Parallel A
Cooperation in a Company: A Large-Scale Experiment
Marvin Deversi, Martin Kocher, Christiane Schwieren
Talk or Pay? - A Field Experiment on Bonuses and Performance Reviews
Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang
Go beyond (your) average: A field experiment on real-time performance feedback and sales productivity
Angela Steffen, Frauke von Bieberstein
Buyers' ability and discretion in procurement: a structural analysis of Italian medical devices
Alessandro Bucciol, Riccardo Camboni, Paola Valbonesi
Direct Propagation of a Fiscal Shock: Evidence from Italy’s Stability Pact
decio coviello, immacolata marino, Tommaso Nannicini, Nicola Persico
Can Entry Mitigate the Effect of Inflated Reserve Prices in Public Procurement?
Vitalijs Jascisens
Choosing the Framers: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies
Alexandra Cirone, Brenda Can Coppenolle
When State Building Backfires: Elite Divisions and Collective Action in Rebellion
Emily A. Sellars, Francisco Garfias
Franchise Expansion, Bureaucratic Resistance, and Fiscal Capacity in Colonial India
Pavithra Suryanarayan
Experience versus Perception in Evaluating the Rule of Law
Benito Arruñada
Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court
Daniel Chen, Yosh Halberstam, Alan Yu
Where’d You Get that Idea? Testing the Determinants of Creativity, Innovation and Impact
Bernardo Mueller
Trust, Investment and Competition: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Giacomo Calzolari, Leonardo Felli, Johannes Koenen, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Konrad O. Stahl
Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda’s Coffee Industry
Ameet Morjaria, Rocco Macchiavello
Investment Bank Governance and Client Relationships
William Wilhelm, Zhaohui Chen, Alan Morrison, Xin Xue
Parallel B
The Political Economy of Collective Memories: Evidence from Russian Politics
Alessandro Belmonte, Michael Rochlitz
Do “Stationary Bandits” Promote Economic Growth? Evidence from Warlords in Early Twentieth Century China
Wentian DIAO
Economic performance, land expropriation and bureaucrat promotion in China
Paul Dutronc-Postel, Maiting Zhuang
Authoritarian Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia?
Egor Lazarev
American Dreams: an analysis of non-Hollywood entry strategies in motion picture production and distribution, 1895 - 2010
Gerben Bakker
“What’s Wrong with the Way I Talk?” The Effect of Sound Motion Pictures on Actor Careers
F. Andrew Hanssen
Vertical Disintegration in Cable TV: The Netflix-Comcast Rivalry
Thomas W. Hazlett
The Imposter in "The Return of Martin Guerre": The Economics/New Institutional Economics of Identity
Janet T. Landa
Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions
Pasha Andreyanov, Alec Davidson, Vasily Korovkin
Buyer's Experience and Corruption: Evidence from Public Procurement in Russia
Nikita German, Elena Podkolzina, Andrey Tkachenko
Discretion and Corruption in Public Procurement
Ferenc Szucs
Corruption in Procurement: New facts from Italian government contracting
Silvia Vannutelli, Francesco Decarolis, Ray Fisman, Paolo Pinotti
How companies respond to climate change
Tobias Finke, Stefanos Mouzas, Alan Gilchrist
The Role of Soft Budget Constraints in the Development of the Chinese Solar Industry
Max Jerneck
Extraterritoriality in the context of nationalism and legal imperialism: implications for multinationals and climate policies
Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg, Erik Wikberg
The Evolution of Rules: Enacting Environmental Rules through UN Climate Change Conferences.
