SIOE 2020

Corporate Ownership and Antitrust Violations

Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University); Riccardo Marzano (La Sapienza University)

Membership, Governance, and Lobbying in Standard-Setting Organizations

Clemens Fiedler (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysi); Maria Larrain (Tilburg University, Tilec, and CentER); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University, Tilec, and CentER)

Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States

Nicola Mastrorocco (Trinity College Dublin); Arianna Ornaghi (University of Warwick)

Social Governance

Jeremy McClane (University of Illinois College of Law); Yaron Nili (University of Wisconsin School of Law)

The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups

Michael Ewens (Caltech); Ramana Nanda (Harvard); Christopher Stanton (Harvard)

Optimal Project Design

Daniel Garrett (Toulouse School of Economics); George Georgiadis (Northwestern Kellogg); Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics); Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)

Automation and Top Income Inequality

Omer F. Koru (University of Pennsylvania)

Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium

Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); François Libois (Paris School of Economics); Joaquin Morales Belpaire (Universidad Privada Boliviana); Astrid Similon (University of Namur)

The Proper Scope of Government in Hospitals

Lapo Filistrucchi (University of Florence, Tilburg University); Phuc Phung (Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

An Academic Question

Scott E. Masten (University of Michigan)

The capacity to be aggressive: structured management and profit shifting practices in the firm

Katarzyna Bilicka (Utah State University); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

Corporate Purpose and Firm Ownership

Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton); George Serafeim (Harvard Business School)

Strategy and Structured Management

Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto); Scott Ohlmacher (U.S. Census Bureau); Mu-Jeung Yang (University of Utah)

Paying and Incentivizing Agents with Reference-Dependent Preferences

Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Felix Peterhammer (Regensburg); Till Stowasser (Stirling)

Monitoring with Career Concerns

Ivan Marinovic (Stanford GSB); Martin Szydlowski (University of Minnesota)

Partnership Dissolution with Cash-Constrained Agents

Guillaume Pommey (Paris School of Economics)

Cooperation, Free-Riding, and the Signaling Value of Incentives: An Experiment in a Company

Marvin Deversi (LMU Munich)

Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

Jana Gallus (University of California, Los Angeles); Olivia S. Jung (Harvard Business School); Karim R. Lakhani (Harvard Business School)

Capital (Mis)allocation and Managerial Incentives

Alexander Schramm (University of Munich); Alexander Schwemmer (University of Munich); Jan Schymik (University of Mannheim)

When Bonuses Backfire: How Incentivizing Attendance Increases Absenteeism in the Workplace

Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (University of Cologne)

Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Incentives: Evidence from Branchless Banking Agents in Indonesia

Erika Deserranno (Northwestern University); Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE); Firman Witoelar (Australian National University)

Corporate Governance and Social Impact of Non-Profits: Evidence from a Randomized Program in Healthcare in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Anicet Fangwa (HEC Paris); Caroline Flammer (Boston University); Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris); Bertrand Quelin (HEC Paris)

Fostering Innovation through Empowered Workers - Experimental Evidence from the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

Vanessa Schreiber (University of Oxford)

Organisational ethics, narratives and social dysfunctions

Steven Bosworth (University of Reading); Dennis Snower (University of Oxford)

Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning

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

Investment and information acquisition

Dimitri Migrow (University of Calgary); Sergei Severinov (University of British Columbia)

The Breakdown and Recovery of Cooperation in Large Groups: Exploring the Role of Formal Structure Using a Field Experiment

Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Christoph Loch (Cambridge Judge Business School); Cristina Riquelme (University of Maryland)

Choice Architecture and Gender Differences in Propensity to Compete and Productivity: An Experimental Study

Joyce He (University of Toronto); Sonia Kang (University of Toronto); Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto)

The Value of Delegation in Hiring

Hugh Xiaolong Wu (Stanford Graduate School of Business); Shannon X. Liu (University of Toronto Rotman School of Management)

Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

Gross Daniel P. (Harvard Business School); Feigenbaum James (Boston University)

Hiring dreamers

Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Tobias Kretschmer (LMU Munich); Ester Manna (Universitat de Barcelona and BEAT)

The Costs of Workplace Favoritism: Evidence from Promotions in Chinese High Schools

