SIOE 2019

A1: Behavioral Effects of Tax and Welfare Institutions — Room 320

• Specific Skills, Unemployment Risk, and Insurance: An Experimental Approach

  John Ahlquist (UC San Diego); Ben Ansell (Oxford)

• Progressivity, Information, and Preferences

  Asli Cansunar (University of Oxford); Pablo Beramendi (Duke University); Raymond Duch (University of Oxford)

• Income, Insurance and Support for Redistribution: An Experimental Approach

  Karl Kahn (University of Oxford); David Rueda (University of Oxford)

A2: Building Organizational Capacity — Room 720

• Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?

  Eleanor W. Dillon (Microsoft Research); Lisa B. Kahn (University of Rochester)

• Passing the Hot Potato, Above or Sideways? Work ows in Multidivisional Firms

  Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Ramon Lecuona (Darmouth College)

• Workhorses or White Elephants? The Effects of Earned Autonomy on State Owned Enterprises

  Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan School of Management)

A3: Causal evidence on incentives in firms — Room 550

• Cooperation in a Company: A Large-Scale Experiment

  Marvin Deversi (University of Munich (LMU)); Martin Kocher (IHS Vienna & University of Vienna); Christiane Schwieren (University of Heidelberg)

• Talk or Pay? - A Field Experiment on Bonuses and Performance Reviews

  Kathrin Manthei (RFH Neuss); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (University of Cologne)

• Go beyond (your) average: A field experiment on real-time performance feedback and sales productivity

  Angela Steffen (University of Bern); Frauke von Bieberstein (University of Bern)

A4: Corporate Culture — Room Ragnar

• Corporate Gender Culture

  Renee Adams (Oxford Saíd School of Business); Ali Akyol (University of Melbourne); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW)

• Corporate Culture as an Implicit Contract

  Jessica Jeffers (University of Chicago, Booth); Michael Junho Lee (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

• Trust and Innovation within the Firm: Evidence from Matched CEO-Firm Data

  Kieu-Trang Nguyen (London School of Economics)

A5: Culture and Institutions — Room 350

• The origins of common identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine

  Sirus H. Dehdari (Uppsala University); Kai Gehring (University of Zurich)

• Waiting for Napoleon? Historical Democracy and Norms of Cooperation

  Devesh Rustagi (Frankfurt and Brown)

A6: Demand Shocks and Buyer’s Quality in Procurment — Room 138

• Buyers' ability and discretion in procurement: a structural analysis of Italian medical devices

  Alessandro Bucciol (University of Verona); Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

• Direct Propagation of a Fiscal Shock: Evidence from Italy’s Stability Pact

  decio coviello (HEC Montreal); immacolata marino (Naples); Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi); Nicola Persico (Northwestern)

• Can Entry Mitigate the Effect of Inflated Reserve Prices in Public Procurement?

  Vitalijs Jascisens (National Research University Higher School of Econ)

A7: Historical Political Economy — Room 750

• Choosing the Framers: Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies

  Alexandra Cirone (Cornell); Brenda Can Coppenolle (Leiden)

• When State Building Backfires: Elite Divisions and Collective Action in Rebellion

  Emily A. Sellars (Yale University); Francisco Garfias (UCSD)

• Franchise Expansion, Bureaucratic Resistance, and Fiscal Capacity in Colonial India

  Pavithra Suryanarayan (Johns Hopkins University)

A8: Dynamic Incentives - Theory — Room 542

• Reciprocity in Dynamic Employment Relationships

  Matthias Fahn (JKU Linz)

• Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard: From Theory to Practice

  George Georgiadis (Northwestern University); Michael Powell (Northwestern University)

• Aspiration, Inspiration and Perspiration: A Model of Dynamic Project Choice

  Johannes Schneider (Carlos 3 Madrid); Christoph Wolf (Bocconi U)

A9: Knowledge, Creativity, and Perception — Room 133

• Experience versus Perception in Evaluating the Rule of Law

  Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University)

• Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court

  Daniel Chen (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST, CNRS); Yosh Halberstam (University of Toronto); Alan Yu (University of Chicago)

• Where’d You Get that Idea? Testing the Determinants of Creativity, Innovation and Impact

  Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

A10: Effects of Law Enforcement — Room Torsten

• When does product liability risk chill innovation? Evidence from medical implants

  Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto ); Hong Luo (Harvard Business School )

• Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws

  Bernhard Ganglmair (ZEW, MaCCI, University of Mannheim); Imke Reimers (Northeastern University)

• Reducing Drug Prices without Depressing Innovation

  Stephen W. Salant (University of Maryland, University of Michigan)

A11: Relational Contracts and Competition: A View from the Field — Room KAW

• Trust, Investment and Competition: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

  Giacomo Calzolari (EUI, U. Bologna); Leonardo Felli (LSE, U. Edinburgh); Johannes Koenen (ARC Econ); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE, Tor Vergata, EIEF); Konrad O. Stahl (U. Mannheim)

• Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda’s Coffee Industry

  Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management); Rocco Macchiavello (LSE)

• Investment Bank Governance and Client Relationships

  William Wilhelm (University of Virginia); Zhaohui Chen (University of Virginia); Alan Morrison (University of Oxford); Xin Xue (University of Virginia)

B1: Facets of Autocracy (Ronald Coase Institute Panel on Political Economy) — Room KAW

• The Political Economy of Collective Memories: Evidence from Russian Politics

  Alessandro Belmonte (IMT Lucca & University of Warwick); Michael Rochlitz (University of Bremen)

• Do “Stationary Bandits” Promote Economic Growth? Evidence from Warlords in Early Twentieth Century China

  Wentian DIAO (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• Economic performance, land expropriation and bureaucrat promotion in China

  Paul Dutronc-Postel (Paris School of Economics/ENS); Maiting Zhuang (Paris School of Economics/EHESS)

• Authoritarian Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia?

