SIOE 2021

A1: Communication within organizations

• Worker Skills and Organizational Spillovers: Evidence from Linked Training and Communications Data

  Miguel Espinosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE); Christopher Stanton (Harvard Business School)

• Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers

  Louise Guillouet (Columbia University Economics); Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics); Matthieu Teachout (International Growth Centre)

• Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers

  Michael Impink (NYU); Andrea Prat (Columbia); Raffaella Sadun (Harvard)

A8: Modeling Information Management

• Investment in Human Capital under Endogenous Asymmetric Information

  Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto); Clare Leaver (University of Oxford)

• Optimal Feedback in Contests

  Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University); George Georgiadis (Northwestern University); Sina Khorasani (UCSD); Luis Rayo (Northwestern University)

• Transparency and Innovation in Organizations

  Kimiyuki Morita (Senshu University ); Takeharu Sogo (SKEMA Business School); Osamu Hayashida (Osaka School of Economics)

A13: Modeling Organizational Dynamics

• Equity Prices and the Dynamics of Optimal Corporate Governance

  Arash Fahim (Florida State University); Simon Gervais (Duke University); R. Vijay Krishna (Florida State University)

• Financing a Black Box: Dynamic Investment with Persistent Private Information

  Felix Z. Feng (University of Washington)

• The Crisis of Expertise

  Allen Vong (Yale University)

A18: Talent and Organizations

• Informal Incentives, Labor Supply, and the Effect of Immigration on Wages

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

• Talent Hoarding in Organizations

  Ingrid Haegele (UC Berkeley)

• AI Assistance, Employee Creativity, and Job Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Nan Jia (University of Southern California); Xueming Luo (Temple University); Han Chen (Temple University); Fang Zheng (Sichuan University)

A25: Incentives

• The Efficacy of Tournaments for Non-Routine Team Tasks

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

• Do Managerial Incentives Facilitate Collusion?

  Marek Giebel (Copenhagen Business School); Anja Rösner (DICE, University of Düsseldorf)

• Capital (Mis)allocation and Incentive Misalignment

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

A33: Gender, Promotion and Careers

• Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination

  Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po); Vicente Cunat (London School of Economics); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po)

• Gender Pay Differences in Senior Management of Charities

  Eliane H. Barker (Queen's University); Ricard Gil (Queen's University)

• Potential and the Gender Promotion Gap

  Alan Benson (University of Minnesota); Danielle Li (MIT and NBER); Kelly Shue (Yale and NBER)

• Knowledge teams, careers and gender

  Cagatay Bircan (EBRD); Friebel Guido (Goethe U); Tristan Stahl (Goethe U)

A40: COVID Session

• Firm Partisan Political Positioning, Affective Polarization, and Risk Communication: Examining Firms’ Voluntary Disclosures on COVID-19

  Richard A. Benton (University of Illinois); J. Adam Cobb (University of Texas at Austin); Timothy Werner (University of Texas at Austin)

• Coping with COVID-19: Does management make firms more resilient?

  Arti Grover (World Bank); Valerie Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University)

• U.S. Churches’ Response to Covid-19: Results from Facebook

  Eva Raiber (Aix-Marseille School of Economics); Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST)

A41: Modeling Information & Incentives

• On the Welfare Effects of Adverse Selection in Oligopolistic Markets

  Marco de Pinto (University of Applied Labour Studies); Laszlo Goerke (IAAEU and Trier University ); Alberto Palermo (IAAEU)

• Communication in the shadow of catastrophe

  Inga Deimen (University of Arizona); Dezso Szalay (University of Bonn)

• Loss Aversion, Moral Hazard, and Stochastic Contracts

  Hoa Ho (LMU Munich)

• Persuasion with Verifiable Information

  Maria Titova (Vanderbilt University)

A48: Motivation within Organizations

• When Transparency Fails: Financial Incentives for Local Banking Agents in Indonesia

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

• Caring or Pretending to Care? Social Impact, Firms' Objectives and Welfare

  Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po)

• Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

  Muhammad Yasir Khan (UC Berkeley)