Xuan Li (HKUST)

Positive Selection of Employees

Zhenda Yin (Peking University); Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

Worker Visibility and Firms' Retention Policies

Simon Dato (University of Bonn); Andreas Grunewald (Frankfort School of Finance and Management); Matthias Kräkel (University of Bonn)

Chasing Lemons: Competition for Talent under Asymmetric Information

Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics); Radoslawa Nikolowa (Queen Mary University of London)

Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Implicit Team Incentives

Jonathan Glover (Columbia University); Eunhee Kim (City University of Hong Kong)

Organizational Design with Portable Skills

Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II)

Strategic delegation in procurement

Eduard Alonso-Pauli (Universitat de les Illes Balears); Lluis Bru (Universitat de les Illes Balears)

Secret Reserve Prices by Uninformed Sellers

Pavel Andreyanov (National Research University, HSE, Moscow); El Hadi Caoui (University of Toronto)

Competition and Contract Performance: Evidence from US Defense Procurement

Andres Gonzalez-Lira (UC Berkeley); Rodrigo Carril (Stanford); Michael S. Walker (Dept. of Defense)

Communication and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis

Matthew Backus (Columbia, NBER, CEPR); Thomas Blake (Amazon); Jett Pettus (Columbia); Steven Tadelis (Berkeley, NBER, CEPR)

Outside Options, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks

Sydnee Caldwell (Microsoft Research/UC Berkeley); Nikolaj Harmon (University of Copenhagen)

Optimal Bargaining on eBay using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Etan Green (University of Pennsylvania); Barry Plunkett (University of Pennsylvania)

Complex Pricing and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Lab Experiment

Joshua Deutschmann (University of Wisconsin); Jeffrey Michler (University of Arizona); Emilia Tjernstrom (University of Sydney)

Optimal Payment Contracts in Trade Relationships

Christian Fischer (University of Bayreuth)

Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects

Andreas Grunewald (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); David Low (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau); Jonathan Lanning (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago); Tobias Salz (MIT Department of Economics)

The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives

Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis); Alex Rees-Jones (Cornell University); Charlotte Blank (Maritz)

Should We Let Interest Groups Learn From Their Competitors?

Emiel Awad (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining

Renee Bowen (University of California, San Diego); Ilwoo Hwang (University of Miami); Stefan Krasa (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Information, coordination and the legal order

Xiaoyu Wang (Tilburg University (CentER & TILEC)); Cédric Argenton (Tilburg University (CentER & TILEC))

Procurement with Manipulation

Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal); Andrea Gugliemo (Wayfair); Clarissa Lotti (Tor Vergata); Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE,EIEF, Tor Vergata)

The Value of Relational Collusive Arrangements in the Colombian Electricity Market

Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics); Carlos Sanchez (Universitat Barcelona)

Collusion via Information Sharing

Olga Gorelkina (University of Liverpool)

Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relations: A Theory of Multiplexity

Chen Cheng (Johns Hopkins University ); Wei Huang (National University of Singapore); Yiqing Xing (Johns Hopkins University )

Rulebooks in Relational Contracts

Jin Li (University of Hong Kong); Arijit Mukherjee (Michigan State University); Luis Vasconcelos (University of Technology Sydney)

Modular Organization

Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University); Michael Powell (Northwestern University); Bryony Reich (Northwestern University)

THE ORGANIZATION OF INNOVATION: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University); Sean Nicholson (Cornell University); June Pan (VISA); Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

Roles in Franchising: Agency and Stakeholder Theory Perspectives

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

Revisiting Economic Action and Social Structure: The Role of Embeddedness in the Age of Amazon

Hagay C. Volvovsky (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Technology Transfers

Sara Biancini (CYU Cergy Paris Université); Pamela Bombarda (CYU Cergy Paris Université)

Endogenous Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm.