  Egor Lazarev (University of Toronto)

B2: Movie & TV Industry — Room Ragnar

• American Dreams: an analysis of non-Hollywood entry strategies in motion picture production and distribution, 1895 - 2010

  Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics and Political Science)

• “What’s Wrong with the Way I Talk?” The Effect of Sound Motion Pictures on Actor Careers

  F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University)

• Vertical Disintegration in Cable TV: The Netflix-Comcast Rivalry

  Thomas W. Hazlett (Clemson University)

• The Imposter in "The Return of Martin Guerre": The Economics/New Institutional Economics of Identity

  Janet T. Landa (York University, Canada)

B3: Discretion and Corruption in Public Procurement — Room 720

• Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions

  Pasha Andreyanov (UCLA); Alec Davidson (UCLA); Vasily Korovkin (UCLA)

• Buyer's Experience and Corruption: Evidence from Public Procurement in Russia

  Nikita German (HSE University); Elena Podkolzina (HSE University); Andrey Tkachenko (Bocconi University)

• Discretion and Corruption in Public Procurement

  Ferenc Szucs (Stockholm University)

• Corruption in Procurement: New facts from Italian government contracting

  Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University); Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University); Ray Fisman (Boston University); Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)

B4: Organisational and institutional responses to climate change — Room Torsten

• How companies respond to climate change

  Tobias Finke (Lancaster University Management School); Stefanos Mouzas (Lancaster Univeristy Management School); Alan Gilchrist (Lancaster University Management School)

• The Role of Soft Budget Constraints in the Development of the Chinese Solar Industry

  Max Jerneck (Stockholm School of Economics)

• Extraterritoriality in the context of nationalism and legal imperialism: implications for multinationals and climate policies

  Lin Lerpold (Stockholm School of Economics); Örjan Sjöberg (Stockholm School of Economics); Erik Wikberg (Stockholm School of Economics)

• The Evolution of Rules: Enacting Environmental Rules through UN Climate Change Conferences.

  Stefanos Mouzas (Lancaster University); Lars-Gunnar Mattsson (Stockholm School of Economics)

B5: Strategy at the Public-Private Interface — Room 133

• Contracting Beyond the Market: Property Rights, Externalities, Historical Conflict, and Contractual Agreements between Firms and Nonmarket Stakeholders

  Sinziana Dorobantu (NYU Stern School of Business); Kate Odziemkowska (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

• Responding to Regulatory Uncertainty: Government Agency Signalling and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  Eunhee Kim (Fordham University); Shon Hiatt (University of Southern California); Yue Maggie Zhou (University of Michigan)

• Voice but No Exit? The Effects of Social Activism Under Imperfectly Competitive Exchange

  Ilze Kivleniece (INSEAD); Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris)

• Hybrid Organization: Serving both economic and social objectives

  Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris)

B6: Industrial Organization I — Room 350

• International Cooperation on Financial Market Regulation

  Michael Abendschein (University of Osnabrueck); Harry Gölz (University of Osnabrueck)

• Certification, Reputation and Entry: An Empirical Analysis

  Xiang Hui (Washington University); Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon University); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE - Stockholm School Economics); Steven Tadelis (UC Berkeley)

• Platform Competition, the Apple eBooks Case and the Meaning of Agreement to Fix Prices

  Dean Williamson (Economic Design LLC)

• Crowd-Judging

  Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong); Alex Yang (London Business School)

B7: Pressure, Persuasion, and Voting — Room 336

• Public Media Do Serve The State: A Field Experiment

  Shuhei Kitamura (OSIPP, Osaka University); Toshifumi Kuroda (Tokyo Keizai University)

• To Russia with Love? The Impact of Sanctions on Elections

  Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School); Julian Hinz (European U. Institute; Kiel Center for Globalizati); Robert Gold (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)

• Does Chinese Social Media Provide Less Biased Information to the Market than Traditional Media?

  Eric Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen); T J Wong (University of South California ); Tianyu Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

B8: Management Practices — Room 550

• Building a productive workforce: the role of structured management practices

  Christopher Cornwell (University of Georgia); Ian Schmutte (University of Georgia); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

• Management practices and firm performance during the Great Recession: evidence from Spanish survey data

  Florian Englmaier (University of Munich); Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez (Universidad Publica de Navarra); Ricard Gil (Queen's University); Michael Kaiser (University of Munich )

• Employee-oriented management in the competition for skilled labor: The impact of HR measures on perceived work quality and turnover

  Philipp Grunau (Institute for Employment Research); Stefanie Wolter (Institute for Employment Research)

• Measuring and explaining management in schools: New approaches using public data

  Clare Leaver (Blavatnik School of Government); Renata Lemos (World Bank); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

B9: Incomplete Contracts — Room 750

• Fair and Square: A Theory of Managerial Compensation

  Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Eirik Gaard Kristiansen (Norwegian School of Economics)

• Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles

  David Frydlinger (Cirio Law Firm); Oliver Hart (Harvard University)

• Restitution of cultural goods – loan or ownership?

