WINIR 2016 - Programme
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Friday 2 September
13:00-18:00 Registration
15:45-16:00 Welcome
16:00-17:15 Keynote lecture: Daron Acemoglu
17:15-18:15 Reception
Saturday 3 September
07:00-09:00 Breakfast
07:00-11:00 Registration
08:00-09:30 Parallel sessions 1
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea break
10:00-11:15 Parallel sessions 2
11:20-12:35 Parallel sessions 3
12:35-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:30 Parallel sessions 4
15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break
16:00-17:15 Keynote lecture: Margaret Gilbert
17:15-19:00 WINIR membership meeting
Sunday 4 September
07:00-09:00 Breakfast
08:00-09:30 Parallel sessions 5
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea break
10:00-11:15 Keynote lecture: John L. Campbell
11:20-12:35 Parallel sessions 6
12:35-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:30 Parallel sessions 7
15:30-16:00 Coffee/tea break
16:00-17:15 Keynote lecture: Henry Hansmann
19:00-21:30 Conference dinner
Monday 5 September
10:30-12:30 Optional Freedom Trail Tour of Historic Boston
Friday 2 September
16:00–17:15 Keynote lecture 1
Daron Acemoglu (MIT, USA), “State building: a political economy perspective”
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Saturday 3 September
08:00–09:30 Parallel sessions 1
P1.1 – Health, education and welfare
Chair: Denise Dollimore
Kleber Cerqueira (University of Brasilia, Brazil), “Constructing Brazilian welfare: achievements and dilemmas”
Sven Larson (Compact for America Educational Foundation, USA), “The children of the welfare state at the end of European prosperity”
Ilhan Ozen (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), “The effect of health institutions examined: global homogenization in institutions and heterogeneity in health outcomes or vice versa?”
Altug Yalcintas (Ankara University, Turkey), Bahar Araz (Baskent University, Turkey), Sinem Aydın (Ankara University, Turkey), Ziya Can (Baskent University, Turkey), Isiner Hamsioglu (Ankara University & Nevsehir University, Turkey), Orcun Kasap (Ankara University, Turkey) & Ersin Senel (Istanbul Sisli Vocational School, Turkey), “Reproductiveness of higher education institutions in Turkey: the case of ‘coursehouses’”
P1.2 – Institutions in developing countries
Chair: Carolina Miranda Cavalcante
Ana Carolina Braga (Presbyterian Mackenzie University, Brazil) & Walter Bataglia (Presbyterian Mackenzie University, Brazil), “Institutional change in established organizational fields: a theoretical proposal based on theory of structuration”
Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile) & Cristian Larroulet (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), “Ideas, institutions and entrepreneurship: Chile in the 19th century”
Andre Leite (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) & Silvio Antonio Ferraz Cario (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), “Institutional environment, property rights and the dynamics of the Brazilian electricity industry”
Marcia Carla Pereira Ribeiro (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paraná, Brazil), Weimar Freire da Rocha Junior (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil) & Vivian Amaro Czelusniak (Centro Universitário Curitiba, Brazil), “Cooperation for efficiency in business agreements to transfer technology: a case study”
P1.3 – Culture, corporations and the state
Chair: Francesc Trillas
Vincent Di Lorenzo (St. John’s University, USA), “Corporate wrongdoing: interactions of legal norms and corporate culture”
Ralph Fevre (Cardiff University, UK), “Individualism, neoliberalism and institutional change: the case of ‘people management’”
Dylan Nelson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), “Capturing the market: lobbying strategies and the adoption of private incarceration in US states, 1980-2010”
Julia Puaschunder (The New School, USA), “Bowling all alone: governmental debt is associated with low social capital”
P1.4 – Institutions, exchange and human behaviour
Chair: David Gindis
Karoly Mike (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) & Gabor Kiss (HETFA Research Institute, Budapest), “How do firms actually combine personal and impersonal institutions to safeguard their contracts?”
