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SIOE 2025

Sydney, Australia — Full Programme

Parallel A

A1: Corruption — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Marta Troya Martinez

  • Apex Corruption Erodes Democratic Values

    SAUMITRA JHA (Stanford University)

  • Oligarchic Networks of Influence and Legislatures in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Ukraine

    Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)

  • Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions

    Marta Troya Martinez (UAB and NES)

A2: Environmental Governance and Policy — Room UNSW Business School 130

Chair: Kathryn Baragwanath

  • Adapting to climate change with (in)complete land property rights: Evidence from the Greece land registry reform

    Huiqian Song (Simon Fraser University); François Bareille (INRAE); Liang Diao (INRAE)

  • Greener Thy Neighbor? On the Welfare Effects of Protectionist Climate Policies

    Saumya Deojain (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology); David Lindequist (Miami University, Ohio, USA)

  • Beyond the Canopy: How Satellite Data Resolution Influences Policy Evaluation and Deforestation Behavior

    Kathryn Baragwanath (University of Melbourne); Nilesh Shinde (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

  • Rethinking the Value and Emission Implications of Green Bonds

    Jitendra Aswani (MIT Sloan); Shivaram Rajgopal (Columbia Business School)

A3: Measurement, Incentives, and Methodological Innovation — Room UNSW Business School 205

Chair: Torsten Figueiredo Walter

  • The Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration

    Johannes Hoelzemann (University of Vienna); Gustavo Manso (UC Berkeley); Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley); Matteo Tranchero (University of Pennsylvania )

  • Forecast Elicitation and Frequency Control

    Nawaaz Khalfan (Monash University); Guillaume Roger (Monash University)

  • Endogenous Sample Selection

    Torsten Figueiredo Walter (NYUAD); Niclas Moneke (Oxford University)

A4: Information and People Flows in History — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Gianluca Russo

  • International Migration, Exchange Rate Shocks, and Education Investment

    Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW)

  • The Money is in the Mail: The evolution of the global Postal Money Order network

    Florian Ploeckl (University of Adelaide)

  • Media and Assimilation: Evidence from the Golden Age of Radio

    Gianluca Russo (Barcelona School of Economics)

A5: Gender Norms in and across Organizations — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Maria Guadalupe

  • Masculinity Around The World

    Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne); Ralph De Haas (EDRB); Ieda Matiavelli (UNSW); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW)

  • Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms

    Kieu-Trang Nguyen (University of Melbourne & Northwestern University); Virginia Minni (University of Chicago); Heather Sarsons (University of British Columbia)

  • Gender Composition and University Climate

    Silvia Griselda (E61 Institute/Bocconi University); Paola Profeta (Bocconi University); Giulia Savio (University of Turin)

  • Norms at Work: Well-being, Performance and Hyper-Competition in Academia

    Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD); Daisy Pollenne (INSEAD); Kaisa Snellman (INSEAD)

A6: Externalities Across International Borders — Room UNSW Business School 119

Chair: Kim Sung-Bae

  • Cross-border Spillover Effects of Dams along International Rivers

    Yu-Hsiang Lei (HKUST)

  • A Framework for Evaluating Border Configurations: Applications to Africa

    Sasha Petrov (University of Chicago)

  • Governance of Cross-border Trade by Small World Network: The Case of Informal Trades between Sinuiju-Dandong in the North Korean and Chinese Border Region

    Sung-Bae Kim (Soongsil University); Myeong-Sook Baek (Soongsil University)

A7: Organizational Culture — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Luis Vasconcelos

  • Dismantling Workplace Norms: Strategies for Cultural Diffusion

    DJ Thornton (UNSW Sydney); Alastair Langtry (University of Bristol)

  • Specialists And Generalists In Adaptive Organizations

    Kohei Takahashi (Waseda University)

  • Managing Loyalty in Hierarchical Organisations

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

A8: Political Institutions and Governance — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Yves Zenou

