SIOE 2024
Chicago, USA — Full Programme
Parallel A
A1: Clash of Cultures? — Room 1002
Chair: Michael Waldman
Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics
michael waldman (Cornell University); Yi Chen (Cornell University); Adam Dearing (Cornell University)
Explaining the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers
Jillian Grennan (UC Berkeley); Colleen Chien (UC Berkeley)
We Don’t Talk About Boys: An Experiment on Masculinity Norms in Brazil
Ieda Matavelli (UNSW)
A2: (Non)monopoly of Violence — Room 1022
Chair: Anja Shortland
The Mafia and LGBT Subculture in New York
Anja Shortland (King's College, London); Federico Varese (Oxford / Science Po)
Third-party intervention in sequential Wars of Attrition with incomplete information
Martin Castillo Quintana (University of Chicago)
Domino Secessions: Evidence from the US
Jean Lacroix (Université Paris Saclay); Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University); Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles)
A3: Political Attitudes and Activity — Room 0001
Chair: Eric Brousseau
Political Economy in Restaurants: Evidence from Hong Kong’s 2019 Social Movement
Derek Huo (University of Hong Kong); KW Chau (University of Hong Kong)
[CANCELLED] Bank Failures and Elite Democratic Consent: An Exploration with Individual Panel Data
Francesc Amat (IPERG - University of Barcelona); Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (University of Barcelona); Pau Vall-Prat (University Carlos III Madrid )
Political polarization dynamic during the covid-19 in developed countries
Eric Brousseau (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Bruno Chaves Ferreira (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Juan Diego Luksik (University Paris Dauphine|PSL)
A4: Institutions: Past, Present, and Criminal — Room 0007
Chair: Henry Thompson
The Price of Silence
Gabriel Benzecry (Northwood University); Garrett Scott (University of Mississippi); Henry Thompson (University of Mississippi)
A Two-Wave Death History: Fentanyl Overdoses in the US, Bullets in Mexico
Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University / Department of Economics); Ivan Lopez Cruz (Sabanci University)
The Emergence of Democratic Constitutions: Comparing the Modern World to Ancient Greece
F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson University); Robert Fleck (Clemson University)
A5: Market Entry — Room 0010
Chair: Sinziana Dorobantu
Global Entry: Reconceptualizing Multinational Investments as Two-Sided Matches between Governments and Firms
Sinziana Dorobantu (NYU Stern); Thomas Lindner (Copenhagen Business School); Laurenz Tinhoff (WU Vienna)
Patent Protection and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Natalia Lamberova (University of Texas at Dallas); Maxim Ananyev (The University of Melbourne)
Beyond the Label: Regulatory Slack and Forum Shopping in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Charu Gupta (UCLA Anderson); Jennifer Kao (UCLA Anderson)
A6: Contracts in Corporate Law — Room 0021
Chair: Kish Parella
Generalizing Freedom of Contract
Alan Schwartz (Yale University); Simone M. Sepe (University of Arizona)
Mandatory Equity Issuances as a First-Best Solution to Punishing Corporate Misconduct
Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin)
When should contract obligations be relieved under changed circumstances?
Henrik Lando (Copenhagen Business School)
A7: Labor Markets — Room 0023
Chair: Heski Bar-Isaac
Initial Match and Career Outcomes: Evidence from the NFL Draft
Miguel Martínez-Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes); Pablo Casas (Arizona State University); Stephen Hansen (University College of London); Asís Martínez-Jerez
Adverse Selection and Training Distortions for Monopsony Power
Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto); Raphael Levy (HEC)
Making the Elite: Top Jobs, Disparities, and Solutions
Soumitra Shukla (Federal Reserve)
A8: Technology, Privacy, and Regulation — Room 2112
Chair: Carmine Guerriero
Steering in One Click: Platform Self-Preferencing in the Amazon Buy Box
Devesh Raval (Harvard Law School)
The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps
Bo Bian (University of British Columbia); Xinchen Ma (LSE); Huan Tang (Wharton)
Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits
Joseph Kalmenovitz (University of Rochester); Samuel Antill (Harvard Business School)
A9: Decision Making in the Workplace — Room Sky Suite
Chair: Kieron Meagher
Agreeing to be fooled: Optimal ignorance about information sources
Takuma Habu (Cornell University)
A model of job-stress and burnout
Kieron Meagher (Australian National University); Arghya Ghosh (UNSW)
Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests
R. Vijay Krishna (Florida State University)
A10: Ideas in (Macro)history — Room Forum
Chair: Jared Rubin
From Status to Contract? A Macrohistory from Early-Modern English Caselaw and Print Culture
Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)
The Arc of Antitrust: A Text-based Measure of Antitrust Policy Beliefs and Attitudes
Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Jared Rubin (Chapman University); Ali Almelhem (World Bank); Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado); Austin Kennedy (University of Colorado)
Parallel B
B1: Firm Adaptation — Room 1002
Chair: Ricard Gil
Moving Away for Growth or from Uncertainty?
