WINIR 2025 - Papers
The following accepted papers will be organized into sessions in late August.
Updated 26 August 2025.
A
Akwesi Acquah (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), “The Politics of Robot Taxation: A Cross-National Perspective of Lawmakers in the United Kingdom and Switzerland”
Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder, United States) & Ali Jafarzadeh (University of Colorado Boulder, United States), “Risk Propagation Across Cryptocurrency Networks”
Eric Alston (University of Colorado Boulder, United States), Bryce Bugge (University of Colorado Boulder, United States) & William Lehr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States), “Automated Penalty Institutions on Staked Blockchain Networks”
André Cherubini Alves (FGV EAESP, Brazil) & Ronise Suzuki (FGV EAESP, Brazil), “Institutional Coherence and the Innovation Paradox: Evidence from Brazil’s Agricultural Innovation Policy Space”
Gustavo Onofre Andreao (CCI-CEBRAP, Brazil), “Carbon and Institutions in the Anthropocene: An Agent-Based Model of Global Oil Commerce Network Formation under Varying Climate Change Mitigation Institutions”
Gustavo Onofre Andreao (CCI-CEBRAP, Brazil), “Climate Change Narratives and Mitigation Strategies: In Favor of a Pragmatic Policy Mix in a Post-Neoliberal World”
Luca Andriani (Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom), Panagiota Makrychoriti (Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom) & Emmanouil G. Pyrgiotakis (University of Essex, United Kingdom), “Social Capital and CO2 emissions in Emerging Markets”
Fatima Antelo (University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom), “Assessing Blockchain Solutions for Land Title Institutions”
Imran Arif (Appalachian State University, United States), “Entrepreneurial Entry and Structural Transformation: The Role of Institutional Ecosystems”
B
David Beech (University of Salford, United Kingdom), “Transforming Corporate Governance: Balancing Private and Public Law in Entrepreneurial Executive Leadership Direction and Institutional Leadership Regulatory Control Of Corporate Enterprise”
Sergio Beraldo (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy), “From Libertarian Paternalism to AI-Powered Nudging”
Zoulikha Besseddar (University of Mascara, Algeria), Mokhtari Melouka (University of Mascara, Algeria), Mokhtari Faycal (University of Mascara, Algeria) & Saci Mohamed Amine (University of mascara, Algeria), “The Impact of Institutional Quality on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Arab Countries.”
T. H. Bhuvaneshwari (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India) “A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of IoT Sensor Adoption Pathways in Indian Agriculture: Institutional Dimensions”
Luigi Bonaventura (Università di Catania, Italy) & Maurizio Caserta (Università di Catania, Italy), “Gender Social Norms and Segregation in the Labor Market”
Clemens Buchen (WHU – Otto-Beisheim School of Management, Germany), “Institutions as Layers: Incentives, Patterns, and Signals”
C
João Capucho (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), João Leitão (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) & Helena Alves (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), “Beyond Tourism and Corruption: The Predominant Role of Entrepreneurship in Advancing European Sustainable Development Goals”
Pradeep Chellappan (Flame University Pune India, India) & Yugank Goyal (Flame University Pune India, India), “Tacit Knowledge and Adoption of ICT-based Public Policies”
Chang Soo Choe (Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea), “The Cause of Emergence of Authoritarian President in South Korea: Interaction of Political Culture and Undemocratic Party Operation”
Pradeep Kumar Choudhury (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), “Does Inequalities in Access Smartphone and Internet lead to Poor Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India”
Vanessa Villanueva Collao (European University Institute/Bocconi University, Italy), “DAOS, Decentralized Governance, and Vote Buying. An Experimental Study”
Nathan Cook (Indiana University, Indianapolis, United States), Jessica Steinberg (Indiana University, Bloomington, United States) & Gustavo Torrens (Indiana University, Bloomington, United States), “Ostromian Institutions, Trust, and Peace: When does Self-Governance Promote Peace?”