Yasuhiro Ota (Tokuyama University, Japan), “Status dynamics in the fashion textile market: border crossing of institutional fields by anonymous firms”
Carina Quirino Castro (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Antonio Sepulveda (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Carlos Bolonha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) & Matheus Meott Silvestre (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), “Behavioral economics as a tool for institutional optimization”
Sung Sup Rhee (Soongsil University, South Korea), “The economics of empiricism and relation exchange”
P1.5 – Nature and origins of institutions
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Ezgi Bagdadioglu (University of Campinas, Brazil), “Institutions as a network logic, their exclusion and evolution”
Jeremy Cox (University of Utah, USA) & Russ McBride (University of Utah, USA), “A social ontology perspective on firms”
Slawomir Czech (University of Economics in Katowice, Poland), “Explaining the origins of institutions: taxonomy issues and functionalist approach”
Olli Herranen (University of Tampere, Finland), “Ideas or ideology? The problem of historical institutionalism and ideational scholarship”
P1.6 – States, territories and peace
Chair: Jean Mercier
Jawied Nawabi (City University of New York, Bronx Community College, USA), “Why does capitalism give rise to different qualities of states and what is the role of the state in a dynamic capitalist economy?”
Gaudence Nyirabikali (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden), “Peacebuilding and the challenges of overcoming socio-political marginalization: institutionalization of inclusion through local governance in Mali and Niger”
Petr Panov (Perm University, Russia) & Andrey Semenov (Perm University, Russia), “Ethnic territorial autonomies as complex institutional systems: institutionalizing ethnic peace”
Juliana Carneiro Pinto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), José Ronaldo de Castro Souza Junior (Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil) & Marcelo de Sales Pessoa, “The impacts of the durability of federal constitutions in GDP per capita by countries”
P1.7 – Institutional and economic change
Chair: Klaus Nielsen
Bingtao Song (Henan University, China) & Meiwei Pan (Henan University, China), “The modern transformation of the traditional civilization: an interpretation in terms of public economics”
Lucyna Drenda (University of Economics in Katowice, Poland), “The institutionalized homo-socius and the modern economy”
Irina Egorova (Universite Grenoble Alpes, France), “International impact on the internal institutional structure”
Panagiotis Petrakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Dionysis G. Valsamis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) & Pantelis C. Kostis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), “Institutions and culture on stagnation and growth”
10:00–11:15 Parallel sessions 2
P2.1 – Inequality and institutions
Chair: Sven Larson
Klarita Gerxhani (European University Institute, Italy), “Institutional change and income inequality”
Peter Hill (Property and Environment Research Center, USA), “Human equality and institutional change”
Mikael Sandberg (Halmstad University, Sweden) & Max Rånge (Halmstad University, Sweden), “Dialectics between wealth of nations and political institutions”
P2.2 – Skills and educational institutions
Chair: Valentin Seidler
Carlos Bethencourt (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) & Fernando Perera-Tallo (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain), “On the complementarities between human capital and public revenues: consequences for development”
Carol M. Connell (City University of New York – Brooklyn College, USA), “The institutionalization of crisis response: from theory to business school to business practice”
Johan Wennström (Linkoping University, Sweden), “Institutional economics perspectives on school competition: lessons from Sweden”
P2.3 – Law and finance: West and East
Chair: David Donald
Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Financial law – what makes it function? An analysis of the underpinnings of compliance”
Narun Popattanachai (Columbia University, USA), “Law and regulation as a scaling mechanism: re-evaluating the Asian Miracle and the Asian Financial Crisis”
Tientip Subhanij (Mahidol University, Thailand), “Institutional barriers to SME finance: a telling case of Thailand”
P2.3 – Law and finance: West and East
Chair: David Donald
Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Financial law – what makes it function? An analysis of the underpinnings of compliance”
Narun Popattanachai (Columbia University, USA), “Law and regulation as a scaling mechanism: re-evaluating the Asian Miracle and the Asian Financial Crisis”
Tientip Subhanij (Mahidol University, Thailand), “Institutional barriers to SME finance: a telling case of Thailand”
P2.4 – Institutions and energy production
Chair: Tilman Hartley
Thomas Bauwens (University of Liege, Belgium), “An institutional analysis of engagement in collective energy action: the case of renewable energy cooperatives”
Camilla Chlebna (Oxford Brookes University, UK), “The role of informal institutions for the development of the wind energy industry in Germany and Britain”
Hema Ramakrishnan (Madras School of Economics, India), “Towards empowering access to power in India”
P2.5 – Institutions and human action
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
David Beech (University of Salford, UK), “Institutions as rules and the evolving biocultural power of collective action”
Carolina Miranda Cavalcante (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “Institutions and human action in institutional economics: the three dimensions of institutions”
Karthik Raghavan (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netheralnds), “Towards a typology of spheres, logics and institutions”
P2.6 – Institutional design and self-organization
Chair: Sophia du Plessis
Barbara Dluhosch (Helmut Schmidt University / University FAF Hamburg, Germany) & Helene Binder (Helmut Schmidt University / University FAF Hamburg, Germany), “International institution building in a ‘G-zero world’: how bad an outlook?”
