SIOE 2018

Use It or Lose It: Adverse Possession and Economic Development

Itzchak Tzachi Raz (Harvard University)

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

Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam

Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics); Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)

Forum Selling Abroad

Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich); Jens Frankenreiter (Max Planck Institute, Bonn); Daniel Klerman (USC Law School)

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

Minor Myers (Brooklyn Law School)

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

Ofer Eldar (Duke Law School); Neel Sukhatme (Georgetown University Law Center)

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

Golvine de Rochambeau (Columbia University)

Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Anders Frederiksen (Aarhus University); Lisa B. Kahn (Yale, SOM); Fabian Lange (McGill University)

Experience Markets: An Application to Outsourcing and Hiring

Christopher Stanton (HBS); Catherine Thomas (LSE)

Learning about Growth and Democracy

Scott F. Abramson (University of Rochester); Sergio Montero (University of Rochester)

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

Yi Han (University of Pittsburgh); Yiming Liu (University of Pittsburgh)

Democratic Spillovers

Arthur Silve (Université Laval)

Television and Judicial Behavior: Lessons from the Brazilian Supreme Court

Felipe Lopes (São Paulo School of Economics - FGV)

The Collegiality of Dissent

Jonathan R. Nash (Emory University)

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

Akifumi Ishihara (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies); Shintaro Miura (Kanagawa University)

Communication and Decision Making in Heterogeneous Partnerships

Behrang Manouchehrabadi (Erasmus University); George Hendrikse (Erasmus University)

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

Johannes Moser (University of Regensburg)

Uncertainty Drives Them Apart - Managerial Practices in Teams

Karen F Bernhardt-Walther (University of Toronto)

Managing Information and Incentives for Choice and Execution in Relational Contracts

Akifumi Ishihara (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies); Shintaro Miura (Kanagawa University)

Incentives and rank effects in managerial tournaments

Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)

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 (Nagoya University)

Vertical Integration in Motion Picture Industry

Ricard Gil (Smith School of Business, Queen's University); Chun-Yu Ho (University of Albany); Li Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yaying Zhou (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters

Christopher Hansman (Imperial College London); Jonas Hjort (Columbia University); Gianmarco Leon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Matthieu Teachout (Columbia University)

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

Stephen F. Lin (Federal Reserve Board); Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics); Arturs Kalnins (University of Iowa)

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

Eric C. Alston (University of Colorado); Steven M. Smith (Colorado School of Mines)

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

Belinda Archibong (Barnard College)

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

Chukwunonye O. Emenalo (Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University)

Why is litigation so costly to growth?

Alessandro Melcarne (Université Paris Nanterre); Giovanni Battista Ramello (Università del Piemonte Orientale); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana )

Markets for Rhetorical Services

Daniel Barron (Northwestern); Michael Powell (Northwestern)

Relational Contracts in the Market: The Lure of Relationships

Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Carmit Segal (U Zurich)

Market Competition and Informal Incentives

Matthias Fahn (JKU Linz); Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)

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

Rongzhu Ke (Hong Kong Baptist University); Jin Li (London School of Economics); Michael Powell (Northwestern University)

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

Margaret Foster (Duke University)

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

Bradley E. Holland (Ohio State University)

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

Jonathan Obert (Amherst College)

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

David Skarbek (Brown University)

Flip-flopping and Electoral Concerns

Giovanni Andreottola (Yale University)

Power Politics: Electoral Cycles in German Electricity Prices

Florian Englmaier (University of Munich (LMU)); Elisabeth Hinreiner (University of Regensburg); Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg); Till Stowasser (University of Munich (LMU))

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

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz (Leiden University); Jaroslaw Beldowski (Warsaw School of Economics); Lukasz Dabros (Warsaw School of Economics)

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

Marian Moszoro (George Mason University); Pablo Spiller (University of California, Berkeley)

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

Nicholas S. Argyres (Washington University); Luis A. Rios (University of Pennsylvania); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

