Parallel A
On the origin of money
Luis Araujo, Vincent Bignon, Régis Breton, Braz Camargo
The Selection of Litigation against Government Agencies: Evidence from China
Wei Cui, Zhiyuan Wang
Homeownership, Mobility, and Unemployment: Evidence from Housing Privatization
Peter Huber, Josef Montag, Hana Smrckova, Petr Sunega
The effect of organizational structure change on inventor networks
Nicholas Argyres, Luis Rios, Brian Silverman
Political Shock and Firm Performance: Evidence from Telecommunications License Cancellations in India
Daniel Blake, Srividya Jandhyala
The Impact of Competition on Make-or-Buy Decisions: Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry
Ricard Gil, Christian A. Ruzzier
Exporting Sweatshops? Evidence from Myanmar
Mari Tanaka
Subnational legal property and judicial system efficiency and firm-level access to finance: Evidence from Africa
Chukwunonye O. Emenalo
Formal Contracts without Courts: Scoring Suppliers to Build Trust
Juan-Jose Ganuza, Fernando Gomez
Behavioral Law & Economics Goes to Court: The Fundamental Flaws in the Behavioral Law & Economics Arguments Against No-Surcharge Laws
Geoffrey A. Manne, Todd J. Zywicki, Kristian Stout
Corruption & Electoral Competition
Mel Lorenzo Accad
When Does Ideology Matter? An Empirical Analysis of French Municipalities’ Make-or-Buy Choices
Jean BEUVE, Zoé LE SQUEREN
Institutions and regulations. Empirical evidence across and within countries
Simon Hartmann
The Evolution and Organization of Environmental Agencies
Dean Lueck, Dominic Parker
Competition in Local Mortgage Markets
Darren Aiello, Mark J. Garmaise, Gabriel Natividad
Deposit Insurance, Market Discipline, and Bank Risk
Alexei Karas, William H. Pyle, Koen Schoors
Beyond the Informal/Formal Divide. How do Firms Combine Contract-enforcement Institutions?
Karoly Mike, Gábor Kiss
What Motivates the Securities Regulators? An Empirical Assessment of Securities Enforcement Actions in China 1998-2016
Chao Xi
Optimal Contracting with Costly State Verification, with an Application to Crowdsourcing
Aislinn Bohren, Troy Kravitz
Product Market Competition, Managerial Talent, and Innovation
Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, John Ries
Vertical Boundaries and the Influence of Social Comparison
Michael Kopel, Anna Ressi
Do Multinationals Transplant their Business Model?
Dalia Marin, Linda Rousova, Thierry Verdier
Incentives or Disincentives?
Dan Alexander
Ideological Extremism and Primaries
Agustin Casas
The motivations of the French National Front voters: a behavioral political economy approach
Francois facchini, Louis Jaeck
Learn from thy Neighbour: Do voters Associate Corruption with Political Parties?
Arieda Muco
Inequality and the Disappearing Large Firm Wage Premium
Nicholas Bloom, Fatih Guvenen, Benjamin S. Smith, Jae Song, Till von Wachter
Growing Apart: The Changing Firm-size Wage Premium and its Inequality Consequences
J. Adam Cobb, Ken-Hou Lin
Islands of Equality: Competition and Pay Inequality Within and Across Firm Boundaries
Claudine Gartenberg, Julie Wulf
Mergers and Acquisitions, Technological Change and Inequality
Wenting Ma, Paige Ouimet, Elena Simintzi
Single-issue Campaigns and Multidimensional Politics
Georgy Egorov
Disentangling fiscal effects of local constitutions
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Monika Koeppl-Turyna
International Politics and Oil Trade: Evidence from Russian Firms
Margarita Portnykh, Kevin Tsui
Who’s Cueing Voters: Parties or Leaders? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia
Sergey Sanovich
Decentralization’s Conditional Effects on Social Services: Evidence from the Honduran Health Sector
Alan Zarychta, Krister Andersson
Parallel B
Consensus and ideology at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Sofia Amaral Garcia, Lucia dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa
The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Daniel L. Chen, Elliott Ash, Suresh Naidu
Judicial Tenure and the Slowing of Legal Development in England, 1600-1800
Peter Murrell
Trust or Opportunity? Managing Corporate Lending Networks if Institutions Are Weak
Katarzyna Burzynska, Sonja Opper
Are Women Better Directors in the Boards?