A49: Decision Making and Discrimination

• Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab

  J. Michelle Brock (EBRD); Ralph De Haas (EBRD and Tilburg University)

• The Effect of Inclusive Policies on Economic Types of Discrimination

  Lisa Lenz (University of Cologne); Sergio Mittlaender (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Pol)

• Daddy's girl: how daughters shape managerial decisions and gender gaps

  Maddalena Ronchi (Bocconi University); Nina Smith (Aarhus University)

A50: Delegation, Management and Leadership

• Value-based Leadership

  Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen, INSEAD); Esther Chevrot-Bianco (University of Copenhagen)

• Managing with Style? Micro-Evidence on the Allocation of Managerial Attention

  Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University); Francisco Brahm (London School of Business); Wouter Dessein (Columbia University); Chieko Minami (Kobe University)

• Workload, Time Use and Efficiency

  Austin Sudbury (Carnegie Mellon University); George Westerman (MIT); Erina Ytsma (Carnegie Mellon University)

A51: Models of Institutions & Organizations

• The strategic decentralization of recruiting

  Yi Chen (Cornell University); Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University)

• Incentive Contracts, Social Comparison and Organizational Design

  Peymaneh Safaynikoo (EBS University of Business and Law)

• Combining social choice and matching theory to understand institutional stability

  Ashutosh Thakur (U. Cologne/National University of Singapore)

B9: Market Power in Buyer and Seller Markets

• The Impact of Hospital Closures and Mergers on Patient Welfare

  Eliane H. Barker (Queen's University); Jenny Watt (Statistics Canda); Joan Tranmer (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)

• Centralized Procurement and Delivery Times: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Italy

  Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal); Adriano De Leverano (ZEW); Robert Clark (Queen's)

• Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

  Alexander MacKay (Harvard University); Ignacia Mercadal (Columbia University)

B19: Relationships, Cooperation, and Scope Economies

• Outsourcing Scope and Cooperation: Evidence from Airlines

  Nicholas Argyres (Washington University in St. Louis); Ricard Gil (Queen's University); Giorgio Zanarone (Washington University in St. Louis)

• I'll pay you later: Relational Contracts in the Oil Industry

  Elena Paltseva (Stockholm School of Economics); Gerhard Toews (New Economic School); Marta Troya-Martinez (New Economic School)

• Diversified Firms: Existence, Behaviors, and Performance

  Birger Wernerfelt (MIT)

B34: Coordination in Innovation and Antitrust

• Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

  Miguel Antón (IESE); Florian Ederer (Yale University); Mireia Giné (IESE); Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford)

• The Effectiveness of Innovation Alliances under Task Uncertainty: Unpacking Cooperation and Coordination Difficulties in Antibiotic Drug Development

  Birgul Arslan (Erasmus U.); Gurneeta Vasudeva Singh (U. of Minnesota); Elizabeth Hirsch (U. of Minnesota)

• Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

  Jordan M. Barry (University of San Diego School of Law); John William Hatfield (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School); Richard Lowery (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at)

B54: Outsourcing, Delegation, and Production

• Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

  Laura Alfaro (HBS and NBER); Nick Bloom (NBER, CEPR, and CEP); Paola Conconi (ULB (ECARES), CEPR, and CEP); Harald Fadinger (Mannheim and CEPR); Patrick Legros (ULB (ECARES) and CEPR); Andrew F. Newman (Boston University and CEPR); Raffaella Sadun (HBS, NBER, CEPR, and CEP); John Van Reenen (LSE, MIT, NBER, and CEPR)

• Productivity Gains from Labor Outsourcing: The Role of Trade Secrets

  Gorkem Bostanci (University of British Columbia)

• Managing Global Production: Theory and Evidence from Just-in-Time Supply Chains

  Frank Pisch (University of St. Gallen)

C2: Polycentric Governance, I

• Delegating War

  Giulio Iacobelli (Paris School of Economics - Paris 1)

• Interacting collective action problems

  Nicolas Quérou (CEE-M)

• Learning is Caring: Soil Heterogeneity, Social Learning and the Formation of Close-knit Communities

  Itzchak Tzachi Raz (Hebrew University)

C14: Polycentric Governance, II

• Trust and CO2 Emissions: Cooperation on a Global Scale

  Ara Jo (ETH Zurich); Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University)

