Programme

Use It or Lose It: Adverse Possession and Economic Development

Itzchak Tzachi Raz

Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

Jared Rubin

Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam

Mohamed Saleh, Jean Tirole

Forum Selling Abroad

Stefan Bechtold, Jens Frankenreiter, Daniel Klerman

What Drives “Private Ordering” in M&A Litigation?

Minor Myers

Will Delaware Be Different? An Empirical Study of TC Heartland and the Shift to Defendant Choice of Venue

Ofer Eldar, Neel Sukhatme

Monitoring and Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from Liberia’s Trucking Firms

Golvine de Rochambeau

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange

Experience Markets: An Application to Outsourcing and Hiring

Christopher Stanton, Catherine Thomas

Learning about Growth and Democracy

Scott F. Abramson, Sergio Montero

Blame-shifting through Delegation: Evidence from China's One-Child Policy

Yi Han, Yiming Liu

Democratic Spillovers

Arthur Silve

Television and Judicial Behavior: Lessons from the Brazilian Supreme Court

Felipe Lopes

The Collegiality of Dissent

Jonathan R. Nash

An Incomplete Contract Approach to Authority in Organizations for Choice and Execution

Akifumi Ishihara, Shintaro Miura

Communication and Decision Making in Heterogeneous Partnerships

Behrang Manouchehrabadi, George Hendrikse

Hypothetical thinking and the winner's curse: An experimental investigation

Johannes Moser

Uncertainty Drives Them Apart - Managerial Practices in Teams

Karen F Bernhardt-Walther

Managing Information and Incentives for Choice and Execution in Relational Contracts

Akifumi Ishihara, Shintaro Miura

Incentives and rank effects in managerial tournaments

Julia Shvets

The Welfare Effects of Incomplete Vertical Integration and Relaxed Price Competition in Common-Distributor Channels: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Carbonated Soft Drink Industry

Takanori Adachi

Vertical Integration in Motion Picture Industry

Ricard Gil, Chun-Yu Ho, Li Xu, Yaying Zhou

Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters

Christopher Hansman, Jonas Hjort, Gianmarco Leon, Matthieu Teachout

In-House and Arm's Length: Productivity Heterogeneity and Variation in Organizational Form.

Stephen F. Lin, Catherine Thomas, Arturs Kalnins

Political Economy of Railroad Land Grants: Legal Uncertainty & Development of Irrigation in Colorado and Montana

Eric C. Alston, Steven M. Smith

Bargaining Matters: Taxation and Public Service Provision Under Natural Resource Revenue Sharing Arrangements

Belinda Archibong

The persistence of historical institutional determinants of financial system development in Africa: Colonial vs. precolonial effects

Chukwunonye O. Emenalo

Why is litigation so costly to growth?

Alessandro Melcarne, Giovanni Battista Ramello, Rok Spruk

Markets for Rhetorical Services

Daniel Barron, Michael Powell

Relational Contracts in the Market: The Lure of Relationships

Florian Englmaier, Carmit Segal

Market Competition and Informal Incentives

Matthias Fahn, Takeshi Murooka

The Firm-Growth Imperative: A Theory of Production and Personnel Management

Rongzhu Ke, Jin Li, Michael Powell

Over Pressure: Grassroots-Driven Transformation of (Militant) Organizations

Margaret Foster

Stationary Bandits in the Streets: Gangs, Illicit Market Fragmentation, and Social Order in Chicago

Bradley E. Holland

Bankers or Bandits? Courts and the Making of Organized Crime on the Frontier

Jonathan Obert

Prison Life for Women, Gay, and Transgender Prisoners: The Role of Fictive Kinships and Pre-Prison Social Networks