Caio Correa Costa (Federal University Of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Eduardo Guedes Villar (Federal Institute Of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Rosalia Aldraci Barbosa Lavarda (Federal University Of Santa Catarina, Brazil) & Andre Luis Da Silva Leite (Federal University Of Santa Catarina, Brazil), “Interweaving the Open Strategy Approach and Acemoglu’s Institutional Approach to Foster Inclusive and Transparent Institutions: A Cross-Fertilization Proposal”
Matea Cvjetkovic (Institute of Public Finance, Croatia) & Jasmina Masovic (Institute of Public Finance, Croatia) & Zoran Bubas (Institute of Public Finance, Croatia), “Enhancing Public Sector Innovation: A Nationwide Study of Croatia”
D
Esteban Damiani (Hult Business School, United Kingdom), “The Use of Anti-Status-Quo Discourses in Online Political Marketing in the Argentinean and the Italian Right-Wing Populisms: A Comparative Case Between Main YouTube Channels of La Libertad Avanza and Fratelli d’Italia”
Akshay Deshmukh (Institute for Social and Economic Change,India), “Determinants and Price Realization in the Grape Value Chain in Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in India: A New Institutional Perspective”
Elodie Douarin (UCL SSEES, United Kingdom), “Transmission of Views on Gender Equality and Institutional Change: Lessons from the Post-Communist Transition”
E
Alexander Ebner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany), “Transformative Policy Entrepreneurship: A Schumpeterian Perspective on the Institutionalization of Decarbonization in the European Automotive Industries”
F
Jan Falkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Karol Degórski (University of Warsaw, Poland), “But Don’t Play with Me ‘Cause You’re Playing with a Farmer – Electoral Consequences of Animal Welfare Proposals”
Max Fang (Indiana University Bloomington, United States), “The Tragedy of the AI Data Commons: Legal Constraints and the Economics of AI Innovation”
Elis Feitosa (University of São Paulo, Brazil), “How does Polycentric Governance Evolve? Insights from Fisheries Management in the Brazilian Amazon”
G
Emiliano Hernandez Gomez Galvarriato (Radboud University, Netherlands), “Police Violence, How much of it is about Forced Confessions? An Assessment of Incentives Changes, Following Penal Justice Reform in Mexico”
Giampaolo Garzarelli (DiSSE, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Italy), Lyndal Keeton (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) & Aldo A. Sitoe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), “Seeds of Institutional Change: The Biopiracy of Brazilian Rubber”
Ranjan Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, India) & Tanmoy Majilla (Indian Institute of Management, India), “When Women Lead, Women Work: Institutional Gender Homophily, Proportional Representation and Within-Firm Female Employment”
Ranjan Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, India), “Colonization as a Response to Contractual Challenges: How Managing Trade-Related Transaction Costs led to the British Expansion in India”
Ranjan Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, India), Deepika Yadav (Indian Institute of Management, India) & Pranab Ranjan Choudhury (Landstack Research and Advisory, India), “Caring Without Owning: Lessons from the Bishnoi on Psychological Ownership and Stewardship”
Malgorzata Godlewska (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Are Legal Regulations, such as the DSA, DMA, or AIA, able to Protect Consumers, Contractors and Undistorted Competition while Supporting the Development of Digital Gatekeepers?”
Georgina Gomez (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) & Anna Elias (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), “Valuing the Small Improvement: Why Digital Platforms Matter to Informal Workers in Mumbai”
Grazia Greco (University of Milan, Italy) & Virginia Cecchini Manara (University of Milan, Italy), “Law & Economics Analysis of RECs and Comparison of Possible Juridical Forms”
Mohit Kumar Gupta (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India), “Institutional Design, Regulation, and Governance of Family-Controlled Business Firms in India”
H
Eliza Hałatek (University of Warsaw, Poland), “The Relevance of Central Bank Communication – Does it Really Build Trust?”
Olle Hammar (Linnaeus University, Sweden), “Forces of Autocratic Support: Evidence from Russia and the War in Ukraine”
Colin Harris (St. Olaf College, United States), “Meet the Old Laws, Same as the New Laws? Reassessing the Effect of Early Right-to-Work Laws on Union Density”
Cyril Hédoin (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France) & Romain Plassard (University Paris Dauphine-PSL, France), “Decentralized Finance and Democracy. Reflecting on Libertarianism’s Escape From Politics”
Geoffrey Hodgson (Loughborough University London, United Kingdom), “Formal and Informal Institutions: Some Problems of Meaning, Impact, and Interaction”
Marek Hudik (Prague University of Economicsand Business, Czech Republic), “Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive Entrepreneurship In and Out of Equilibrium”
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Arabela Ichim (Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Netherlands), Daniela Ancuta Sarpe (Universitatea ” Dunarea de Jos”, Romania) & Neculita Mihaela (Universitatea ” Dunarea de Jos”, Romania), “Is there a Bright Side to Inequality of Opportunity? Evidence from Roma Entrepreneurs and their Communities in North Macedonia and Serbia”
K
Fatjon Kaja (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Aikaterini Argyrou (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) & Tineke Lambooy (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), “Strategic Use of Legal Structures by Dutch Social Enterprises: Enhancing Purpose and Legitimacy in Pursuit of Societal Objectives”
Roger Koppl (Syracuse University, United States), “Darwin and the institutions”
Henri Koskinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), “The Productive Power of Startup Culture Institutions”
Pavel Kuchař (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic), “Self and Autonomy: Liberalism as the Highest Form of Generosity”
Przemysław Kurek (University of Warsaw, Poland), Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Maja Pieńkos (SWPS University, Poland) “Explaining the Increase in Turnout during the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections in Poland. The Role of Religiosity”
L
Joanna Laast (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) “The Role of Shared Mobility in the Sustainability Transition: The Case of Tallinn’s Mobility System”
Ismael Lare (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Alicia Tenza Peral (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Laura X Estévez Moreno (University of Zaragoza, Spain) & Javier Lacosta García (University of Zaragoza, Spain), “Integration of Formal Rules in Rules-in-Use Regarding the Governance of Common-Pool Resources”
Zichuan LI (Paris Dauphine University – PSL, France), “Institutional Change of the Platform Regulation and Anti-monopoly in China”
Chen Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Muyang Chen (Peking University, China), Kang Liu (ICBC, China) & Chunzi Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “Financialized State Developmentalism: Public Banking, Industrial Policy and Financial Market-Craft in China”
Allison Lindner (University College London, United Kingdom), “A Blowout on the Road to Sustainable Development Policy: Lessons From the Failed Redisa Waste Tyre Plan in South Africa”
Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), “Formal and Informal Institutions in Europe and their Impact on Taking a Second Chance by SME”
Sara Lorenzini (University of Trento, Italy) “Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions, Subjective Games, and New Prospects for Cooperation and New Institutional Arrangements in the Great Bear Rainforest.”