The Great Patent Grab

Jonathan Barnett (Univ. of Southern California)

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

Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado Boulder); Maryann Feldman (University of North Carolina); Alex Graddy-Reed (University of Southern California)

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

J.P. Eggers (New York University); Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota)

Monopolies of Violence: Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro

Nicholas Barnes (Brown University)

Democratic Stability in Ancient Greece

F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University); Robert K. Fleck (Clemson University)

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

Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics); Kharis Sokolov (Higher School of Economics)

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

Hans H. Tung (National Taiwan University)

How to Sell Jobs

Daniel Ferreira (LSE); Radoslawa Nikolowa (QMUL)

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

Ardina R. Hasanbasri (Washington University in St. Louis)

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

Vikramaditya S. Khanna (University of Michigan Law School)

How Are Workers Compensated Following Trade Liberalization?

Krzysztof Pelc (McGill University); Sung Eun Kim (Korea University)

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

Pierre Larouche (Université de Montréal); Justus Baron (Northwestern University); Jorge Contreras (Utah University); Martin Husovec (Tilburg University)

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

Ejan Mackaay (Université de Montréal)

Securities Law Enforcement in Canada: Towards a Consolidated Model?

Stéphane Rousseau (Université de Montréal)

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Oriana Bandiera (LSE); Stephen Hansen (Oxford); Andrea Prat (Columbia); Raffaella Sadun (Harvard)

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

Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee U.); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

Using Machine Learning to Predict Reasonable Notice Awards

Anthony Niblett (Univ. of Toronto, Faculty of Law)

Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India

Renata Lemos (World Bank); Karthik Muralidharan (UCSD); Daniela Scur (University of Oxford)

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

Mauricio Romero (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México); Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development); Wayne Sandholtz (UC San Diego)

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

Patrick L. Warren (Clemson University); Benjamin Harbolt (Clemson University)

Institutions and the allocation of talent: evidence from Russian regions

Michael Alexeev (Indiana University); Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow); Leonid Polishchuk (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

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

Douglas W. Allen (Simon Fraser University); Dean Lueck (Indiana University)

The Legacy of Mexican Land and Water in California

Gary D. Libecap (University of California - Santa Barbara and NBER); Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Julio Ramos (Indiana University)

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

Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST); Julie Lassebie (Toulouse School of Economics); Amma Panin (Nuffield College, Oxford); Eva Raiber (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST); Paul Seabright (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, TSE)

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

Nicole Hildebrandt (Boston Consulting Group); Yaw Nyarko (New York University); Giorgia Romagnoli (University of Amsterdam); Emilia Soldani (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The Interdependence of Culture and Institutions in Commons Management

Devesh Rustagi (University of Frankfurt)

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

Ding Chen (University of Sheffield)

The Calculus of Lawmaking

Wei Cui (University of British Columbia)

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

Abdulaziz Shifa (Syracuse University); Wei Xiao (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

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

Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

Evolving Practice in Land Demarcation

Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona GSE)

Poverty from Incomplete Property Rights: Evidence from American Indian Reservations

Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University); Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Terry Anderson (Hoover Institution)

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

Ricard Gil (Queen's University); Myongjin Kim (University of Oklahoma); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

Trust, Efficiency and Organizations: Evidence from Rwanda

Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univers); Rocco Machiavello (LSE Management)

Learning and the Value of Trade Relationships

Ryan Monarch (Federal Reserve Board); Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Federal Reserve Board)

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

Amanda M. Alves (University Paris-Dauphine, PSL); Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine, PSL); Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung (University Paris-Dauphine, PSL)

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

Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Jonathan Eastwood (Washington and Lee University); Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl (Virginia Military Institute)

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

Robbert Maseland (University of Groningen); Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (University of Groningen); Hester van Herk (Free University Amsterdam)

Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Retail Sales

Alan Benson (University of Minnesota); Simon Board (UCLA); Moritz Meyer-ter-vehn (UCLA)