Carmine Guerriero (Department of Economics, University of Bologna); Giuseppe Pignataro (Department of Economics, University of Bologna)

Contracting Institutions and Firm Integration Around the World

Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York); Peter Eppinger (University of Tuebingen)

Interconnection, Integration, and Holding Company: Three Institutional Approaches to Electric Power Network Coordination in the Early 20th Century

Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University); Lynne Kiesling (Carnegie Mellon University)

Digital Transformation of the Italian and US Automotive Supply Chains: Evidence from Survey Data

Ruggero Colombari (Politecnico di Torino); Aldo Geuna (Università di Torino); Susan Helper (Case Western Reserve University); Raphael Martins (New York University); Emilio Paolucci (Politecnico di Torino); Riccardo Ricci (Politecnico di Torino); Robert Seamans (New York University)

Why Choose LTAs: An Empirical Study of Ohio Manufacturer's Contractual Choices Through A Bargaining Lens

Juliet P Kostritsky (Case Western Reserve University); Jessica Ice (Case Western Reserve University)

Can Technological Change Weaken the Robustness of Common-Property Regimes?

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

Silly rules improve the capacity of agents to learn stable enforcement and compliance behaviors

Raphael Koster (DeepMind); Dylan Hadfield-Menell (UC Berkeley); Gillian K Hadfield (University of Toronto); Joel Z Leibo (DeepMind)

Mass Political Action and Revolutionary Capital

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

Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel?: Community Enforcement with Incomplete Information

Takuo Sugaya (Stanford GSB); Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)

Does Blockchain Need Governance?

Eric Alston (University of Colorado); Wilson Law (Baylor University); Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh); Martin Weiss (University of Pittsburgh)

How the Network Neighborhood Influences Partnerships: From Handshakes to Formal Collaboration among US Fire Departments

Jay Horwitz (University of Toronto); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto); Anita McGahan (University of Toronto)

Is blockchain social? A polycentric governance perspective for rule setting in crypto environments

Francesco Pierangeli (King's College London); Ashwin J. Mathew (King's College London)

Comparative evaluation of alternative water governance arrangements in British Columbia

Angela Lockrey (University of British Columbia)

Fixing Urban Planning with Ostrom

John R. Myers (London YIMBY)

Duties Beyond Shareholders

Kish Parella (Washington and Lee University)

Contractual Flexibility and Political Tolerance: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations

Jean Beuve (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne); Marian Moszoro (George Mason University & IMF); Pablo Spiller (University of California, Berkeley & NBER)

Are Adjudication Panels Strategically Selected? The Case of Constitutional Court in Poland

Jacek Lewkowicz (University of Warsaw); Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw)

Public Support and the European Union Centralised Compliance Monitoring System

Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven); Yu-Cheong Yeung (KU Leuven)

Under Pressure? Performance Evaluation of Police Officers as an Incentive to Cheat: Evidence from Drug Crimes in Russia

Ekaterina Travova (CERGE-EI)

Monitoring and Local Governance: evidence from Italy

Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University )

Public procurement in collusive institutional settings

Paola Valbonesi (Univ. of Padova); Riccardo Camboni (Univ. of Padova); Elena Podkolzina (HSE - Moscow); Koen Shoors (Univ. of Gent); Sumeyra Atmaca (Univ. of Gent)

Fiscal response to revenue shocks

Simon Berset (University of Fribourg); Martin Huber (University of Fribourg); Mark Schelker (University of Fribourg)

Economic Forces Shape Beliefs: A Model of Investment under Fundamental Uncertainty

Johannes Binswanger (St. Gallen); Anja Garbely (Lucerne); Manuel Oechslin (Lucerne)

Political Organization and Public Investment: Evidence from Close Municipal Elections

Gabriel Natividad (Universidad de Piura)

Legal Status and Local Spending: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA

Navid Sabet (Goethe University Frankfurt); Christoph Winter (LMU Munich)

Induced Innovation from Environmental Regulation: Evidence from China

Yangsiyu Lu (Oxford University); Jacquelyn Pless (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Agency Organization and Funding in the Service of Wildlife Conservation

Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin)

Fiscal Rules and the selection of politicians: evidence from Italian municipalities

Matteo Gamalerio (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, UB)

How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities

Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis); Jonas Hjort (Columbia University); Gautam Rao (Harvard University); Juan Santini (IPA)

Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services

Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis); Mitra Akhtari (Airbnb); Laura Trucco (Amazon)

Optimal Political Institutions in the Shadow of Conflict

Andrea Canidio (IMT Lucca & INSEAD); Joan Esteban ( Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

The Impact of Institutions on Social Polarization

Norbert Pierre (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)

