26th Annual ISNIE / SIOE Conference:
full conference program

Session 1: Historical Perspectives on the State - Room J250

Chair: Eric Brousseau

• Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building Lydia ASSOUAD (Paris School of Economics)

• The Societal Origins of State Education Htet Thiha Zaw (University of Michigan)

• Schools, Language, and Nations: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in France Guillaume Blanc (Brown University); Masahiro Kubo (Brown University)

• Modernizing the Economy in the 18th Century France: The revealed policy of the ‘Bureau du Commerce’ Eric Brousseau (Paris Dauphine - PSL University); Antoine Cazals (Paris Dauphine - PSL University); Mohammad Habibpour (Paris Dauphine - PSL University); Jérome  Sgard (Sciences Po-Paris - CERI)

Session 2: Workers and Firms I - Room P120

Chair: Decio Coviello

• Treatment and Selection Effects of Formal Workplace Mentorship Programs Christopher Stanton (Harvard University); Jason  Sandvik (Tulane); Richard Saouma (Michigan State); Nathan  Seegert (University of Utah)

• Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence Jason Sockin (University of Pennsylvania); Aaron Sojourner (Carlson School of Management); Evan Starr (Smith School of Business)

• Does Working from Home Increase Job Satisfaction and Retention? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic Christos Makridis (Columbia Business School and Stanford University); Jason Schloetzer (Georgetown University)

• Effect of Firing Frictions on Turnover decio coviello (HEC Montreal)

Session 3: Bureaucracy, Governance, and State Capacity - Room J140

Chair: Federica Carugati

• Motivating Loyal Bureaucrats in Sequential Agency Dongsoo Shin (Santa Clara University); Alexander Rodivilov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

• Leviathan's Offer: State-Building with Elite Compensation in Early Medieval China Joy Chen (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business); Erik Wang (Australian National University); Xiaoming Zhang (Hong Kong University)

• State Capacity and Organizational Learning in Classical Greece Federica Carugati (King's College London); Mark Pyzyk (Princeton University)

Session 4: Institutional Reforms & State Capacity - Room FL228

Chair: Benjamin Marx

• The Rise of Fiscal Capacity Matthias Weigand (Harvard University); Cathrin Mohr (Universität Bonn); Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

• Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History Andreas Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh); Sascha O. Becker (Monash University and University of Warwick); Eric Melander (University of Namur); Luigi Pascali (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

• Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire Felipe Valencia (UBC); Luis R. Martinez (Chicago Harris); Juan David Torres (Stanford); Giorgio  Chiovelli (Montevideo)

• The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po, Department of Economics); Cédric Chambru (University of Zurich); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po, Department of Economics)

Session 5: Innovation I - Room FH103

Chair: Brian Silverman

• A Quest for Knowledge Johannes Schneider (U Carlos III Madrid & U Mannheim); Christoph Carnehl (Bocconi)

• Endogenous Criteria for Success Rene Kirkegaard (University of Guelph)

• Communication Technology and Innovation in Multinational Enterprises: The Role of Intra-firm Control Rights Luis Ballesteros (Boston University); Catherine Magelssen (London Business School); Casidhe Troyer (London Business School)

• How do inventors’ political preferences affect innovation? Brian Silverman (University of Toronto); John de Figueiredo (Duke University); Trijeet Sethi (Capital One)

Session 6: Law, Politics and Finance - Room J225

Chair: Michael Waibel

• The role of digital technologies in development of financial regulatory governance Ivana Bajakic (Faculty of Law University of Zagreb)

• Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets Marcos Salgado (Stanford University); Saumitra Jha (Stanford University); Peter Koudijs (Erasmus University Rotterdamam)

• Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing Albert Choi (University of Michigan); Kathy Spier (Harvard University)

• The German Constitutional Court and Central Bank Independence Michael Waibel (University of Vienna)

Session 7: Education & Society - Room J230

Chair: Mary Shirley

• Gender Differences in Reactions to Failure in High-Stakes Competition: Evidence from the National College Entrance Exam Retakes Yang Song (Colgate University); Ziteng Lei (UCSB); Le Kang (Peking University); Peng Zhang (CUHK Shenzhen)

• Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills Jun Hyung Kim (Jinan University); Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University); Zhe Yang (Jinan University)

• The Implications of School Lotteries for Neighborhood Crime Andrew Bibler (University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Stephen  Billings (University of Colorado Boulder); Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut)

• The Long-Term Effects of Financial Aid and Career Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Laëtitia Renée (McGill University)

Session 8: Determinants of Voting and Political Participation - Room FL219

Chair: Alexandru Savu

• Rally Post-Terrorism Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))

• Robots, China and Polls: Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US Marina Chugunova (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition); Klaus Keller (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competitionn); Sampsa  Samila (IESE Business School)

• Transnational Diffusion of Identity Politics Soeren Schwuchow (Brandenburg University of Technology)

• The Local Political Economy of Austerity: Lessons from Hospital Closures Alexandru Savu (Christ's College, University of Cambridge)

Session 9: Conflict I - Room FL223

Chair: David Skarbek

• Cosa Nostra Courts Henry Thompson (George Mason University)

• Prisons and Homophobia Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham); Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham)

• Deterrence or Backlash? The Causal Effect of Arrest on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence Victoria Endl-Geyer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Sofia Amaral (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Timo Hener (Aarhus University); Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego); Helmut Rainer (ifo Institute and LMU Munich)

• Vigilantism, Institutions, and Honor Culture: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil David Skarbek (Brown University); Danilo Freire (University of Lincoln / Political Science)

Session 10: Antitrust and Competition Law - Room FH105

Chair: Jeffrey Macher

• Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers Mark Tremblay (Miami University)

• A Subject-Matter Specific Empirical Investigation into the Impact of the "Summary Judgment Trilogy" Jonathan Nash (Emory University School of Law); Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California Law School)

• Information exchange through secret vertical contracts Nicolás Riquelme (Universidad de los Andes, Chile); Jihwan Do (Wuhan University)

• The Evolution of Judicial Standards: Evidence From Litigated Merger Trials Jeffrey Macher (Georgetown (McDonough)); John Mayo (Georgetown (McDonough))

Session 1: Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Room J250

Chair: Stefan Dimitriadis

• Testing the convergence of legal standards in antitrust investigations in BRICS Svetlana Golovanova (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro); Svetlana Avdasheva (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

• Property Rights Security in a Self-Sustaining Equilibrium of Institutions Fali Huang (Singapore Management University)

• Won’t you be my neighbor? Geography, peer learning, and entrepreneur performance in Togo Stefan Dimitriadis (University of Toronto); Rem Koning (Harvard University)

Session 2: Measurement - Room P120

Chair: David Francis

• Measuring The Impact of Transaction Costs on Profitability of Farmers: Empirical Evidence from India Dr. Kedar Vishnu (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Ruchika Rai (CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa); Dr. Parmod Kumar (Giri Institute of Development Studies)

• Beyond Political Connections: A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies David Francis (World Bank); Robert Kubinec (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Session 3: Platforms I - Room J140

Chair: Leshui He

• Incomplete Contracts and Future Data Usage Talia Gillis (Columbia University); Jens Frankenreiter (Wash U); Dan Svirsky (Uber)

• The dependence of search result quality on user-generated data: evidence from an experiment Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata, Tilburg University); Tobias Klein (Tilburg University); Madina Kurmangaliyeva (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)

• Does Amazon Exercise its Market Power? Evidence from Toys R Us Leshui He (Bates College); Imke Reimers (Northeastern University); Benjamin Shiller (Brandeis University)

Session 4: Corporate Culture - Room FL228

Chair: Camille Hebert

• Gender, Competition, and Performance: International Evidence Kai Li (University of British Columbia); Rui Shen (CUHK); Rachel Peng (Univ. of Dayton); Gabriel Wong (Cardiff University)

• Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm Alexander Zentefis (Yale University); Gary Gorton (Yale University)

• Communicating Culture Consistently: Evidence from Banks Jillian Grennan (Duke University)

