SIOE 2022

A1: Historical Perspectives on the State — Room J250

Chair: Eric Brousseau

• The Societal Origins of State Education

  Htet Thiha Zaw (University of Michigan)

• Schools, Language, and Nations: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in France

  Guillaume Blanc (Brown University); Masahiro Kubo (Brown University)

• Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building

  Lydia ASSOUAD (Paris School of Economics)

• Modernizing the Economy in the 18th Century France: The revealed policy of the ‘Bureau du Commerce’

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

A2: Workers and Firms I — Room P120

Chair: Decio Coviello

• Treatment and Selection Effects of Formal Workplace Mentorship Programs

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

• Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

  Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania); Aaron Sojourner (Carlson School of Management); Evan Starr (Smith School of Business)

• Does Working from Home Increase Job Satisfaction and Retention? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Christos Makridis (Columbia Business School and Stanford University); Jason Schloetzer (Georgetown University)

• Effect of Firing Frictions on Turnover

  decio coviello (HEC Montreal)

A3: Bureaucracy, Governance, and State Capacity — Room J140

Chair: Federica Carugati

• Motivating Loyal Bureaucrats in Sequential Agency

  Dongsoo Shin (Santa Clara University); Alexander Rodivilov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

• Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China

  Joy Chen (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Erik Wang (Australian National University); Xiaoming Zhang (Hong Kong University)

• State Capacity and Organizational Learning in Classical Greece

  Federica Carugati (King's College London); Mark Pyzyk (Princeton University)

A4: Institutional Reforms & State Capacity — Room FL228

Chair: Benjamin Marx

• Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

  Felipe Valencia (UBC); Luis R. Martinez (Chicago Harris); Juan David Torres (Stanford); Giorgio Chiovelli (Montevideo)

• The Rise of Fiscal Capacity

  Matthias Weigand (Harvard University); Cathrin Mohr (Universität Bonn); Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

• Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History

  Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh); Sascha O. Becker (Monash University and University of Warwick); Eric Melander (University of Namur); Luigi Pascali (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

• The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution

  Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po, Department of Economics); Cédric Chambru (University of Zurich); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po, Department of Economics)

A5: Innovation I — Room FH103

Chair: Brian Silverman

• A Quest for Knowledge

  Johannes Schneider (U Carlos III Madrid & U Mannheim); Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi)

• Endogenous Criteria for Success

  Rene Kirkegaard (University of Guelph)

• Communication Technology and Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: The Role of Intra-firm Control Rights

  Luis Ballesteros (Boston University); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Casidhe Troyer (London Business School)

• How do inventors’ political preferences affect innovation?

  Brian Silverman (University of Toronto); John de Figueiredo (Duke University); Trijeet Sethi (Capital One)

A6: Law, Politics and Finance — Room J225

Chair: Michael Waibel

• The role of digital technologies in development of financial regulatory governance

  Ivana Bajakic (Faculty of Law University of Zagreb)

• Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing

  Albert Choi (University of Michigan); Kathy Spier (Harvard University)

• Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets

  Marcos Salgado (Stanford University); Saumitra Jha (Stanford University); Peter Koudijs (Erasmus University Rotterdamam)

• The German Constitutional Court and Central Bank Independence

  Michael Waibel (University of Vienna)

A7: Education & Society — Room J230

Chair: Mary Shirley

• The Implications of School Lotteries for Neighborhood Crime

  Andrew Bibler (University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Stephen Billings (University of Colorado Boulder); Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut)

• Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills

  Jun Hyung Kim (Jinan University); Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University); Zhe Yang (Jinan University)

• The Long-Term Effects of Financial Aid and Career Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

  Laëtitia Renée (McGill University)

• Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes

  Yang Song (Colgate University); Ziteng Lei (UCSB); Le Kang (Peking University); Peng Zhang (CUHK Shenzhen)

A8: Determinants of Voting and Political Participation — Room FL219

Chair: Alexandru Savu

• Rally Post-Terrorism

  Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))

• Transnational Diffusion of Identity Politics

  Soeren Schwuchow (Brandenburg University of Technology)

• Robots, China and Polls: Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US

  Marina Chugunova (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition); Klaus Keller (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competitionn); Sampsa Samila (IESE Business School)