Public Sector Leadership

Morten Bennedsen (INSEAD and University of Copenhagen); Fracisco Pérez-Gonzàlez (ITAM); Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University); Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)

Competition and Reciprocity Based Incentives

Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Dominik Grothe (LMU Munich); Stephen Leider (Michigan Ross)

Public Service Quality under Civil Service versus Fixed-term Employment: Evidence from Physician Supply of Primary Care

Sean Sylvia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Hongmei Yi (Peking University); Hao Xue (Stanford University); Gordon Liu (Peking University)

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Laura Alfaro (Harvard); Nicholas Bloom (Stanford); Paola Conconi (ECARES); Harald Fadinger (Mannheim); Patrick Legros (ECARES); Andy Newman (Boston University); Raffaella Sadun (Harvard); John Van Reenen (MIT)

Adverse Selection in Agenda Setting

S. Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University); Maximilian Mihm (NYU-Abu Dhabi); Lucas Siga (NYU-Abu Dhabi)

Too Big for their Boots

Daniel Barron (Northwestern); Yingni Guo (Northwestern); Bryony Reich (Northwestern)

Executives in Politics

Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University); Viktar Fedaseyeu (CEIBS); Song Zhang (Boston College)

Power, Scrutiny, and Favoritism for Friends' Firms: Evidence from Close Congress Elections

Quoc-Anh Do (Northwestern University; Sciences Po; CEPR); Yen-Teik Lee (Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT); Bang D. Nguyen (University of Cambridge Judge Business School); Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University)

What Drives U.S. Corporate Elites' Campaign Contribution Behavior?

Edoardo Teso (Northwestern Kellogg)

Why did Kings Summon Towns to Assemblies? A Theoretical Analysis

Charles Angelucci (Columbia University); Simone Meraglia (University of Exeter); Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA)

Proxeny: institutions, trade and growth in the ancient economy

Pier Paolo Creanza (Princeton University)

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers, Institutions, and Firms in Shanghai's Concession Era

Claudia Steinwender (MIT Sloan); Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School); Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University); Junjie Hong (UIBE); Cathy Ge Bao (UIBE)

Institutional Change and Representative Government: England, 1660-1832

Kara Dimitruk (University of Zurich, CEPR); David Schönholzer (IIES); Guo Xu (UC Berkeley)

Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions

Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); Giorgio Zanarone (Washington University in St. Louis)

Infrastructure and institutions: lessons from history

Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)

A Model of Censorship and Propaganda

Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Dmitriy Vorobyev (Ural Federal University); Anton Shirikov (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Innovation in China: A Political Economy Perspective

Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Bo Yang (University of Southern California); Kenneth Huang (National University of Singapore)

Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody

Shuo Chen (Fudan University); Xinyu Fan (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Xuanyi Wang (Fudan University)

Controlling the Media’s Narrative: The Coordination and Disciplining Role of the People’s Daily in China

Joseph Piotroski (Stanford University ); Shubo Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Tianyu Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications

Eric Alston (University of Colorado ); Lee J. Alston (Indiana University); Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia ); Tomas Nonnenmacher (Allegheny College )

A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics

Claude Menard (University of Paris 1, (Pantheon Sorbonne)); Mary M. Shirley (Ronald Coase Institute)

Institutional Economics - An Introduction

Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg)

Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization

Renee Bowen (UC San Diego); Danil Dmitriev (UC San Diego); Simone Galperti (UC San Diego)

Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Institutions

Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

A Dynamic Theory of Regulatory Capture

Alessandro De Chiara (Universitat de Barcelona and CEU); Marco A. Schwarz (University of Innsbruck)

May Weberian Bureaucracies be Instruments of Change in Non-Democratic Regimes? The case of the 18th Century French ‘Bureau du Commerce’

Eric Brousseau (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Antoine Cazals (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Mohammad Habibpour (Université Paris-Dauphine — PSL); Jérome Sgard (Sciences-Po Paris)

Redistributive Consequences of Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Turkish Housing Administration

Ethan Caspi (University of Southern California); Christopher Dann (University of Oxford); Lutfi Sun (Trinity University); Andre Zeromski (Washington and Lee University); Yihan Zhu (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Crackdowns in Hierarchies: Evidence from China's Environmental Inspections