  • The market for extortion and protection

    Martin Castillo-Quintana (The University of Chicago); Felipe Balmaceda (Andrés Bello University)

  • Politics of Food: An Experiment on Trust in Expert Regulation and Economic Costs of Political Polarization

    Christopher Burnitt (University of Warwick); Mateusz Stalinski (University of Warwick); Jared Gars (University of Florida)

  • The Polarization Paradox: Why More Connections Can Divide Us

    Yves Zenou (Monash University)

Parallel B

B1: Media, Social Media, and Politics I — Room UNSW Business School 220

Chair: Gabriele Gratton

  • Breaking the Spiral of Silence

    Yihong Huang (Peking University); Yuen Ho (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Article-Level Slant and Polarization of News Consumption on Social Media

    Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv University); Luca Braghieri (Bocconi); Sarah Eichmeyer (Bocooni); Markus Mobius (Microsoft Research); Jacob Steinhardt (U.C. Berkeley); Ruiqi Zhong (U.C. Berkeley)

  • Strategic Use of Social Media by Political Parties: Evidence from Italy

    Federico Boffa (Free University of Bolzano); Giacomo Battiston (Rockwool Foundation, Berlin); Eugenio Levi (Link Campus, Roma); Steven Stillman (Free University of Bolzano)

B2: Political Protests I — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Francisco Pino

  • Focal Points and Salience in Protest Coordination

    Tim Baule (University of Bayreuth); Henrik Guhling (University of Bayreuth)

  • Group (Mis)Perception and Strategic Behavior in Protests: Evidence from Women’s March in Chile

    Francisco Pino (University of Chile); Sofia Correa (University of Chile); Agustina Crozier (University of Chile)

B3: Environmental Cooperation and Collective Action — Room UNSW Business School 130

Chair: Alberto Simpser

  • NEGOTIATING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS IN THE SHADOW OF REGULATION

    Adam Fremeth (University of Western Ontario); Guy Holburn (University of Western Ontario); Kartik Rao (Trent University)

  • Cooperation and asymmetries in common-pool resources

    Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)

  • Strengthening accountability for climate change: Experimental evidence on grassroots demand for government action in Mexico

    Alberto Simpser (ITAM); Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia (ITAM); Vidal Romero (ITAM)

B4: Historical Socioeconomics — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Akwasi Ampofo

  • Marriage Market and Assortative Matching in Colonial Tasmania

    Aleksandra Erakhtina (University of Technology Sydney)

  • The persistent health effects of defoliating Vietnam

    Nguyen Vuong (University of Tsukuba)

  • Slave trade and the spread of Islam in Africa

    Laura Panza (University of Melbourne); Akwasi Ampofo (University of Adelaide); Umair Khalil (Deakin University); Francisco Silva (Deakin University)

B5: Labor Market Policies — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Krisztina Orban

  • The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa

    Timothy Köhler (University of Cape Town); Benjamin Stanwix (University of Cape Town); Haroon Bhorat (University of Cape Town)

  • Estimating the Educational Impact of Prohibition Laws: A Natural Experiment in India

    Shreyas Ramkumar (FLAME University); Kriti Bhargava (FLAME University)

  • Firm and Worker Effects of Employment Equity Legislation: Evidence from South Africa

    Krisztina Orban (Monash University); Daniel Brink (U Michigan)

B6: Pay and Incentives — Room Colombo LG02

Chair: Bobak Pakzad-Hurson

  • Pay transparency, fairness perceptions and work effort: Experimental evidence from China

    Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz); Valeria Galchenko (University of Konstanz); Alex Wong (Wheaton College); Xiang Zhou (Xiaotong University)

  • Competing Motivations: When More Incentives Lead To Less Effort

    Kieran Gibson (The University of Queensland)

  • Equal Pay for Equal Work for Equal Pay

    Bobak Pakzad-Hurson (Brown University); Bo Cowgill (Columbia)