John Stewart (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), “The self-organizing society: the role of institutions”
Komal Shakeel (Development Policy Consultant, Pakistan) & Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar (University of Delaware, USA), “The mystery of bad institutional design: politicians and their incentives”
P2.7 – Institutions and economic development
Chair: Leonardo Burlamaqui
Jorge Aguero (University of Connecticut, USA), “Can growth and redistribution reduce the influence of colonial institutions? The case of Peru’s mining mita”
Marcos Daziano (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), “Challenging institutional constraints in South American countries. a multiple-case study”
Jakob Engel (University of Oxford, UK), “China’s ‘Minsky moment’: the Qingdao fraud and the rise and fall of the Chinese commodity collateral financing market”
11:20–12:35 Parallel sessions 3
P3.1 – Property rights, open access and privatization
Chair: Sven Larson
Jamie Baxter (Dalhousie University, Canada), “The evolution of property: ideas, interests and Uber” [CANCELLED]
Simon Hartmann (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria), “Unbundling institutions and organizations: efficient alignment of domestic and foreign firms in response to property rights institutions”
Katarzyna Szarzec (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) & Wanda Nowara (Statistical Office in Poznan, Poland), “Why does a state remain the owner of enterprises? State capitalism in the post socialist countries: the case of Poland”
P3.2 – Institutions: boom and bust
Chair: Lucyna Drenda
Martin Brun (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) & Andrés Rius (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), “The logic of investment booms: the role of institutions”
German Forero Laverde (University of Barcelona, Spain), “The effect of monetary and exchange rate institutions on the boom-bust cycle in stock markets: 1920-2015”
Eric Haeusler (University of Bern, Switzerland), “’I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go’: Regulating private bankruptcy in Bern, Switzerland, 1750-1900”
P3.3 – Institutions and economic growth
Chair: David Donald
Isaac Dyner (Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia) & Claudia Alvarez (EAFIT University, Colombia) “A system perspective on inclusive institutions”
Tamer Cetin (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey), Yildirim B. Cicen (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey) & Kadir Y. Eryigit (Uludag University, Turkey), “Do institutions affect economic performance? Evidence from Turkey”
Jose Ronaldo Souza (Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil), Daniel Gross (Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil) & Dizia de Figueiredo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), “The determinants of economic institutions and the knock-on effects on GDP per capita”
P3.4 – Institutions and natural resource managment
Chair: Tilman Hartley
Riccardo Marzano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Paola Garrone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) & Luca Grilli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), “Water saving: do residential consumers respond to price? The role of informal institutions”
Delia Montero (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico), “Institutions, information, habits and bottled water consumption in Mexico City”
Irina Prokofieva (Forest Science Centre of Catalonia, Spain) & Elena Górriz-Mifsud (Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, Spain), “The evolution of institutions for non-wood forest products: an empirical study of harvesting practices across Europe”
P3.5 – Political institutions
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Fahd Ali (Habib University, Pakistan), “Taxation and centre-province relations in Pakistan: a history of contest over power and money”
Fanny Schories (Hamburg University, Germany), “Institutional choice in representative democracies: an experimental approach”
Ricardo Vicente (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), “On de facto political power, rent extraction and tenure”
P3.6 – Legal institutions and self-regulation
Chair: Sophia du Plessis
Martha Contreras (Radboud University, Netherlands) & Jaap Bos (Maastricht University, Netherlands), “Self-regulation in collaborative environments: the case of the equator principles in banking”
Silvester van Koten (University of Economics, Czech Republic), “Self-regulatory organizations under the shadow of governmental oversight: blossom or perish? A theoretical and experimental contribution”
Jacek Lewkowicz (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska (University of Warsaw, Poland), “De jure and de facto institutions: disentangling the interrelationships”
P3.7 – International institutions
Chair: Leonardo Burlamaqui
Florian Kiesow Cortez (University of Hamburg, Germany), “Gains from exchange in international political markets”
Elif Erdemoglu (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands), “An institutional economics approach to the effects of privacy regulation on firms”
Ringa Raudla (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) & Rainer Kattel (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), “The impact of structural deficit rule on fiscal policy-making in Estonia and Latvia”
16:00–17:15 Keynote lecture 2
Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine, USA), “The existence of institutions”
Chair: Rutger Claassen
Sunday 4 September
08:00–09:30 Parallel sessions 5
P4.1 – The judicial control of business
Convenor: David Gindis
Chair: Katharina Pistor
Richard Adelstein (Wesleyan University, USA), “The last autonomist”
David Gindis (University of Hertfordshire, UK), “Ernst Freund as precursor of the rational study of corporate law”
Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut, USA), “Antitrust: where did it come from and what did it mean?”