Valerie Karplus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Mandy Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Corruption under Austerity

Gianmarco Daniele (University of Milan & Bocconi University); Tommaso Giommoni (ETH Zurich)

The Inception of Capitalism through the Lens of Firms

Krisztina Orban (NBER)

Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution

Allison Stashko (University of Utah)

Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration

Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University); Nonso Obikili (Stellenbosch University)

Shaking Criminal Incentives

Theodore Koutmeridis (University of Glasgow); Yu Aoki (University of Aberdeen)

Procedural Justice or Procedural Excuse? Strategic Adjudication of Eminent Domain Cases in Chinese Courts

Shitong Qiao (The University of Hong Kong); Chaoqun Zhan (Sun Yat-Sen University)

Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow

Patrick Warren (Clemson University); Michael Makowsky (Clemson University)

Political History, Fiscal Compliance and Public Policies: Medieval Social Contracts and their Legacy

Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo); Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna); Sara Lazzaroni (University of Bologna); Giovanni Prarolo (University of Bologna)

Political Legitimacy and the Institutional Foundations of Constitutional Government: The Case of England

Avner Greif (Stanford University); Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

The Aristotle Tradeoff: The Foundations of Wealth-Enhancing Democracy in Ancient Greece

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

The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution

Noel Johnson (GMU); Raphäel Franck (Hebrew University); Theresa Finley (Susquehannah State)

The Rise of a Network: Spillover of Political Patronage and Cronyism to the Private Sector

Terry Moon (University of British Columbia); David Schoenherr (Princeton University)

Kin networks and institutional development

Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University)

Watching the State: Can New Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy?

Anastasiia Faikina (University of California San Diego)

The political economics of innovations

jeffry frieden (harvard); arthur silve (laval)

Economic Origins of Digital Dictatorship and Democracy

Nathan Lane (Oxford University); Weijia Li (Monash University)

Under Pressure: Effects of Police Response Times on Repeat Victimization of Domestic Violence

Victoria Endl-Geyer (ifo institute); Sofia Amaral (ifo institute); Helmut Rainer (ifo institute)

Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Systems and Intergroup Conflict

Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University); Alain Schlaepfer (Santa Clara University)

Cultural Distance and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Eleonora Guarnieri (ifo Institute at the University of Munich); Ana Tur-Prats (University of California at Merced)

The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries

Leander Heldring (briq Institute); James A. Robinson (University of Chicago); Sebastian Vollmer (University of Goettingen)

Religious Festivals, Economic Development, and Social Capital: Evidence from Catholic Saint-Day Celebrations in Mexico

Eduardo Montero (University of Michigan); Dean Yang (University of Michigan)

Markets and Rules of Cooperation

Devesh Rustagi (Brown University)

Moral(e) drift? Economic hardship and tolerance towards dishonest behaviour.

Elodie Douarin (UCL)

The Terror of History: Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Social Complexity and Complex Thinking

Anastasia Litina (University of Ioannina); Eric Roca Fernandez (Aix-Marseille Université)

Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine

Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics)

Shocks and Norm Adherence

Max Winkler (University of Zurich)

How Can Trust Be Measured? An Alternative Approach Using Retailers’ Refund Policies

Fernando Arteaga (University of Pennsylvania)

Machine Learning Approaches to Testing Institutional Hypotheses: The Case of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001)

Boubacar Diallo (Qatar University)

Labor market outcomes, Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills in Rural China

Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota); Yang Song (Colgate University); Xianqiang Zou (Renmin University of China)

Bureaucratic Nepotism

Juan Felipe Riano (University of British Columbia)

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling

Samuel Bazzi (Boston University); Masyhur Hilmy (Boston University); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po)

Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

Julia Cagé (Sciences Po and CEPR); Anna Dagorret (Stanford GSB); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW); Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB)

Tell Me What You Grow and I'll Tell You What You Think: Crop Mix and Slavery in the US South

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

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Carlos Avenancio-Leon (Indiana University-Bloomington); Abhay Aneja (UC Berkeley)

Intergenerational Mobility in China across Space and Time

Yining Geng (University of Liverpool)

An economic theory of differential treatment

Emil Temnyalov (University of Technology Sydney)

Women’s Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining: Evidence from Bangladesh

Hannah I. Uckat (University of Oxford)

Does Media Reporting on Corruption Influence Beliefs about Fairness?