Do CEOs Know Best? Evidence from China

Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University); Hong Cheng (Wuhan University); Mark Duggan (Stanford University); Hongbin Li (Stanford University); Franklin Qian (Stanford University)

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction

Jason Sandvik (University of Utah); Richard Saouma (Michigan State University); Nathan Seegert (University of Utah); Christopher Stanton (Harvard Business School)

The Quality of Vote Tallies: Causes and Consequences

Simpser Alberto (ITAM); Challú Cristian (ITAM); Seira Enrique (ITAM)

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

Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State University); Emily A. Sellars (Texas A&M University)

The Tocqueville Paradox: When Does Reform Provoke Rebellion?

Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University); Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Personalized Medicine, Prevention Effort and Adverse Selection

David Bardey (University of Los Andes, Bogota); Philippe De Donder (ESG - UQAM)

A Rationale for Marriage

Yoram Barzel (University of Washington); Aurora Stephany (University of Washington); Qing Zhang (University of Washington)

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

Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota); Paul Ingram (Columbia University)

Public and Private Transactions in the Shadow of Coercive Power

Gani Aldashev (ECARES); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

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

Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna)

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

Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (University of Amsterdam)

Designing Markets to Foster Communication and Cooperation

S. Nageeb Ali (Penn State); David A. Miller (Michigan)

Classification Through Thick and Thin: Permissive Norms and Strict Rules

Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California); Jens Prufer (Tilburg University); Vatsalya Srivastava (Tilburg University)

Legible Normativity: The Value of Silly Rules

Dylan Hadfield-Menell (University of California Berkeley); McKane Andrus (University of California Berkeley); Gillian K. Hadfield (University of Southern California)

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

Valerie J. Karplus (MIT Sloan School of Management); Thomas Geissmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Da Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

Joseph Piotroski (Stanford University); T.J. Wong (University of Southern California); Tianyu Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Sleeping with the Enemy: Political Connections and Firm Risk

Martin A. Rossi (Universidad de San Andres); Christian A. Ruzzier (Universidad de San Andres)

In the Shadow of Sunshine Regulation: explaining disclosure biases

Thomas Bolognesi (University of Geneva); Géraldine Pflieger (University of Geneva)

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

Dan Honig (Johns Hopkins SAIS)

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

Philip Tseng (Duke University Medical School); Robert Kaplan (Harvard Business School); Barak Richman (Duke Law School); Mahek Shah (Harvard Business School); Kevin Schulman (Duke University Medical School)

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

Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal); Erika Deserranno (Kellogg); Nicola Persico (Kellogg)

What Do Referral Bonuses Do?

Guido Friebel (Goethe-University Frankfurt); Matthias Heinz (Cologne University); Mitchell Hoffman (Rotman School, U of Toronto); Nikolay Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

The Intangible Capital of Young Serial Entrepreneurs

Kathryn Shaw (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Anders Sorensen (Copenhagen Business School )

Geography and Employer Recruiting

Russell Weinstein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School); Nick Bloom (Stanford University); Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Harald Fadinger (Mannheim University); Patrick Legos (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Andrew Newman (Boston University); Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School); John Van Reenen (MIT)

How Wide is the Firm Border?

Enghin Atalay (University of Wisconsin Madison); Ali Hortacsu (University of Chicago); Mary Li (Compass Lexecon); Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)

Do horizontal mergers affect vertical relationships between firms?