Mircea Epure (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona School of Economics); Feng Zhou (Toulouse Business School)
Doing Business Far from Home: Multinational Firms and Labor Market Outcomes in Saudi Arabia*
Alessandra González (University of Chicago); Xianglong Kong (University of Chicago)
Management practices and firm performance during the Great Recession: Evidence from Spanish survey data
Ricard Gil (Queen's University & IESE); Jose Enrique Galdon (UPNA); Florian Englmaier (LMU); Helene Strandt (LMU); Michael Kaiser (LMU)
B2: Political Mechanisms — Room 1022
Chair: Satoshi Fukuda
A Theory of Developmental Dictatorship
Hyungmin Park (University of Warwick)
Shaping Institutions
Satoshi Fukuda (Bocconi University); William Fuchs (UT Austin and Universidad Carlos III Madri)
Policymaking Precision and Electoral Accountability
Dan Alexander (University of Rochester); Mary Catherine Sullivan (FTI Consulting)
B3: Ronald Coase Institute Session: Autocracy and Public Attitudes — Room 0001
Chair: Mary Shirley; Discussant: Paulo Furquim de Azevedo (INSPIR)
Conflict and Nation-Building: The Case of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War
Alexey Makarin (MIT Sloan School of Management); Serhii Abramenko (EIEF and LUISS); Vasily Korovkin (UPF)
Language Identity and Foreign Propaganda: Evidence from the Russia-Ukraine War
Sergey Sanovich (Stanford University); Andrey Simonov (Columbia University)
Natural disasters support authoritarian populism: Evidence from the Brazilian shrimp vote
Francisco Cavalcanti (Federal University of Pernambuco); Diogo Baerlocher (University of South Florida); Renata Caldas (University of South Florida); Rodrigo Schneider (Skidmore College)
B4: Polycentric Governance — Room 0007
Chair: Aparna Howlader
Local Institutions, Natural Resource Management, and Economic Development: Implication of post-Dust Bowl Institutional Changes on American Agriculture
Aparna Howlader (Chatham University)
Polycentric Governance in Collusive Agreements
W. Benedikt Schmal (Walter Eucken Institute)
[CANCELLED] Institution, Diversity, and Local Development: Lessons from China's Administrative Village System
Bin Huang (University of Zurich)
B5: Corruption — Room 0010
Chair: Jordan Gans-Morse
The Causal Impact of Electoral Rules on Corruption
Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)); Abel Françoiis (Université de Strasbourg); Nicolas Lagios (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
Corruption and Property Rights: Evidence from Russian Commercial Courts
Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University); David Szakonyi (George Washington University)
Redundancy as a Legal Strategy to Fight Corruption
Mariana Prado (University of Toronto)
B6: Litigation — Room 0021
Chair: Daniel Klerman
Third-Party Involvement in Litigation: An Economic Analysis
Omer Pelled (Bar-Ilan University School of Law)
Diversity Jurisdiction and Out-of-State Bias: Experimental Evidence
Daniel Klerman (University of Southern Californiat); Jonathan Nash (Emory Law School)
Bias and Accuracy in Jury Selection
Amna Salam (Vanderbilt University)
B7: Contracts in Economics — Room 0023
Chair: Francine Lafontaine
When Talking Doesn’t Help: On the Limits of Communication and the Value of Simple Contracts
Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne); Oliver Hart (Harvard University); Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts: The Threat Point Effect
Russell Morton (University of Michigan)
How Do Firms Protect Competitively Sensitive Information? The Case of Franchising
Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan); Lorenzo Luisetto (University of Michigan); JJ Prescott (University of Michigan)
B8: Societal Collapse and Resilience to Environmental Shocks — Room 2112
Chair: Carmine Guerriero
The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: A Reinterpretation of the Classic Maya Collapse
Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg); Melissa Rubio (University of Cologne)
Climate Change, State-Building and Societal Resilience in Ancient Egypt
Carmine Guerriero (University of bologna); Amin Gholami (University of Bologna)
B9: Governance and Worker Welfare — Room Sky Suite
Chair: Jack Fisher
Worker Welfare in the Gig Economy
Jack Fisher (Harvard Business School)
Minority Representation at Work
Anthony Le (Columbia University); Matthias Breuer (Columbia University); Wei Cai (Columbia University); Felix Vetter (University of Mannheim)
When Should a Firm Employ its Workers? A Relational Contracting Approach
Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Anja Schöttner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