B7: Knowledge and Communication — Room UNSW Business School 119

Chair: Robert Akerlof

  • Why Are We Conscious? A Social Scientific Explanation

    Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University); Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia)

  • Beyond Words: Non-Verbal Cues in Virtual Collaborations

    Michelle Hörrmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Sven Walther (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

  • Getting the Picture

    Robert Akerlof (UNSW); Richard Holden (UNSW); Hongyi Li (UNSW)

B8: Adaptive Organizations — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Hideshi Itoh

  • Authority, Risk Aversion, and Adaptation to Unforeseen Disturbances

    Yusuke Mori (Ritsumeikan University)

  • Optimal Rule Enforcement

    Hanzhe Li (University of Hong Kong); Jin Li (University of Hong Kong); Yunchou Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

  • The Allocation of Decision Authority Revisited: A Simple Analysis of Three-Stage Decision Processes

    Hideshi Itoh (Waseda University); Kimiyuki Morita (Senshu University)

B9: Post-Conflict Politics & Transitions — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Fali Huang

  • One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women's Suffrage

    Alice Calder (University of New South Wales)

  • Can Democracy Leave a Trace? Evidence from the 1815–1860 Franco-Piedmontese Border

    Antoine Boucher (University of Göttingen)

  • Pro Liberalism or Illiberal? The Nature of Civic Mobilization and Economic Growth

    Fali Huang (Singapore Management University); Di Sima (Nanjing Audit University,)

Parallel C

C1: Media, Social Media, and Politics II — Room UNSW Business School 220

Chair: Andrea Prat

  • Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire: How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate

    Lehan Zhang (ETH Zurich); Gabriele Gratton (UNSW Sydney); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW Sydney); Hasin Yousaf (UNSW Sydney)

  • The Anatomy of Censorship and Propaganda: Evidence from Russian Wikipedias

    Ruben Durante (National University of Singapore); Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics); Vladimir Avetian (Paris Dauphine); Ulrich Matter (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

  • Building States through Public Truth-Telling

    Gianluca Russo (Barcelona School of Economics); Thomas Gautier (Kiel Institute); Daniela Horta Saenz (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

C2: Political Protests II — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Prasad Bhattacharya

  • The Political Economy of Neoliberal Narratives

    Adam Brzezinski (LSE); Timothy Besley (LSE)

  • The Scar of Political Conflict: Evidence from Tear Gas Deployments in Hong Kong

    Derek Huo (University of Hong Kong); Heng Chen (University of Hong Kong)

  • Land Reform as a Panacea? Evidence from Rural Protests in Latin America1

    Prasad Bhattacharya (Discipline of Economics, Deakin University, Australia)

C3: Self-Organisation, Public Goods, and Local Institutions — Room UNSW Business School 130

Chair: Kim-Sau Chung

  • An Examination of Centralized Local Governance and Development Through Turkey’s New Mega-Municipalities

    Ramazan Bora (University of Queensland)

  • The Detrimental Effect of Group Size on Institution Formation

    Julian Detemple (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz); Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • Differentiated Public Goods

    Kim-Sau Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University)

C4: Historial Political Economy: Colonialism — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Maleke Fourati

  • Bringing in the far right: The electoral impact of the French Algerian repatriates

    Camille Remigereau (UNSW)

  • Sins of the Fathers: The Legacy of Frontier Violence on Australian Communities

    Cain Polidano (University of Melbourne); Julie Moschion (University of Queensland); Charlotte Zhan (University of Auckland)

  • Resisting Education? Religious Identity, Historical Ties and Literacy in Colonial India

    Yatish Arya (Ashoka University); Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)

  • The Colonial Legacy of Education: Evidence from Tunisia

    Maleke Fourati (Mediterranean School of Business and University of French Polynesia); Mhamed Ben Salah (Mediterranean School of Business); Cédric Chambru (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

C5: Households as / and Firms — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Adeline Delavande

  • Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap

    Shintaro Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo); Yoko Okuyama (Uppsala University); Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)

  • On the existence of informal insurance mechanism within French couples

    Ha Nguyen (Curtin University)

  • HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs, and Parental Investments

    ADELINE DELAVANDE (UTS and NOVA SBE); Sarah Walker (UNSW); Pauline Grosjean (UNSW); Alejandrina Cristia (ENS, EHESS)

C6: Culture and Diversity — Room UNSW Business School 119

Chair: Helena Miton

  • Diversity in Teams

    Andrew Wait (University of Sydney); Miaomiao Dong (Pennsylvania State University); Tatiana Mayskaya (HSE University); Vladimir Smirnov (University of Sydney); Olivia Taylor (University of Sydney)

  • An Economic Model of Acculturation under Strategic Complements and Substitutes

    Sebastiano Della Lena (Monash University)

  • The Cultural and Cognitive Scaffolding of Global Exchanges

    Helena Miton (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

C7: Organizational Leaders — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Ritsu Kitagawa

  • Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction

    Ashley Craig (Australian National University); Clémentine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto); Abdelrahman Amer (University of Toronto)

  • Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory

    Yihong Huang (Peking University); Yuen Ho (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Supervisor Accuracy in Subjective Evaluations and Employee Careers

    Ritsu Kitagawa (Columbia University); Hayato Kanayama (Waseda University); Yuji Kawata (Waseda University)

C8: Structure of the Firm — Room Colombo LG01

Chair: Thomas Jungbauer

  • Non-monitoring Monitoring in Teams

    Hyungmin Park (University of Warwick); Chan-Oi Song (Korea University)

  • What is a Family Firm and Why Does It Matter? A Survey of Family Firm Definitions

    Yi-Chun Lu (soochow University Taipei Taiwan); Vikas Mehrotra (University of Alberta); Morten Bennedsen (INSEAD)

  • Poaching, Raids, and Managerial Compensation

    Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University); Yi Chen (Cornell University); Fabiano Dal-Ri (Cornell University); Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

C9: Elites and Leadership — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Mari Tanaka

  • Why do People Follow Leaders? Evidence from 1936 Spain

    Marcos Salgado (FGV EPGE)

  • A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam

    Luu Duc Toan Huynh (Queen Mary University of London); Kiet Tuan Duong (University of York)

  • The Last or Lasting Samurai? The Impact of Secondary Schools on Elite Formation in Early Development

    Mari Tanaka (University of Tokyo); Hidehiko Ichimura (University of Arizona); Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo); Yutaro Takayasu (University of Tokyo)

C10: Origins and Boundaries of the State — Room Colombo LG02

Chair: Laure Athias

  • A Theory of Aristocracy

    Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore); Jiahua Che (China Europe International Business School); John K.-H. Quah (National University of Singapore)

  • Relational Contracts and the Theory of Autocracy

    Spencer Pantoja (Stanford University); Scott Gehlbach ( University of Chicago); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago)

  • Conflict, Social Order, and Complementarities in Production

    Ekrem Baser (Bilkent University); Tanguy Le Fur (LEM, University of Lille )

  • Political Animals: Layered Moral Agency and the Divergence Between Private and Public Norms

    Laure Athias (University of Lausanne)

Parallel D

D1: Socio-Economic Consequences of Conflict and Conscription — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Joseph Price

  • War and Structural Change: Evidence from post-WWI Germany

    Lukas Wellner (Monash University); Tobias Korn (Leibniz University of Hannover); Matthias Quinckhardt (Heidelberg University)

  • Cultural Crossroads: Gender Roles and Family Dynamics in Post-WWII Taiwan

    Ruikun Ma (University of melbourne)

  • Did You Serve? New Evidence on the Causal Effect of Conscription on Wage in Germany

    Anna Luisa Maria Daelen (Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany (BiB), and Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century