Xincheng Ge (New York University); Y. Jane Zhang (University of New South Wales)

Ideology and Human Capital: How Imperial China was Democratized

James Kung (University of Hong Kong); Yue Wang (University of Hong Kong)

Girls will be Boys: Gender, Beliefs and Selection in the Field

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

Does Culture Pay? Evidence from Crowdsourced Employee Engagement Data

Christos Makridis (Arizona State University & MIT Sloan)

Managers' gender attitudes and the gender gap

Maddalena Ronchi (Queen Mary University of London); Nina Smith (Aarhus University)

Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship

Nava Ashraf (LSE); Alexia Delfino (LSE); Edward Glaeser (Harvard)

Achieving Scale Collectively

Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California); Raffaela Muoio (BRAC); Tommaso Porzio (Columbia University); Ritwika Sen (Northwestern University); Esau Tugume (BRAC)

Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Alexey Makarin (EIEF); Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI)

Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Industry

Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univers); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)

Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe (World Bank); Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University); Michael Koelle (OECD); Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)

Accounting for cross-country income differences: New evidence from multinational firms

Vanessa Alviarez (University of British Columbia); Javier Cravino (University of Michigan ); Natalia Ramondo (University of California San Diego )

Mandatory Apprenticeship Training in Firms

Santiago Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes/ University of Chicago); Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Arthur Seibold (University of Mannheim)

Gotta' Have Money to Make Money? Bargaining Behavior and Financial Need of Microentrepreneurs

Morgan Hardy (New York University Abu Dhabi); Gisella Kagy (Vassar College); Lena Song (New York University)

Informational Barriers to Accessing Demand: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms

Vinayak Iyer (Columbia University); Jonas Hjort (Columbia University ); Golvine de Rochambeau (Sciences Po)

Product Conflation and Marketplace Design: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Commodity Exchange

Ameet Morjaria (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univers)

Organizational mission, financial rewards and performance of bureaucrats

Muhammad Yasir Khan (University of California Berkeley)

Adverse selection does not explain why utilization rises with premiums: evidence from a health insurance experiment in India

Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts University); Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago); Gabriella Conti (University College London); Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)

Contract Design in China's Rural Land Rental Market: Contractual Flexibility and Rental Payments

Ziyan Yang (Xiamen University)

INSTITUTIONS MATTER-BUT SO DOES HISTORY; A compariosn of mediaeval Dubrovnik and other Dalmatian Cities

Oleh Havrylyshyn (Carleton Univerity )

Rethinking development: broadening the goals and altering the approach

Homi Kharas (The Brookings Institution); John McArthur (The Brookings Institution)

Are the Transition Economies Still in Transition?

Paul Wachtel (New York University, Stern School of Business)

Religion, Politics, and Judicial Independence: Theory and Evidence

Sultan Mehmood (Aix Marseille School of Economics); Avner Seror (Aix Marseille School of Economics)

Judicial Independence and Development: Evidence from Pakistan

Sultan Mehmood (Aix Marseille University, New Economic School)

Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India

Manaswini Rao (University of California San Diego)

Selecting Top Bureaucrats: Admission Exams and Performance in Brazil

Thiago Scot (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business); Ricardo Dahis (Northwestern University); Laura Schiavon (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

Why Pay The Chief? Land Rents and Political Selection in Indonesia

Gedeon J. Lim (Boston University)

The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity

Meera Mahadevan (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability

Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School)

Legal Origin from Outer Space

Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo (University of Connecticut); Daniel Klerman (University of Southern California); John P. Wilson (University of Southern California); Matthew B. Hall (University of Connecticut); Beau MacDonald (University of Southern California)

Informal Property Rights in the Art Market

Anja Shortland (King's College , London); Sami Winton (Cranfield University)

Property as a Complex System

Henry Smith (Harvard University)

Payday

Yonathan A. Arbel (University of Alabama)

The Statutory Liberalization of Trust Law across 152 Jurisdictions: Leaders, Laggards and the Demand for Fiduciary Services

Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Some Issues on the Law of Direct Damages (US and UK)

Victor Goldberg (Columbua Law)

Business Law and Legal Institutions

Alan Schwartz (Yale University); Robert E. Scott (Columbia University)

Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Concealment of Corporate Political Activity

Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Stan Markus (University of South Carolina); Tim Werner (University of Texas at Austin)

Is U.S. Formalized Lobbying More about Nefarious Corruption or Benign Industry Information Provision? Evidence from Foreign Firms Lobbying in the U.S.