Stefanos Mouzas, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson
Contracting Beyond the Market: Property Rights, Externalities, Historical Conflict, and Contractual Agreements between Firms and Nonmarket Stakeholders
Sinziana Dorobantu, Kate Odziemkowska
Responding to Regulatory Uncertainty: Government Agency Signalling and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Eunhee Kim, Shon Hiatt, Yue Maggie Zhou
Voice but No Exit? The Effects of Social Activism Under Imperfectly Competitive Exchange
Ilze Kivleniece, Bertrand V. Quelin
Hybrid Organization: Serving both economic and social objectives
Bertrand V. Quelin
International Cooperation on Financial Market Regulation
Michael Abendschein, Harry Gölz
Certification, Reputation and Entry: An Empirical Analysis
Xiang Hui, Maryam Saeedi, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Steven Tadelis
Platform Competition, the Apple eBooks Case and the Meaning of Agreement to Fix Prices
Dean Williamson
Crowd-Judging
Angela Zhang, Alex Yang
Public Media Do Serve The State: A Field Experiment
Shuhei Kitamura, Toshifumi Kuroda
To Russia with Love? The Impact of Sanctions on Elections
Michele Valsecchi, Julian Hinz, Robert Gold
Does Chinese Social Media Provide Less Biased Information to the Market than Traditional Media?
Eric Wang, T J Wong, Tianyu Zhang
Building a productive workforce: the role of structured management practices
Christopher Cornwell, Ian Schmutte, Daniela Scur
Management practices and firm performance during the Great Recession: evidence from Spanish survey data
Florian Englmaier, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez, Ricard Gil, Michael Kaiser
Employee-oriented management in the competition for skilled labor: The impact of HR measures on perceived work quality and turnover
Philipp Grunau, Stefanie Wolter
Measuring and explaining management in schools: New approaches using public data
Clare Leaver, Renata Lemos, Daniela Scur
Fair and Square: A Theory of Managerial Compensation
Tore Ellingsen, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles
David Frydlinger, Oliver Hart
Restitution of cultural goods – loan or ownership?
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Evagelos Pafilis
THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF MULTI-BUSINESS FIRMS: DOUBLE SPECIALIZATION AND NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES
birger wernerfelt
The Refugee’s Dilemma - Evidence from Jewish Outmigration in Nazi Germany
Johannes Buggle, Thierry Mayer, Seyhun Sakalli, Mathias Thoenig
Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation
Mounir Karadja, Erik Prawitz
Emigration and Trust
Dragos Radu, Eka Skoglund
International migration and cultural convergence
Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Arthur Silve
Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Kyle Emerick, Manzoor H. Dar
Property Rights and Path Dependence: 19th Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes
Bryan Leonard, Douglas Allen
Property Rights and Domestication
Dean Lueck, Gustavo Torrens
Common Pool Resources, Spillover Effects, and Local Security: A Theoretical Foundation with Preliminary Evidence
Jessica Steinberg
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
Guillermo Alves, Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Andres Dean, Mariana Chavez
Fostering savings by commitment: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment at the Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa
Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Angela De Michele, Giorgio Di Maio, Paolo Landoni
Corporate Social Responsibility Under Imperfect Regulatory Oversight
Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Hua Fang Liu, David T. Robinson
Persistent overconfidence and biased memory: Evidence from managers
David Huffman, Collin Raymond, Julia Shvets
Parallel C
Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right
Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico Finan, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, Johanna Rickne
How State-Controlled Media Shapes Public Opinion? Experimental Evidence from Russia
Arturas Rozenas, Denis Stukal, Georiy Syunyaev
The effect of neighborhoods on voting behavior
Alberto Simpser, Enrique Seira, Frederico Finan
Economic Influence Activities, Congressional Committees, and the Industrial Geography of the United States
John de Figueiredo, Davin Raiha
Motivating Lobbyists: Evidence from the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act
Miguel Espinosa, Giorgio Zanarone
Partial exclusivity can resolve the empirical puzzles associated with rent-seeking activities
Samuli Leppälä
Mis-allocation within Firms: Internal Finance and International Trade
Dalia Marin, Davide Suverato, Thierry Verdier
The Organizational Economics of School Chains
Lorenzo Neri, Elisabetta Pasini, Olmo Silva
Manufacturing in Africa: the determinants of location-based spillovers and organizational practices
Daniela Scur, Thomaz Teodorovicz
Designing Online Platforms for Offline Services: The Bigger, the Better?