    Joseph Price (Brigham Young University); Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University); Jennifer Kowalski (NERA); Santiago Perez (UC Davis)

D2: Technology and the Boundary of the Firm — Room UNSW Business School 205

Chair: Eduard Talamas

  • Regulating Algorithms: What and When

    Talia Gillis (Columbia University); Scott Nelson (Chicago Booth); Jann Spiess (Stanford GSB)

  • A KNOW HOW THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY

    Kieron Meagher (ANU); DMITRIY KVASOV (Waseda University)

  • Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy

    Eduard Talamas (IESE Business School); Enrique Ide (IESE Business School)

D3: Historical Political Economy: Origins and Legacies of Institutions — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Sarah Walker

  • On Self-Organization: The Formation of Volunteer Fire Brigades in 19th-Century Baden

    Guido Friebel (Goethe-University Frankfurt); Sebastian Koch (Goethe-University Frankfurt); Tristan Stahl (Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • The Jesuit Expulsion: A Double-Edged Sword for State Authority in New Spain

    Emily Sellars (Yale University); Francisco Garfias (UC-San Diego)

  • The Civil War and Racial Hate in the US South

    Sarah Walker (UNSW); Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Federico Masera (UNSW)

D4: Discrimination in Institutions & Organizations — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Guillem Riambau

  • Monitoring Harassment in Organizatins

    Ada Gonzalez-Torres (Ben-Gurion University and Harvard University); Laura Boudreau (Columbia University); Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University); Rachel Heath (University of Washington)

  • Expected Discrimination and Job Search

    Deivis Angeli (Global Talent Lab); Ieda Matavelli (UNSW); Fernando Secco (Analysis Group)

  • Can National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Singapore

    Guillem RIAMBAU (Universitat de Barcelona and IEB); Risa Toha (Wake Forest University)

D5: Global Religions — Room UNSW Business School 119

Chair: Sascha Becker

  • WHY VEIL? RELIGIOUS HEADSCARVES AND THE PUBLIC ROLE OF WOMEN

    Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore)

  • An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions

    Weijia Li (Monash University); Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)

  • From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler

    Sascha Becker (University of Warwick and Monash University); Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)

D6: Connections and Politics — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Claire Lim

  • Speed of Payment in Procurement Contracts: The Role of Political Connections

    Ricardo Dahis (Monash University); Bernardo Ricca (Insper); Thiago Scot (World Bank)

  • Firm-Politician Nexus and Local Public Finance under Trade Shocks: Evidence from China’s Primary Land Market

    Kevin Zhengcheng Liu (Zhejiang University)

  • Political alignment and (mis)allocation of public resources

    Bishal Chalise (Deakin University)

  • City's Soft Power: Political Networks and Financial Allocation in China

    Claire Lim (University of Western Ontario); Yuting Wang (Queen Mary University of London)

D7: State Capacity — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Hoang-Anh Ho

  • Individual Demand for Building State Effectiveness

    Harry Dienes (Cornell University); Yetsedaw Emagne Bekele (Messina University ); Daniel Rogger (World Bank); Giulio Schinaia (University of Chicago)

  • Remoteness and State Capacity: Healthcare Provision and Informal Payments in Vietnam

    Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Trong-Anh Trinh (Monash University); Jean-Louis Keene (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

  • State History and Economic Prosperity: New Perspectives from Vietnam

    Hoang-Anh Ho (UEH University)

D8: The Political Economy of China's Legal System — Room Colombo LG02

Chair: Kun Fan

  • The Fall of the Patron Saint of Justice: How Judge Movement affects Court Rulings in China

    Jintao ZHU (University of Chicago)

  • The Law and Economics of Lawyers: Evidence from the Revolving Door in China’s Judicial System

    Wenwei Peng (Harvard University)

  • Chinese-Foreigners Disputes and the Emergence of Judicial Autonomy in Historical China

    KE KANG (The University of Hong Kong); James Kung (University of Melbourne)