• The Local Political Economy of Austerity: Lessons from Hospital Closures

  Alexandru Savu (Christ's College, University of Cambridge)

A9: Conflict I — Room FL223

Chair: David Skarbek

• Deterrence or Backlash? The Causal Effect of Arrest on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

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

• Cosa Nostra Courts

  Henry Thompson (George Mason University)

• Prisons and Homophobia

  Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)

• Vigilantism, Institutions, and Honor Culture: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil

  David Skarbek (Brown University); Danilo Freire (University of Lincoln / Political Science)

A10: Antitrust and Competition Law — Room FH105

Chair: Jeffrey Macher

• A Subject-Matter Specific Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the "Summary Judgment Trilogy"

  Jonathan Nash (Emory University School of Law); Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California Law School)

• Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers

  Mark Tremblay (Miami University)

• Information exchange through secret vertical contracts

  Nicolás Riquelme (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Jihwan Do (Wuhan University)

• The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence From Litigated Merger Trials

  Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown (McDonough)); John Mayo (Georgetown (McDonough))

B1: Emerging Markets and Developing Economies — Room J250

Chair: Stefan Dimitriadis

• Property Rights Security in a Self-Sustaining Equilibrium of Institutions

  Fali Huang (Singapore Management University)

• Testing the convergence of legal standards in antitrust investigations in BRICS

  Svetlana Golovanova (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Svetlana Avdasheva (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

• Won’t you be my neighbor? Geography, peer learning, and entrepreneur performance in Togo

  Stefan Dimitriadis (University of Toronto); Rem Koning (Harvard University)

B2: Measurement — Room P120

Chair: David Francis

• Measuring The Impact of Transaction Costs on Profitability of Farmers: Empirical Evidence from India

  Dr. Kedar Vishnu (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Ruchika Rai (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Dr. Parmod Kumar (Giri Institute of Development Studies)

• Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies

  David Francis (World Bank); Robert Kubinec (NYU Abu Dhabi)

B3: Platforms I — Room J140

Chair: Leshui He

• Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage

  Talia Gillis (Columbia University); Jens Frankenreiter (Wash U); Dan Svirsky (Uber)

• The dependence of search result quality on user-generated data: evidence from an experiment

  Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University); Tobias Klein (Tilburg University); Madina Kurmangaliyeva (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

• Does Amazon Exercise its Market Power? Evidence from Toys R Us

  Leshui He (Bates College); Imke Reimers (Northeastern University); Benjamin Shiller (Brandeis University)

B4: Corporate Culture — Room FL228

Chair: Camille Hebert

• Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence

  Kai Li (University of British Columbia); Rui Shen (CUHK); Rachel Peng (Univ. of Dayton); Gabriel Wong (Cardiff University)

• Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm

  Alexander Zentefis (Yale University); Gary Gorton (Yale University)

• Communicating Culture Consistently: Evidence from Banks

  Jillian Grennan (Duke University)

B5: Corporate Political Power — Room FH103

Chair: Bo Cowgill

• The Challenge of Holding Big Business Accountable

  Roy Shapira (Reichman (IDC))

• Corporate Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban

  Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal); Julia Cagé (SciencesPo and CEPR); Elisa Mougin (SciencesPo and LIEPP)

• Political Power and Market Power

  Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Andrea Prat (Columbia University); Tomasso Valletti (Imperial College Business School)

B6: Democratic Governance in Polities and Organizations — Room J225

Chair: Scott Masten

• Citizen Corp.

  Saura Masconale (University of Arizona); Simone M. Sepe (University of Arizona)

• On the evolution of polarized views and beliefs: Nonprofit sector and civil society origins

  Avner Ben-Ner (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

• Engineering Wealth-Enhancing Democracy in Ancient Greece: Gains from Exchange versus Alignment on Public Policy

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

B7: Land, Coercion, and Indigeneity — Room J230

Chair: Doug Allen

• Rationale for Paternalism: "Semifeudalistic'' Tenancy Contracts in Imperial Japan

  Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo)

• Gender, Indigeneity, and Social Class: Criminal Sentencing at the Turn of the 20th Century in British Columbia

  Blair Long (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Ian Keay (Queen's University); Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)

• Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession Through Strategic Occupation

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

B8: Authoritarianism — Room FL219

Chair: Scott Gehlbach

• The Bureaucratic Politics of Authoritarian Repression: Intra-Agency Reform and Surveillance Capacity in Communist Poland

  Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)

• The Legacy of Authoritarianism in a Democracy

  Pramod Kumar Sur (Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) and Osaka University)

• Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma?

  Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago)

B9: Innovative Markets and Contracts — Room FL223

Chair: Evagelos Pafilis

• Organizing for Cooperation: Fostering Relational Contracts to Support Interunit Knowledge Sharing

  Nadav Levy (Reichman University, Israel)

• Smart contracts vs incomplete contracts: A transaction cost economics viewpoint

  Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento & Università della Svizzera italiana)

• How to Manage Public Artworks? A Market Alternative to Deaccessioning

  Claudia Amadei (University of Padova and CRIEP); Luciano Greco (University of Padova and CRIEP); Marina Bertolini (University of Padova and CRIEP)

C1: Climate Change — Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

• Bargaining Power in Multilateral Relational Contracts: a Setting Particularly Amenable to the Analysis of Contractual Equilibrium

  Joel Watson (UC San Diego)

• Pledge-and-review bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris

  Bard Harstad (U of Oslo)

• Climate Change and Incentives to Cooperate

  Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)

C2: Workers and Firms II — Room P120

Chair: Nick Zubanov

• License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs

  Daniel Keum (Columbia University); Stephan Meier (Columbia University)

• Shocks and the organization of the firm: who pays the bill?

  Alessandro Sforza (University of Bologna); Edoardo Acabbi (Carlos III)

• Mystery Shopping as an Incentive Device for Service Uniformity

  Sidney Block (University of Cologne); Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

C3: Algorithms — Room J140

Chair: Arna Woemmel

• Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms

  Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD); Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University); Andrew Hillis (Fractal); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University); Michael Luca (Harvard Business School)

• Machine Learning and Deterrence

  Henrik Sigstad (University of Oslo); Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse School of Economics)

• Public Perception on Authority, Transparency, and Bias of AI in Courts: A Vignette Experiment with Chat Intervention

  Huyen Nguyen (University of Hamburg); Arna Woemmel (University of Hamburg); Hendrik Huening (University of Hamburg); Lydia Mechtenberg (University of Hamburg)

C4: Leadership and Management — Room FL228

Chair: Kathryn Shaw

• Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT

  Silvia Castro (University of Munich (LMU)); Florian Englmaier (University of Munich (LMU)); Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

• Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia

  Maria Carreri (UCSD); Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)

• Managing with Purpose

  Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University); Ann Bartel (Columbia University); James Jedras (Stanford University)

C5: Kinship & Family — Room FH103

Chair: Ardina Hasanbasri

• Of Families and Inheritance: Law and Development in Pre-Industrial England

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

• Kin in the Game: How Family Ties Help Firms Overcome Campaign Finance Regulation

  Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Juan Dodyk (Harvard University); Ignacio Puente (Independent Researcher)

• Multidimensionality of Land Ownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Ardina Hasanbasri (University of Michigan); Talip Kilic (World Bank); Gayatri Koolwal (World Bank); Heather Moylan (World Bank)

C6: History of Transaction Cost Economics Thought — Room J225

Chair: Pavel Pelikan

• ATMOSPHERE, PRIVATE ORDERING AND INDUSTRIAL PLURALISM: WILLIAMSON’S EVOLVING SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION

  Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University)

• THE LEGACY OF CHESTER I. BARNARD IN THE SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION OF OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON

  Naciba Haned (ESSCA School of Management); Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University); Bernard Baudry (University of Lyon)

• How to bring D.C. North, O.E. Williamson, and D. Acemoglu et al. together, and start unifying Institutional Economics

  Pavel Pelikan (Prague University of Economics and Business)

C7: CANCELLED SESSION : Training Policymakers in Soft and Hard Skills

• Training Policymakers in Econometrics

  Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)

• Training Effective Altruism

  Shaheen Naseer (Lahore School of Economics)

• Transmitting Rights

  Daniel Chen (Tolouse School of Economics); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School); Shaheen Naseer Naseer (Lahore School of Economics)

C8: Nation Building — Room FL219

Chair: Haikun Zhan

• Labour Market Segmentation and Surplus Extraction: The Indian Case

  SATYAKI DASGUPTA (PhD Student at Colorado State University)