• Got (Clean) Milk? Governance, Incentives, and Collective Action in Indian Dairy Cooperatives

  Manaswini Rao (UC San Diego); Ashish Shenoy (UC Davis)

• The Human Side of Cyber Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from Github

  Pengfei Zhang (Cornell University)

C55: Polycentric Governance, III

• Every Book You Take: evaluating compliance behavior in an Information Commons

  Matheus Albergaria (Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado (FECA)

• The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Production Network Approach

  Mathieu Couttenier (ENS-Lyon and CEPR); Nathalie Monnet (University of Geneva); Lavinia Piemontese (ENS-Lyon)

• Mitigating negative externalities through platform governance: The case of a dock-less bike sharing in São Paulo city

  Juliano Pelegrina (Universidade de São Paulo); Nuno M. M. D. Fouto (Universidade de São Paulo); Maria S. M. Saes (Universidade de São Paulo)

D3: Public organization and the effectiveness of political instituions

• Office-Holding Premia and Representative Democracy

  Jan Auerbach (University of Exeter)

• Corruption, Regulation, and Investment Incentives

  Alessandro De Chiara (Universitat de Barcelona, BEAT); Ester Manna (Universitat de Barcelona, BEAT)

• How organizational capacity can improve electoral accountability

  Dana Foarta (Stanford University)

D20: Influence, monitoring and enforcement in public institutions

• Reverse Revolving Doors: The Influence of Interest Groups on Legislative Voting

  Miguel Alquézar-Yus (European University Institute); Josep Amer-Mestre (European University Institute)

• Enforcement and Deterrence with Certain Detection: An Experiment in Water Conservation Policy

  Oliver R. Browne (The Brattle Group); Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick); Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago); Olga Rostapshova (University of Chicago)

• Economic Concentration and Political Advocacy, 1999-2017

  Nolan McCarty (Princeton University); Sepehr Shahshahani (Fordham Law School)

D26: Organization and accountability of public courts

• Courting Legal Change: Dynamics of Voting on the U.S. Supreme Court

  Gaurav Bagwe (Georgetown University)

• The Costs of Top-Down Control: Discretion and Departures Among Federal Prosecutors

  Mitch Downey (Stockholm University); Ben K. Grunwald (Duke University)

• Crime and Punishment: Do politicians in power receive special treatment in courts? Evidence from India

  Ruben Poblete-Cazenave (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

D42: Societal Effects of Public Sector Institution

• test Matters: The Redistributive Effects of Protests on Intergovernmental Transfers

  Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University); Tom Moerenhout (Columbia University); Evans Osabuohien (Covenant University); Francis Annan (Georgia State University)

• Against the Clock? The Unintended Effects of Rapid Police Response Time on Domestic Violence

  Victoria Endl-Geyer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Sofia Amaral (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Timo Hener (Aarhus University); Helmut Rainer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich)

D60: Personal ties and performance of public agencies

• Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary

  Pablo Brassiolo (CAF-Development Bank of Latin America); Ricardo Estrada (CAF-Development Bank of Latin America); Gustavo Fajardo (CAF-Development Bank of Latin America); Julian Martinez-Correa (CEDLAS–Universidad de La Plata)

• Another Wind of Change? Evidence from Political Outsiders within the French Parliament

  Bilal EL RAFHI (University of Lorraine); Alexandre VOLLE (University of Paris Dauphine); Antoine CAZALS (University of Paris Dauphine)

• From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance in Italy

  Silvia Vannutelli (Boston University )

D61: Political incentives in subnational jurisdictions

• Comparative analysis of regulatory governance regimes in the OECD

  Eric Brousseau (University Paris Dauphine-PSL); Carlos Gonzalez Regalado (University Paris Dauphine-PSL)

• A social contract perspective on public administration

  Vlad Tarko (University of Arizona)

• Historical Path Dependence in Intergovernmental Tax Arrangements

  Rose Camille Vincent (ETH Zürich); Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University )

E15: Democracy vs. Autocracy

• Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies

  Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney); Barton Lee (UNSW Sydney)

• In the Shadows of Great Men: Leadership Turnovers and Power Dynamics in Autocracies