  • China’s Parallel Institutions and Governance Models in International Dispute Resolution: The Case of International Commercial Dispute Prevention and Settlement Organization (ICDPASO)

    Kun Fan (UNSW); Xiaolei Han (UNSW)

Parallel E

E1: Legal Systems — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Ben Chen

  • Automated Penalty Institutions on Staked Blockchain Networks

    Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder); William Lehr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Bryce Bugge (University of Colorado Boulder)

  • Litigation or Foreclosure? The Effects of Judicial Efficiency on Lending Markets

    Tianhao Wang (University of California, Irvine)

  • Portfolio Management under Judicial Hindsight Bias

    Ben Chen (The University of Sydney Law School); Jose Rodrigues-Neto (The Australian National University)

E2: Humans and Technology in Institutions and Organizations — Room UNSW Business School 205

Chair: Jacopo Bregolin

  • Social Approval Seeking and Misperceived Legitimization: The Roots of Toxicity in Online Communities

    Jun Goto (GRIPS)

  • How do manufacturing companies foster platform ecosystems?

    Dohoon Kim (Kyung Hee University)

  • Vertical Information Transmission in Organizations: Evidence from the Enron Corporation

    Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

E3: Historical Political Economy: Finance — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Koen Schoors

  • Markets under Siege: How Political Beliefs Move Financial Markets

    Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

  • Bonds of Love: Patriotism and the Rise of Modern Banks

    Yuchen XU (UNSW); Wanda Wang (The University of Hong Kong); Yuchen SUN (University of International Business and Economics)

  • Crisis? What Crisis? Bank Stability, Financial Development, and State Propaganda

    Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Ruben Enikilopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Karolin Kirschenmann (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)); Konstantin Sonin (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago)

E4: Long-Run Drivers of Economic Development — Room UNSW Business School 220

Chair: Yeonha Jung

  • Overkill, Extinction, and the Neolithic Revolution

    Motohiro Kumagai (Australian National University)

  • Flooded Local Cooperation: Evidence from Qing Dynasty

    Haikun Zhan (University of Auckland); Fanghua Li (Renmin University)

  • Ancestral Origins of Democratic Preferences: The Role of State Experience

    Yeonha Jung (Sungkyunkwan University); Jaeyoung Hur (Sungkyunkwan University)

E5: Employment and Opportunities — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Avery Mallory

  • Workplace Connections and Labor Migration

    Michelle Hansch (Humboldt University Berlin and RFBerlin); Jan Nimczik (ESMT and RFBerlin); Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt University Berlin and RFBerlin)

  • Do AI skills improve employment chances? Evidence from a field experiment

    Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Teo Firpo (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Lukas Niemann (NN)

  • The Unintended Effects of Recruitment Technology: Lessons from Asynchronous Interviews

    Mallory Avery (Monash University); Edwin Ip (University of Exeter); Andreas Leibbrandt (Monash University); Joseph Vecci (University of Gothenburg)

E6: Institutions, Organizations and Gender Equality in Emerging Economies — Room Colombo LG01

Chair: Russel Toth

  • Safe Travels: Transport Advancement and Women’s Safety in India

    Anisha Garg (University of Warwick)

  • Sowing Seeds of Mobility: The Gender-biased Impact of Land Reform

    Jin Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Ting Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, ); Jiajia Gu (IMF); L. Rachel Ngai (London School of Economics)

  • Incentivizing Customer Referrals for Bank Loans to Female Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam

    Russell Toth (University of Sydney); Markus Taussig (Rutgers University); David Raitzer (Asian Development Bank)

E7: Institutions and Migration — Room UNSW Business School 119

Chair: Quoc-Anh Do

  • Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration

    Veda Narasimhan (NYU Abu Dhabi)

  • Paving Over Streets of Gold: The Economic Impact of Immigration Restrictions on Sending Regions

    Dean Hoi (University of Melbourne)