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

• THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF MULTI-BUSINESS FIRMS: DOUBLE SPECIALIZATION AND NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES

  birger wernerfelt (mit)

B10: Migration and Culture — Room 320

• The Refugee’s Dilemma - Evidence from Jewish Outmigration in Nazi Germany

  Johannes Buggle (U of Lausanne); Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po); Seyhun Sakalli (U of Lausanne); Mathias Thoenig (U of Lausanne)

• Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation

  Mounir Karadja (Uppsala University); Erik Prawitz (Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN))

• Emigration and Trust

  Dragos Radu (King’s College London); Eka Skoglund (IOS Regensburg)

• International migration and cultural convergence

  Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics); Sulin Sardoschau (DeZIM Institute); Arthur Silve (Laval University)

B11: Natural Resource Governance — Room 542

Chair: Dean Lueck (Indiana University)

• Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

  Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts University); Kyle Emerick (Tufts University); Manzoor H. Dar (IRRI)

• Property Rights and Path Dependence: 19th Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes

  Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University); Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University)

• Property Rights and Domestication

  Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University)

• Common Pool Resources, Spillover Effects, and Local Security: A Theoretical Foundation with Preliminary Evidence

  Jessica Steinberg (Indiana University)

B12: Managerial Behavior — Room 138

• The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers

  Guillermo Alves (CAF); Pablo Blanchard (Universidad de la Republica); Gabriel Burdin (University of Leeds & IZA); Andres Dean (Universidad de la Republica); Mariana Chavez (Universidad de la Republica)

• Fostering savings by commitment: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment at the Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa

  Lucia Dalla Pellegrina (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca); Angela De Michele (The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF)); Giorgio Di Maio (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca); Paolo Landoni (Politecnico di Torino)

• Corporate Social Responsibility Under Imperfect Regulatory Oversight

  Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (Queen's University); Hua Fang Liu (Queen's University); David T. Robinson (Duke University and NBER)

• Persistent overconfidence and biased memory: Evidence from managers

  David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh); Collin Raymond (Purdue University); Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)

C1: Ideologies, Politics, and Economic Development in the Post-Soviet Eurasia — Room 350

• Public Reaction on Trade Sanctions in a Democratic Context: Evidence from Moldovan Wine Embargo

  Denis Ivanov (HSE University)

• Patriotism and Entrepreneurship: Is There a Crimean Consensus among Russian Enterprises?

  Andrei Yakovlev (NRU Higher School of Economics); Alexander Libman (LMU Munich)

• Political Cycles in Media Harassment

  Nikita Zakharov (Freiburg University); Günther Schulze (Freiburg University)

C2: State and social influences on voting behavior — Room 750

• Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right

  Ernesto Dal Bó (Berkeley University); Frederico Finan (Berkeley University); Olle Folke (Uppsala University); Torsten Persson (Stockholm University); Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University)

• How State-Controlled Media Shapes Public Opinion? Experimental Evidence from Russia

  Arturas Rozenas (NYU); Denis Stukal (NYU); Georiy Syunyaev (Columbia University)

• The effect of neighborhoods on voting behavior

  Alberto Simpser (ITAM); Enrique Seira (ITAM); Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley)

C3: Autocracies I — Room 336

• China's Entry Into the Foreign Aid Game: Implications for the Donor-Recipient Relationship

  Tobias Broich (Maastricht University / Ecorys); Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University)

• Rotation, Performance Rewards, and Property Rights

  Weijia Li (Monash University)

• Crafting the Dictator’s Military: Loyalty, Efficiency, and the Guardianship Dilemma

  Jack Paine (University of Rochester)

C4: Interest Groups, Political Institutions, and Policy Outcomes — Room 133

• Economic Influence Activities, Congressional Committees, and the Industrial Geography of the United States

  John de Figueiredo (Duke University); Davin Raiha (University of Western Ontario)

• Motivating Lobbyists: Evidence from the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act

  Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

• Partial exclusivity can resolve the empirical puzzles associated with rent-seeking activities

  Samuli Leppälä (Cardiff University)

C5: Organizational Economics — Room 542

• Mis-allocation within Firms: Internal Finance and International Trade

  Dalia Marin (TUM School of Management Munich); Davide Suverato (TUM School of Management Munich); Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)

• The Organizational Economics of School Chains

  Lorenzo Neri (Queen Mary University of London); Elisabetta Pasini (Queen Mary University of London); Olmo Silva (London School of Economics)

• Manufacturing in Africa: the determinants of location-based spillovers and organizational practices

  Daniela Scur (MIT - Sloan School of Management); Thomaz Teodorovicz (Insper Institute of Education and Research)

C6: Personnel Economics — Room 720

• Promotions and the Peter Principle

  Alan Benson (Minnesota); Danielle Li (MIT); Kelly Shue (Yale)

• Chains of Opportunity Revisited

  Nicola Bianchi (Northwestern University); Giulia Bovini (Bank of Italy); Jin Li (University of Hong Kong); Matteo Paradisi (Harvard University); Michael Powell (Northwestern University)

• A Velvet Glove Needs and Iron Fist: Gift Delivery Matters for the Efficacy of Gift Exchange

  Rosario Macera (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Vera te Velde (University of Queensland)

C7: Platforms and Governance — Room 550

• Designing Online Platforms for Offline Services: The Bigger, the Better?

