WINIR 2024 - Programme
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Updated 16 September 2024.
Wednesday 18 September – WINIR Young Scholars Pre-Conference Workshop
09:00-09:30 Welcome
09:30-11:00 WYS session 1
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 WYS session 2
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 WYS session 3
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 WYS session 4
19:30-21:30 Dinner
Thursday 19 September
10:00-12:00 Registration
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:00 Welcome
13:00-14:15 Keynote
14:15-14:45 Break
14:45-16:15 Parallel sessions 1
16:15-16:45 Break
16:45-18:15 Parallel sessions 2
18:30-20:00 Reception @ Courtyard Pittsburgh University Center
Friday 20 September
09:30-11:00 Parallel sessions 3
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions 4
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Keynote
15:15-15:45 Break
15:45-17:45 Parallel sessions 5
Saturday 21 September
09:30-11:00 Parallel sessions 6
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel sessions 7
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Closing panel
15:15-15:45 Break
15:45-17:45 Membership meeting
19:00-22:00 Dinner* @ Courtyard Pittsburgh University Center
Sunday 22 September
11:00-13:00 Optional “Best of the Burgh Tour” (with local operator Walk the Burgh), register here
* The 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize and the Reviewer of the Year Award will be announced during the conference dinner.
Thursday 19 September
13:00–14:15 Keynote lecture 1
Tymofiy Mylovanov* (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine & University of Pittsburgh, USA), “Frameworks for Institutional Resilience in a Turbulent World based on the Experience of Ukraine”
Chair: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: Barco Law Courtroom
14:30–16:00 Parallel sessions 1
S1.1 – Industrial Policy and Innovation
Chair: Vanessa Casadella (University of Picardie Jules Verne, France)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 538
Sugandh Aggarwal* (Indian Institute of Management Indore, India) & Karthikeya Naraparaju (Indian Institute of Management Indore, India), “India’s New Industrial Policy: Evaluating the Institutional Ecosystem shaping the Production Linked Incentive Schemes of India”
Vanessa Casadella* (University of Picardie Jules Verne, France) & Sofiane Tahi (University of Picardie Jules Verne, France), “Inclusive National Innovation Systems: Rethinking Institutions with Regard to the Imperatives of Inclusion”
André Alves* (Fundação Getulio Vargas EAESP, Brazil), “Overcoming the Innovation Paradox: Bridging the Gap Between Institutional Policy Intentions and Capabilities to Innovate”
S1.2 – The Role of the State in Economic Development
Chair: Daniel Seligson (Independent, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 630
Giacomo Roma* (Bank of Italy, Italy), “The Role of the State in the Twin Transition: A Global Perspective”
Daniel Seligson (Independent, USA) & Anne McCants* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), “Two Koreas”
Anthony Smythe* (Stockholm University, Sweden), “Resilience to Economic Shrinking and Productivity Growth”
S1.3 – The Role of Beliefs
Chair: Christian Turner (University of Georgia, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 310
Christian Turner* (University of Georgia, USA) & Sandra Mayson (University of Pennsylvania, USA), “Law, Legal Institutions, and Consciousness”
Shahnoza Madaeva* (National University of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan), “The Factor of Islam in Uzbekistan and the Search for a New National Idea”
Ashley Hodgson* (St Olaf College, USA), “Institutional Design for Overcoming Rational Distrust of Academic Research: A Game Theory and Salience Frame Approach”
S1.4 – Markets, States, or Communities?