  • Communities of Commerce: The Legacy of Chinese Immigration on Java, Indonesia

    Quoc-Anh Do (Monash University); Gedeon Lim (Hong Kong University); Sebastian Ellingsen (Bristol University)

E8: Bureaucracies — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Bernardo Mueller

  • The Shadow Cost of State Violence: Evidence from Bureaucratic Purges in China

    Wenbing Wu (University of Melbourne); Ning He (New York University)

  • Reform as Process: Implementing Change in Public Bureaucracies

    Martin Williams (University of Michigan)

  • Central Bankers Who Doubt: Measuring Knowledge of the Limits of Knowledge

    Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia)

E9: Autocracy — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Scott Gehlbach

  • The Anatomy of the Great Terror: A Quantitative Analysis of the 1937-38 Purges in the Red Army

    Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago)

  • The Economic Origin of Power Alternation

    Zhaotian Luo (The University of Chicago); Shuyi Yu (The University of Chicago); Zanhui Liu (Tsinghua University); Yucheng Qiu (Peking University); Hongding Zhu (The University of Chicago)

  • The Personalist Penalty: Varieties of Autocracy and Economic Growth

    Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago); Arthur (Zeyang) Yu (Princeton University)

E10: Chinese Institutions and Policies — Room Colombo LG02

Chair: Kong-Pin Chen

  • Water Afar Off Quenches Not Thirst? The Health Benefits of the South–North Water Transfer Project in China

    Ding Li (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics); Huanxiu Guo (Nanjing Audit University)

  • The Effects of Privatization on Firm Productivity in China

    Lixin Colin Xu (CKGSB)

  • Target Pressure and GDP Overreporting: Evidence from China's Poverty Alleviation Program

    Tzu-Ting Yang (Academia Sinica)

  • Year-End Rush and Career Concern: Theory and Evidence from China's Patent Applications

    Kong-Pin Chen (Academia Sinica)

Parallel F

F1: Beliefs, Narratives, and Political Identity — Room UNSW Business School 220

Chair: Federico Masera

  • Partisanship as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

    Anke Kessler (Simon Fraser University); Benno Buehler (Charles River Associates)

  • The Political Economy of Socioenvironmental Conflict: Evidence from Peru

    David Hajo Kreitmeir (Monash University)

  • Hey! Governor! Leave them Kids Alone: Political Influence during Childhood

    Federico Masera (University of New South Wales); Daniele Gianmarco (University of Milan); Sergio Galletta (ETH Zürich); Marco Le Moglie (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)

F2: Ronald Coase Institute Alumni Panel: Effects of Shocks, Polarization, and Anti-Corruption Campaigns on Political Behavior: Studies from China, Mexico, and Russia — Room UNSW Business School 115

Chair: Mary Shirley, President, Ronald Coase Institute

  • Reform or Revolution: Elites’ Choices under Negative Shocks and the Economic Outcomes

    Wentian Diao (Shanghai Univeristy of Finance and Economics)

  • Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence

    Xinyu Fan (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Shuo Chen (Fudan University); Xuanyi Wang (Fudan University); Yuzheng Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics)

  • Accountability under Polarization

    Alberto Simpser (ITAM); Jose Ramon Enriquez (Stanford); John Marshall (Columbia); Horacio Larreguy (ITAM)

  • Anti-Corruption Campaigns by the Opposition in an Autocracy: How Alexei Navalny’s Investigations Affected the Subsequent Career Paths of Investigated Russian Elites

    Michael Rochlitz (University of Oxford)

F3: Industrial and Public Policy — Room UNSW Business School 205

Chair: Eric Brousseau

  • Inequality and Efficiency of Fiscal Rules

    Xiaohan Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics); Laura Karpuska (Insper Business School)

  • Policy Recommendations, Institutions and Culture: Evidences from the European Semester

    Eric Brousseau (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Vladimir Avetian (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Gabriel Benevides (University Paris Dauphine|PSL); Andreas Priambodo (University Paris Dauphine|PSL)