  Leon Chu (University of Southern California); Brian Wu (University of Michigan)

• Market Orchestrators: The Effects of Certification on Complementor Behavior and Performance

  Joost Rietveld (UCL School of Management); Robert Seamans (NYU Stern School of Business); Katia Meggiorin (NYU Stern School of Business)

• Technological Platforms and Self-Regulation: The Case of Safe-Boda in Uganda

  Brian S. Silverman (University of Toronto)

C8: Politics and Business in China — Room 138

Chair: T.J. Wong (University of Southern California)

• The Political Root of Business Network Change

  Nan Jia (University of Southern California); TJ Wong (University of Southern California); Tianyu Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Erosion of State Power, Corruption Control, and Political Stability

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

• Urban bias in capital allocation: empirical evidence from China

  Piyusha Mutreja (James Madison University); Abdulaziz B. Shifa (Syracuse University); Wei Xiao (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

C9: Public Sector Management and Incentives in Developing Countries — Room Ragnar

• Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

  Clare Leaver (University of Oxford); Owen Ozier (World Bank, Development Research Group); Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia); Andrew Zeitlin (Georgetown University)

• Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India

  Karthik Muralidharan (University of California San Diego); Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics)

• Management and Bureaucratic Effectiveness: Evidence From the Ghanaian Civil Service

  Imran Rasul (University College London); Daniel Rogger (World Bank); Martin J. Williams (University of Oxford)

C10: Anatomy of an Institution: Theory Meets the World (Discussion between Mark Beer, Robert Gibbons, Gillian Hadfield, and Mark Ramseyer) — Room KAW

Chair: Lisa Bernstein, University of Chicago

C11: Religion, Identity, and Politics — Room Torsten

• The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia

  Samuel Bazzi (Boston University); Gabriel Koehler-Derrick (Harvard University); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po)

• Taxing Identity: Theory and Evidence from Early Islam

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

C12: Corruption and Elites — Room 320

• Economic Benefits and Political Risks: Effects of Land Price Manipulation in China

  Qing Chang (University of Pittsburgh)

• Politically Connected Firms in the Philippines

  Marianne N. Juco (University of the Philippines)

• The Preservation of Economic and Political Elites in Times of Transition: Evidence from Russia

  Koen Schoors (UGent); Tom Eeckhout (UGent)

D1: Self selection and screening — Room 133

• Better Together? CEO Identity and Firm Productivity

  Ines Black (Duke University Fuqua School of Business)

• Personality traits and job-worker match: Evidence from a personnel services firm

  Anna Daelen (Goethe University Frankfurt); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

• Why and when Family Firms Are Doing the Right Thing when Hiring a Family Manager with Low Skills in Economic Tasks

  Jenny Kragl (EBS University of Business and Law); Alberto Palermo (Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations); Guoqian Xi (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics); Joern H. Block (University of Trier)

D2: Impact of Institutions I — Room 138

• HOW DO INSTITUTIONS MATTER FOR FOREIGN FIRMS?

  Simon Hartmann (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

• Transaction Costs and Economic Growth under Common Legal System: State-Level Evidence from Mexico

  Mitja Kovac (University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics); Rok Spruk (University of Ljubljana faculty of Economics)

• The Effect of Property Rights Protection on Capital Structure: Evidence from a Chinese Natural Experiment

  Yixin Liu (University of New Hampshire); Yu Liu (University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley); William Megginson (University of Oklahoma); Zuabao Wei (University of Texas at El Paso)

D3: Skills and Capabilities — Room 750

• Skillsets, Coordinative Capabilities, and Employment Outcomes in the US Civil Service

  Joshua R. Bruce (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Computerization of White Collar Jobs

  Marcus Dillender (W.E. Upjohn Institute); Eliza Forsythe (University of Illinois)

• Female Inventors and Inventions

  Rembrand Koning (Harvard Business School); Sampsa Samila (IESE); John-Paul Ferguson (McGill University)

D4: Informal connections, public procurement and investment: evidence from Russia — Room 336

• Application Period in Reverse Auctions

  Sümeyra Atmaca (Ghent University)

• Potential Opportunism in Public Procurement: Results of an Empirical Study

  Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics); Andrey Tkachenko (Higher School of Economics); Yuliya Rodionova (Higher School of Economics)

• Poltical Connections and Investment Activity of Russian Firms: Survey Experiment Results

  Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics); Denis Ivanov (Higher School of Economics)

D5: Leaders — Room 320

• The Logic of Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies

  Eric Alston (University of Colorado); Lee J Alston (Indiana University); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

• Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership

  Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Ola Kvaloy (University of Stavanger); Anja Schöttner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

• A Field Experiment on Leadership and Team Performance in Non-Routine Analytical Team Tasks