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria, Canada), “Walton Hamilton and the judicial control of business”
P4.2 – Property rights
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Rutger Claassen (Utrecht University, Netherlands), “Property as a ground for political legitimacy”
Tilman Hartley (University of Bristol, UK), “Why do ownership institutions change when energy systems change?”
Carol Leonard (St Antony’s College, USA) & Zafar Nazarov (Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA), “Property rights in land and income growth in Russia, 2000-2008”
Ugo Pagano (University of Siena, Italy & Central European University, Hungary, “The institutions of property rights: an alternative evolutionary explanation”
P4.3 – Democracy, prosperity and collective action
Chair: Francesc Trillas
Korkut Erturk (University of Utah, USA), “On the political economy of collective action failure: can the elite always act on their collective interest?”
Helena Helfer (University of Muenster, Germany), “Democratic institutions and prosperity: a bundled approach”
Saeed Khodaverdian (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany), “Democracy, income inequality and the elite”
Louis Putterman (Brown University, USA), “Democracy and collective action”
P4.4 – Institutions and economic growth
Chair: Bas van Bavel
Hugo Montesinos (Florida State University, USA), Daniel L. Bennett (Patrick Henry College, USA), Hugo Faria (University of Miami, USA & Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, Venezuela), James Gwartney (Florida State University, USA), Daniel Morales (Instituto Dominicano de Evaluación e Investigación de la Calidad Educativa, Dominican Republic & Florida State University, USA) & Carlos Navarro (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, Venezuela), “Evidence on economic versus political institutions as determinants of development”
Eoin O’Leary (University College Cork, Ireland) & Claudia Trevisan (University College Cork, Ireland), “The effect of the number of interest groups on productivity growth: an investigation of 88 countries from 1985 to 2007”
Rok Spruk (Utrecht University, Netherands), Tobias Hlobil (University of Hamburg, Germany) & Mitja Kovac (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), “Inefficient growth”
Irene Van Staveren (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) & Zahid Pervaiz (National College of Business Administration and Economics, Pakistan), “I just ran growth regressions with social cohesion – and it matters importantly”
P4.5 – Institutional diffusion, migration and development
Chair: Luigi Marengo
Philippe DeVille (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) & Alice Mufungizi (Université Catholique de Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo), “Multicracy, institutional inertia and the political economy of underdevelopment: rural communities in South Kivu”
Elmo Gomes (University of Hertfordshire, UK), “Replication of organizational routines in franchise systems”
Valentin Seidler (University of Warwick, UK), “Lacking motivation: British colonial officers, understaffing and the transplant effect in the decolonization of British Africa”
Joachim Zweynert (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) & Ivan Boldyrev (Humboldt University, Germany), “What constructivist institutionalism can learn from the case of Russia”
P4.6 – Knowledge, law and regulation
Chair: Martha Contreras
Leonardo Burlamaqui (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “Knowledge creation and intellectual property management for development and the public interest”
David Donald (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Information matters: why legislatures have come to dominate common law courts in the processing of informal institutions into formal law”
Wolfgang Kerber (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) & Julia Wendel (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany), “Regulatory networks, legal federalism and multi-level regulatory systems”
Devendra Kodwani (Open University, UK), “Regulatory institutions as learning organisations: comparing evolutionary paths of energy regulation in India and the UK”
P4.7 – Entrepreneurship, cooperation and the state
Chair: Denise Dollimore
Mongoljin Batsaikhan (Georgetown University, USA), “Cooperation norm among entrepreneurs: evidence from lab and sales data”
Jeffrey Nugent (University of Southern California, USA) & Zhenhuan Lei (University of Southern California, USA), “Membership of Party (CCP), Congress and business association among private firms: which affilations matter most in China and how?”