F4: Historical Political Economy: Religion — Room UNSW Business School 216

Chair: Saumitra Jha

  • Missionaries and the Birth of International Development

    Youn Baek (NYU Stern)

  • Religious Minorities and Public Good Provision in 19th and early 20th Century Egypt

    Ashrakat Elshehawy (Stanford University, King Center on Global Development); Mohamed Saleh (LSE)

  • Peace Derailed: The Effects of India's First Nonviolent Struggle on Religious Violence

    Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

F5: Personnel Economics Getting Personal — Room Colombo LG04 - Theatre B

Chair: Kieron Meagher

  • Absenteeism and Firm Performance: Evidence from Retail

    Jakob Alfitian (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)

  • Sabotaging a Teammate without Reason:  Experiments on the Impact of Bonus Payments

    Ralph Bayer (University of Adelaide); Sookie Zhang (Wenlan School of Business)

  • Investigating the Heterogenous Impacts of Job Demands and Control: A Recentred Influence Functions Analysis of Employee Exhaustion

    Kieron Meagher (ANU); Christina Boedker (University of Newcastle); Maria Jahromi (ANU)

F6: Corporate Governance and Regulation — Room Colombo LG05 - Theatre C

Chair: Brian Silverman

  • Investment and Governance : Through The Lens of Sustainability

    Jitendra Aswani (MIT Sloan); Roberto Rigobon (MIT Sloan)

  • THE ROLES OF GOOD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT QUALITY ON INTEGRATED REPORTING DISCLOSURE IN FINANCIAL SECTORS COMPANIES IN INDONESIA

    Ika Sasti Ferina (Universitas Sriwijaya, Indonesia); Isnurhadi (Universitas Sriwijaya, Indonesia); Muhammad Ichsan Hadjri (Universitas Sriwijaya, Indonesia); Syalsabila Juwita (Universitas Sriwijaya, Indonesia)

  • Using Platform Governance to Address Societal Challenges: Safeboda’s Impact on Traffic Safety in Kampala, Uganda

    Brian Silverman (University of Toronto); Vincent Bagire (Makerere University Business School)

F7: Strategy — Room Colombo LG01

Chair: Guillaume Roger

  • Distracted from Comparison: Product Design and Advertisement with Limited Attention

    Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Hong Kong Baptist University); Johannes Johnen (Université catholique de Louvain)

  • Nonlinear Pricing Complexity: Consumer Errors and Firm Profits

    Emilia Tjernstrom (Monash University (soon Macquarie University)); Jeffrey Michler (University of Arizona); Joshua Deutschmann (University of Chicago)

  • Storage cycles

    Sergei Balakin (Monash University); Guillaume Roger (Monash University)

F8: Geoeconomics — Room Colombo LG03 - Theatre A

Chair: Ashani Amarasinghe

  • War, Politics, and the Rise of Nations: How Superpowers Choose Allies

    Yi-Jiang Wang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

  • Getting Along or Getting Ahead? The Domestic Roots of Status-Seeking in International Relations

    Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney); Kathryn Baragwanath (University of Melbourne)

F9: Voting, Politics, and Elections — Room Colombo LG02

Chair: Barton E. Lee

  • Testing Formal Models of Political Competition with Candidate-Choice Experiments

    Daniel Goldstein (University of Oslo); Milan Svolik (Yale University)

  • Belief-Based Behavioral Diffusion and the Limits of Incentive Design: Interpretability as a Structural Constraint

    Yuanyuan (Lydia) Li (The University of Auckland); Simona Fabrizi (The University of Auckland); Steffen Lippert (The University of Auckland)

  • Moral Characters: Social Media and Elections in the U.S.

    Edoardo Grillo (University of Padova)

  • When Growth leads to Zero-sum Conflict

    Barton Lee (ETH Zurich); Álvaro Delgado-Vega (University of Chicago)

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