  Junyan Jiang (Columbia University); Tianyang Xi (Peking University); Haojun Xie (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Hobbesian Wars and Democracy

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

• The Political Economy of Policy Experimentations in China

  Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago); David Yang (Harvard University)

E27: Economic History

• Wealth Accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic

  Marianna Belloc (Sapienza University of Rome); Francesco Drago (University of Catania); Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi University); Roberto Galbiati (CNRS-SciencesPo)

• Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production: the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared

  Eric C. Edwards (North Carolina State University); Martin Fiszbein (Boston University); Gary D. Libecap (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the Pendleton Act

  Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis); Santiago Perez (University of California, Davis)

E35: Institutions and Conflict

• Optimal Political Institutions in the Shadow of Conflict

  Andrea Canidio (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca); Joan Esteban (Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica and Barcelona GSE)

• A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility: China vs. Europe Revisited

  Ruixue Jia (LSE and University of California, San Diego); Gerard Roland (University of California, Berkeley); Yang Xie (University of California, Riverside)

• Guns, Lawyers, and Markets: Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict

  Stergios Skaperdas (University of California, Irvine)

E43: Trade, Firms, and Insitutions

• 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)

• Institutions, trade and growth: the ancient case of proxenia

  Pier Paolo Creanza (Princeton University)

E63: Accountability and Redistribution

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

  Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV and IZA); Ruben Durante (UPF)

• Protests as Accountability Mechanism: Theory and Empirical Evidence of Brazil Mass Protest

  Helena Arruda (EAESP-FGV); Amanda de Albuquerque (PUC-Rio); Claudio Ferraz (UBC and PUC-Rio); Laura Karpuska (EESP-FGV)

• Brexit: Brinkmanship and Compromise

  Helios Herrera (Warwick University); Antonin Macé (PSE); Matias Nunez (CREST & Ecole Polytechnique)

• On the Workings of Tribal Politics

  Assaf Patir (--); Bnaya Dreyfuss (Harvard University); Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)

E66: Political economy of inequality

• Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization

  Hui-Pei Cheng (Department of Economics, Soochow University, TW); Eik Swee (Department of Economics, University of Melbourne)

• The Political Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33

  Andrei Markevich (New Economic School); Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University); Nancy Qian (Northwestern University)

• The impact of Presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?

  Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School in Moscow)

• Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)

  Felix S.F. Schaff (London School of Economics)

F4: Gender, I

• On the Economic Origins of Concerns over Women's Chastity

  Anke Becker (Harvard Business School)

• Women's Position in Ancestral Societies and Female HIV: The Long-Term Effect of Matrilineality in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Jordan Loper (ENS de Lyon)

• The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation

  Riccardo Marchingiglio (Northwestern University); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)

F10: Gender II

Chair: none

• The Competitive Woman: Evolutionary Insights and Cross-Cultural Evidence into Finding the Femina Economica

  Alessandra Cassar (University of San Francisco); Jane Zhang (UNSW)

• Astrology and Matrimony: The Real Effects of Religious Beliefs about Marriage in Vietnam

  Edoardo Ciscato (KU Leuven); Quoc-Anh Do (Northwestern University & Sciences Po); Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University)

• Motivated Memory and the Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Norms

  Maximilian W. Mueller (UC Berkeley)

F16: Narratives of intolerance and violence

• J’Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair

  Quoc-Anh Do (Northwestern University & Sciences Po); Roberto Galbiati (CNRS - Sciences Po); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po); Miguel Angel Ortiz Serrano (University of Sussex)

• Whistle the Racist Dogs: Political Campaigns and Police Stops

  Pauline Grosjean (UNSW); Federico Masera (UNSW); Hasin Yousaf (UNSW)

• Narratives for racial violence in the postbellum South

  Federico Masera (UNSW); Michele Rosenberg (Northwestern University); Sarah Walker (UNSW)

F21: ACES-SIOE Session

• Culture, Institutions and the Long Divergence

  Alberto Bisin (NYU); Jared Rubin (Chapman University); Avner Seror (Aix-Marseille School of Economics); Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)

• Fundamentals as Drivers of Moral Change: The British Abolitionist Movement

  Valentin Figueroa (Stanford University); Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University)