Session 5: Corporate Political Power - Room FH103

Chair: Bo Cowgill

• The Challenge of Holding Big Business Accountable Roy Shapira (Reichman (IDC))

• Corporate Donations and Political Rhetoric: Evidence from a National Ban Caroline Le Pennec (HEC Montreal); Julia Cagé (SciencesPo and CEPR); Elisa  Mougin (SciencesPo and LIEPP)

• Political Power and Market Power Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Andrea Prat (Columbia University); Tomasso Valletti (Imperial College Business School)

Session 6: Democratic Governance in Polities and Organizations - Room J225

Chair: Scott Masten

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

• On the evolution of polarized views and beliefs: Nonprofit sector and civil society origins Avner Ben-Ner (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

• Engineering Wealth-Enhancing Democracy in Ancient Greece: Gains from Exchange versus Alignment on Public Policy F. Andrew Hanssen (Clemson university); Robert K Fleck (Clemson University)

Session 7: Land, Coercion, and Indigeneity - Room J230

Chair: Doug Allen

• Gender, Indigeneity, and Social Class: Criminal Sentencing at the Turn of the 20th Century in British Columbia Blair Long (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee); Ian Keay (Queen's University); Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)

• Rationale for Paternalism: "Semifeudalistic'' Tenancy Contracts in Imperial Japan Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo)

• Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession Through Strategic Occupation Doug Allen (Simon Fraser University); Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University)

Session 8: Authoritarianism - Room FL219

Chair: Scott Gehlbach

• The Bureaucratic Politics of Authoritarian Repression: Intra-Agency Reform and Surveillance Capacity in Communist Poland Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)

• The Legacy of Authoritarianism in a Democracy Pramod Kumar Sur (Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) and Osaka University)

• Is There Really a Dictator’s Dilemma? Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago); Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago)

Session 9: Innovative Markets and Contracts - Room FL223

Chair: Evagelos Pafilis

• Smart contracts vs incomplete contracts: A transaction cost economics viewpoint Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento & Università della Svizzera italiana)

• Organizing for Cooperation: Fostering Relational Contracts to Support Interunit Knowledge Sharing Nadav Levy (Reichman University, Israel)

• How to Manage Public Artworks? A Market Alternative to Deaccessioning Claudia Amadei (University of Padova and CRIEP); Luciano Greco (University of Padova and CRIEP); Marina  Bertolini (University of Padova and CRIEP)

Session 1: Climate Change - Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

• Pledge-and-review bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris Bard Harstad (U of Oslo)

• Bargaining Power in Multilateral Relational Contracts: a Setting Particularly Amenable to the Analysis of Contractual Equilibrium Joel Watson (UC San Diego)

• Climate Change and Incentives to Cooperate Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)

Session 2: Workers and Firms II - Room P120

Chair: Nick Zubanov

• Shocks and the organization of the firm: who pays the bill? Alessandro Sforza (University of Bologna); Edoardo Acabbi (Carlos III)

• License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs Daniel Keum (Columbia University); Stephan Meier (Columbia University)

• Mystery Shopping as an Incentive Device for Service Uniformity Sidney Block (University of Cologne); Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne); Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt); Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz)

Session 3: Algorithms - Room J140

Chair: Arna Woemmel

• Machine Learning and Deterrence Henrik Sigstad (University of Oslo); Daniel L. Chen (Toulouse School of Economics)

• Decision Authority and the Returns to Algorithms Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD); Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University); Andrew Hillis (Fractal); Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University); Michael Luca (Harvard Business School)

• Public Perception on Authority, Transparency, and Bias of AI in Courts: A Vignette Experiment with Chat Intervention Huyen Nguyen (University of Hamburg); Arna Woemmel (University of Hamburg); Hendrik Huening (University of Hamburg); Lydia Mechtenberg (University of Hamburg)

Session 4: Leadership and Management - Room FL228

Chair: Kathryn Shaw

• Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT Silvia Castro (University of Munich (LMU)); Florian Englmaier (University of Munich (LMU)); Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

• Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia Maria Carreri (UCSD); Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)

• Managing with Purpose Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University); Ann Bartel (Columbia University); James Jedras (Stanford University)