• Nation-State Building

  Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University, Professor of economics); Esmaeil Izadi (Simon Fraser University, PhD candidate)

• Central Administration and the Rise of Local Institutions: Evidence from Imperial China

  Haikun Zhan (the University of Melbourne)

C9: Trade — Room FL223

Chair: Ryu Matsuura

• Protectionism, Global Supply Chains, and Domestic Lobbying: Evidence from the U.S.–China Trade War

  Bo Yang (University of Southern California)

• The Asymmetric Effects of Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Economic Agreements on Cross-Border Trade and Investment

  Der-Ting Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Market Integration and Cost of Borders in Africa

  Ryu Matsuura (Northwestern University); Robin Burgess (London School of Economics); Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University); Gerard Padro i Miquel (Yale University)

C10: Organizational Strategy — Room FH105

Chair: Elina Hoffmann

• Social Comparison and the Value of Performance Trajectory Information: A Field Experiment in the Workplace

  Hugh Xiaolong Wu (Washington University in St. Louis); Yucheng Liang (Carnegie Mellon University); Shannon X. Liu (University of Toronto)

• Quality of Mandatory Data Reporting by US Nursing Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of For-Profit Ownership

  Elina Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University); Valerie Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University); Erica Fuchs (Carnegie Mellon University)

D1: Discussion panel: Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy — Room J250

Chair: Catherine Magelssen, Minyuan Zhao

D2: Corporate Networks — Room P120

Chair: Andy Back

• Economics of Lenten Power Dinner: Social Spending by Trading Companies in Imperial Japan

  Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo); Hisayuki Oshima (Takachiho University)

• A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

  Florian Ederer (Yale University); Bruno Pellegrino (University of Maryland)

• Coordinated location decisions in business groups and the boundary of the firm

  Marta Bisztray (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), Hungary); Gábor Békés (Central European University, KRTK); Péter Harasztosi (European Investment Bank)

• Strategic Broadcasting of Strategic Alliances: Which firm(s) would broadcast their alliance formation?

  Andy Back (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Navid Asgari (Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business)

D3: Changing Organizational Culture — Room J140

Chair: Roberto Weber

• Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

  Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School); Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University); Ada González-Torres (Ben Gurion University); Rachel Heath (University of Washington)

• Measuring Working From Home Adoption: Evidence from half-a-billion online job ads

  Raffaella Sadun (Harvard); Nick Bloom (Stanford); Steven Davies (Chicago); Stephen Hansen (Imperial); Peter Lambert (LSE); Bledi Taska (Burning Glass)

• Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work

  Roberto Weber (University of Zurich); Florian Schneider (University of Zurich); Fanny Brun (University of Zurich)

D4: Corruption — Room FL228

Chair: Tom Eeckhout

• Corruption as an informal fiscal system

  Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia); Clement Minaudier (University of Vienna)

• Inclusive Experimentalism in Transnational Law Reform: Lessons from Operation Car Wash

  Mariana Mota Prado (University of Toronto); Kevin Davis (New York University, USA); Raquel Pimenta (FGV, Brazil); Marta Machado (FGV, Brasil)

• SOCIAL CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL OBSERVATORIES MONITORING ON BRAZILIAN MUNICIPAL OUTLAYS

  Sergio Krakowiak (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo); Renato Seixas (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo)

• STATISTICAL FOOTPRINTS OF CORRUPTION: “VANITY FAIR” OF AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES IN RUSSIA

  Tom Eeckhout (Ghent University); Timur Natkhov (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Leonid Polishchuk (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Kevin Hoefman (Ghent University)

D5: Collaboration and Contracting — Room FH103

Chair: Simone Sepe

• Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Multinational Firm

  Cagatay Bircan (EBRD & UCL); Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford, EBRD, & CEPR); Stefan Pauly (Sciences Po)

• Collaboration and Cultural Homophily in Global Teams

  Gábor Békés (Central European University); Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

• Measuring Transaction Costs in China’s Rural Land Rental Market: Ex-Ante Bargaining associated with Ex-Post Contract Violation Uncertainty and Location Specificity

  Ziyan Yang (Xiamen University)

• Interim Contract Interpretation

  Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School); Simone Sepe (University of Arizona; Toulouse School of Economics); Samuel Bray (Notre Dame Law School)