David Skarbek

Flip-flopping and Electoral Concerns

Giovanni Andreottola

Power Politics: Electoral Cycles in German Electricity Prices

Florian Englmaier, Elisabeth Hinreiner, Andreas Roider, Till Stowasser

What Makes Politicians to Work Harder? Inter– vs. Intraparty Electoral Advantage

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw Beldowski, Lukasz Dabros

Political Hazards and the Choice of Contracting: The Case of Municipal Bonds

Marian Moszoro, Pablo Spiller

R&D organizational structure and innovation: The interplay between intrafirm and interfirm inventor networks

Nicholas S. Argyres, Luis A. Rios, Brian S. Silverman

The Great Patent Grab

Jonathan Barnett

New Models and New Practices in the Private Funding of Academic Research

Janet Bercovitz, Maryann Feldman, Alex Graddy-Reed

The Problem You Know: An Empirical Examination of Firms' Recombination Strategies

J.P. Eggers, Aseem Kaul

Monopolies of Violence: Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro

Nicholas Barnes

Democratic Stability in Ancient Greece

F. Andrew Hanssen, Robert K. Fleck

Post-Communist Transition as a Critical Juncture: Political Origins of Institutional and Cultural Bifurcation

Leonid Polishchuk, Kharis Sokolov

The Dynamics of Weak Institutions: Rethinking Information and Elite Mobilization in Nondemocratic Politics

Hans H. Tung

How to Sell Jobs

Daniel Ferreira, Radoslawa Nikolowa

Explaining the Female Labor Participation Gap Across Religion and Caste in India

Ardina R. Hasanbasri

Law, Institutions and Economic Development: Examining the Development of the Home Mortgage Market in India - Can Two Wrongs Make a Right?

Vikramaditya S. Khanna

How Are Workers Compensated Following Trade Liberalization?

Krzysztof Pelc, Sung Eun Kim

Governance of Standard Development Organisations (SDOs) and Intellectual Property (IPR) policies

Pierre Larouche, Justus Baron, Jorge Contreras, Martin Husovec

On the Informal and Formal Institutions Protecting Creative Effort (Intellectual Property)

Ejan Mackaay

Securities Law Enforcement in Canada: Towards a Consolidated Model?

Stéphane Rousseau

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun

A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of Bacon's Ideas

Peter Grajzl, Peter Murrell

Using Machine Learning to Predict Reasonable Notice Awards

Anthony Niblett

Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India

Renata Lemos, Karthik Muralidharan, Daniela Scur

Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia

Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur, Wayne Sandholtz

Where Does Management Matter? The effect of management on student outcomes in public and private schools

Patrick L. Warren, Benjamin Harbolt

Institutions and the allocation of talent: evidence from Russian regions

Michael Alexeev, Timur Natkhov, Leonid Polishchuk

The Insight and The Legacy of `The Theory of Share Tenancy'

Douglas W. Allen, Dean Lueck

The Legacy of Mexican Land and Water in California

Gary D. Libecap, Dean Lueck, Julio Ramos

God insures those who pay? Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana.

Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassebie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber, Paul Seabright

PRICE INFORMATION, INTER-VILLAGE NETWORKS, AND “BARGAINING SPILLOVERS”: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM GHANA

Nicole Hildebrandt, Yaw Nyarko, Giorgia Romagnoli, Emilia Soldani

The Interdependence of Culture and Institutions in Commons Management

Devesh Rustagi

Why is China’s SOEs Reform always Disappointing?-A New Political Economic Explanation

Ding Chen

The Calculus of Lawmaking

Wei Cui

Structural change, urban bias and the political economy of rural land policy in China

Abdulaziz Shifa, Wei Xiao

Custom and the Formalization of Mineral Property Rights: Evidence from the Supreme Court of Colorado, 1868-1895

Eric Alston

Evolving Practice in Land Demarcation

Benito Arruñada

Poverty from Incomplete Property Rights: Evidence from American Indian Reservations

Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker, Terry Anderson

Relational adaptation within and between firms: Evidence from the US Airline Industry