Session 5: Kinship & Family - Room FH103

Chair: Ardina Hasanbasri

• Of Families and Inheritance: Law and Development in Pre-Industrial England Peter Grajzl (Washington and Lee University); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

• Kin in the Game: How Family Ties Help Firms Overcome Campaign Finance Regulation Pablo Balan (Tel Aviv University); Juan Dodyk (Harvard University); Ignacio Puente (Independent Researcher)

• Multidimensionality of Land Ownership among Men and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa Ardina Hasanbasri (University of Michigan); Talip Kilic (World Bank); Gayatri Koolwal (World Bank); Heather Moylan (World Bank)

Session 6: History of Transaction Cost Economics Thought - Room J225

Chair: Pavel Pelikan

• THE LEGACY OF CHESTER I. BARNARD IN THE SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION OF OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON Naciba Haned (ESSCA School of Management); Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University); Bernard Baudry (University of Lyon)

• ATMOSPHERE, PRIVATE ORDERING AND INDUSTRIAL PLURALISM: WILLIAMSON’S EVOLVING SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATION Virgile Chassagnon (Grenoble Alpes University)

• How to bring D.C. North, O.E. Williamson, and D. Acemoglu et al. together, and start unifying Institutional Economics Pavel Pelikan (Prague University of Economics and Business)

Session 7: CANCELLED SESSION : Training Policymakers in Soft and Hard Skills - Room not assigned

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

• Training Policymakers in Econometrics Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)

• Training Effective Altruism Shaheen Naseer (Lahore School of Economics)

Session 8: Nation Building - Room FL219

Chair: Haikun Zhan

• Labour Market Segmentation and Surplus Extraction: The Indian Case SATYAKI DASGUPTA (PhD Student at Colorado State University)

• Nation-State Building Chris Bidner (Simon Fraser University, Professor of economics); Esmaeil Izadi (Simon Fraser University, PhD candidate)

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• Central Administration and the Rise of Local Institutions: Evidence from Imperial China Haikun Zhan (the University of Melbourne)

Session 9: Trade - Room FL223

Chair: Ryu Matsuura

• Protectionism, Global Supply Chains, and Domestic Lobbying: Evidence from the U.S.–China Trade War Bo Yang (University of Southern California)

• The Asymmetric Effects of Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Economic Agreements on Cross-Border Trade and Investment Der-Ting Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Market Integration and Cost of Borders in Africa Ryu Matsuura (Northwestern University); Robin Burgess (London School of Economics); Ameet  Morjaria (Northwestern University); Gerard Padro i Miquel (Yale University)

Session 10: Organizational Strategy - Room FH105

Chair: Elina Hoffmann

• Social Comparison and the Value of Performance Trajectory Information: A Field Experiment in the Workplace Hugh Xiaolong Wu (Washington University in St. Louis); Yucheng Liang (Carnegie Mellon University); Shannon X. Liu (University of Toronto)

• Quality of Mandatory Data Reporting by US Nursing Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of For-Profit Ownership Elina Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University); Valerie Karplus (Carnegie Mellon University); Erica  Fuchs (Carnegie Mellon University)

Session 1: Discussion panel: Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy - Room J250

Chair: Catherine Magelssen, Minyuan Zhao

Additional Panelists:

• Kenneth Huang (National University of Singapore)
• Nan Jia (University of South California)
• Aldona Kapacinskaite (Bocconi University)
• Ramkumar Ranganathan (University of Texas-Austin)

In this panel session, scholars will bring their areas of expertise into a discussion on the role of intellectual property (IP) in firm strategy, especially in the digital economy. We will discuss how competitive, organizational, business model, and institutional changes associated with digital and platform economies affects IP strategies, and how firm behavior can shed light on policies. More details.