Aytac Erdemir, Olvar Bergland, Helge Berglann
Corporate Governance and the Rise of Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility Criteria in Executive Compensation: Antecedents and Outcomes
Caroline Flammer, Bryan Hong, Dylan Minor
Public Procurement and Corrupt Reserve Prices
Sümeyra Atmaca, Koen Schoors, Elena Podkolzina
Public finances and fiscal windfalls: Quasi-experimental evidence on the role of institutions under fiscal shocks
Simon Berset, Mark Schelker
Economic Freedom and Corruption: New Cross-Country Panel Data Evidence
Steven Yamarik, Chelsea Redmon
Does Greater Economic Freedom Foster Economic Growth? District-Level Evidence from Germany
Aleksandar Keseljevic, Rok Spruk
Land Ownership and Development: Evidence from Postwar Japan
Shuhei Kitamura
Explaining the Paths of Deindustrialization: A Transitional Institutional Dynamics Approach
Robbert Maseland, Rok Spruk
Autocratic Elections and Corporate Raiding: A Natural Experiment in Russia
Timothy Frye
Raiders, Property Rights, and Investment: Evidence from Russia's Regions
Irina Levina, Israel Marques, Andrei Yakovlev, Anton Kazun
Public-Private Partnerships under Weak Institutions: Co-investment and the Case of Vocational Education in Russia’s Regions
Israel Marques, Thomas F. Remington, Vladimir Bazavluk
Effects of Copyrights on Science - Evidence from the WWII Book Republication Program
Barbara Biasi, Petra Moser
The Production of Information in an Online World: Is Copy Right?
Julia Cagé, Nicolas Hervé, Marie-Luce Viaud
The Private Impact of Public Maps: Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration
Abhishek Nagaraj
Parallel C
Hold-up in regulated contracts: The Argentinean natural gas transmission system case
Martin C. De Meio Reggiani, Miguel Vazquez, Michelle Hallack, Nelida B. Brignole
Information Asymmetry Reduction in Opaque Contexts: Evidence from Debt and Outside Equity Financing in Early Stage Firms
Mircea Epure, Martí Guasch
Relational incentive contracts with collusion
Marta Troya-Martinez, Liam Wren-Lewis
Contract Design in China's Rural Land Rental Market: Contractual Flexibility and Rental Payment
Ziyan Yang
How does delegating decisions to beneficiaries affect their access to a public service? Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh.
Malgosia Madajewicz, Anna Tompsett, Ahasan Habib
Free to Choose: Testing the Pure Motivation Effect of Autonomous Choice
Tomas Sjöström, Levent Ülkü, Radovan Vadovic
Abstinence is not Indifference - Lowering Voting Costs Leads to Higher Participation and Better Informed Voters
Stephan Tontrup, Rebecca Morton
The Effect of Party Geographic Scope on Government Outcomes: Evidence from Peruvian Municipalities
Fernando Aragon, Alexey Makarin, Ricardo Pique
How Transaction Costs Obstruct Collective Action: Evidence from California’s Groundwater
Andrew B. Ayres, Eric C. Edwards, Gary D. Libecap
Elite Conflict, Demographic Collapse, and the Transition to Direct Rule: Evidence from Colonial Mexico
Francisco Garfias, Emily A. Sellars
Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Human Capital Formation and Long-Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina
Rok Spruk, Mitja Kovac
Dismissal Regulation as a Discipline Device? Evidence from Establishment-level Industrial Actions
Filippo Belloc
Another Kind of Power: Labor Market Outcomes and Antitrust Legislation
Niti Bhutani
Sourcing of Expertise and the Boundaries of the Firm: The Case of Lobbyists
Miguel Espinosa
Optimal Penalties on Informal Firms
Anders Fredriksson
Turnover or Cash? Sharecropping in the US South.