Leon Chu, Brian Wu
Market Orchestrators: The Effects of Certification on Complementor Behavior and Performance
Joost Rietveld, Robert Seamans, Katia Meggiorin
Technological Platforms and Self-Regulation: The Case of Safe-Boda in Uganda
Brian S. Silverman
Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India
Karthik Muralidharan, Abhijeet Singh
Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence From the Ghanaian Civil Service
Imran Rasul, Daniel Rogger, Martin J. Williams
No papers in this session.
Parallel D
Better Together? CEO Identity and Firm Productivity
Ines Black
Personality traits and job-worker match: Evidence from a personnel services firm
Anna Daelen, Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Nick Zubanov
Why and when Family Firms Are Doing the Right Thing when Hiring a Family Manager with Low Skills in Economic Tasks
Jenny Kragl, Alberto Palermo, Guoqian Xi, Joern H. Block
HOW DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER FOR FOREIGN FIRMS?
Simon Hartmann
Transaction Costs and Economic Growth under Common Legal System: State-Level Evidence from Mexico
Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk
The Effect of Property Rights Protection on Capital Structure: Evidence from a Chinese Natural Experiment
Yixin Liu, Yu Liu, William Megginson, Zuabao Wei
The Logic of Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies
Eric Alston, Lee J Alston, Bernardo Mueller
Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership
Robert Dur, Ola Kvaloy, Anja Schöttner
A Field Experiment on Leadership and Team Performance in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks
Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy
Incentivizing Complex Problem Solving in Teams – Evidence from a Field Experiment
Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, David Schindler, Simeon Schudy
Clarity, Communication and Trust in Teams: Evidence from an Agile Organization
Maria Guadalupe
From Friends to Foes: Identity and Team Performance
Nadzeya Laurentsyeva
The Rise of Inclusive Political Institutions and Stronger Property Rights: Time Inconsistency Vs. Opacity.
Giacomo Benati, Carmine Guerriero, Federico Zaina
An opium curse? The long-run economic consequences of narcotics cultivation in British India
Jonathan Lehne
Evolution and Long-run Consequences of Agricultural Inheritance Traditions
Fabian Wahl, Thilo R. Huning
Lay-offs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory
Robert Akerlof, Anik Ashraf, Rocco Macchiavello, Atonu Rabbani, Christopher Woodruff
Clarity in Relational Contracts: Rules vs. Principles
Robert Gibbons, Manuel Grieder, Holger Herz, Christian Zehnder
Weak Institutions and Relational Taxation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Radoslaw Stefanski, Gerhard Toews, Marta Troya Martinez
Out by the door, in by the window. Politics and natural gas regulation in Russia
Claude Menard, Andrey Shastitko, Alexander Kurdin
Price vs. Quantities with Multiple Countries
Torben Mideksa
Uptake or not uptake GPP (Green Public procurement)? Does public governance make the difference? The case of France
julie rouault, carine staropoli
Contract Farming and Rural Transformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin
Aminou Arouna, Jeffrey Michler, Jourdain Lokossou
Multidimensionality and Complexity in Scoring Rule Auctions: Experimental Evidence
Riccardo Camboni, Luca Corazzini, Stefano Galavotti, Paola Valbonesi
A Salesforce-Driven Model of Consumer Choice
Bicheng Yang, Tat Chan, Raphael Thomadsen
Parallel E
Loyalty Incentives in Criminal Organizations
Christophe Bravard, Jacques Durieu, Jurjen J.A. Kamphorst, Sebastian Roché, Stéphan Sémirat
Inputs, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives at the Workplace
Miguel Martinez-Carrasco, Francesco Amodio
Double-Sided Opportunism in Infrastructure Investment