Jin Hyung Kim (George Washington University); Jordan I. Siegel (University of Michigan)

The Hydraulics of Dark Money

Amanda Shanor (The Wharton School); Timothy Werner (University of Texas - Austin); Mary McDonnell (The Wharton School)

Internal Network Structure as a Knowledge-Protection Mechanism

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

A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan

J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard University)

Team network and performance: Renovating a classic experiment to identify network effects on team problem solving

Ray Reagans (MIT Sloan); Hagay Volvovsky (MIT Sloan); Ronald Burt (Chicago Booth)

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Judge

Adi Leibovitch (Hebrew University )

Hard Cases Make Bad Law? A Theoretical Investigation

Sepehr Shahshahani (Fordham Law School)

Pay to Play? Campaign Finance and the Incentive Gap in the Sixth Amendment’s Right to Counsel

Neel Sukhatme (Georgetown University Law Center); Jay Jenkins (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)

Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study

Lisa Bernstein (University of Chicago); Brad Peterson (Mayer, Brown LLP.)

Why do business losses cause conflict?

Henrik Lando (Copoenhagen Business School)

Savings and finance in slums

Adam Chilton (University of Chicago); Anup Malani (University of Chicago)

Housing markets in slums

Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)

Neighborhood amenities in slums

Anup Malani (University of Chicago); Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)

Try to See it My Way: The Process and Perils of "Coming Around"

Dan Alexander (University of Rochester); Darrian Stacy (Vanderbilt University)

Choosing Your Pond: A Structural Model of Power Sharing

Selcen Cakir (Bogazici University)

Checks and balances and Nation Building: The Spanish Constitutional Court and Catalonia

Agustin Casas (CUNEF & INARBE); Federico Curci (CUNEF); Antoni De Moragas (CUNEF)

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

Liang Diao (Simon Fraser University)

Historical Protests and Violence Against Civilians: Evidence from the Korean War

Hojung Joo (University of Michigan)

When Deterrence Fails: How Improved Hassling Capabilities Produce Worse Outcomes

Peter Schram (Vanderbilt University)

When does education promote democracy? Evidence from curriculum reforms in Mexico, 1960-2010

Agustina Paglayan (UCSD); Francisco Garfias (UCSD); Enrique Seira (ITAM)

Choosing Limited Property Rights: Privatizing Reforms and Collective Land Institutions in Mexico

Emily A. Sellars (Yale University); María Paula Saffon Sanín (UNAM)

Salience and Accountability: School Infrastructure and Last-Minute Electoral Punishment

Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV); Ruben Durante (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE, IP)

Political Instability and Economic Growth in Sub-Sahara Africa

Felix S. Bethke (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt); Magdalene Silberberger (Witten/Herdecke University)

Hybrid Regulatory Regime in Turbulent Times: The Role of State in China’s Stock Market Crisis in 2015-2016

Chen Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Huanhuan Zheng (National University of Singapore); Yunbo Liu (Beijing Normal University)

The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance

Tuğba Bozçağa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Autonomy in Autocracy: Explaining the Creation of Ethnic Autonomous Territories in Post-1949 China

Chao-yo Cheng (Tsinghua)

Property Formation in Weak States: Theory and Evidence from Imperial Brazil

Jorge Mangonnet (Columbia University)

Vote Mobilization at Work: How Employers Subvert Elections

Timothy Frye (Columbia University, HSE-Moscow); Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, HSE-Moscow); David Szakonyi (George Washington University, HSE-Moscow)

Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukrainian Railway Shipments

Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI); Alexey Makarin (EIEF)

The Soviet Great Famine, 1931--33

Andrei Markevich (New Economic School); Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University); Nancy Qian (Northwestern University); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)

Law, Chinese Style: Solving the Authoritarian’s Legal Dilemma through the Private Provision of Law

Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University); Barry R. Weingast (Stanford University)