Guilherme de Oliveira
Transaction Costs of Property Rights: Evidence from Timber Auctions
Colin Doran, Thomas Stratmann
YOU REAP WHAT YOU KNOW: ORIGINS OF POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION
Thilo R. Huning, Fabian Wahl
Innovation, Institutions and Industry Evolution: Historical Lessons for a Multi-Directional World
Richard A. Hunt, Lauren Ortiz-Hunt
Response to The Risk of Service Liability: The Case of Medical Malpractice Liability
Na-Eun Cho, Yue M. Zhou
Valuing stakeholder governance: Property rights, community mobilization, and firm value
Sinziana Dorobantu, Kate Odziemkowska
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat, George Serafeim
Winning us with trifles: Adverse selection in the use of philanthropy as insurance
Jiao Luo, Aseem Kaul, Haram Seo
Regulatory Capture in a Resource Boom
Timothy Fitzgerald
Government versus Market-based Allocation of Resources: Evidence from India’s Coal-fired Power Plants
Akshaya Jha
Innovation, Interconnection, and Institutions: Evolving Electric Power Systems in the Early 20th Century
Lynne Kiesling, Karen Clay
Small-Tract Mineral Owners vs. Producers: The Unintended Consequences of Well-Spacing Exceptions
Reid B. Stevens
Parallel D
Chasing the Key Player: A Network Approach to the Myanmar Civil War
Andrea Di Miceli
Pro-poor or Political Targeting: An Analysis of Social Assistance in Developing Countries
Marina Dodlova, Anna Giolbas, Jann Lay
Is Democracy Good for Growth? Institutional Quality Matters
Fali Huang, Di Sima
Empirical Evidence on the Role of Distribution in Determining Level of Policy Support
Sara A. Sutherland
Smaller Measurement Errors, Better Economic Policies?
Johannes Binswanger, Manuel Oechslin
Public good under appointed versus elected mayors: policing and crime in Belgium
Andrea Colombo, Ilan Tojerow
Political Cognitive Biases Effects on Fund Managers' Performance
Marian Moszoro, Michael Bykhovsky
Separation of Powers and New Public Spending
Kaj Thomsson, Alessandro Bonatti
Price-setting by Committee in Medicare
David Chan, Michael Dickstein
A Bargain for Tuna: A Coasean Solutions to Bigeye Tuna Bycatch
Ovando Dan, Libecap Gary, Lennon Thomas, Kat Millage
Discriminatory Product Differentiation: The Case of Israel’s Omission from Airline Route Maps
Joel Waldfogel, Paul M. Vaaler
Monetizing Technology through Licensing Agreements: A Cross-National Empirical Investigation
Shan Yu, Mrinal Ghosh, George John, Chae-Un Lim
Exit, Voice, and Liability: Mechanisms for Constraining Managerial Agency Costs
Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman
Borrowing Apollo’s Money: Incentivization and Enforcement of Loan Contracts from the Temple of Apollo at Delos
Michael McGlin
How to copy informal institutions: The role of British colonial officers during the decolonization of British Africa.
Valentin Seidler
Restoring Interfirm Relationships Following Contract Violations: A TCE Perspective
Medha Raj, Kyle J. Mayer, Beverly Rich
Platform-mediated reputation systems in the P2P economy and incentives to provide service quality
Maria Alessandra Rossi, Marcello Basili
The Extrinsic Motivation of Freedom at Work
Teck Yong Tan
On the Performance of Piece-Rate Incentive Schemes: Some Explicit Solutions beyond the Uniform Distribution
Masahiro Watabe
Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Europe
Irena Grosfeld, Seyhun Sakalli, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Gangs of New York: Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption
Soeren C. Schwuchow
Discrimination in Organizations: Optimal Contracts and Regulation
Wiroy Shin
Electoral Systems and Income Inequality: a Tale of Political Equality
Izaskun Zuazu
Fragmentation of an Empire: The Political Economy of Spain and its Colonies in the Late Bourbon Period
Fernando Arteaga
Deep Determinants of Preferences over Political Institutions: Monarchy vs Republic in 1946 Italy
Paolo Buonanno, Matteo Cervellati, Sara Lazzaroni, Giovanni Prarolo
Extractive States: The Case of the Italian Unification
Carmine Guerriero, Guilherme de Oliveira
How the East was Lost: Coevolution of Institutions and Culture in the 16th Century Portuguese Empire
Bernardo Mueller, João Gabriel Ayello
Oligarch Networks