Chair: Georgina Gomez (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 539
Georgina Gomez* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) & Salomey Gyamfi Afrifa (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), “The Making of Community Institutions in the Slums of Ashaiman, Ghana”
Vartika Arora* (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) & K Narayanan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), “Anti-Dumping Protection: Role of the Designated Authority”
Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University, USA) & Michael Poyker* (University of Texas Austin, USA), “Crime and Privatization: Privatization and Economic Development in post-Soviet Russia”
S1.5 – Political Economy of Religious Institutions
Chair: Dmitrii Kofanov (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 527
Anthony Gill* (University of Washington, USA), “Religion as Governance”
Dmitrii Kofanov* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “Religious Persecution and Identity Choice: The Case of Chełm Land in the Russian Empire”
Dmitry Ismagilov* (University College London, UK), “Towards an Economic Theory of Organization within the Orthodox Church: Lessons from a new diocese in the UK”
16:45–18:15 Parallel sessions 2
S2.1 – Governing Commons
Chair: Klarizze Anne Puzon (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 538
Md Rezaul Karim* (University of Kassel, Germany) & Hajee Mohammad (Danesh Science and Technology University, Bangladesh) & Andreas Thiel (University of Kassel, Germany), “Network Adjacent Action Situations in Participatory Governance for Diffusion of Climate Smart Agriculture in Bangladesh”
Klarizze Anne Puzon* (Royal Holloway University of London, UK), “Ethnic Identity and Natural Resource Extraction: A Behavioral Experiment in Guinea”
S2.2 – Populism and the Future of Democracy
Chair: Asaf Yakir (University of Haifa, Israel)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 310
John Komlos* (University of Munich, Germany), “The Economic Roots of the Rise of Trumpism”
Asaf Yakir* (University of Haifa, Israel), “The Two Faces of Anti-Populism”
Mark Reiff* (University of California Davis, USA), “Analytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment”
S2.3 – Coping with Policy Uncertainty
Chair: Sophia du Plessis (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 539
Sophia du Plessis* (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Ada Jansen (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) & Marion Sinclair (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), “Reframing Road Safety for Children in the Western Cape, South Africa: A New Institutional Economics Perspective”
Pablo Paniagua (King’s College London, UK), Diego Diaz* (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile) & Christian Larroulet (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), “Earthquakes and the Wealth of Nations: The Cases of Chile and New Zealand”
Johanna Vallistu* (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Ringa Raudla (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Külli Sarapuu (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) & Nastassia Harbuzova (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), “How Can Public Policy Experiments Help in Coping with Future Uncertainty? Institutionalizing Anticipatory Innovation Governance in Estonia and Finland”
S2.4 – Accountability and Development
Chair: Meina Cai (University of Connecticut, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 527
Daniel Berkowitz* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Yi Liu (Tsinghua University, China) & Mingqin Wu (South China Normal University), “Local Government Accountability and New Firms: Evidence from China”
Meina Cai* (University of Connecticut, USA), “Central Authority, Political Uncertainties, and Local Compliance: Evidence from Land Marketization in China”
Nikhilesh Sinha* (Hult International Business School, UK), “Revisiting the Rental Transaction: How has a Decade of Urban Development Changed the Informal Rental Market in Hyderabad, India?”
S2.5 – Social Policy
Chair: Candence Wills (Stonehill College, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 630
Hasina Jalal* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “A Qualitative Study of Afghan Working Women’s Lived Experiences in Post-Taliban Afghanistan”
Candence Wills* (Stonehill College, USA), “Sex Work and Structure: How Policies and Institutional Changes Influence Official Reports of Human Trafficking”
Dilshan Fernando* (University of Guelph, Sri Lanka), “Disability Policy Innovation through Public-Private Partnerships: Mapping the Accessibility Support System of Titan, India”
Friday 20 September
09:30–11:00 Parallel sessions 3
S3.1 – Agricultural Policy
Chair: Pengshan Pan (New Uzbekistan University, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Dining Room A
George Meszaros* (University of Warwick, UK), “The Paradox and Limitations of State Governance: A Case Study of Brazil’s Agricultural Expansion and Environmental Crises.”