• Elite Kinship Networks and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China

  Yuhua Wang (Harvard University)

F28: Origins of cultural norms

• Silly rules enhance learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

  Raphael Koster (DeepMind); Dylan Hadfield-Menell (University of California, Berkeley); Richard Everett (DeepMind); Laura Weidinger (DeepMind); Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto); Joel Leibo (DeepMind)

• The Economic Origins of Trust: Evidence from Mobile Pastoralism

  Etienne Le Rossignol (CES); Sara Lowes (UCSD)

• Celestial enlightenment: eclipses, curiosity and economic development among pre-modern ethnic groups

  Eric Roca Fernandez (Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, Marseille, AMSE ); Anastasia Litina (University of Macedonia)

• Do Disasters Affect the Tightness of Social Norms?

  Max Winkler (Harvard University)

F36: Coercion and emancipation

• Social protests in times of social distancing: Black Lives Matter and COVID-19

  Vladimir Avetian (Sciences Po); Annalí Casanueva (Paris School of Economics); Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University); Kritika Saxena (Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies)

• Religion and Persecution

  Laura Panza (The University of Melbourne); Umair Khalil (Monash University)

• Frontier planters, immigrants, and the abolition of slavery in Brazil

  François Seyler (Université Laval); Arthur Silve (Université Laval)

F44: Media and persuasion

• Social Media and Newsroom Production Decisions

  Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris); Nicolas Hervé (Institut Natinoal de l'Audiovisuel); Béatrice Mazoyer (Médialab, Sciences Po)

• The (Great) Persuasion Divide? Gender Disparities in Debate Speeches & Evaluations

  Huyen Nguyen (Erasmus University Rotterdam & Universität Hamburg)

• Anti-Japanese Protests, Social Media Hate Speech and Television Shows in China

  Maiting Zhuang (Stockholm School of Economics)

F67: Migration

• Within-Group Heterogeneity in a Multi-Ethnic Society

  Miriam Artiles (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

• Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora

  Martin Fernandez-Sanchez (LISER)

• Ideological Contagion and Populism: Evidence from Argentina

  Sara Lazzaroni (University of Bologna)

G11: Economic Growth through the Lenses of Geography, History and Culture

• Firms, Kinship and Economic Growth in the Kyrgyz Republic

  Paul Castañeda Dower (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Theodore Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Shlomo Weber (New Economic School)

• Free and Protected: Trade and Breaks in Long-Term Persistence

  Sebastian Ellingsen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

• Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

  Michela Giorcelli (UCLA and NBER); Bo Li (Tsinghua University)

G17: Land Rights and Land Governance

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

  Gedeon J. Lim (University of Hong Kong)

• There’s No Such Thing As Free Land: The Homestead Act and the Economic Development

  Ross Mattheis (Harvard University); Itzchak Raz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• Decentralization of Land Administration and Elections in Burkina Faso

  Laura Meinzen-Dick (University of California Davis)

G22: Personnel, Labor Institutions and Development

• Union Leaders: Experimental Evidence from Myanmar

  Laura Boudreau (Columbia University); Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics); Virginia Minni (London School of Economics); Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)

• Labor Rationing

  Emily Breza (Harvard University); Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley); Yogita Shamdasani (National University of Singapore )

• Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector

  Erika Deserranno (Northwestern University); Philipp Kastrau (U. Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE); Caria Stefano (Warwick University); Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta (U. Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE)

G29: Institutions, Markets, and Trade

• Trade and the rise of ancient Greek city-states

  Jordan Adamson (Leipzig University)

• Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era

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

• Acquisitions, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry

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

G32: Measuring Institutions

• Shipwrecked by Rents

  Fernando Arteaga (University of Pennsylvania); Desiree Desierto (George Mason University); Mark Koyama (George Mason University)

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

  Boubacar Diallo (NA)

• Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany

  Daniel W. Gingerich (University of Virginia); Jan P. Vogler (University of Virginia)

• Do “Beef Bans” Affect Women’s Health?

