Parallel A
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
Parallel B
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
Parallel C
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
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
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
Parallel D
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
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
Parallel E
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
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
Parallel F
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
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
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
Parallel G
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
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
Parallel H
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