Edward Stringham (Trinity College, USA) & J.R. Clark (University of Tennessee, USA), “Entrepreneurial solutions for predicting and preventing online fraud: the role of PayPal, CyberSource and pioneers of electronic commerce”
Gerhard Wegner (Erfurt University, Germany), “Entrepreneuship in the neo-patrimonial state”
10:00–11:15 Keynote lecture 3
John L. Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA), “Big trouble for small states: institutions, experts and the financial crisis”
Chair: Katharina Pistor
11:20–12:35 Parallel sessions 6
P6.1 – The institutional evolution of the state
Chair: Mikael Sandberg
Atle Midttun (Bi Norwegian Business School, Norway), David Sloan Wilson (Binghampton University, USA) & Nina Witoszek (Oslo University, Norway), “The dynamics of institutional adaptation: the competitive advantage of the Nordic Welfare State”
Jakob Molinder (Uppsala University, Sweden), Jan Ottosson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Lena Andersson-Skog (Umeå Univeristy, Sweden) & Lars Magnusson (Uppsala University, Sweden), “What can the state do for you? Relocation allowances and regional subsidies in post-war Sweden”
P6.2 – Nature of capitalism
Chair: Geoff Hodgson
Klaus Nielsen (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), “Conceptualizing capitalism: the role of the state and law”
Jose Reis (University of Coimbra, Portugal), “Capitalism as an organizational order: has new institutionalism a contribution to build a general perspective?”
P6.3 – The evolution of money
Chair: Bingtao Song
Cameron Harwick (George Mason University, USA), “Money and its institutional substitutes”
Thomas Marmefelt (University of Sodertorn, Sweden), “Heuristics in the evolution of units of account and media of exchange”
P6.4 – Political and religious differences
Chair: Michelle Liu
Metin Cosgel (University of Connecticut, USA), Thomas J. Miceli (University of Connecticut, USA) & Sadullah Yildirim (University of Connecticut, USA), “Religious differences and civil war”
Hilton Root (George Mason University, USA), “Resilience and stability trade-offs in China and Europe as systems of systems”
P6.5 – Institutional analysis and policy implications
Chair: Roger Koppl
Sophia du Plessis (Stellenbosch, South Africa), “Policy implications of the interaction of formal and informal institutions”
Pavel Pelikan (Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic), “Why analysis of economic policies needs institutional economics, and why this economics needs to admit unequally rational individuals and comprehend economic change”
P6.6 – Legal institutions
Chair: David Gindis
Daniel Cole (Indiana University, USA), “Relating formal legal rules to ‘rules-in-use’ in the IAD framework”
Christian Turner (University of Georgia, USA), “Perceiving law”
P6.7 – Information in complex organizations
Chair: Elif Erdemoglu
Denise Anthony (Dartmouth College, USA), “Disrupting the information order: How IT challenges institutions of information control in health care”
Luigi Marengo (LUISS, Italy), “Complexity and organization: Coase vs. Arrow and Simon”
13:45–15:30 Parallel sessions 7
P7.1 – Economics, institutions and institutionalism
Chair: Malcolm Rutherford
David Dequech (University of Campinas, Brazil), “Institutions in the economy and some institutions of contemporary mainstream economics: from the late 1970s to the 2008 financial and economic crisis”
Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK), “Karl Polanyi on economy and society: a critical analysis of core concepts”
Agnès Labrousse (University of Picardy, France), “What an economic historicized theory means: bringing together the German historical school, the old American institutionalism and the French régulation school”
James Wible (University of New Hampshire, USA), “The puzzle of C. S. Peirce’s pragmatism and economics: does he provide a philosophical context for institutionalist or neoclassical economics or something else?”