  Florian Englmaier (University of Munich); Stefan Grimm (Allianz Behavioral Economics Unit); Dominik Grothe (University of Munich); David Schindler (Tilburg University); Simeon Schudy (University of Munich)

D6: Team performance in complex environments — Room 550

• Incentivizing Complex Problem Solving in Teams – Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Stefan Grimm (LMU Munich); David Schindler (Tilburg); Simeon Schudy (LMU Munich)

• Clarity, Communication and Trust in Teams: Evidence from an Agile Organization

  Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

• From Friends to Foes: Identity and Team Performance

  Nadzeya Laurentsyeva (LMU Munich)

D7: Communication I — Room 542

• On Intergovernmental Communication: A Tale of Two Decentralization Reforms

  Shiyu Bo (Jinan University ); Liuchun Deng (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)); Yufeng Sun (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics); Boqun Wang (University of International Business and Economics)

• Authority and Information Acquisition in Cheap Talk with Informational Interdependence

  Daniel Habermacher (University of Warwick)

• Simon Says? (Interpersonal) Authority in Organizations

  Heikki Rantakari (University of Rochester)

D8: Women and Economics — Room 720

• Wanting to Control

  Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco); Mary Rigdon (Rutgers University)

• Flexible work arrangements for mothers

  Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics); Xingfei Liu (University of Alberta)

• Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

  Sara Lowes (Stanford University)

D9: Origins Of Institutions — Room Torsten

• The Rise of Inclusive Political Institutions and Stronger Property Rights: Time Inconsistency Vs. Opacity.

  Giacomo Benati (University of Bologna); Carmine Guerriero (University of Bologna); Federico Zaina (University of Bologna)

• An opium curse? The long-run economic consequences of narcotics cultivation in British India

  Jonathan Lehne (Paris School of Economics)

• Evolution and Long-run Consequences of Agricultural Inheritance Traditions

  Fabian Wahl (University of Hohenheim); Thilo R. Huning (University of York)

D10: Empirics of Relational Contracts — Room Ragnar

• Lay-offs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory

  Robert Akerlof (University of Warwick); Anik Ashraf (LMU Munich); Rocco Macchiavello (LSE); Atonu Rabbani (University of Dhaka); Christopher Woodruff (University of Oxford)

• Clarity in Relational Contracts: Rules vs. Principles

  Robert Gibbons (MIT); Manuel Grieder (ETH Zurich); Holger Herz (University of Fribourg); Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne)

• Weak Institutions and Relational Taxation in the Oil and Gas Industry

  Radoslaw Stefanski (University of St. Andrews and OxCarre); Gerhard Toews (New Economic School and OxCarre); Marta Troya Martinez (New Economic School and CEPR)

D11: Regulation Policy — Room 350

• Out by the door, in by the window. Politics and natural gas regulation in Russia

  Claude Menard (University of Paris Sorbonne); Andrey Shastitko (Lomonosov Moscow State University); Alexander Kurdin (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

• Price vs. Quantities with Multiple Countries

  Torben Mideksa (Uppsala University)

• Uptake or not uptake GPP (Green Public procurement)? Does public governance make the difference? The case of France

  julie rouault (Chaire EPPP - Sorbonne Business School); carine staropoli (Chaire EPPP - Sorbonne Business School & PSE)

D12: Contract Empirics II — Room KAW

• Contract Farming and Rural Transformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

  Aminou Arouna (Africa Rice Center); Jeffrey Michler (University of Arizona); Jourdain Lokossou (ICRISAT)

• Multidimensionality and Complexity in Scoring Rule Auctions: Experimental Evidence

  Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Luca Corazzini (University of Venezia); Stefano Galavotti (University of Padova); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

• A Salesforce-Driven Model of Consumer Choice

  Bicheng Yang (University of British Columbia); Tat Chan (Washington University in St. Louis); Raphael Thomadsen (Washington University in St. Louis)

E1: Social Norms — Room Ragnar

• The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption

  Nicolas Ajzenman (FGV - Sao Paulo School of Economics)

• Decency

  Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Erik Mohlin (Lunds universitet)

• Is a Fine Still a Price? Replication as Robustness

  Cherie Metcalf (Queen's University, Faculty of Law); Emily Satterthwaite (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law); Shahar Dillbary (Alabama Law); Brock Stoddard (Appalachian State University, Department of Econ)

• Bureaucratic Reasoning

  Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School)

E2: Incentive Contracts — Room KAW

• Loyalty Incentives in Criminal Organizations

  Christophe Bravard (GAEL, Bateg / Université Grenoble-Alpes); Jacques Durieu (CREG, Bateg / Université Grenoble-Alpes); Jurjen J.A. Kamphorst (Erasmus School of Economics / Tinbergen Institute); Sebastian Roché (CNRS, Pacte, Sciences-Po / Université Grenoble-Alp); Stéphan Sémirat (GAEL, Bateg / Université Grenoble-Alpes)

• Inputs, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives at the Workplace

  Miguel Martinez-Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes); Francesco Amodio (McGill University)

• Double-Sided Opportunism in Infrastructure Investment

  Marian Moszoro (George Mason University); Beatrice Boulu-Reshef (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne); Ingy Helmy (Paris School of Economics)

• Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations

  Heiner Schumacher (KU Leuven); Heidi Thysen (London School of Economics)

E3: Frontiers of Comparative Political Economy — Room 750

• Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises

  Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia); Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Julien Labonne (Oxford University); Francesco Trebbi (University of British Columbia)

• Hiding Control: Oligarchs, Predation, and Political Connections

  John Earle (George Mason University); Scott Gehlbach (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Anton Shirikov (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Solomiya Shpak (George Mason University)

• Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly

  Edmund Malesky (Duke University); Jason Todd (Duke University); Anh Tran (Indiana University); Anh Le (Facebook)

E4: Communication II — Room 350

• Project selection and competitive cheap talk: an experimental study

  John Hamman (Florida State University); Miguel Martinez-Carrasco (Uni. de Los Andes School of Management); Eric Schmidbauer (Central Florida University)

• Credibility, Efficiency and the Structure of Authority

  Sinem Hidir (University of Warwick); Dimitri Migrow (University of Calgary)

• Designing Organizations in Volatile Markets

  Dimitri Migrow (University of Calgary); Shuo Liu (University of Zurich)

• Big Data and Democracy

  Freek van Gils (Tilburg University); Wieland Müller (University of Vienna and Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

E5: Public Sector Reform — Room 550

• One Stop Shops for Public Services - Evidence from Citizen Service Centers in Brazil

  Anders Fredriksson (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

• Civil Service Reform, Self Selection, and Bureaucratic Performance

  Daniel Gibbs (Princeton University)

• Did Scrubbing the Government Clean Up the Air? Polluter Responses to China’s Anticorruption Campaign

  Valerie Karplus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Shuang Zhang (University of Colorado at Boulder); Douglas Almond (Columbia University)

• Matching Problem of Civil Service

  Ashutosh Thakur (Stanford GSB)

E6: Political Economy — Room 542

• Agency Breadth and Political Influence

  Zachary Breig (University of Queensland); Mitch Downey (Stockholm IIES)

• Political Budget Cycle and Government Payments

  Marco Buso (University of Padova); Luciano Greco (University of Padova); Luigi Moretti (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• The Political Economy of Corporate Taxation

  Benjamin G. Ogden (Texas A&M University); Korok Ray (Texas A&M University)

• Electoral incentives for public good provision: Evidence from three linked field experiments in Liberia

  Wayne Sandholtz (UC San Diego); Mauricio Romero (ITAM); Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development)

E7: Impact of immigration on political and social preferences — Room Torsten

• Refugee Crisis, Flight to Safety and Entrepreneurship

  Nicolas Ajzenman (Sciences Po); Cevat Aksoy (EBRD); Sergei Guriev (EBRD)

• Immigration and Redistribution

  Alberto Alesina (Harvard University); Armando Miano (Harvard University); Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

• Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe

  Alberto Alesina (Harvard University); Elie Murard (IZA); Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)

• Refugees and Social Capital: Evidence from Northern Lebanon

  Anselm Rink (University of Konstanz); Justin Valasek (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH))

E8: Gender — Room 336

• Glass Ceilings in the Art Market?

  Fabian Bocart (Artnet Corporation); Marina Gertsberg (Maastricht University); Rachel Pownall (Maastricht University)

• Gender inequality, Taxation and Institutions: a historical perspective

  Monica Bozzano (University of Pavia); Paola Profeta (Bocconi University); Simona Scabrosetti (University of Pavia)

• The unintended effect of gender quotas on bank performance: director busyness

  Katarzyna Burzynska (Radboud University Nijmegen); Gaby Contreras (Radboud University Nijmegen)

• New evidence on board gender diversity from a large panel of European firms

  Joanna Tyrowicz (IAAEU, FAME|GRAPE, University of Warsaw & IZA); Siri Terjesen (American University)

E9: Impact of Institutions III — Room 133

• The Corruption of Local Elites in Francophone and Anglophone Africa

  Merima Ali (CMI and Syracuse University); Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (CMI); Abdulaziz B. Shifa (Syracuse University)

• Mapping the Landscape of Transactions: The Governance of Business Relations in Latin America

  David Francis (World Bank); Nona Karalashvili (World Bank); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

• 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 (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); Mabel Ollimo (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)

• Doing Business in a Deals World: The Doubly False Premise of Rules Reform

  Sabyasachi Kar (IEG, India); Lant Pritchett (U of Oxford, UK); Spandan Roy (IEG, India); Kunal Sen (UNU-WIDER and U of Manchester, UK)

E10: Politization of Law — Room 720

• Effective Property Rights and Legal Conflict

  Catherine Hafer (NYU); Hannah K. Simpson (IAST and Texas A&M)

• Judiciary’s Achilles Heel: Executive Control via Appointment Power

  Sultan Mehmood (Paris Dauphine PSL University)

• Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments

  Jonathan R. Nash (Emory University); Joanna Shepherd (Emory University)

• Political Polarization and Policy Expertise: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

  Tinghua Yu (London School of Economics and Political Science); Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich); Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)

E11: Foundations — Room 138

• Policy Experimentation in Committees: a Case against Veto Rights under Redistributive Constraints

  Vincent Anesi (University of Nottingham); Renee Bowen (University of California, San Diego)

• AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF INFORMATION

  Yoram Barzel (UW); Aurora Stephany (UW)

• Dynamic Analysis of Archives Contents: the Case of the ISNIE/SIOE Intellectual History

  Eric Brousseau (Dauphine | PSL University); Bruno Chaves (Dauphine | PSL University); Svitlana Galeshchuk (Dauphine | PSL University)

F1: Social Identity — Room 550

• International Integration and Social Identity

  Boaz Abramson (Stanford); Moses Shayo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• The Rise of Identity Politics

  Tim Besley (London School of Economics); Torsten Persson (IIES, Stockholm University)

• On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan

  J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard University)

F2: Autocracies II (Russia) — Room Torsten

• Management of Violence: Effect of Regional Authorities on Corporate Raiding in Russia

  Anton Kazun (Higher School of Economics (Russia))

• Bureaucratic Discrimination in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Experimental Evidence from Russia

  Michael Rochlitz (University of Bremen); Evgeniya Mitrokhina (Higher School of Economics ); Irina Nizovkina (Higher School of Economics )

• Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter

  Patrick L. Warren (Clemson University); Darren Linvill (Clemson University)

F3: Corruption — Room KAW

• Reserve price underpricing as a corrupt strategy

  Sümeyra Atmaca (Ghent University); Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Elena Podkolzina (Higher School of Economics); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

• Judicial Subversion: Evidence from Brazil

  Guilherme Lambais (Universidade de Brasilia); Henrik Sigstad (Harvard University)

• Playing Whac-A-Mole in the Fight against Corruption: Evidence from Random Audits in Brazil

  Maximiliano Lauletta (University of California, Berkeley); Martín A. Rossi (Universidad de San Andres); Christian A. Ruzzier (Universidad de San Andres)

F4: Incentives for Teams — Room 320

• Income Inequality and Incentives in Economies with Other-Regarding Preferences

  Jenny Kragl (EBS University of Business and Law); Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa)

• Subjective Evaluation: The Role of (Institutionalized) Conflict for Motivation

  W. Bentely MacLeod (Columbia University); Victoria Valle Lara (University of Lausanne); Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne)

• Self-Managing Terror

  Peter Schram (Vanderbilt University)

F5: Cultural Origins of Behavior II — Room 350

• The Economic Effects of Catholic Church Censorship During the Counter-Reformation

  Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick); Francisco J. Pino (University of Chile); Jordi Vidal-Robert (University of Sydney)

• Custom, Formality and Comparative Development: Evidence from Admiralty Rule in Newfoundland

  Blair Long (Queen's University)

• The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution

  Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin); Battista Severgnini (Copenhagen Business School)

F6: Contract Empirics I — Room 750

• The Language of Contract:Promises and Power in Union Collective Bargaining Agreements

  Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich); W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University); Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

• Human Capitalists and the Global Division of Labor

  Jan Schymik (University of Mannheim)

• Gains from Contractualization: Evidence from Labor Regulations on Chinese Workers

  Candice J. Yandam (Panthéon-Sorbonne University); Qin Gao (Columbia University)

F7: Organization of Markets — Room 542

• Listing Gaps, Merger Waves, and the Privatization of American Equity Finance

  Gabriele Lattanzio (Southern Methodist University); William Megginson (University of Oklahoma); Ali Sanati (American University)

• The Private Governance of a Global Market: the London Corn Trade Association, 1885-1914

  Jérôme Sgard (Sciences-Po (Paris))

F8: Industrial Organization II — Room 336

• Managerial-induced uncertainty and firm performance: A transaction cost approach

  Nobuiuki Ito (Ibmec São Paulo)

• Gradual versus Abrupt Reorganizations

  Anton Kolotilin (UNSW Sydney); Hongyi Li (UNSW Sydney)

• Decentralization and Innovation of Hungarian Firms

  Irina Levina (Higher School of Economics)

F9: SITE Session on Conflict and Corruption in the East — Room 720

• Leniency, tigers and flies. Evidence from Chinese anti-corruption.

  Maria Berlin (SITE); Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona); Bei Qin (University of Hong Kong); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE, EIEF, Tor Vergata, CEPR)

• Trading with the Enemy: The Impact of Conflict on Trade in Non-Conflict Areas

  Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI); Alexey Makarin (Northwestern University)

• Enemies of the people

  Gerhard Toews (New Economic School); Pierre-Louis Vezina (King's College London)

F10: Tasks and Skills — Room 133

• Tasks and Skills in Additive versus Traditional Manufacturing: A First Look at Evidence from Job Vacancies

  Avner Ben-Ner (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnes); Ainhoa Urtasun (Department of Management, Public University of Nav); Bledi Taska (Burning Glass Technologies)

• Dynamics of skills demand and job transition opportunities: A machine learning approach

  Patricia Prüfer (CentERdata, Tilburg University); Pradeep Kumar (CentERdata, Tilburg University); Marcia Den Uijl (CentERdata, Tilburg University)

• The Complementary Effect of Organizational Practices and Workers' Type of Education

  Filippo Pusterla (ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute)

F11: Relational Contracts — Room Ragnar

• The Role of Relationship Scope in Sustaining Relational Contracts in Interfirm Networks

  Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis); Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado Boulder); Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