John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach, Anton Shirikov, Solomiya Shpak
Effects of Local Regulation on Neighboring Jurisdictions: Evidence from Mining Ordinances
Alexey Kalinin, Dominic Parker, Daniel Phaneuf
Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
Gustavo Torrens, Sebastian Galiani
Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Municipal Segregation Laws
Werner Troesken, Randall Walsh
Focusing Attention in Multiple Tasks
Maximilian F.X. Breu
Hiring Family or Nonfamily Managers in Family Firms: A Multitask Model with Interdependence Between Economic and Non-Economic Tasks
Jenny Kragl, Guoxian Xi, Alberto Palermo, Joern Block
Relational contracts, multiple agents and correlated performances
Ola Kvaløy, Trond E. Olsen
Responsibility in Teams
Xinyu Li, Wendelin Schnedler
Parallel E
Communication Strategies of Non-Governmental Organizations: Theory and Evidence
Mathieu Couttenier, Pierre Fleckinger, Matthieu Glachant, Sophie Hatte
The Organization of Social Enterprises: Transacting versus Giving
Ofer Eldar
Living with best friends? How providers create social capital in housing for the elderly
Gorgi Krlev
Policy Risk, Uncertainty, and Investment: Evidence from the English East India Company
Dan Bogart
Corruption and Legislature Size: Evidence from Brazil
Stefano Fiorin, Diogo Britto
The Political Transaction Costs of Public Contracts: Empirical Evidence from the US Electric Utility Sector Before and After the Deregulation
Yohanna M. L. Gultom
The Medieval Roots of Inclusive Institutions: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act
Charles Angelucci, Simone Meraglia, Nico Voigtlaender
State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
Jeremiah Dittmar, Ralf Meisenzahl
Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th Century
Reka Juhasz, Claudia Steinwender
Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government
Alexander Bolton, John de Figueiredo, David Lewis
Public Contracting for Private Innovation: Government Capabilities, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes
Joshua Bruce, John M. de Figueiredo, Brian S. Silverman
Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings
Adnan Q. Khan, Benjamin Olken, Asim I. Khwaja
Understanding the Time to Court Case Resolution: A Competing Risks Analysis Using Belgian Data
Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl, Wim Marneffe
Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Strategic Technologies in China
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri
The Effects of Racial Profiling, Taste-Based Discrimination, and Enforcer Liability on Crime
Murat C. Mungan
Parallel F
Fertile Ground for Conflict
Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Raphael Soubeyran
Stir Well the Melting Pot: Persistence of Inter-Ethnic Cultural Divide in Estonia
Piret Ehin, Greg Nizhnikau, Leonid Polishchuk, Alexander Rubin
Insecurity, Social Capital and Collective Action
Clemente Forero-Pineda, Luz Elena Orozco-Collazos, Adriana Valenzuela
Labor Regulations and the Cost of Corruption: Evidence from the Indian Firm Size Distribution
Amrit Amirapu, Michael Gechter
Tax evasion and productivity: do firms escape EPL through informality? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Giovanna Vallanti, Giuseppina Gianfreda
Unemployment Insurance with Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil
Bernardus van Doornik, David Schoenherr, Janis Skrastins
Favouritism in scoring rule auctions
Riccardo Camboni Marchi Adani, Paola Valbonesi
Increasing power system reserve capacities by changing the reserve market design: the case of Electric Vehicle fleets
Paul Codani, Yannick Perez, Marc Petit
The Length of PPP Tendering Periods: A Multi-Country Analysis
Eoin Reeves, Darragh Flannery, Rick Geddes, Donal Palcic
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
Does ‘Performance Pay’ Pay? Wage Flexibility over the Great Recession
Christos Makridis, Maury Gittleman
Complementarity of Performance Pay and Task Allocation
Mu-Jeung Yang, Bryan Hong, Lorenz Kueng
Parallel G
Relationships, Risk and Rents: Evidence from a Market for Ice
Tarek Ghani, Tristan Reed
Paying smallholders not to cut down the Amazon forest: Impact evaluation of a REDD+ pilot project
