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)