D6: Chinese Political Economy — Room J225

Chair: Qing Chang

• The Innovation Cost of Short Political Horizons: Evidence from Local Leaders’ Promotion in China

  Xueping Sun (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

• Anti-Corruption Campaign and Inter-Generational Transmission of Bureaucracy: Evidence from China

  Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)/Economics); Erqi GE (Sun Yat-sen University)

• Social Embeddedness, Power Balance, and Rural Governance in China

  Meina Cai (University of Connecticut); Xiaolu Zhao (Fudan University); Qi Zhang (Fudan University)

• Career Incentives, Inter-jurisdiction Competition, and Economic Development Incentives: Empirical Evidence from Land Prices in China

  Qing Chang (University of Pittsburgh)

D7: Incentives in Organizations — Room J230

Chair: Saskia Opitz

• Over-workers and Drop-Outs in Competitions : Contests with Expectation-Based Loss-Averse Agents

  Ayse Mermer (University of Amsterdam)

• The impact of formal incentives on teams: Micro-evidence from retail

  Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Antoine Feylessoufi (University College London); Marcos Singer (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

• Endogenous Organizational Restructuring: Status, Productivity & Meritocratic Dynamics

  Ashutosh Thakur (National University of Singapore); Jonathan Bendor (Stanford GSB)

• The Targeted Assignment of Incentive Schemes

  Saskia Opitz (University of Cologne); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); Tom Zimmermann (University of Cologne)

D8: Institutions and the Environment — Room FL219

Chair: Gemma DiPoppa

• Measuring the Impact of Independent Regulatory Agencies on the Decarbonization of the EU Energy Mix

  Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL); Diego Cebreros (University Paris Saclay | CentraleSupelec); Carlos Gonzalez (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL)

• SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL: GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD GAME

  Vincy Fon (The George Washington University)

• ECONOMIC INTERESTS, PARTISAN POLITICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLARIZATION

  Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University); Julio Ramos (Penn State University)

• Fires: Political economy and Health Impacts of Crop Stubble Burning in South Asia

  Gemma Dipoppa (Stanford); Saad Gulzar (Stanford); Fatiq Nadeem (UC Santa Barbara)

D9: Politics and Media — Room FL223

Chair: Jens Prufer

• Communicating Risk across the Political Divide

  Cherie Metcalf (Queen's University, Kingston); Jonathan Nash (Emory Law)

• The Credibility Effect of Defamation Law

  Yonathan Arbel (Alabama)

• Televised Debates and Emotionality in Politics: Evidence from C-SPAN

  Gloria Gennaro (ETH); Elliott Ash (ETH)

• Social Media and Democracy: Experimental Results

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

D10: Communication and Collaboration — Room FH105

Chair: Suraj Prasad

• Gravity in Online Collaborations

  Thomas Fackler (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Michael Hofmann (LMU Munich); Nadzeya Laurentsyeva (LMU Munich)

• The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

  Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown Univerity); Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard Business School); Tommy Fang (Harvard Business School)

• Communication Effort and the Cost of Language: Evidence from Stack Overflow

  Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

• Instructions and Incentives in Organizations

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

E1: Lobbying — Room J250

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

• Legislative Informational Lobbying

  Arnaud Dellis (University of Quebec in Montreal)

• Caring but sharing unintentionally: Lobbying for innovations and the leakage of knowledge

  Michael Park (University of Minnesota)

• Sleeping with the Enemy: How Politicians and Interest Groups Adapt their Collaborations in the Face of Reputational Threats

  Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi); Akhil Ilango (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Zanarone (University Washington St. Louis)

E2: Strategy and Institutional Context — Room P120

Chair: Kartik Rao

• Emergence of Islamic Finance Organizations, 1948 – 2016

  Abdullah Shahid (Cornell University)

• Dreaming of Institutions: The transformation of Children’s After-Sсhool Time Sector in Post-Soviet Countries

  Ivan Ivanov (HSE University)

• NEGOTIATING AGREEMENTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS IN THE SHADOW OF REGULATION

  Kartik Rao (Ivey Business School, Western University); Adam Fremeth (Ivey Business School, Western University); Guy Holburn (gholburn@ivey.ca)

E3: Conflict II — Room J140

Chair: Nils-Petter Lagerlöf

• Hobbesian War and Separation of Powers

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

• Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

  Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University); Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)