  Farhan Majid (IMPAQ International); Wafa Hakim (University of Alabama); Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University)

• Bureaucratic Nepotism

  Juan Felipe Riano Rodriguez (University of British Columbia)

G37: Conflict, Coercion and the Economy

• Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments

  Zach Y. Brown (University of Michigan); Eduardo Montero (University of Michigan); Carlos Schmidt-Padilla (U.C. Berkeley); Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University)

• Labor Coercion and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia

  Mark Hup (University of California, Irvine)

• Production Networks and War

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

G45: Modernizing State Capabilities

• Meritocracy in a Bureaucracy

  Shan Aman-Rana (Department of Econ, University of Virginia)

• Updating the State: Information Acquisition Costs and Public Benefit Delivery

  Eric Dodge (IDinsight); Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan); Rohini Pande (Yale University); Charity Troyer Moore (Yale University)

H5: Litigation: Process, Precedent and Deterrence

• Land Titling and Litigation

  Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University); Marco Fabbri (Pompeu Fabra University); Michael Faure (Erasmus University & Maastricht University)

• High-Profile Enforcement as an Effective Deterrence Mechanism: Evidence from the Paul Manafort Prosecution and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

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

H23: Laws, Norms, & Institutions

• ENVIRONMENTAL SOFT LAW AS A GOVERNANCE STRATEGY

  Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania)

• The Transformation of the Art Market: Law, Norms, and Institutions

  Daniel Klerman (USC Law School); Anja Shortland (King's College London)

• The Origin of Communities in Authoritarian Cities: Theory and Evidence from China

  Shitong Qiao (The University of Hong Kong); Yu Zeng (Peking University)

H38: Governance of Cross-Border Agreements

• In Comrades We Trust--The Expatriation of US Legal Managers by Chinese Multinationals

  Ji Li (UC Irvine)

• Levelling the Field Through Transnational Regulation

  Kish Parella (Washington and Lee University School of Law)

• A Theory of Boilerplate in International Agreements

  Michael Waibel (University of Vienna)

H46: The law and economics of privacy and data sharing

• The Missing "California Effect" in Data Privacy Law

  Jens Frankenreiter (Columbia Law School)

• Governance of Data Sharing: a Law & Economics Proposal

  Inge Graef (Tilburg University); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

• Narrowing Data Protection's Enforcement Gap

  Filippo Lancieri (UChicago Law; ETH Zurich Center for Law and Econ.)

I6: The State, Elites, and Political Institutions

• The Origins of Elite Persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France

  Toke Aidt (University of Cambridge); Jean Lacroix (Université Paris-Saclay); Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles)

• War, Trade, and the Roots of Representative Governance

  Gary W. Cox (Stanford University); Mark Dincecco (University of Michigan); Massimiliano G. Onorato (University of Bologna)

• Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Evidence from Colonial Mexico

  Emily A. Sellars (Yale University); Francisco Garfias (University of California, San Diego)

I12: Persuasion in Democracies and Autocracies

• A Political Model of Trust

  Marina Agranov (Caltech); Ran Eilat (Ben Gurion University); Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)

• A Model of Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression

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

• Inauthentic Newsfeeds and Agenda Setting in a Coordinated Inauthentic Information Operation

  Patrick Warren (Clemson University); Carl Ehrett (Clemson University); Darren Linvill (Clemson University); Hudson Smith (Clemson University)

I30: Political Behavior in Contemporary Democracies

• How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Migrant Exploitation and Political Brokerage in Northern Italy

  Gemma Dipoppa (Stanford)

• The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates

  Ria Granzier (Harvard University); Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School); Clémence Tricaud (UCLA Anderson)

I47: Corruption and Government Accountability

• A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy

  Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich); Sergio Galletta (University of Bergamo); Tommaso Giommoni (ETH Zurich)

• Why Governments Grow “Lemons” in the Market for Technology

  Natalia Lamberova (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Subsidies for Sale: Post-government Career Concerns, Revolving-Door Channels, and Public Resource Misallocation in China

  Zeren Li (Duke University)

I67: Protests and Political Power

• Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Political Behaviour?

  Apurav Yash Bhatiya (University of Warwick)

• Walking Together and Alone: How Peaceful Protests Fail and Can Yet Succeed in Remaking Our World

  Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

• Does it pay off to demonstrate against the far right?