Silke Forbes (Tufts University); Mara Lederman (University of Toronto)

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

Haizhen Lin (Indiana University); Ian McCarthy (Emory University); Michael Richards (Vanderbilt University)

Building Relational-Contracting Capability

John M. de Figueiredo (Duke University); Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

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

Chris Forman (Cornell University); Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto )

Effort and Compensation in Relational Contracts

Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University); Heikki Rantakari (University of Rochester)

Information Exchange in Social Networks: Evidence from Moslem Nonprofits

Lela Ali (Duke University); Barak Richman (Duke University)

Faux Contracts

Cathy Hwang (University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law)

Deal Networks

Matthew Jennejohn (BYU Law School)

Misconduct and Market Development

Christopher Yenkey (Univ of South Carolina Darla Moore School)

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

Marc Goñi (University of Vienna)

Political Competition and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Pakistan

Katrina Kosec (IFPRI); Hamza Haider (Michigan State University); David Spielman (IFPRI); Fatima Zaidi (IFPRI)

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

Ning Leng (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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

Alberto Simpser (ITAM); Cristian Challú (ITAM); Enrique Seira (ITAM)

Failures and Innovation: Evidence From Medical Device Recalls

George Ball (Indiana University (Kelley)); Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown University (McDonough)); Ariel Stern (Harvard Business School)

The Effects of Downstream Competition on Upstream Innovation and Licensing

Jean de Bettignies (Queen's University); Bulat Gainullin (Gulf Capital); Huafang Liu (Queen's University); David T. Robinson (Duke University)

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

Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Kenneth G. Huang (National University of Singapore); Cyndi M. Zhang (Singapore Management University)

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

Samantha Bielen (Hasselt University); Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Wim Marneffe (Hasselt University)

Whistleblower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lydia Mechtenberg (Universität Hamburg); Gerd Muehlheusser (Universität Hamburg); Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg)

Public Relations Litigation

Kish Parella (Washington and Lee law School)

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

Janet T. Landa (York University, Toronto, Canada)

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

Ju QIU (Governance Analytics, Paris Sciences & Lettres)

Governing the Trade in High Value Fine Art

Anja Shortland (King's College London); Andrew Shortland (Cranfield University)

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

Elliott Ash (University of Warwick and ETH Zurich); Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University); Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

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

Alexia Delfino (London School of Economics)

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

Jason Sandvik (Eccles School, University of Utah); Richard Saouma (MSU); Nathan Seegert (Eccles School, University of Utah); Christopher Stanton (Harvard Business School)

Redundancy and Anti-Redundancy in Copyright

Oren Bracha (The University of Texas at Austin); John Golden (The University of Texas at Austin)

The Problem of Fictional Data in Patents

Janet Freilich (Fordham Law School)

A Theory of Pre-litigation Settlement and Patent Assertion Entities

Leshui He (Bates College)

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

Daniel Chen (TSE / IAST / Université Toulouse ); Elliott Ash (U. of Warwick); Daniel Amaranto (NYU); Lisa Ren (NYU); Roper Roper (NYU)

Missing Rich Offenders: Traffic Accidents and the Impartiality of Justice

Madina Kurmangaliyeva (European University Institute)

Predictors of organized crime and subversion: A machine learning approach

Patricia Prüfer (CentERdata, Tilburg University); Pradeep Kumar (CentERdata, Tilburg University)

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

Marion Chabrost (Paris School of Economics ); Stephane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School)

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

Weijia Li (University of California, Berkeley); Gerard Roland (University of California, Berkeley); Yang Xie (University of California, Riverside)

Statistical Capacity and Corrupt Bureaucracies

Manuel Oechslin (University of Lucerne); Elias Steiner (University of Lucerne)

Fiscal devaluation, product market regulations and EU economic activity

Jarosław Bełdowski (Warsaw School of Economics); Piotr Ciżkowicz (Warsaw School of Economics); Andrzej Rzońca (Warsaw School of Economics); Wiktor Wojciechowski (Warsaw School of Economics)

State-Owned Enterprises across Europe

Bram De Lange (Ghent University); Bruno Merlevede (Ghent University)

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

Alberto Palermo (IAAEU); Joanna Tyrowicz (IAAEU, FAME|GRAPE, University of Warsaw); Jan Hagemejer (FAME|GRAPE, University of Warsaw)

Blockchain: The Birth of Decentralized Governance

Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona GSE); Luis Garicano (IE Business School, London School of Economics and)

Delegation to a Group

Sebastian Fehrler (University of Konstanz); Moritz Janas (University of Konstanz)