• Recall and Response: Relationship Adjustments to Supply-Chain Shocks

  Emek Basker (U.S. Census Bureau); Fariha Kamal (U.S. Census Bureau)

• Sustaining Informal Contracting in Reinsurance

  Sadie Blanchard (Notre Dame Law School)

G1: Autocracies III (China) — Room 350

• Friends with Benefits: Patronage Networks and Distributive Politics in China

  Junyan Jiang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Muyang Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

• Dual-Track Power-Sharing and Authoritarian Compensation: A Synthetic Comparative Case Study of China's 2001 Government Restructuring

  Hans H. Tung (NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY)

• The Party's Tightening Grip Over the State Sector: Evidence from Charter Amendments

  Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong); Zhuang Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

G2: Cultural Origins of Behavior I — Room Torsten

• Do Cultural Roots Matter for Citizen Engagement in Government Programs? Evidence from Childhood Vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Laure Athias (University of Lausanne); Moudo Macina (University of Lausanne)

• The Shadow of the Family: Historical Roots of Social Capital in Europe.

  Maria Kravtsova (Higher School of Economics (Moscow)); Alexei Oshchepkov (Higher School of Economics (Moscow)); Christian Welzel (Leuphana University (Lueneburg))

• Pre-colonial History and Colonial Rule in Myanmar: Does the Timing of Centralization Matter?

  Htet Thiha Zaw (University of Michigan)

G3: Organizational Boundaries, Transactions Costs and Productivity — Room 542

• LOBBY RESOURCES AND ECONOMICS OF SCOPE: AN ANALYSIS ON M&As

  Ben Barber (IE University); Marco Giarratana (IE University); Juan Santalo (IE University)

• The Evolution of Productive Organizations

  Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Joaquin Poblete (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

• The Dark Side of Relatedness: Resource Characteristics, Hierarchical Failure, and Organizational Form

  Nicolai J. Foss (Bocconi University); Peter G. Klein (Baylor University); Ram Mudambi (Temple University); Samuele Murtinu (Groningen University)

G4: Impact of Institutions II — Room 336

• Generalized Trust, Preferences for Redistribution and Institutions

  Ekaterina Borisova (Higher School of Economics ); Denis Ivanov (Higher School of Economics ); Koen Schoors (Ghent University)

• THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF LEGISLATIVE COMPLEXITY AND CORRUPTION: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS

  Giuseppe Di Vita (University of Catania)

• Judicial deference and the efficiency of the common law

  Mark Kanazawa (Carleton College)

G5: Common Property Management — Room 720

• Collective Defense by Common Property Regimes: the Rise and Fall of the Kibbutz

  Liang Diao (Simon Fraser University)

• A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on Opportunism in Franchising Networks

  Aveed Raha (University of Vienna); Ilir Hajdini (University of Vienna); Josef Windsperger (University of Vienna)

• Boosting Engagement in Adaptive Water Governance: A Participatory Stakeholder Analysis

  Mohammad Naser Reyhani (Humboldt University of Berlin); Philipp Grundmann (Humboldt University of Berlin)

G6: Organized Crime, Disorganized Crime, and the State — Room 750

• Doing Business Below the Line: Screening, Mafias and Public Funds

  Gemma Dipoppa (University of Pennsylvania); Gianmarco Daniele (Bocconi University)

• Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business (Oxford University Press)

  Anja Shortland (King's College , London)

• Illicit Behavior and the Foundations of State-Building: Evidence from Colombia

  Juan F. Vargas (Universidad del Rosario); Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University); Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam); Rafael Ch (New York University)

G7: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Values — Room 320

• Unfamiliar Family Firms

  Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University); Mircea Epure (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE); Orsola Garofalo (Copenhagen Business School)

• The Universal Link Between Higher Education and Pro-Market Values

  John V.C. Nye (George Mason and NRU-HSE); Cheryl Litman (George Mason); Maksym Bryukhanov (NRU-HSE); Sergiy Polyachenko (NRU-HSE)

• Civic Culture vs. Apolitical Social Capital: The Case of Moscow Apartment Buildings

  Leonid Polishchuk (HSE University, Moscow ); Alexander Rubin (HSE University, Moscow ); Igor Shagalov (HSE University, Moscow )

G8: Networks — Room 550

• Persuasion on Networks

  Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University); Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)

• Corporate Capture of Blockchain Governance

  Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics); Jin Li (Hong Kong University); Radoslawa Nikolowa (Queen Mary University of London)

• Social Network, Career Incentive and Interregional Trade in China

  Erqi GE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

G9: Federalism — Room 133

• Demand for Constitutional Decentralization

  Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

• National Conflict in a Federal System

  Sanford Gordon (NYU); Dimitri Landa (NYU)

• Taking sides: The Political Economy of Solon’s Law for Civil Wars

  Soeren Schwuchow (Brandenburg University of Technology); George Tridimas (Ulster University)

G10: Cultural Origins of Behavior III (Slavery) — Room Ragnar

• Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family

  Graziella Bertocchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia); Arcangelo Dimico (Queen's University Belfast)

• Economic Incentives, Institutional and Cultural Change: the Evolution of Slavery in the US South

  Michele Rosenberg (University Carlos III); Federico Masera (University of New South Wales)