B10: Economic History: China — Room Forum
Chair: Zhaotian Luo
[CANCELLED] Merit-based Recruitment and Government Performance: Evidence from Random Assignment of Administrators
Kevin Liu (University of Hong Kong)
Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Theory of Power Dynamics and Social Evolution
Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago); Shuyi Yu (University of Chicago)
Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860 – 1911
Yujing Huang (UCLA Anderson School of Management); Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong); Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia)
Parallel C
C1: Identity and Economics — Room 1002
Chair: Max Posch
How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History
Max Posch (University of Exeter); Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University); Joseph Heinrich (Harvard University)
Group Identity and Agency Frictions: Evidence using Big Data
Jitendra Aswani (MIT Sloan)
Made in America: The Polarizing Effect of Trump’s Rallies on American Consumption
Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University); Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Joao Granja (University of Chicago); Sara Moreira (Northwestern University)
C2: Dynamic Incentives and Polarization — Room 1022
Chair: Johannes Schneider
Signaling Competence Through Policy Revision
Benjamin Shaver (University of Chicago)
Embracing the Enemy
Johannes Schneider (universidad carlos 3 de madrid); Alvaro Delgado-Vega (eth Zurich)
From Gridlock to Polarization
Marc Jacob (Stanford); Barton Lee (ETH Zurich); Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney)
C3: Theory of the Firm — Room 0001
Chair: Michael Wong
Intermediated Trade with Relational Contracts
Duoxi Li (Conernstone Research); Michael Wong (University of Hong Kong)
Between Markets & Treaties: International Law, Agency Costs and the Theory of the Firm
Kish Parella (Washington and Lee Law School)
Tax and the Boundaries of the Firm
Jordan Barry (USC Gould School of Law); Victor Fleischer (UC Irvine School of Law)
C4: Institutions of Coordination — Room 0007
Chair: Hagay Volvovsky
Local Media and the Shaping of Social Norms: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Guinea
Ada Gonzalez-Torres (Ben-Gurion University)
Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
Hagay Volvovsky (Coller School of Management | Tel-Aviv University)
Narratives, Trust, and Market Exchange in Developing Countries
Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Juan Pedro Ronconi (Universidad de los Andes)
C5: Economic Behavior under Weak Institutions — Room 0010
Chair: Marta Troya Martinez
Family Labor, Enforcement, and Product Quality: Evidence from the Lao Textile Industry
Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo); Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)
Payment Uncertainty and Weak Institutions
Daniel Sonnenstuhl (University of Chicago)
Public Procurement Relationships in the Shadow of Trial: Evidence from Russia
Marta Troya Martinez (New Economic School); Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (HEC Lausanne); Gerhard Toews (New Economic School)
C6: Bankruptcy & Firm Boundaries: Asset Transfers, Entity Partitions, and Other Legal Bundles — Room 0021
Chair: Anthony Casey
Chapter 11’s Inclusivity Problem
Sarah Paterson (London School of Economics); Adrian Walters (Chicago Kent)
The Puzzle of Ex Post Asset Partitions
Anthony Casey (University of Chicago Law School)
Cryptofraud and the Private Ledger Problem
Douglas Baird (University of Chicago Law School)
C7: Mobility — Room 0023
Chair: Eric Alston
A theory of discriminatory institutions, with applications to apartheid and to the political economy of migration
James Choy (University of York)
Geographical mobility as a bridge to opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service
Antoni-Italo De Moragas (CUNEF Universidad); Ignacio González (American University); Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway University of London); Julio Cáceres-Delpiano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Did Improving the Lot Improve the Lots of the People? Evaluating the Economic Mobility from the Homestead Act
Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)
C8: Race and Ethnicity — Room 2112
Chair: Jenny Guardado
Unequal Burden: Colonial Taxation and Living Standard Disparities Within Minorities
Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University)
Other people's children: Racial diversity and community support for public schools in the United States
Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota); Farzam Boroomand (University of Minnesota)
Race and Science
Gaia Dossi (LSE)
C9: Teams — Room Sky Suite
Chair: David Schindler
Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap
Matteo Camboni (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Michael Porcellacchia (Kiel Institute for World Economy)
The (Mis)Perceived Determinants of Team Success in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks
David Schindler (Tilburg University); Florian Englmaier (University of Munich); Dominik Grothe (University of Munich); Simeon Schudy (Ulm University)
Do Teams Perform Differently Under Black and Hispanic Leaders? Evidence from the Chicago Police Department
Taeho Kim (University of Toronto); Matthew Gudgeon (Tufts University); Andrew Jordan (Washington University in St. Louis)
C10: Historical Political Economy: China — Room Forum
Chair: Lilac Zihui Zhao
Land Tax Reforms and Peasant Revolts: Evidence from Imperial Qing China
Lilac Zihui Zhao (Cornell University); Zongge Zhu (Wuhan University)
The Balancing Act of Indirect and Direct Rule: Evidence from the Qing Empire
Jun Fang (University of Michigan); James Kung (University of Melbourne)
The Economics of Mobilizing Free-riders: Evidence from the Chinese Civil War 1945-1949
Peiyuan LI (Duke Kunshan University)
Parallel D
D1: Political Culture — Room 1002
Chair: Fiona Shen-Bayh
Idioms of Empire: Political Narratives of Colonialism in the French Parliament, 1881-2005
Fiona Shen-Bayh (University of Maryland); Risa Kitagawa (Northeastern University)
Bad Democracy Traps
Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney); Barton Lee (ETH Zurich); Hasin Yousaf (UNSW Sydney)
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); A. Arda Gitmez (Bilkent University); James A. Robinson (University of Chicago)
D2: Organizations and Reputation Building — Room 1022
Chair: Álvaro Delgado-Vega
A Model of Succession
ALVARO DELGADO-VEGA (ETH Zurich & University of Chicago); Ben Shaver (University of Chicago)
Reputational Bargaining and Inefficient Technology Adoption
Maren Vairo (Northwestern University)
An Organizational Theory of Political Parties
Spencer Pantoja (Stanford University)
D3: The Political Economy of War: Civil Conflict — Room 0001
Chair: Jeffrey Jenkins
Conflict and Female Leadership: Evidence from Colombia
Francisco Eslava (UBC)
The Long Civil War: Battle Exposure and Anti-Black Racism in the US South
Federico Masera (University of New South Wales); Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Sarah Walker (University of New South Wales)
War’s Effects on Legislative Voting Behavior: Evidence from the US Civil War
Jeffery Jenkins (University of Southern California); Nicholas Napolio (UC-Riverside)
D6: Institutional Perspectives on Regulatory Law & Economics in Energy — Room 0021
Chair: Lynne Kiesling
Neo-Corporatism and Energy Efficiency Regulation
Dean Williamson (Independent Researcher)
The Public Law of Public Utilities
Joshua Macey (University of Chicago Law School); Brian Richardson (Cornell University Law School)
Energy Prosumers and Behavioral Interventions
Rimvydas Baltaduonis (Gettysburg College & SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University); Jurate Jaraite (Vilnius University); Andrius Kazukauskas (Vilnius University)
D7: Norms and Reciprocity — Room 0023
Chair: Gillian Hadfield
Reciprocity: On the Relative Importance and Interaction of Intention and Outcome Effects
Simon Dato (EBS University of Business and Law); Tim Friehe (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Norms as a Solution to the Tragedy of the Commons: A Co-evolutionary Model
Fabian Mankat (University of Kassel)
Normative Infrastructure Supports Within-Group Adaptation Among the Turkana
Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto); Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University); Danson Mwangi (Institute for Primate Research, Nairobi)
D8: AI for Social Change and Benefit — Room 2112
Chair: Patricia Prüfer
Using AI to solve labor market matching problems
Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University); Marcia Den Uijl (Centerdata)
Algorithmic Predictions and Bureaucratic Behavior Adjustment
John Körtner (University of Lausanne); Patrick Arni (University of Bristol)
Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya
Daniel Chen (Toulouse School of Economics, IAST, CNRS)
D9: Governance within Organizations I — Room Sky Suite
Chair: Aloysius Siow
Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck
Mikhail Drugov (New Economic School); Margaret Meyer (University of Oxford); Marc Moller (University of Bern)
What do managers do?
Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto); Kevin Lim (University of Toronto)
Productive Narratives
Théo Durandard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
D10: Historical Political Economy: Old World and New — Room Forum
Chair: Ali Cirone
Writing and the Early State: An Empirical Study of Mesopotamia
Federica Carugati (King's College London); Giacomo Benati (University of Barcelona)
[CANCELLED] Demobilization Through Inaction: Bureaucratic Delay, Ambiguity, and Frustrated Collective Action
Emily Sellars (Yale University)
Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe
Volha Charnysh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford)
Lotteries and Democracy
Ali Cirone (Yale University, Cornell University)
Parallel E
E1: Corporate and Household Finance — Room 1002
Chair: M. Yasir Khan
Finance, Employment, and Survival: Evidence from Bank Liquidations in Ukraine
John S. Earle (George Mason University); Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Solomiya Shpak (George Mason University)
Credit Scores and Committed Relationships
Geng Li (Federal Reserve Board); Jane Dokko (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago); Jessica Hayes (Rand Corporation)
Equilibrium Effects of "Financial Affirmative Action": Evidence from India
M. Yasir Khan (University of Pittsburgh)
E2: Mechanism Design and Social Choice — Room 1022
Chair: Nathan Atkinson
Mechanism Design by a Politician
Giovanni Valvassori Bolgè (ETH Zürich)
Decentralizing Content Moderation
Dongkyu Chang (City University of Hong Kong); Adrian Segura (Pompeu Fabra University); Pengfei Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas)
The Strong Maximum Circulation Algorithm: A New Method for Aggregating Preference Rankings
Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin); Scott Ganz (Georgetown); Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley); James Orlin (MIT)
E3: Political Organization and Lobbying — Room 0001
Chair: John Ahlquist
Political Organizations and Organizational Politics: Reintegrating Organization Science into the Study of Political Actors and Institutions
John Ahlquist (UC San Diego); Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford)
Corporate Lobbying in the European Union
Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi University); Nel Dutt (Bocconi University); Elie Sung (HEC)
Policy-advising competition and endogenous lobbies
Daniel Habermacher (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Manuel Foerster (Bielefeld University)
E4: State Capacity — Room 0007
Chair: Mateo Uribe-Castro
Elite Factions, Inequality, and Taxation
Diana Ricciulli-Marin (UBC-VSE); Mateo Uribe-Castro (Universidad de los Andes)
Private Colonization and State Capacity: Evidence from the Brazilian Donatary Captaincies
Fernando Secco (University of British Columbia); Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia); Humberto Laudares (University of Geneva)
[CANCELLED] Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan
Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Clement Minaudier (City University of London)
E5: Competition: Conflict, Coordinates, and Connections — Room 0010
Chair: Quoc-Anh Do
Green Gold: Avocado Production and Conflict in Mexico
Juan Carlos Angulo (University of Maryland, College Park)
To Enter or Not to Enter Agglomerations? Navigating Multinational Corporations’ Internal Sourcing in Foreign Investment Locations
Der-Ting Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Power, Scrutiny, and Congressmen's Favoritism for Friends' Firms
Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Yen-Teik Lee (National University of Singapore); Bang Nguyen (Cambridge University); Kieu-Trang Nguyen (Northwestern University)
E6: Law and Development — Room 0021
Chair: Jun Goto
Reform Multiplier
Bakhtawar Ali (Aix-Marseilles School of Economics)
When Judges Rewrite the Constitution: Evidence from Indian High Courts
Jun Goto (GRIPS, Tokyo)
Ethnic Disparity in Criminal Sentences in China: Evidence from the Universe of Court Verdicts
WENWEI PENG (Harvard University); Takanao Tanaka (UC Berkeley)
E7: Elections — Room 0023
Chair: Monika Nalepa
Accountability, Identity Politics, and Democratic Decay: Experimental Evidence from the World’s Third Largest Democracy
Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore); Piero Stanig (Bocconi University)
Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal); Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School); Randy Kotti (CREST); Rafael Di Tella (Harvard Business School)
Legacies of Authoritarian Resistance and Present-day Democratic Resilience in Poland
Monika Nalepa (The University of Chicago); Hanna Folsz (Stanford)
E8: Governing Artificial Intelligence Around the Globe — Room 2112
Chair: Jens Prüfer
Generative AI and Copyright: A Dynamic Perspective
Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
The birth of comparative AI governance
Pierre Larouche (Université de Montréal)
The Evolution of AI Regulation in the U.S.
Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto)
E9: Culture and Culture Change in Organizations — Room Sky Suite
Chair: Laura Boudreau
Measuring Organizational Capital
Wei Cai (Columbia Business School); Andrea Prat (Columbia Business School)
Meaning at Work
Virginia Minni (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Beyond bonuses: the incentive effect of a prosocial initiative on bankers
Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University)
E10: Institutions and Development in Late Imperial Russia — Room Forum
Chair: Steven Nafziger
Democratization and Public Finances: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire
Dmitrii Kofanov (Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh)
Cultural Links and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Industry in Late Imperial Russia
Tamar Matiashvili (Stanford University); Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics)
Customary Institutions and the Demand for Land Titling in Late Imperial Russia
Natalia Vasilenok (Stanford University)
Parallel G
G1: Religion — Room 1002
Chair: Peter Hazlett
[CANCELLED] An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions
Weijia Li (Monash University); Shaoda Wang (The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy)
Institutions and Rapid Religious Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada
Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (Stanford)
Ear-Witnessing Sin: The Law and Economics of Puritan Organization
Peter Hazlett (New York University); Peter Leeson (George Mason University)
Faith in the Storm: Exploring the Dynamics of Evangelical Religiosity in Response to Natural Disasters
chak sang chan (Stockholm School of Economics)
G2: Innovation and Technology Adoption — Room 1022
Chair: Philip Keefer
Determinants and Social Dividends of Digital Adoption
Mariano Moszoro (IMF); Utkarsh Kumar (Columbia University); David Amaglobeli (IMF)
[CANCELLED] Demand-Driven Innovation and Spillover Effects on Adjacent Technological Domains: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Technologies
Jino Lu (University of Southern California)
Competition, social learning, and technology adoption: The case of mobile money in Peruvian markets
Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Alvaro Espinoza (GRADE); Mauricio Espinoza (GRADE); Ricardo Fort (GRADE); Rodrigo Rivarola (GRADE)
Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?