Gabriela Simonet, Julie Subervie, Driss Ezzine-de-Blas, Amy Duchelle, Marina Cronberg
Analyzing How a Growth in Energy Prices Impact on the Size of the Shadow Economies around the World
Nikita Suslov, Ekaterina Meltenisova
Organizational Design and Career Concerns
Daisuke Hirata
Delegating Performance Evaluation
Igor Letina, Shuo Liu, Nick Netzer
Optimality of Straight Talk: Information Feedback and Learning
Kimiyuki Morita
DIVISION OF LABOR IN MULTI-BUSINESS FIRMS: HUMAN CAPITAL, JOB DESIGN, AND LABOR CONTRACTS
Birger Wernerfelt
The Value of Relational Adaptation in Outsourcing: Evidence from the 2008 Shock to the US Airline Industry
Ricard Gil, Myongjin Kim, Giorgio Zanarone
Supply side effects of pollution tax rate asymmetries
Harald Hinterecker, Michael Kopel
The Determinants of Firm R&D Investment: A Revisit to Tobin's Q Theory with Product-Market Competition Assumption
Hoang M. Luong, Mehmet Ugur
Market Shares of Agricultural Cooperatives across Sectors and Countries in the European Union
Anna Petruchenya, George Hendrikse
Renegotiation of Joint Venture Contracts: The Influence of Alternative Governance Mechanisms
Valérie Duplat, Elko Klijn, Jeffrey Reuer, Henri Dekker
ASSIGNMENT OF CALL OPTION RIGHTS IN FRANCHISE CONTRACTS: A TRANSACTION COST AND REAL OPTION PERSPECTIVE
Ilir Hajdini, Josef Windsperger
Finding Mr. Schumpeter: An Empirical Study of Competition and Technology Adoption
Jeffrey T. Macher, Nathan H. Miller, Matthew Osborne
Microfoundations of value creation and relational contracting in B2B relationships: the role cross-understanding
Jon Bingen Sande, Kenneth H. Wathne, Mrinal Ghosh
Between the Green Pitch and the Red Tape: The Private Legal Order of FIFA
Suren Gomtsian, Annemarie Balvert, Branislav Hock, Oguz Kirman
Do institutions cause social trust? Evidence from an institutional reform
Denis Ivanov
The Interaction of Individual Values and Sticky Formal Institutions in Economic Development
Judit Kapas
Governance thresholds and human capital–growth nexus
Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Khan
The elasticity of voter turnout: Investing 85 cents per voter to increase voter turnout by 4 percent
Mark Schelker, Marco Schneiter
Public Preferences for Redistribution and Policy Outcomes - Comparative Study
Chen Sharony, Shlomo Mizrahi, Miki malul
Sovereign Default and Coalition Formation
Ricardo Vicente
Divide to Rule: Deconcentration as Coalition Manipulation
Zach Warner
Giving Away An Empire: Corrdination of Railroads and Homesteaders Through Incentives
Douglas Allen
Land Ownership and Delay in Oil and Gas Production: A Natural Experiment
Eric C. Edwards, Trevor O'Grady, David Jenkins
Endogenously Determined versus Exogenously Imposed Institutions: The Case of Tyranny in Ancient Greece
F. Andrew Hanssen, Robert K. Fleck
Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
Remi Jebwab, Noel Johnson, Mark Koyama
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine, Martin Schmalz
De-Politicization and Corporate Transformation
Daniel Berkowitz, Chen Lin, Sibo Liu
Privatising the Crown Jewels: A Theoretical Analysis of Partial Privatisation
Evagelos Pafilis
Strategic Public Shaming: Evidence from Chinese Antitrust
Angela Zhang
Parallel H
Aging, Retirement, and High-Skill Work Performance: The Case of State Supreme Court Judges
Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod
Morningness-evenigness pay gap in creative R&D jobs
Aaro Hazak, Kadri Männasoo, Markku Partinen
Conflict and the design of optimal conflict
Bentley W. MacLeod, Victoria Valle Lara, Christian Zehnder
Relative Evaluation Scheme for Teams and Multi-tasks
Satoshi Matsuzawa
Endogenous corruption in Europe: Destructive or Constructive? An econometric analysis of corruption’s effects on output and income inequalities
Georgios Melios
Nanotechnology risk – next challenge for the insurance sector
Adam Sliwinski, Marietta Janowicz-Lomott
GULAG-mart: gray and black markets within modern Russian penal system
Anton V. Tabakh, Polina V. Kryuchkova
Segregation and mobility in economic activity: deriving features and drivers from income and spending patterns
Milan van den Heuvel, Tarik Roukny, Ken Bastiaensen, Benjamin Vandermarliere, Koen Schoors, Jan Ryckebusch