Pengshan Pan (New Uzbekistan University, USA), Jennifer Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Nodir Djanibekov (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Germany), “Cluster Farming, Technology Adoption, and Female Labor Participation: Evidence from Central Asia”
S3.2 – Incompatibilities
Convenor: Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chair: Aylon Manor (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 527
Paul Dragos Aligica* (George Mason University, USA & University of Bucharest, Romania), “The Three Cities Trilemma: Navigating the Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century”
Stefan Voigt* (University of Hamburg, Germany) & Nadia von Jacobi* (University of Trento, Italy), “Incompatibilities: When Formal and Informal Institutions Do Not Align”
Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy), “On Buchanan’s ‘Afraid to be Free: Dependency as Desideratum’ – A Challenge to Liberal and Institutional Thought”
S3.3 – The Role of Communities in Development
Chair: Keith Taylor (University of California Davis, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 538
Keith Taylor* (University of California Davis, USA) & Alexandra Hill (University of California Berkeley, USA), “Is Community Economic Development Policy and Practice Sufficient for Marginalized Communities? Advancing Institutional Diversity in CED Policy and Practice”
Grazia Greco* (University of Milan, Italy), Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Trento, Italy & USI, Switzerland) & Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini (USI, Switzerland), “Are Renewable Energy Communities Actual Governance Structures à la Elinor Ostrom? A Leximetric Analysis of Charters”
S3.4 – Public Finance Institutions
Chair: Lyndal Keeton (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 540
Vlad Tarko* (University of Arizona, USA), “The Politics of Public Finance: A Synthesis of the Buchanan-Wagner Perspective on Public Debt”
Filippo Belloc* (University of Siena, Italy) & Antonino Lofaro (University of Siena, Italy), “Government Subsidies and the Landscape of Industrial Sectors”
Eric Scorsone* (University of Virginia, USA), “State Insolvency Regimes and Local Government Fiscal Resilience”
S3.5 – Governing Cryptomarkets
Chair: Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 310
Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK), “Asset Digitisation: From the Paper Crunch to Bitcoin”
Vanessa Villanueva Collao* (European University Institute, Italy), “Decentralized Governance (DeGov): Models of Governance for Accessible Cryptomarkets”
11:30–13:00 Parallel sessions 4
S4.1 – Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons
Convenor: David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK)
Chair: Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 310
A session around David Gindis and Pavel Kuchar’s forthcoming edited volume Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2025), with some of the editors and authors involved.
Ilia Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Michael Madison* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “The Autonomous Corporation as Knowledge Commons”
David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK), Pavel Kuchar (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic) & Daniel Cole* (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), “Toward a Knowledge Commons Perspective on the Corporate Form”
Tanweer Ali* (Prague University of Economics and Business), “Common-Sense Commons and Corporate Governance”
Brett Frischmann* (Villanova University, USA), Comments on the Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons Project
S4.2 – Civil Society, Political Freedom, and Economic Freedom
Chair: Raven Brown (New York University, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 527
Raven Brown* (New York University, USA), “The Neoliberal Transformation: Undermining the Social Contract, Institutional Erosion, and Democratic Deficits in the 21st Century”
Maurizio Caserta* (University of Catania, Italy), Maria Olivella Rizza* (University of Catania, Italy) & Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy), “Institutional Change through the Institutions of Change: The Case of Civil Disobedience”
Justin Callais* (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA), Joshua Ammons (George Mason University, USA) & Yahya Alshamy (George Mason University, USA), “Nonviolent Regime Change and Economic Freedom”
S4.3 – Explaining Institutional Resiliency
Chair: Daniel Cole (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 538
Shuping Wang* (Syracuse University, USA) & Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University, USA), “Understanding the Drivers of Institutional Adaptations: An Analysis of a US Fishery Management Council”
Richard R. Weiner* (Rhode Island College, USA), “Risk Society and Resilient Network Regulation”
Daniel Cole* (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), “The Resiliency of Common-Field Agriculture in England, 1300-1500”
S4.4 – Institutional Foundations
Chair: Marek Hudek (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic)
Room: William Pitt Union, Room 540
Konrad Werner* (University of Warsaw, Poland & PTH Brixen, Italy) & Lukasz Hardt (University of Warsaw, Poland), “The Willingness to Problematize: Epistemological Sources of Institutional Resilience”
Marek Hudik* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic), “Towards a Unified Framework of Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth”
John B. Horowitz* (Ball State University, USA), “An Economic Theory of Conducible Goods”
14:00–15:15 Keynote lecture 2
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University, USA), “Institutional Resilience: Dangers and Steps Forward”
Chair: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
15:30–17:30 Parallel sessions 5
S5.1 – Institutions and Innovation: Exploring Economic History through Power, Technology & Governance
Convenor: Colin Harris (St Olaf College, USA)
Chair: Peter K. Hazlett (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
Colin Harris* (St Olaf College, USA), “Institutional Mechanisms of the Protestant Reformation”
Jacob R. Hall* (University of Pennsylvania, USA), “Itinerant Kings”
Peter K. Hazlett* (New York University, USA), “The Economics of New England Witchcraft”
Patrick Fitzsimmons* (George Mason University, USA), “Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean”
S5.2 – Interdisciplinary Views on Interdependency
Convenors: Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chair: Vlad Tarko (University of Arizona, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1501
Vlad Tarko* (University of Arizona, USA), “Conflict and Cooperation Perspectives on Capitalism”
Jouni Paavola* (University of Leeds, UK), “Institutional Interdependence and the Effectiveness of National Environmental Policy Interventions”
Sara Lorenzini* (University of Milan, Italy) & Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy), “A View on Interdependence: Indivisibility and the Limits of the Nature of Goods”
Bryan Bruns* (Independent, USA), “Navigating Interdependence: Cooperation in a Landscape of Changing Games”
S5.3 – Exploring New Perspectives on Social Inequality, Community Well-being & Quality of Life
Convenor: Patsy Kraeger (Chatham University, USA)
Chair: Maria Olivella Rizza (University of Catania, Italy)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 3415
Several papers in this session are forthcoming in Patsy Kraeger et al. eds (2024) Social (in)equality, Community Well-being and Quality of Life (Edward Elgar).