Marian Moszoro, Beatrice Boulu-Reshef, Ingy Helmy
Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations
Heiner Schumacher, Heidi Thysen
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Julien Labonne, Francesco Trebbi
Hiding Control: Oligarchs, Predation, and Political Connections
John Earle, Scott Gehlbach, Anton Shirikov, Solomiya Shpak
Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly
Edmund Malesky, Jason Todd, Anh Tran, Anh Le
Project selection and competitive cheap talk: an experimental study
John Hamman, Miguel Martinez-Carrasco, Eric Schmidbauer
Credibility, Efficiency and the Structure of Authority
Sinem Hidir, Dimitri Migrow
Designing Organizations in Volatile Markets
Dimitri Migrow, Shuo Liu
Big Data and Democracy
Freek van Gils, Wieland Müller, Jens Prüfer
One Stop Shops for Public Services - Evidence from Citizen Service Centers in Brazil
Anders Fredriksson
Civil Service Reform, Self Selection, and Bureaucratic Performance
Daniel Gibbs
Did Scrubbing the Government Clean Up the Air? Polluter Responses to China’s Anticorruption Campaign
Valerie Karplus, Shuang Zhang, Douglas Almond
Matching Problem of Civil Service
Ashutosh Thakur
Agency Breadth and Political Influence
Zachary Breig, Mitch Downey
Political Budget Cycle and Government Payments
Marco Buso, Luciano Greco, Luigi Moretti
The Political Economy of Corporate Taxation
Benjamin G. Ogden, Korok Ray
Electoral incentives for public good provision: Evidence from three linked field experiments in Liberia
Wayne Sandholtz, Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur
Refugee Crisis, Flight to Safety and Entrepreneurship
Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Aksoy, Sergei Guriev
Immigration and Redistribution
Alberto Alesina, Armando Miano, Stefanie Stantcheva
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe
Alberto Alesina, Elie Murard, Hillel Rapoport
Refugees and Social Capital: Evidence from Northern Lebanon
Anselm Rink, Justin Valasek
Glass Ceilings in the Art Market?
Fabian Bocart, Marina Gertsberg, Rachel Pownall
Gender inequality, Taxation and Institutions: a historical perspective
Monica Bozzano, Paola Profeta, Simona Scabrosetti
The unintended effect of gender quotas on bank performance: director busyness
Katarzyna Burzynska, Gaby Contreras
New evidence on board gender diversity from a large panel of European firms
Joanna Tyrowicz, Siri Terjesen
The Corruption of Local Elites in Francophone and Anglophone Africa
Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Abdulaziz B. Shifa
Mapping the Landscape of Transactions: The Governance of Business Relations in Latin America
David Francis, Nona Karalashvili, Peter Murrell
The role of institutions, ethnic fractionalization and colonization and their impact on economic growth and development in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya.
Sarah Hall, Mabel Ollimo
Doing Business in a Deals World: The Doubly False Premise of Rules Reform
Sabyasachi Kar, Lant Pritchett, Spandan Roy, Kunal Sen
Effective Property Rights and Legal Conflict
Catherine Hafer, Hannah K. Simpson
Judiciary’s Achilles Heel: Executive Control via Appointment Power
Sultan Mehmood
Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments
Jonathan R. Nash, Joanna Shepherd
Political Polarization and Policy Expertise: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
Tinghua Yu, Elliott Ash, Bentley MacLeod
Policy Experimentation in Committees: a Case against Veto Rights under Redistributive Constraints
Vincent Anesi, Renee Bowen
AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF INFORMATION
Yoram Barzel, Aurora Stephany
Dynamic Analysis of Archives Contents: the Case of the ISNIE/SIOE Intellectual History
Eric Brousseau, Bruno Chaves, Svitlana Galeshchuk
Parallel F
Management of Violence: Effect of Regional Authorities on Corporate Raiding in Russia