Ricard Gil, Myongjin Kim, Giorgio Zanarone

Trust, Efficiency and Organizations: Evidence from Rwanda

Ameet Morjaria, Rocco Machiavello

Learning and the Value of Trade Relationships

Ryan Monarch, Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr

The Dynamic of institutions establishment: State Aids, the European Commission, and the European Court of Justice

Amanda M. Alves, Eric Brousseau, Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung

Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Host-Society Natives' Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity

Peter Grajzl, Jonathan Eastwood, Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl

Whose values support European institutions? Inter- and intra country value polarization in Europe

Robbert Maseland, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Hester van Herk

Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Retail Sales

Alan Benson, Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-vehn

Do CEOs Know Best? Evidence from China

Nicholas Bloom, Hong Cheng, Mark Duggan, Hongbin Li, Franklin Qian

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, Christopher Stanton

The Quality of Vote Tallies: Causes and Consequences

Simpser Alberto, Challú Cristian, Seira Enrique

Locational fundamentals, trade, and the changing urban landscape of Mexico

Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Emily A. Sellars

The Tocqueville Paradox: When Does Reform Provoke Rebellion?

Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach

Personalized Medicine, Prevention Effort and Adverse Selection

David Bardey, Philippe De Donder

A Rationale for Marriage

Yoram Barzel, Aurora Stephany, Qing Zhang

Why Transaction History Matters? Disentangling Effects of Routinization and Adaptation of Repeat Exchange Experiences

Jiao Luo, Paul Ingram

Public and Private Transactions in the Shadow of Coercive Power

Gani Aldashev, Giorgio Zanarone

Property Rights, Transaction Costs, and the Limits of the Market

Carmine Guerriero

Markets, Institutions, and Transaction Costs: the Endogeneity of Governance

Geoffrey R.D. Underhill

Designing Markets to Foster Communication and Cooperation

S. Nageeb Ali, David A. Miller

Classification Through Thick and Thin: Permissive Norms and Strict Rules

Gillian Hadfield, Jens Prufer, Vatsalya Srivastava

Legible Normativity: The Value of Silly Rules

Dylan Hadfield-Menell, McKane Andrus, Gillian K. Hadfield

State Accountability, Decision Horizon, and Managerial Practices in Chinese Firms

Valerie J. Karplus, Thomas Geissmann, Da Zhang

Political Networks and Stock Price Comovement: Evidence from network-connected firms in China

Joseph Piotroski, T.J. Wong, Tianyu Zhang

Sleeping with the Enemy: Political Connections and Firm Risk

Martin A. Rossi, Christian A. Ruzzier

In the Shadow of Sunshine Regulation: explaining disclosure biases

Thomas Bolognesi, Géraldine Pflieger

When Reporting Undermines Performance: The Costs of Politically Constrained Organizational Autonomy in Foreign Aid Implementation

Dan Honig

Administrative Costs Associated With Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System

Philip Tseng, Robert Kaplan, Barak Richman, Mahek Shah, Kevin Schulman

Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US

Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, Nicola Persico

What Do Referral Bonuses Do?

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, Nikolay Zubanov

The Intangible Capital of Young Serial Entrepreneurs

Kathryn Shaw, Anders Sorensen

Geography and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legos, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen

How Wide is the Firm Border?

Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortacsu, Mary Li, Chad Syverson

Do horizontal mergers affect vertical relationships between firms?

Silke Forbes, Mara Lederman

Better Bargaining or Better Care? Hospital Pricing and Quality following Integration with Physician Practices

Haizhen Lin, Ian McCarthy, Michael Richards

Building Relational-Contracting Capability

John M. de Figueiredo, Brian S. Silverman

Firm Organization in the Digital Age: IT Use and Vertical Transactions in U.S. Manufacturing