Session 2: Corporate Networks - Room P120

Chair: Andy Back

• Coordinated location decisions in business groups and the boundary of the firm Marta Bisztray (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK), Hungary); Gábor Békés (Central European University, KRTK); Péter Harasztosi (European Investment Bank)

• A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry Florian Ederer (Yale University); Bruno Pellegrino (University of Maryland)

• Economics of Lenten Power Dinner: Social Spending by Trading Companies in Imperial Japan Masaki Nakabayashi (The University of Tokyo); Hisayuki Oshima (Takachiho University)

• Strategic Broadcasting of Strategic Alliances: Which firm(s) would broadcast their alliance formation? Andy Back (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management); Navid Asgari (Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business)

Session 3: Changing Organizational Culture - Room J140

Chair: Roberto Weber

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

• Measuring Working From Home Adoption: Evidence from half-a-billion online job ads Raffaella Sadun (Harvard); Nick  Bloom  (Stanford); Steven  Davies (Chicago); Stephen  Hansen (Imperial); Peter Lambert (LSE); Bledi  Taska (Burning Glass)

• Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work Roberto Weber (University of Zurich); Florian Schneider (University of Zurich); Fanny Brun (University of Zurich)

Session 4: Corruption - Room FL228

Chair: Tom Eeckhout

• Corruption as an informal fiscal system Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Sandip Sukhtankar (University of Virginia); Clement  Minaudier (University of Vienna)

• SOCIAL CONTROL OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL OBSERVATORIES MONITORING ON BRAZILIAN MUNICIPAL OUTLAYS Sergio Krakowiak (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo); Renato Seixas (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo)

• Inclusive Experimentalism in Transnational Law Reform: Lessons from Operation Car Wash Mariana Mota Prado (University of Toronto); Kevin Davis (New York University, USA); Raquel Pimenta (FGV, Brazil); Marta Machado (FGV, Brasil)

• STATISTICAL FOOTPRINTS OF CORRUPTION: “VANITY FAIR” OF AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES IN RUSSIA Tom Eeckhout (Ghent University); Timur Natkhov (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Leonid Polishchuk (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Koen Schoors (Ghent University); Kevin Hoefman (Ghent University)

Session 5: Collaboration and Contracting - Room FH103

Chair: Simone Sepe

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

• Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Multinational Firm Cagatay Bircan (EBRD & UCL); Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford, EBRD, & CEPR); Stefan Pauly (Sciences Po)

• Collaboration and Cultural Homophily in Global Teams Gábor Békés (Central European University); Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

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

Session 6: Chinese Political Economy - Room J225

Chair: Qing Chang

• The Innovation Cost of Short Political Horizons: Evidence from Local Leaders’ Promotion in China Xueping Sun (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University)

• Social Embeddedness, Power Balance, and Rural Governance in China Meina Cai (University of Connecticut); Xiaolu Zhao (Fudan University); Qi Zhang (Fudan University)

• Anti-Corruption Campaign and Inter-Generational Transmission of Bureaucracy: Evidence from China Shuai Chen (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)/Economics); Erqi GE (Sun Yat-sen University)

• Career Incentives, Inter-jurisdiction Competition, and Economic Development Incentives: Empirical Evidence from Land Prices in China Qing Chang (University of Pittsburgh)

Session 7: Incentives in Organizations - Room J230

Chair: Saskia Opitz

• Over-workers and Drop-Outs in Competitions : Contests with Expectation-Based Loss-Averse Agents Ayse Mermer (University of Amsterdam)

• The impact of formal incentives on teams: Micro-evidence from retail Francisco Brahm (London Business School); Antoine  Feylessoufi (University College London); Marcos Singer (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

• Endogenous Organizational Restructuring: Status, Productivity & Meritocratic Dynamics Ashutosh Thakur (National University of Singapore); Jonathan Bendor (Stanford GSB)

• The Targeted Assignment of Incentive Schemes Saskia Opitz (University of Cologne); Dirk  Sliwka (University of Cologne); Timo Vogelsang (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management); Tom Zimmermann (University of Cologne)

Session 8: Institutions and the Environment - Room FL219

Chair: Gemma DiPoppa

• ECONOMIC INTERESTS, PARTISAN POLITICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLARIZATION Dean Lueck (Indiana University); Gustavo  Torrens (Indiana University); Julio Ramos (Penn State University)

• Measuring the Impact of Independent Regulatory Agencies on the Decarbonization of the EU Energy Mix Eric Brousseau (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL); Diego Cebreros (University Paris Saclay | CentraleSupelec); Carlos Gonzalez (University Paris-Dauphine | PSL)

• SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL: GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD GAME Vincy Fon (The George Washington University)

• Fires: Political economy and Health Impacts of Crop Stubble Burning in South Asia Gemma Dipoppa (Stanford); Saad Gulzar (Stanford); Fatiq Nadeem (UC Santa Barbara)

Session 9: Politics and Media - Room FL223

Chair: Jens Prufer

• Televised Debates and Emotionality in Politics: Evidence from C-SPAN Gloria Gennaro (ETH); Elliott Ash (ETH)

• Communicating Risk across the Political Divide Cherie Metcalf (Queen's University, Kingston); Jonathan Nash (Emory Law)

• The Credibility Effect of Defamation Law Yonathan Arbel (Alabama)

• Social Media and Democracy: Experimental Results Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University); Freek van Gils (Tilburg University); Wieland Müller (University of Vienna)

Session 10: Communication and Collaboration - Room FH105

Chair: Suraj Prasad

• Gravity in Online Collaborations Thomas Fackler (ifo Institute and LMU Munich); Michael Hofmann (LMU Munich); Nadzeya Laurentsyeva (LMU Munich)

• Communication Effort and the Cost of Language: Evidence from Stack Overflow Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

• The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time Jasmina Chauvin (Georgetown Univerity); Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard Business School); Tommy Fang (Harvard Business School)

• Instructions and Incentives in Organizations Suraj Prasad (University of Sydney); Kieron Meagher (Australian National University); Andrew Wait (University of Sydney)

Session 1: Lobbying - Room J250

Chair: Giorgio Zanarone

• Caring but sharing unintentionally: Lobbying for innovations and the leakage of knowledge Michael Park (University of Minnesota)

• Legislative Informational Lobbying Arnaud Dellis (University of Quebec in Montreal)

• Sleeping with the Enemy: How Politicians and Interest Groups Adapt their Collaborations in the Face of Reputational Threats Miguel Espinosa (Bocconi); Akhil Ilango (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Giorgio Zanarone (University Washington St. Louis)

Session 2: Strategy and Institutional Context - Room P120

Chair: Kartik Rao

• Emergence of Islamic Finance Organizations, 1948 – 2016 Abdullah Shahid (Cornell University)

• Dreaming of Institutions: The transformation of Children’s After-Sсhool Time Sector in Post-Soviet Countries Ivan Ivanov (HSE University)

• NEGOTIATING AGREEMENTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS IN THE SHADOW OF REGULATION Kartik Rao (Ivey Business School, Western University); Adam Fremeth (Ivey Business School, Western University); Guy Holburn (gholburn@ivey.ca)

Session 3: Conflict II - Room J140

Chair: Nils-Petter Lagerlöf

• Hobbesian War and Separation of Powers Weijia Li (Monash University); Gerard Roland (University of California at Berkeley); Yang Xie (University of California at Riverside)

• Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University); Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)

• Cities, Conflict, and Corridors Nils-Petter Lagerlöf (York University); Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka University)

Session 4: Networks - Room FL228

Chair: Raja Kali

• Network hiring, firm performance, and growth Ines Black (Duke University); Sharique Hasan (Duke University)

• How the Network Neighborhood Influences Partnerships: From Handshakes to Formal Collaboration among US Fire Departments Anita McGahan (University of Toronto); Bill McEvily (University of Toronto); Jay Horwitz (University of Toronto)

• Social Networks and Professional Success: Evidence from Foreign Newcomers on the PGA Tour Raja Kali (University of Arkansas); David  Pastoriza (HEC Montreal); Jean-François  Plante (HEC Montreal); Ekaterina Turkina (HEC Montreal)

Session 5: Platforms II - Room FH103

Chair: Catherine Thomas

• Holding Platforms Liable Kathryn Spier (Harvard Law School); Xinyu Hua (HKUST)

• Platform governance and complementors’ performance: Evidence from the crowdfunding market Jordana Viotto da Cruz (University of Edinburgh Business School)

• Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms? Christopher Stanton (HBS); Catherine Thomas (LSE)