Maria Lissowska* (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Working Online: What Conditions, What Consequences for Stakeholders, and What Perspectives for the Future?”
Patsy Kraeger* (Chatham University, USA) & Rhonda Phillips (Chatham University, USA), “Participatory Community Philanthropy: A pathway for Reducing Social (In)Equalities”
Maria Olivella Rizza* (University of Catania, Italy), “Rights Through Development Policies: Inequalities in Siracusa from Industrialization to New Urban Paradises”
Dashiell Elliott* (Grantmakers of Oregon & Southwest Washington, USA) & Frank Ridzi (Central New York Community Foundation & LeMoyne College, USA), “Launching a Black Equity and Excellence Fund: Improving Community Well-Being through Black-Led Social Change”
S5.4 – Business Corporations: Institutional & Public Dimensions
Conventor: Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (University of Missouri Kansas City & Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Chair: Paul Dragos Aligica (George Mason University, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 5404
David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK), “Institutional Theory for Corporate Law: An Invitation”
Daniel J. Greenwood* (Hofstra University, USA) & Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci* (University of Missouri Kansas City & Brooklyn Law School, USA), “Total Governance”
Christina Sautter* (Southern Methodist University, USA), Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci* (University of Missouri Kansas City & Brooklyn Law School, USA) & Daniel J. Greenwood* (Hofstra University, USA), “Shareholder Democracy Failure”
Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci* (University of Missouri Kansas City & Brooklyn Law School, USA), “Corporate Governance and Public Opinion”
S5.5 – Building Resilient Institutions
Chair: Delia Montero (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 5405
Delia Montero* (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico), “Institutions, Resilience, and Water Pollution in Mexico City”
Han Chu* (Kiel University, Germany), Huiwen Gong (University of Stavanger, Norway) & Robert Hassink (Kiel University, Germany), “Improving Regional Resilience through Extra-Regional Cooperation: The Case from China”
Elis Feitosa* (University of São Paulo, Brazil) & Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes (University of São Paulo, Brazil), “Building Resilience Through Collective Action: A Comparative Case Study of Bioeconomy Value Chains in the Amazon”
Franz Siebrits* (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), “The Resilience of Organisations When Institutions are Undermined: The South African Revenue Service (2014-2018)”
Saturday 21 September
09:30–11:00 Parallel sessions 6
S6.1 – A Long-Term View on Culture, Institutions & Development
Convenor: Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chair: Stefan Voigt (University of Harburg, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 5108
Enrico Spolaore* (Tufts University, USA), Mickael Melki (Paris School of Business, France), Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, France) & Romain Wacziarg (UCLA & NBER, USA), “Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility”
Jonathan Schulz* (George Mason University, USA & University of Nottingham, UK), Max Posch (University of Exeter, UK & Harvard University, USA) & Joseph Henrich (Harvard University, USA), “How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History”
Stefan Voigt* (University of Harburg, Germany), Mahdi Khesali (University of Harburg, Germany) & Nadia von Jacobi* (University of Trento, Italy), “Once Upon a Time: Introducing the Historical Values Survey”
S6.2 – Institutions, Conflict, and Development
Chair: Ahmad Shah Mobariz (St. Olaf College, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1502
Edwar Escalante* (Angelo State University, Peru), “How Do Local Non-State Actors Shape the Relationship between Natural Resource Rents and Social Conflict?”
Ahmad Shah Mobariz* (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Ilia Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “The Calculus of Insurgency and State Failure”
Liana Eustacia Reyes* (Purdue University & Dartmouth College, USA), “What is Law and Do Rebels Have It?”