Is What's Good for Business Also Good for the Market? Pro-Business and Pro-Market Policy Dynamics

Prateek Raj (IIM-Bangaglore); Brian Kelleher Richter (UT Austin McCombs School of Business); Mario Villarreal-Diaz (UT Austin McCombs School of Business)

Beware of Strange Bed-Fellows: Partnerships between the State and Venture Capitalists in Managing Government Guiding Funds

Yifan Wei (University of Manitoba); Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Milo Wang (University of Alberta)

Leveraging Institutional Intermediaries: Entrepreneurial Strategies to Contact Investors on a Fundraising Platform

You (Willow) Wu (Stanford University); Song Wang (Zhejiang University); Charles E. Eesley (Stanford University)

(How) Do Risky Perks Benefit Firms? The Case of Unlimited Vacation

Jiayi Bao (The Wharton School)

Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Astrid Kunze (Norwegian School of Economics); Gozde Corekcioglu (Kadir Has University); Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)

Gender diversity in corporate boards: Evidence from quota-implied discontinuities

Olga Kuzmina (New Economic School and CEPR ); Valentina Melentyeva (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Researc)

GENERAL HUMAN CAPITAL TRANSFER AND RELATIONAL STRENGTH IN ALTERNATIVE WORK ARRANGEMENTS

Thomaz Teodorovicz (Harvard University); Anita McGahan (University of Toronto); Sérgio Lazzarini (Insper); Sandro Cabral (Insper)

Multi-Layer Profit Sharing and Innovation

Filippo Belloc (University of Siena)

Innovation in the U.S. Government

Joshua Bruce (University of Illinois); John de Figueiredo (Duke University)

Information, Beliefs and Resource Allocation in Competitive Markets: The Impact of IT and Big Data on SMEs

Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez (Universidad Publica de Navarra); Ricard Gil (Queen's University); Guillermo Uriz-Uharte (University College London)

How innovating firms manage knowledge leakage: A natural experiment on worker mobility

Hyo Kang (University of Southern California); Wyatt Lee (University of Toronto)

Accountability versus Social Comparisons: A Theory of Pay Secrecy (and Transparency) in Organizations

Matthias Fahn (Johannes Kepler University Linz); Giorgio Zanarone (Washington University in St. Louis)

The influence of pay transparency on inequity, inequality, and the performance-basis of pay

Tomasz Obloj (HEC Paris); Todd Zenger (University of Utah)

Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan); Jean-Francois Gauthier (University of Michigan); Anant Nyshadham (University of Michigan); Jorge Tamayo (Harvard Business School)

Salary History Disclosures and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Amanda Agan (Rutgers University); Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Laura Gee (Tufts University)

Relational skills, endogenous matching, and business performance: A field experiment with entrepreneurs in Togo

Stefan Dimitriadis (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto); Rembrand Koning (Harvard Business School)

Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms

Luis Ballesteros (George Washington University); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School)

The Assessment Paradox: Practices Dissemination and Impact Evaluation

Fernando D. Domingos (Insper); Bertrand V. Quelin (HEC Paris); Sandro Cabral (Insper); Sergio G. Lazzarini (Insper)

Desert Places: Cooperatives as Infrastructure Providers in Marginalized Areas

Hyoju Jeong (University of Minnesota); Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota)

Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

Amir N. Licht (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya); Renee B. Adams (University of Oxford)

What's in a Name? The Effect of Changing Definitions of “Employee” on Worker Outcomes

Elliott Ash (ETH Zürich); Daniel M. Deibler (Columbia University)

Judged in Hindsight: Regulatory Incentives in Approving Innovations

Suraj Malladi (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

Frank Nagle (Harvard University)

The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Commercialization of University Research

Rafael Correiedora (Ohio State University); Brent Goldfarb (University of Maryland); Anne Marie Knott (Washington University); Seojin Kim (University of Maryland)

Do Pirated Video Streams Crowd Out Non-Pirated Video Streams? Evidence from Online Activity

Sarah Oh (Technology Policy Institute); Scott Wallsten (Technology Policy Institute); Nathaniel Lovin (Technology Policy Institute)

Employment and Productivity Effects of Tax Haven FDI

Solomiya Shpak (Kyiv School of Economics)