Chris Forman, Kristina McElheran

Effort and Compensation in Relational Contracts

Desmond Lo, Heikki Rantakari

Information Exchange in Social Networks: Evidence from Moslem Nonprofits

Lela Ali, Barak Richman

Faux Contracts

Cathy Hwang

Deal Networks

Matthew Jennejohn

Misconduct and Market Development

Christopher Yenkey

Landed Elites and Education Provision in England: Evidence from School Boards, 1870-99

Marc Goñi

Political Competition and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan

Katrina Kosec, Hamza Haider, David Spielman, Fatima Zaidi

When the Market Fails to Serve Politics: De-privatization of Urban Buses for Officials’ Career Advancement in China

Ning Leng

Learning to Vote: The Effect of Local Context on Individual Turnout

Alberto Simpser, Cristian Challú, Enrique Seira

Failures and Innovation: Evidence From Medical Device Recalls

George Ball, Jeffrey Macher, Ariel Stern

The Effects of Downstream Competition on Upstream Innovation and Licensing

Jean de Bettignies, Bulat Gainullin, Huafang Liu, David T. Robinson

Public Governance, Corporate Governance, and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-Owned Enterprises

Nan Jia, Kenneth G. Huang, Cyndi M. Zhang

The Resolution Process and the Timing of Settlement of Medical Malpractice Claims

Samantha Bielen, Peter Grajzl, Wim Marneffe

Whistleblower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider

Public Relations Litigation

Kish Parella

Dominance of Sogdian merchants on the Silk Road during the Medieval Age: A Semi-Private Ordering organization,

Janet T. Landa

Assortative matching in Risk-sharing Networks: Evidence from Thai Villages

Ju QIU

Governing the Trade in High Value Fine Art

Anja Shortland, Andrew Shortland

Optimal Contract Design in the Wild: Rigidity and Control in Labor Contracts

Elliott Ash, Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu

Men in pink-collar jobs: evidence from a recruitment experiment

Alexia Delfino

Fostering Productive Interactions: Incentives, Processes, and Randomly Paired Employees

Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, Christopher Stanton

Redundancy and Anti-Redundancy in Copyright

Oren Bracha, John Golden

The Problem of Fictional Data in Patents

Janet Freilich

A Theory of Pre-litigation Settlement and Patent Assertion Entities

Leshui He

Algorithms as Prosecutors: Lowering Rearrest Rates Without Disparate Impacts and Identifying Defendant Characteristics ‘Noisy’ to Human Decision-Makers

Daniel Chen, Elliott Ash, Daniel Amaranto, Lisa Ren, Roper Roper

Missing Rich Offenders: Traffic Accidents and the Impartiality of Justice

Madina Kurmangaliyeva

Predictors of organized crime and subversion: A machine learning approach

Patricia Prüfer, Pradeep Kumar

All for One and One for All! How Do Corruption Investigations Affect Municipalities’ Public Procurement Choices?

Marion Chabrost, Stephane Saussier

Crony Capitalism, the Party-State, and Political Boundaries of Corruption

Weijia Li, Gerard Roland, Yang Xie

Statistical Capacity and Corrupt Bureaucracies

Manuel Oechslin, Elias Steiner

Fiscal devaluation, product market regulations and EU economic activity

Jarosław Bełdowski, Piotr Ciżkowicz, Andrzej Rzońca, Wiktor Wojciechowski

State-Owned Enterprises across Europe

Bram De Lange, Bruno Merlevede

Misallocation and privatizing when firm value is unknown: an agency model and application to the case of Poland

Alberto Palermo, Joanna Tyrowicz, Jan Hagemejer

Blockchain: The Birth of Decentralized Governance

Benito Arruñada, Luis Garicano

Delegation to a Group

Sebastian Fehrler, Moritz Janas

An Academic Question: On the Role and Consequences of University Governance

Scott E. Masten

From Italianization to Germanization: Division of Labor, Economic Rents, and Anti-German Attitudes in South Tyrol

Alessandro Belmonte, Armando Di Lillo

Opportunism and Internal Affairs

Vincent Buccola

Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: Directed and Diffused Institutional Entrepreneurship