Anton Kazun
Bureaucratic Discrimination in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Experimental Evidence from Russia
Michael Rochlitz, Evgeniya Mitrokhina, Irina Nizovkina
Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter
Patrick L. Warren, Darren Linvill
Reserve price underpricing as a corrupt strategy
Sümeyra Atmaca, Riccardo Camboni, Elena Podkolzina, Koen Schoors, Paola Valbonesi
Judicial Subversion: Evidence from Brazil
Guilherme Lambais, Henrik Sigstad
Playing Whac-A-Mole in the Fight against Corruption: Evidence from Random Audits in Brazil
Maximiliano Lauletta, Martín A. Rossi, Christian A. Ruzzier
The Economic Effects of Catholic Church Censorship During the Counter-Reformation
Sascha O. Becker, Francisco J. Pino, Jordi Vidal-Robert
Custom, Formality and Comparative Development: Evidence from Admiralty Rule in Newfoundland
Blair Long
The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution
Gaia Narciso, Battista Severgnini
The Language of Contract:Promises and Power in Union Collective Bargaining Agreements
Elliott Ash, W. Bentley MacLeod, Suresh Naidu
Human Capitalists and the Global Division of Labor
Jan Schymik
Gains from Contractualization: Evidence from Labor Regulations on Chinese Workers
Candice J. Yandam, Qin Gao
Tasks and Skills in Additive versus Traditional Manufacturing: A First Look at Evidence from Job Vacancies
Avner Ben-Ner, Ainhoa Urtasun, Bledi Taska
Dynamics of skills demand and job transition opportunities: A machine learning approach
Patricia Prüfer, Pradeep Kumar, Marcia Den Uijl
The Complementary Effect of Organizational Practices and Workers' Type of Education
Filippo Pusterla
Parallel G
Friends with Benefits: Patronage Networks and Distributive Politics in China
Junyan Jiang, Muyang Zhang
Dual-Track Power-Sharing and Authoritarian Compensation: A Synthetic Comparative Case Study of China's 2001 Government Restructuring
Hans H. Tung
The Party's Tightening Grip Over the State Sector: Evidence from Charter Amendments
Angela Zhang, Zhuang Liu
Do Cultural Roots Matter for Citizen Engagement in Government Programs? Evidence from Childhood Vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa
Laure Athias, Moudo Macina
The Shadow of the Family: Historical Roots of Social Capital in Europe.
Maria Kravtsova, Alexei Oshchepkov, Christian Welzel
Pre-colonial History and Colonial Rule in Myanmar: Does the Timing of Centralization Matter?
Htet Thiha Zaw
LOBBY RESOURCES AND ECONOMICS OF SCOPE: AN ANALYSIS ON M&As
Ben Barber, Marco Giarratana, Juan Santalo
The Evolution of Productive Organizations
Francisco Brahm, Joaquin Poblete
The Dark Side of Relatedness: Resource Characteristics, Hierarchical Failure, and Organizational Form
Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Ram Mudambi, Samuele Murtinu
Collective Defense by Common Property Regimes: the Rise and Fall of the Kibbutz
Liang Diao
A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on Opportunism in Franchising Networks
Aveed Raha, Ilir Hajdini, Josef Windsperger
Boosting Engagement in Adaptive Water Governance: A Participatory Stakeholder Analysis
Mohammad Naser Reyhani, Philipp Grundmann
Doing Business Below the Line: Screening, Mafias and Public Funds
Gemma Dipoppa, Gianmarco Daniele
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business (Oxford University Press)
Anja Shortland
Illicit Behavior and the Foundations of State-Building: Evidence from Colombia
Juan F. Vargas, Jacob Shapiro, Abbey Steele, Rafael Ch
Unfamiliar Family Firms
Mario Daniele Amore, Mircea Epure, Orsola Garofalo
The Universal Link Between Higher Education and Pro-Market Values
John V.C. Nye, Cheryl Litman, Maksym Bryukhanov, Sergiy Polyachenko
Civic Culture vs. Apolitical Social Capital: The Case of Moscow Apartment Buildings
Leonid Polishchuk, Alexander Rubin, Igor Shagalov