P7.2 – Institutions, evolution and entrepreneurs
Chair: Luigi Marengo
Per Bylund (Oklahoma State University, USA) & Matthew McCaffrey (University of Manchester, UK), “Boundaries of uncertainty-bearing: a new institutional approach”
Denise Dollimore (University of Hertfordshire, UK) & Nadine Page (Ashridge Executive Education at Hult International Business School, UK), “Measuring cognitive and behavioural habit systems of entrepreneurs”
Jens Rommel (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany) & Christian Kimmich (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland), “Evolutionary institutional change and experimental economics: an analytical framework”
Salvatore Spagano (University of Catania, Italy) & Maurizio Caserta (University of Catania, Italy), “Inertial rules as evolutionary replicators”
P7.3 – Finance, financialization and debt
Chair: Thomas Marmefelt
Chukwunonye Emenalo (Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria), Francesca Gagliardi (University of Hertfordshire, UK) & Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK), “Do current and historical institutional determinants of financial system development have any links? Evidence from Africa”
Fouad Ferdi (University of the Sorbonne, France), “The mesoeconomics of financialization”
John Linarelli (Durham University, UK), “Debt in just societies”
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov (University of Tsukuba, Japan), “Impact of financialization on labor policies at Japanese stock companies: case of JPX-Nikkei Index 400”
P7.4 – Institutional analysis: theory and experiments
Chair: David Gindis
Vincy Fon (George Washington University, USA), “Legal mechanism and social behavior: a game theoretic consideration”
Svenja Hippel (Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Germany), Konstantin Chatziathanasiou (Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Germany) & Michael Kurschilgen (Technical University of Munich, Germany), “Be fragile to endure! An experiment on institutional stability”
Lorenzo Sacconi (University of Trento, Italy), Giacomodegli Antoni (University of Parma, Italy), Marco Faillo (University of Trento, Italy) & Pedro Fraces (University of Granada, Spain), “Distributive justice with production and the social contract. an experimental study”
Eskil Ullberg (George Mason University, USA), “Coordination of inventions and innovations through patent markets with prices: an experimental investigation of price signals and search behavior”
P7.5 – Organizations, opportunism and trust
Chair: Hilton Root
Fatima Antelo (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) & Eduardo L. Giménez (Vigo University, Spain), “What if principals could behave opportunistically with their agents? Understanding (better) the employment relationship”
Emanuele Lobina (University of Greenwich, UK), “In quest for causal mechanisms of relative efficiency: remediability revisited”
René Reich-Graefe (Western New England University, USA), “Institutionalized calculative trust: the Coleman/Williamson farmer example”
Aidan Walsh (independent, Ireland) & Malcolm Brady (DCU, Ireland), “Micro-foundations of organisation strategy-making and implementation: the if-then construct”
P7.6 – Markets and economic liberalization
Chair: Helena Helfer
Bruno Gandlgruber (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico), “Institutional analysis of the legalization of the drug market in Mexico”
Rok Spruk (Utrecht University, Netherlands) & Aleksandar Keseljevic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), “Fiscal federalism, economic freedom and growth across German districts”
Ivo Strejcek (University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic), “Creating a market for property rights: the case of the Czechoslovak privatization”
Robert Szarka (University of Connecticut, USA), “Economic freedom and free speech: do less-free countries make more Google removal requests?”
P7.7 – Political interactions: inequality, governance and aid
Chair: Mikael Sandberg
Bas Bavel (Utrecht University, Netherlands) & Daniel Curtis (Leiden University, The Netherlands), “Inequality, institutions and resilience to hazards and shocks: recent approaches using the historical record of pre-industrial Western Europe”
Nabamita Dutta (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA) & Marina Dodlova (German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany), “Foreign aid, checks and balances and resource rent”
Anna Lundgren (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), “Openness and transparency in political decision making practise: an empirical study through an institutional lens”
Jean Mercier (Laval University, Canada), “A conceptual basis for the notion of ‘governance’ in political science”
11:45–13:00 Keynote lecture 4
Henry Hansmann (Yale, USA), “Governments and the theory of the firm”
Chair: David Gindis