Daniela C. dos Santos

Family Ownership and Trust During a Financial Crisis

Mario Daniele Amore, Mircea Epure

Does Private Ownership Reduce Political Distortions? Evidence from U.S. Electric Utilities

Richard Boylan

Ownership of Cultural Goods

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Evagelos Pafilis

The Value of Political Geography: Evidence from the Redistricting of Firms

Joaquin Artes, Brian Richter, Jeffrey Timmons

Informational Lobbying and Counter-Lobbying over Budgets

Charles M. Cameron, John M. de Figueiredo

Market Concentration and Lobbying Expenditures

Miguel Espinosa

Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks

Leila Agha, Keith Ericson, Kimberley Geissler, James Rebitzer

Learning on the Job: Evidence from Physicians in Training

David Chan

Small Area Variations and Physician Decision Making: The Case of Depression

Janet Currie, Bentley MacLeod

Physician Practice Style and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Emergency Departments

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Keith Joiner, Pierre-Thomas Léger

Civil Service Reform in U.S. States: Structural Causes and Impacts on Delegation

Elliott Ash, Massimo Morelli, Matia Vannoni

Private order building: the state in the role of the civil society and the case of FIFA

Branislav Hock, Suren Gomtsian

Accessing the State: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorships

Anne Meng

Marriage, Work and Migration: The Role of Infrastructure Development and Gender Norms

Amrit Amirapu, Niaz Asadullah, Zaki Wahhaj

Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?

Natalie Bau

How Women’s Rights Affect Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

Raphael Godefroy

Endogenous Correlation and Moral Hazard

Pierre Fleckinger, Rene Kirkegaard

Optimal Monitoring Design

George Georgiadis, Balazs Szentes

Image Concerns in Teams

Hideshi Itoh

The Legacy of Stalin in Georgia: Ideological Consequences of Hometown Effect

Denis Ivanov

Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from Haiti’s Economic History

Craig Palsson

Prison Guards vs. Postmen: Settler Mortality, British Colonial Officers, and the Impact of World War II

Valentin Seidler

Killer Acquisitions

Colleen Cunningham, Florian Ederer, Song Ma

Transaction Costs and Coasean Symmetry in 5G Spectrum Allocation Policy,

Thomas Hazlett

The Problem of Antitrust "Nostalgia": Market Definition, Barriers to Entry, and Network Effects in High-Tech Markets

Geoffrey A. Manne, Pinar Akman

Are CEOs Superstars? The deep structure of top managerial pay in New Zealand listed companies, 1995-2014.

Julie Harrison, Tim Hazledine, Paul Rouse

Segmentation in Urban Labor Markets: a Machine Learning Application and a Contracting Perspective

Michael Kaiser

Career Concerns in Knowledge Creation

Erina Ytsma

Risk governance and banks affiliated to business groups. The case of Mexico

Rubén Chavarín

Efficiency and the hold-up problem in regulated industries: empirical evidence on the natural gas transport industry

Martin C. De Meio Reggiani, Valentina N. Viego, Nelida B. Brignole

The political economy of regional policy formation: The case of Russian agricultural subsidies

Thomas Herzfeld, Siranush Ghukasyan

Why For-profit Companies compete with Non-profit Organizations to Access Development Aid Contracts?

Marieke Huysentruyt, Bertrand V. Quelin

Evaluation of alternative water governance arrangements in British Columbia

Angela Lockrey

Was De Montesquieu (only half) right? Evidence for a stronger work ethic in cold climates

Robbert Maseland, Abdella Oumer, Harry Garretsen

Trust me; I am corrupt: The role of beliefs and institutions in determining political trust

George Melios

Economics of Mandatory Disclosure in the Equity Crowdfunding

Ana Odorović

Institutions and commercial frauds in water industry: a view of the metropolitan region of São Paulo

Alba V. M. A. Rocha, Reinaldo Guerreiro