21st Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics

June 23–25, 2017 Columbia University, New-York, USA

Keynote speakers

Oliver Hart Harvard University

Bengt Holmström Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipients of the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel** Assets, Contracts, and Organizations—Past, Present and Future** Introduction by Bernard Salanie, Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia Comments by Robert Gibbons, MIT and Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan Chair: W Bentley Macleod, Columbia University

Matthew Jackson Stanford University** New Developments in Network Economics**

Duncan Watts Cornell University and Microsoft Research** Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges?**

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Organized Session Proposals

Proposals for organized sessions are also due by January 16, 2017. Earlier communication with the Chair of the Program Committee is encouraged to facilitate coordination of sessions. For organized sessions, the proposal should include (1) the name of the author(s), (2) paper titles and abstract, and (3) email contacts for each paper.

The session proposal should also describe the organizing theme for the coordinated session. The person submitting the session will be considered the session organizer (though they may or may not present a paper). If a discussant is desired, that should be included in the description of the proposed session. If papers are completed at the time of the proposal submission, it is advantageous to include them as an attachment with the proposal. If the papers are not yet available, extended abstracts are strongly recommended. The Session Proposal should be sent as a Microsoft Word document named with the name of the person submitting the session. The joint papers should be included as a PDF file named with the name of the presenting author.

Papers included in session proposals should not be submitted as single paper in the online submission system.

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SIOE 2017 Organizing Committee:

W. Bentley MacLeod (Economics and SIPA) – Chair** Suresh Naidu** (Economics and SIPA)** Eric Talley** (Law and Business)** Andrea Prat** (Economics and Business)

SIOE 2017 Program Committee:

Douglas Allen, Simon Fraser University** Scott Baker**, Washington University in St. Louis** Bjorn Bartling**, University of Zurich** Lisa Bernstein**, University of Chicago Law School** Charles Cameron**, Princeton University** Brandice Canes-Wrone**, Princeton University** Decio Coviello**, HEC Montreal** Patrick Francois**, UBC** Ezra Friedman**, Northwestern University** Tim Frye**, Columbia University** Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka**, University of Bristol** Oliver Hart,** Harvard University** Jean-Francois Houde,** Cornell University** Hideshi Itoh**, Hitotsubashi University** Daniel Klerman**, USC** Bruce Kogut**, Columbia Business School** Lewis Kornhauser**, NYU** Jenny Kragl**, European Business School (EBS) Wiesbaden** Pierre Larouche**, Tilburg University** Dean Lueck**, Indiana University** Rocco Macchiavello**, London School of Economics and Political Science** Petra Moser**, NYU** Erin O'Hara O'Connor**, Florida State University College of Law** Nicola Persico**, Northwestern University** Michael Powell**, Northwestern University** Raffaella Sadun**, Harvard Business School** Giancarlo Spagnolo**, Stockholm School of Economics & Tor Vergata** Alexander Stremitzer**, UCLA School of Law** Birger Wernerfelt**, MIT** Josh Whitford**, Columbia University

Stateless Commerce

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