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

Scott E. Masten (University of Michigan)

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

Alessandro Belmonte (IMT Lucca); Armando Di Lillo (IMT Lucca)

Opportunism and Internal Affairs

Vincent Buccola (University of Pennsylvania (Wharton))

Multinational Enterprises as Institutional Entrepreneurs: Directed and Diffused Institutional Entrepreneurship

Daniela C. dos Santos (University of Toronto)

Family Ownership and Trust During a Financial Crisis

Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi U.); Mircea Epure (Pompeu Fabra U. and Barcelona GSE)

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

Richard Boylan (Rice University)

Ownership of Cultural Goods

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol); Evagelos Pafilis (King's College, London)

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

Joaquin Artes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Brian Richter (University of Texas at Austin); Jeffrey Timmons (NYU - Abu Dhabi)

Informational Lobbying and Counter-Lobbying over Budgets

Charles M. Cameron (Princeton University); John M. de Figueiredo (Duke University)

Market Concentration and Lobbying Expenditures

Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE)

Team Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks

Leila Agha (Dartmouth College); Keith Ericson (Boston University); Kimberley Geissler (University of Massachusetts); James Rebitzer (Boston University)

Learning on the Job: Evidence from Physicians in Training

David Chan (Stanford University)

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

Janet Currie (Princeton); Bentley MacLeod (Columbia)

Physician Practice Style and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Emergency Departments

Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona); Keith Joiner (University of Arizona); Pierre-Thomas Léger (University of Illinois, Chicago)

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

Elliott Ash (University of Warwick and ETH Zurich); Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University); Matia Vannoni (Bocconi University)

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

Branislav Hock (University of Portsmouth); Suren Gomtsian (University of Leeds)

Accessing the State: Executive constraints and credible commitment in dictatorships

Anne Meng (University of Virginia)

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

Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent); Niaz Asadullah (Malaya University); Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent)

Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?

Natalie Bau (University of Toronto)

How Women’s Rights Affect Fertility: Evidence from Nigeria

Raphael Godefroy (Universite de Montreal)

Endogenous Correlation and Moral Hazard

Pierre Fleckinger (Paris School of Economics); Rene Kirkegaard (University of Guelph)

Optimal Monitoring Design

George Georgiadis (Northwestern Kellogg); Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)

Image Concerns in Teams

Hideshi Itoh (Waseda University)

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

Denis Ivanov (Higher School of Econoimics)

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

Craig Palsson (Naval Postgraduate School)

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

Valentin Seidler (University of Vienna)

Killer Acquisitions

Colleen Cunningham (London Business School); Florian Ederer (Yale School of Management); Song Ma (Yale School of Management)

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

Thomas Hazlett (Clemson University)

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

Geoffrey A. Manne (International Center for Law & Economics); Pinar Akman (University of Leeds School of Law)

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

Julie Harrison (University of Auckland); Tim Hazledine (University of Auckland); Paul Rouse (University of Auckland)

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

Michael Kaiser (LMU Munich - Department of Economics)

Career Concerns in Knowledge Creation

Erina Ytsma (MIT)

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

Rubén Chavarín (Universidad de Guadalajara)

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

Martin C. De Meio Reggiani (CONICET); Valentina N. Viego (Universidad del Sur); Nelida B. Brignole (CONICET)

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

Thomas Herzfeld (IAMO); Siranush Ghukasyan (IAMO)

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

Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris); Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris)

Evaluation of alternative water governance arrangements in British Columbia

Angela Lockrey (UBC)

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

Robbert Maseland (University of Groningen); Abdella Oumer (University of Groningen); Harry Garretsen (University of Groningen)

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

George Melios (Swansea University)

Economics of Mandatory Disclosure in the Equity Crowdfunding

Ana Odorović (University of Hamburg)

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

Alba V. M. A. Rocha (University of São Paulo); Reinaldo Guerreiro (University of São Paulo)