Session 6: Employment and Firm Boundaries and Hierarchies - Room J225

Chair: Ashwin Kambhampati

• Employment as a Relational Obligation to Work Michael Raith (University of Rochester)

• The Flattening Level of Organizations: A formal definition and its variability across firms Marco Antonio Barrenechea Mendez (Public University of Navarre); Pedro Ortin-Angel (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Alberto Bayo-Moriones (Public University of Navarre)

• A Theory of Firm Boundaries with Long-Run Incentives and At-Will Employment Gorkem Bostanci (University of British Columbia); Ashwin Kambhampati (US Naval Academy)

Session 7: Strategy and Uncertainty - Room J230

Chair: Nona Karalashvili

• Why are Firms Different? BIRGER WERNERFELT (MIT)

• Transactional Governance Structures: New Cross-Country Data and an Application to the Effect of Uncertainty Nona Karalashvili (The World Bank); Peter Murrell (University of Maryland); David Francis (The World Bank)

Session 8: Discrimination in Organizations - Room FL219

Chair: Matthias Fahn

• Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? Arjada Bardhi (Duke University); Yingni Guo (Northwestern University); Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

• Profitable Inequality Anja Prummer (JKU/QMUL); Francesco Nava (LSE)

• Informal Incentives on Labor Markets – How Norms Shape Wages, Productivity, and Employment Matthias Fahn (JKU Linz); Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)

Session 9: Democratic (In)Stability - Room FL223

Chair: Vincent Rollet

• Populism and Minimalist Democracy Elliot Foote (Monash University); Weijia Li (Monash University)

• Measuring Long Run Constitutional Textual Entrenchment and Its Effects Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder)

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

Session 10: Innovation and Change in History - Room FH105

Chair: Alberto Galasso

• Inclusive Institutions and Economic Development: How Local Institutions Shaped the Geography of the Industrial Revolution Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex); Federico Curci (CUNEF)

• Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto); Stefano  Comino (University of Udine); Clara Graziano (University of Udine)

Session 1: Public procurement - Room J250

Chair: Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka

• Decentralized procurement for drugs and centralized price cap: a structural approach Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova); Philippe Gagnepain (Paris School of Economics); David Martimort (Paris School of Economics); Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova)

• The Bright Side of Discretion in Public Procurement Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore)

• Rigidity and initiative of renegotiation in public contracts : an empirical study Vincent Jardine (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies Andres Gonzalez-Lira (Yale); Rodrigo  Carril (Universitat Pompeu Fabra); Michael S. Walker (Dept of Defense)

Session 2: Land Security and Titling - Room P120

Chair: Huiqian Song

• Mutual Insurance and Land Security in Rural Ghana Karol Mazur (University of Oxford); Georgios Manalis (European University Institute)

• Land titling and Industrial Development: the case of the Stolypin reform Igor Kolesnikov (Higher School of Economics); Vladimir Novikov (Higher School of Economics)

• Does Improved Tenure Security Reduce Fires? Evidence from the Greece Land Registry Huiqian Song (Simon Fraser University); Liang Diao  (Simon Fraser University )

Session 3: Migration and Morality - Room J140

Chair: Tore Ellingsen

• Learning from the Origins: Immigrants’ Networks, Political Preferences, and the European Refugee Crisis Alexander Yarkin (Brown University)

• Historical Legacies and the Impact of Emigration on Electoral Outcomes Dragos Radu (King's College London); Bogdan Voicu (Romanian Academy of Sciences)

• The Cultural Assimilation of Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution Olle Hammar (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

• A Model of Social Duties Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics); Erik Mohlin (Lund University)

Session 4: Corporate Governance - Room FL228

Chair: Victor Saint-Jean

• Cracks in the Boards: the Opportunity Cost of Governance Homogeneity Helene Maghin (KU Leuven)

• Corporate Governance, Favoritism and Careers Luca Picariello (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF); Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II)

• Easing Restrictions to Corporate Influence: Regulatory Capture and the Electric Utility Industry Mark Van Orden (University of California, Irvine)