• Cities, Conflict, and Corridors

  Nils-Petter Lagerlöf (York University); Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka University)

E4: Networks — Room FL228

Chair: Raja Kali

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

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

• Network hiring, firm performance, and growth

  Ines Black (Duke University); Sharique Hasan (Duke University)

• Social Networks and Professional Success: Evidence from Foreign Newcomers on the PGA Tour

  Raja Kali (University of Arkansas); David Pastoriza (HEC Montreal); Jean-François Plante (HEC Montreal); Ekaterina Turkina (HEC Montreal)

E5: Platforms II — Room FH103

Chair: Catherine Thomas

• Platform governance and complementors’ performance: Evidence from the crowdfunding market

  Jordana Viotto da Cruz (University of Edinburgh Business School)

• Holding Platforms Liable

  Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law School); Xinyu Hua (HKUST)

• Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

  Christopher Stanton (HBS); Catherine Thomas (LSE)

E6: Employment and Firm Boundaries and Hierarchies — Room J225

Chair: Ashwin Kambhampati

• The Flattening Level of Organizations: A formal definition and its variability across firms

  Marco Antonio Barrenechea Mendez (Public University of Navarre); Pedro Ortin-Angel (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Alberto Bayo-Moriones (Public University of Navarre)

• Employment as a Relational Obligation to Work

  Michael Raith (University of Rochester)

• A Theory of Firm Boundaries with Long-Run Incentives and At-Will Employment

  Gorkem Bostanci (University of British Columbia); Ashwin Kambhampati (US Naval Academy)

E7: Strategy and Uncertainty — Room J230

Chair: Nona Karalashvili

• Why are Firms Different?

  BIRGER WERNERFELT (MIT)

• Transactional Governance Structures: New Cross-Country Data and an Application to the Effect of Uncertainty

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

E8: Discrimination in Organizations — Room FL219

Chair: Matthias Fahn

• Profitable Inequality

  Anja Prummer (JKU/QMUL); Francesco Nava (LSE)

• Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?

  Arjada Bardhi (Duke University); Yingni Guo (Northwestern University); Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

• Informal Incentives on Labor Markets – How Norms Shape Wages, Productivity, and Employment

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

E9: Democratic (In)Stability — Room FL223

Chair: Vincent Rollet

• Populism and Minimalist Democracy

  Elliot Foote (Monash University); Weijia Li (Monash University)

• Measuring Long Run Constitutional Textual Entrenchment and Its Effects

  Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

• Electoral Turnovers

  Vincent Pons (Harvard University); Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po); Vincent Rollet (MIT)

E10: Innovation and Change in History — Room FH105

Chair: Alberto Galasso

• Inclusive Institutions and Economic Development: How Local Institutions Shaped the Geography of the Industrial Revolution

  Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Federico Curci (CUNEF)

• Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice

  Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto); Stefano Comino (University of Udine); Clara Graziano (University of Udine)

F1: Public procurement — Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

• Decentralized procurement for drugs and centralized price cap: a structural approach

  Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Philippe Gagnepain (Paris School of Economics); David Martimort (Paris School of Economics); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

• Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

  Andres Gonzalez-Lira (Yale); Rodrigo Carril (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Michael S. Walker (Dept of Defense)

• The Bright Side of Discretion in Public Procurement

  Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore)

• Rigidity and initiative of renegotiation in public contracts : an empirical study

  Vincent Jardine (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

F2: Land Security and Titling — Room P120

Chair: Huiqian Song

• Mutual Insurance and Land Security in Rural Ghana

  Karol Mazur (University of Oxford); Georgios Manalis (European University Institute)

• Land titling and Industrial Development: the case of the Stolypin reform

  Igor Kolesnikov (Higher School of Economics); Vladimir Novikov (Higher School of Economics)

• Does Improved Tenure Security Reduce Fires? Evidence from the Greece Land Registry

  Huiqian Song (Simon Fraser University); Liang Diao (Simon Fraser University )

F3: Migration and Morality — Room J140

Chair: Tore Ellingsen

• Historical Legacies and the Impact of Emigration on Electoral Outcomes

  Dragos Radu (King's College London); Bogdan Voicu (Romanian Academy of Sciences)

• The Cultural Assimilation of Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution

  Olle Hammar (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

• Learning from the Origins: Immigrants’ Networks, Political Preferences, and the European Refugee Crisis

  Alexander Yarkin (Brown University)

• A Model of Social Duties

  Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Erik Mohlin (Lund University)

F4: Corporate Governance — Room FL228

Chair: Victor Saint-Jean

• Cracks in the Boards: the Opportunity Cost of Governance Homogeneity

  Helene Maghin (KU Leuven)

• Easing Restrictions to Corporate Influence: Regulatory Capture and the Electric Utility Industry

  Mark Van Orden (University of California, Irvine)

• Corporate Governance, Favoritism and Careers

  Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF); Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)

• The Voice: the Shareholders' Motives Behind Corporate Donations During COVID-19

  Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po); Victor Saint-Jean (Sciences Po); Simon Smith (Federal Reserve Board)

F5: The Role of Gender in Organizations — Room FH103

Chair: Jakob Alfitian

• Gender and Choice over Co-workers: Experimental Evidence

  Clement Minaudier (University of Vienna); Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Brais Alvarez Pereira (Nova School of Business and Economics); Shamyla Chaudry (Lahore School of Economics)

• Women in Economics: Europe and the World

  Guido Friebel (Goethe Universität); Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE); Alisa Weinberger (Goethe University); Sascha Wilhelm (Goethe University)

• Gendered Instructions and Economic Behavior

  Paul M. Gorny (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Karoline Ströhlein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT)

• Closing the Gender Pay Gap within Firms: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity

  Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne); Marvin Deversi (BARMER); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)

F6: Innovation II — Room J225

Chair: Michael Blomfield

• Intellectual Property Rights and New Technology Development: How the Replacement Effect and Capabilities Influence Firm Investment Following a Reduction In IPR

  Martin Hetu (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto); Denisa Mindruta (HEC Paris); William Mitchell (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

• B2B Projects, Task Configuration, and Innovation

  Elham Ghazimatin (The University of Stavanger); Erik A. Mooi (The University of Melbourne); Jan B. Heide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• CONTRACT REMEDIES FOR NEW ECONOMY COLLABORATIONS

  Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School); Simone Sepe (University of Arizona)

• Scientific Human Capital And Institutional Incentives: The Roles of Topic Knowledge and Research Skills

  Michael Blomfield (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

F7: Management and Performance — Room J230

Chair: Michael Waldman

• Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

  Augustin Bergeron (Stanford University); Pedro Bessone (Uber); John Kabeya Kabeya (DRC tax ministry); Gabriel Tourek (University of Pittsburgh); Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)

• Agile management and productivity: Empirical evidence from a large Chinese enterprise

  Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Yi Han (Renmin University of China); Yiming Liu (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & WZB)

• Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

  Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg); Niklas Wallmeier (University of Hamburg)

• Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency

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

F8: Democracy and the Bureaucracy — Room FL219

Chair: Michele Valsecchi

• Private Returns to Bureaucratic Appointments: Evidence from Financial Disclosures

  Song Yuan (University of Warwick); Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)

• Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability

  Tara Slough (New York University)

• Empty Reasons?

  Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School)

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

  Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School)

F9: Social Preferences in Organizations — Room FL223

Chair: Matthias Fahn

• Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

  Michael Haylock (University of Tübingen); Patrick Kampkötter (University of Tübingen); Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, CESifo, IZA, and ZEF); Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University Frankfurt and CESifo)

• Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations

  Razvan Vlaicu (Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank); Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Sergio Perilla (Universidad del Rosario)

• Social Conformity at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Anik Ashraf (LMU Munich)

• Incentives and Peer Effects in the Workplace: On the Impact of Inferiority Aversion on Organizational Design

  Jenny Kragl (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School); Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa); Peymaneh Safaynikoo (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School)

F10: Teams — Room FH105

Chair: Maria Titova

• Implicit Incentives and Delegation in Teams

  Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

• (Mis-)Perceptions of the Importance of Team Composition and Team Governance in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks

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

• Preferences and Productivity in Job Matching: Theory and Empirics from Internal Labor Markets

  Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Jonathan Davis (University of Oregon); Pablo Montagnes (Emory University); Patryk Perkowski (Columbia University)

• Collaborative Search for a Public Good

  Mariia Titova (Vanderbilt University)