the adaptation of institutional transplants

Valentin Seidler, Claudia Williamson

Competing Through Contracts and Investments: Selection, Matching and Firm Organization in Residential Real Estate

Orie Shelef, Amy Nguyen-Chyung

Ronald Coase and Hijack for Ransom: why “All hulls end up with Lloyds”

Anja Shortland

Political Risk as a Hold-Up Problem: Implications for Integrated Strategy

Kenneth W. Shotts

The Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis

Robert Sitkoff, Max Schanzenbach

Firm Boundaries and Financial Contracts

Janis Skrastins

Fiduciary Law and Entrepreneurial Action

D. Gordon Smith

On the Institutional Origins of Regional Political Cultures across Spain

David Soto-Oñate

Experimental Investigation of Legal Reasoning and Judicial Decision-Making

Holger Spamann, Lars Kloehn

Institutional Transformation and the Origins of World Income Distribution

Rok Spruk

The Sorry Clause

Vatsalya Srivastava

Who Responds to U.S. News & World Report’s Law School Rankings?

Jeffrey Evans Stake, Michael Alexeev

Noncompetes in the US Labor Force

Evan Starr, James Prescott, Norman Bishara

Institutional Benefits from implementing Inflationary Targeting

Sebastian Stolorz

Promises and Reliance

Rebecca Stone, Alexander Stremitzer

The Impact of Within-Platform Competition in Two-Sided Business Models

Mahdi Talavalei, Juan Santalo

Identity and Integration: Fractionalization and the Vote for the Eurozone in France

Megan Teague, Noel Johnson

High on Innovation: The Impact of Liberalization Policies on Innovation

Keyvan Vakili, Laurina Zhang

On the role of investments and the nature of residual control rights

Massimiliano Vatiero

Institutional and technological lock-in in the choice of power generation portfolio: the Brazilian case

Miguel Vazquez, Michelle Hallack

The transaction costs of oil and gas lease auctions: the Brazilian local content policy

Miguel Vazquez, Michelle Hallack

Subjective insecurity and cooperation: Evidence from field experiments

Maria Alejandra Velez, Carlos Trujillo, Lina Moros, Clemente Forero-Pineda

The effect of contract detail and prior ties on contract change: A learning story

Zhe (Adele) Xing, Kyle J. Mayer, Xuanli Xie, Jeff J. Reuer

Incentives for Repeated Contracts in Public Sector: Empirical Study of Gasoline Procurement in Russia

Andrei Yakovlev, Oleg Vyglovsky, Olga Demidova, Alexander Bashlyk

Endogenous property rights and inequality in non-democratic regimes: theory and evidence

Alexander M. Yarkin

Tribes and Distrust: Linking Social Capital to Fraud Victimization

Christopher Yenkey

Evidence on the relation between importing from low-wage countries and US domestic pollution

Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiaoyang Li

Business History: a lantern on the stern?

Decio Zylbersztajn, Caroline Gonçalves