  Nicolas Lagios (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Ilan Tojerow (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

I68: Interests Groups and Policy Making

• Political Agency and Implementation Subsidies with Imperfect Monitoring

  Benjamin Blumenthal (PSE-EHESS)

• The Making of Financial Regulation - Voting on the U.S. Congress

  Joao Rafael Cunha (University of St Andrews)

• Economic Interests, Partisan Politics, and Environmental Polarization

  Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana (The Pennsylvania State University); Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University)

J7: New theories of the firm and contracts

• The Firm as a Subsociety

  Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton); Todd Zenger (University of Utah)

• Corporate Purpose and Acquisitions

  Claudine Gartenberg (Wharton School); Shun Yiu (Wharton School)

• Pushing the boundaries of Williamson’s ‘science of economic organization’ - knowledge and pluralism challenges

  Anna Grandori (Bocconi University Milan)

• The Contractual Governance of Transactions within Firms

  Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Beverly Rich (University of Southern California); Kyle Mayer (University of Southern California)

J24: Political and Social Issues in Firm Management

• Come Together? Cooperativeness, Heterogeneity, and the Structure of Collective Action

  Farzam Boroomand (University of Minnesota); Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota)

• Are native plants green? Assessing environmental performances of locally-owned facilities

  Narae Lee (University of Minnesota); Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota)

• There Is No Planet B: Stakeholder Governance That Aligns Incentives To Preserve The Amazon Rainforest

  Anita M. McGahan (University of Toronto); Leandro S. Pongeluppe (University of Toronto)

• Campaign Contributions and New Technology Investment in the Broadband Industry

  Tedi Skiti (Fox School of Business, Temple University); Jennifer Tae (Fox School of Business, Temple University); Francis Frazier (Fox School of Business, Temple University)

J31: Human Capital Management

• Bundling Postemployment Restrictive Covenants: New Evidence from Firm and Worker Surveys

  Natarajan Balasubramanian (Syracuse University); Evan Starr (University of Maryland); Shotaro Yamaguchi (University of Maryland)

• Hunting for talent: Firm-driven labor market search in the United States

  Ines Black (Duke University - Fuqua School of Business); Sharique Hasan (Duke University - Fuqua School of Business); Rem Koning (Harvard Business School)

• HOW KNOWLEDGE SCALING RESHAPES STRATEGIC HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM ACQUISITIONS IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

  Thomaz Teodorovicz (Harvard University); Carolina P. Garcia (Competition and Markets Authority)

J39: Emerging Challenges for Firms Created by Institutional Context

• Nested nature of institutional context: Distinguishing general institutional constraints and specific legal restraints

  Mohammad Hosseini (HEC Paris); Bertrand Quelin (HEC Paris)

• The Cost of Being Foreign: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment in the US

  Pedro Makhoul (UCLA); Joao V. Guedes-Neto (University of Pittsburgh); Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis University)

J52: New Directions in Managing Inter-Firm Relationships

• Treading a Tightrope: Political Externalities and Platform Strategy

  Olivier Chatain (HEC Paris); Madhulika Kaul (HEC Paris)

• To do or to teach? The dichotomy between franchising vs management contracts in the hospitality industry

  Marta Fernández-Barcala (University of Oviedo (Spain)); Manuel González-Díaz (University of Oviedo (Spain)); Susana López-Bayón (University of Oviedo (Spain))

• The Organization of Innovation: Incomplete Contracts and the Outsourcing Decision

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

J53: Culture and Trust

• Under Pressure: Culture and Structure as Antecedents of Organizational Misconduct

  Andrea Cavicchini (IESE Business School); Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE Business School); Sampsa Samila (IESE Business School)

• Regional Trust and Multinational Firms

  Elena Kulchina (North Carolina State University)

• The Human Capital Puzzle and Ambitious Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Institutional Approach

  Victor Martin-Sanchez (King’s College London); Mircea Epure (Pompeu Fabra U. and Barcelona GSE); Sebastian Aparicio (Durham University); David Urbano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

• Power and the passion: Inherited culture, individualism and worker satisfaction with power

  Kieron Meagher (Australian National University); Andrew Wait (University of Sydney)