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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)

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