S6.3 – Institutions and Economic History
Chair: Vincent Geloso (George Mason University, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1501
Peter Grajzl* (Washington and Lee University, USA) & Peter Murrell (University of Maryland, USA), “Recombinant Novelty in Early-Modern English Caselaw”
Vincent Geloso* (George Mason University, USA) & Alexandra Foucher (Quebec Ministry of International Relations, Canada), “Why Nationalize the Production of Public Goods? The Case of American Lighthouses from 1789 to 1815”
Aparna Howlader* (Chatham University, USA), “Local Institutions, Natural Resource Management, and Economic Development: Implication of Post-Dust Bowl Institutional Changes on American Agriculture”
S6.4 – Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and the Firm
Chair: David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
Rahul Sapkal* (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), K R Shyam Sunder (Management Development Institute, India) & Kaustabh Bam (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), “Do Institutions Matter for Firm and Employment Growth? Evidence from India’s Organized Sector”
Tanweer Ali* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic), “Ownership: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Rise of ‘Shareholder Value’”
Guilherme Monteiro* (Insper, Brazil), Rafael Autilio (Insper, Brazil) & Adriana Bruscato (Insper, Brazil), “Will I Fail? Exploring the Link Between the Institutional Environment and Entrepreneurs’ Fear of Failure”
11:30–13:00 Parallel sessions 7
S7.1 – Institutional Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Yang Zhou (University of North Texas, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 3415
Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Trento, Italy & USI, Switzerland), “Market for the Truth, Digital Platforms, and AI-Based Products: Some Preliminary Law & Economics Considerations”
Yang Zhou* (University of North Texas, USA), “Institutions with/of Generative AI”
Tanja Porčnik* (University of Hamburg, Germany), “Constitutional Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Towards an Institutional Framework for AI-Assisted Law-Making”
S7.2 – Decentralized Governance Institutions
Chair: Aylon Manor (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 5108
Simon Sun (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) & Eytan Tepper* (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), “Building Resiliency Through Polycentric Systems and Institutions: Constructing Taiwan’s Space-based Infrastructure”
Hilton Root (George Mason University, USA), “Network Architecture and Cultural Persistence”
Aylon Manor* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “The Case for Local Epistocracy”
S7.3 – Experts and Expert Failure
Chair: Jon Murphy (Nicholls State University, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1502
Roger Koppl* (Syracuse University, USA), Kira Pronin (Syracuse University, USA), Nick Cowan (University of Lincoln, UK), Marta Podemska-Mikluch Marta (Gustavus Adolphus College, USA) & Pablo Paniagua (King’s College London UK), “Bespoke Science: The Use of Ad Hoc Scientific Advisory Committees in the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Matthew Histen* (California State University Northrdige, USA) & Toby Napoletano (University of California Merced, USA), “The Production of Knowledge in Society”
Jon Murphy* (Nicholls State University, USA), “Experts Whispering Down the Lane“
S7.4 – Polycentricity and Social Institutions
Chair: Nathan Goodman (George Mason University, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1501
Lyndal Keeton* (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Giampaolo Garzarelli (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) & Aldo A. Sitoe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), “Polycentric Governance and Taxibus Hand Signs: An Economic Essay on the Bottom-Up Co-production of a Constructed Language”
Nathan Goodman* (George Mason University, USA), Otto Lehto (New York University, USA) & Mikayla Novak (George Mason University, USA), “Institutional Diversity and Innovative Recombination”
Patrick McDonald* (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Katherine M. Caves (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Thomas Bolli (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) & Ursula Renold (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), “Measuring Social Institutions: What makes Social Institutions of Vocational Education Systems Robust?”
S7.5 – Digital Divides and Internet Governance
Chair: Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
Dominique Lazanski* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “The Political Economy of China and Its 5G/6G Strategy”
Keith Taylor* (University of California Davis, USA) & Ilia Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “The Role of Rural Electric Cooperatives in Achieving Universal Broadband Access: Evidence from the United States”
Ali Palida* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Ilia Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Martin Weiss (University of Pittsburgh, USA), “Institutional Diversity in Spectrum Sharing: Exclusive and Nonexclusive Property-Rights Regimes”
14:00–15:15 Closing plenary on the “Governing Deep Differences” Project
With Paul Dragos Aligica (George Mason University, USA & University of Bucharest, Romania) & Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Chair: David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
15:45–17:45 Membership Meeting
Chair: Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut, USA)
Room: Posvar Hall, room 1500