• The Voice: the Shareholders' Motives Behind Corporate Donations During COVID-19 Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po); Victor Saint-Jean (Sciences Po); Simon Smith (Federal Reserve Board)

Session 5: The Role of Gender in Organizations - Room FH103

Chair: Jakob Alfitian

• Gendered Instructions and Economic Behavior Paul M. Gorny (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Petra Nieken (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT); Karoline Ströhlein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT)

• Gender and Choice over Co-workers: Experimental Evidence Clement Minaudier (University of Vienna); Shan Aman-Rana (University of Virginia); Brais Alvarez Pereira (Nova School of Business and Economics); Shamyla Chaudry (Lahore School of Economics)

• Women in Economics: Europe and the World Guido Friebel (Goethe Universität); Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE); Alisa  Weinberger (Goethe University); Sascha Wilhelm (Goethe University)

• Closing the Gender Pay Gap within Firms: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne); Marvin Deversi (BARMER); Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)

Session 6: Innovation II - Room J225

Chair: Michael Blomfield

• Intellectual Property Rights and New Technology Development: How the Replacement Effect and Capabilities Influence Firm Investment Following a Reduction In IPR Martin Hetu (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto); Denisa Mindruta (HEC Paris); William Mitchell (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

• CONTRACT REMEDIES FOR NEW ECONOMY COLLABORATIONS Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School); Simone Sepe (University of Arizona)

• B2B Projects, Task Configuration, and Innovation Elham Ghazimatin (The University of Stavanger); Erik A. Mooi (The University of Melbourne); Jan B. Heide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Scientific Human Capital And Institutional Incentives: The Roles of Topic Knowledge and Research Skills Michael Blomfield (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Session 7: Management and Performance - Room J230

Chair: Michael Waldman

• Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC Augustin Bergeron (Stanford University); Pedro Bessone (Uber); John Kabeya Kabeya (DRC tax ministry); Gabriel  Tourek (University of Pittsburgh); Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)

• Agile management and productivity: Empirical evidence from a large Chinese enterprise Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Yi Han (Renmin University of China); Yiming Liu (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & WZB)

• Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities Andreas Roider (University of Regensburg); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg); Niklas Wallmeier (University of Hamburg)

• Promotions, Adverse Selection, and Efficiency Michael Waldman (Cornell University); Zhenda Yin (Peking University)

Session 8: Democracy and the Bureaucracy - Room FL219

Chair: Michele Valsecchi

• Empty Reasons? Jed Stiglitz (Cornell Law School)

• Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability Tara Slough (New York University)

• Private Returns to Bureaucratic Appointments: Evidence from Financial Disclosures Song Yuan (University of Warwick); Amit Chaudhary (University of Warwick)

• Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability Michele Valsecchi (New Economic School)

Session 9: Social Preferences in Organizations - Room FL223

Chair: Matthias Fahn

• Employee Trust and Performance Constraints in Public Sector Organizations Razvan Vlaicu (Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank); Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank); Sergio Perilla (Universidad del Rosario)

• Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace Michael Haylock (University of Tübingen); Patrick Kampkötter (University of Tübingen); Michael Kosfeld (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR, CESifo, IZA, and ZEF); Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University Frankfurt and CESifo)

• Social Conformity at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Anik Ashraf (LMU Munich)

• Incentives and Peer Effects in the Workplace: On the Impact of Inferiority Aversion on Organizational Design Jenny Kragl (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School); Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa); Peymaneh Safaynikoo (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, EBS Business School)

Session 10: Teams - Room FH105

Chair: Maria Titova

• Implicit Incentives and Delegation in Teams Harvey Upton (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

• Preferences and Productivity in Job Matching: Theory and Empirics from Internal Labor Markets Bo Cowgill (Columbia University); Jonathan Davis (University of Oregon); Pablo Montagnes (Emory University); Patryk Perkowski (Columbia University)

• (Mis-)Perceptions of the Importance of Team Composition and Team Governance in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks Dominik Grothe (LMU Munich); Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich); David Schindler (Tilburg University); Simeon Schudy (LMU Munich)

• Collaborative Search for a Public Good Mariia Titova (Vanderbilt University)