Tarek Ghani (WUSTL)
G3: The Political Economy of War: External Conflict — Room 0001
Chair: Federico Masera
Enigma
Jens Oehlen (Stockholm University)
The effect of war on redistribution preferences
Alexei Zakharov (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago); Philipp Chapkovski (Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn)
Bargaining over State Building in the Shadow of War
Daniel Goldstein (University of Oslo); Yusuf Magiya (NYU Abu Dhabi)
When War Sparks Unrest: Evidence from the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution
Vladimir Novikov (University of Chicago)
G4: Land and Property Rights — Room 0007
Chair: Jonathan Conning
Development Mismatch: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa
Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University); Nathan Nunn (UBC)
Institutional Diversity in Spectrum Sharing: Exclusive and Nonexclusive Property-Rights Regimes
Ali Palida (University of Pittsburgh); Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh)
A model of enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Property Rights to Land
Jonathan Conning (CUNY Hunter College and Th Graduate Center); Matthew Baker (CUNY Hunter College and The Graduate Center)
Incomplete Property Rights and Farm Size: Evidence from Haiti
Craig Palsson (Utah State University); Parker Sonnenberg (Florida State University)
G5: Markets, Identity, and Culture — Room 0010
Chair: Barak Richman
Statelessness in an Era of Nationalism: The Diamond Cartel and the Nazi War Machine
Chaim Even Zohar (n/a); Barak Richman (Duke University)
Dream of Californication - Trade, Human Rights and the California Effect
Jonathan Bothner (University of Bayreuth); Tim Röthel (University of Bayreuth)
How Much Should You Pay to Speak Esperanto? Quantifying Cultural Impacts on Trade through Wikipedia Network Statistics
Matthew Histen (California State University, Northridge); Alex Yukhov (California State University, Northridge)
Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States
Itzchak Tzachi Raz (Hebrew University); Max Posch (University of Exeter)
G6: State Ownership and Privatization — Room 0021
Chair: Giorgio Zanarone
The Exclusive Nature of Private Solutions to Public Problems: Evidence from (For-profit) Charter Schools in the US
Farzam Boroomand (Carlson School of Management)
Business Environment after SOE Reforms: How Unemployment Discourages Foreign Investments
Jing Xu (Tsinghua University); Jian Xu (National University of Singapore)
Relationships in the wild: how institutions affect the governance of firms
Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne); Gani Aldashev (ECARES, ULB); Heikki Rantakari (University of Rochester)
Career Incentives and Employee Productivity in State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from India
Samarth Gupta (Ahmedabad University); Kaushendra Kishore (CAFRAL); Tanisha Agrawal (University of Texas, Austin)
G7: Media — Room 0023
Chair: Roya Talibova
Democracy and Internet Control: Theory and Evidence from Transparency Reports
Shreyas Meher (The University of Texas at Dallas); Pengfei Zhang (The University of Texas at Dallas)
From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information
Andrew Dickens (Brock University); Mathias Bühler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Crisis? What crisis? Bank Stability, financial development and propaganda
Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Karolin Kirschenmann (ZEW); Konstantin Sonin (The University of Chicago, Harris School for Public Policy University); Ruben Enikolopov (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona IPEG)
#Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support
Roya Talibova (Vanderbilt University); Erik Wibbels (University of Pennsylvania); Ernesto Calvo (Maryland University)
G8: Bureaucracy — Room 2112
Chair: Mahvish Shaukat
Turnover, Morale, and Performance in Bureaucracies: Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Mahvish Shaukat (World Bank DECRG); Samuel Bazzi (UCSD); Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW Sydney); Benjamin Marx (Boston University); Andreas Stegmann (University of Warwick)
Crisis Control in Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China’s Zero-Covid Policy
Andong Yan (University of California, Riverside); Da Gong (University of California, Riverside); Ziao Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Governing like China: The Control of Local Bureaucrats in a Centralized State
Tianyang Xi (Peking University); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago); Zanhui Liu (Tsinghua University); Yuchen Qiu (Peking University); Hongding Zhu (University of Chicago)
Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle
Philipp Barteska (LSE); Jay Euijung Lee (Stockholnm)
G9: Governance within Organizations II — Room Sky Suite
Chair: Scott Masten
The Inner Beauty of Firms
Jacob Kohlhepp (UNC Chapel Hill)
Faculty Privilege: Research and the Rise of Tenure and Faculty Authority in American Higher Education
Scott Masten (University of Michigan)
Big-Bang Reforms
Hongyi Li (UNSW Sydney); Anton Kolotilin (UNSW Sydney)
Barriers to Organizational Performance: Experimental Evidence of the Importance of Relational Contracts
Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Catolica); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Jose Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)
G10: Economic History: Old World and New — Room Forum
Chair: Natalya Naumenko
Ink and Ire: The Revolutionary Impact of Russian Literature
Vladimir Avetian (University Paris-Dauphine); Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)
Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire
Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King's College London)
American relief and the Soviet famine of 1921-22
Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University); Volha Charnysh (MIT); Andrei Markevich (NES and the University of Helsinki)
From Salt to Strife: Fiscal Fragmentation and Conflict
Joseph Enguehard (ENS Lyon); Eva Davoine (UC Berkeley); Igor Koleskinov (UC Berkeley)