Judyta Lubacha (Jagiellonian University, Poland) “Role of Norms and Values in Sustainable Consumption and Shift Towards Circularity”
M
Martina Manara (University College London, United Kingdom, Virginia Cecchini Manara (University of Milan, Italy) & Marco Faillo (University of Trento, Italy), “De-Facto Land Rights in Urban Informal Settlements: Piloting a Diagnostic Survey”
Reka Mathe (University of Public Service, Hungary), “Cutting Red Tape to Increase Productivity?”
Nonhlanhla Mathibela (Public Affairs Research Institute, South Africa), “Energy Poverty, Economic Inclusion, and the Just Energy Transition in South Africa”
Cristina Matos (University of Minho, Portugal), “Inequality and Income Insecurity in Portugal: An Institutional-Evolutionary Analysis of Labor Segmentation Dynamics”
Mark McAdam (University of Siegen, Germany) “Views on Agency in Institutional Change”
Georgios Melios (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom), “Neighbourhoods, Income Inequalities and Partisanship”
Georgios Melios (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) & Bouke Klein Teeselink (King’s College London, United Kingdom), “Religion, Identity and Preferences”
Mokhtari Melouka (Economics, Algeria), Bessedar Zoulikha (Economics, Algeria) & Mokhtari Fayçal (Economics, Algeria), “Institutions and Entrepreneurship in Arab Countries: The Impact of the Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions on Entrepreneurial Activity”
Pedro Trus Mendes (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland), “Contested Green Transitions: Certification and Agricultural Futures in Bahia and Eastern Poland”
Chunzi Miao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) & Li Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “Navigating Geopolitical Pressures: Huawei’s Strategic Adaptation and the Dynamic State-Business Nexus in China”
Karoly Mike (Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary), “Cicero meets Pareto: How Efficiency Analysis can Serve Legal Justice”
Emanuele Millemaci (Università di Messina, Italy), Fabio Monteforte (University of Messina, Italy) & Paolo Mustica (University of Messina, Italy), “Assessing the Impact of Special Economic Zones in Southern Italy: A Firm-Level Analysis”
Bruno Varella Miranda (Insper, Brazil) & Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira (University of Bonn, Germany), “Institutional Innovation and Strategic Adaptation in the Amazon: The Case of the TAC Policy”
Arezoo Mirzaei (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Insa Theesfeld (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Irene Pérez Ibarra (University of Zaragoza, Spain) & Ismael Lare David (University of Zaragoza, Spain), “From Rules-in-Use to Policy Action: Understanding Informal Rules in Land Governance in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria”
Mrdjan Mladjan (EBS Business School, Germany) & Elena Nikolova (GLO, UCL and IOS-Regensburg, Mauritius) & Dusan Markovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), “Religion, Compromise, and Attitudes Towards Women in the Labor Market”
Guilherme Fowler A. Monteiro (Insper, Brazil) & Bruno Varella Miranda (Insper, Brazil), “Institutional Constraints on Ownership: Evidence from Private Equity in Brazil”
Delia Montero (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico), “Prosperity or Disaster: the Water Policy in Mexico City”
Eliana Lins Morandi (University of Bonn, Germany), Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) & Wiltrud Terlau (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany), “The Role of Institutional Arrangements for Technical Assistance Services Supporting Urban Agriculture: Evidence from the Largest Latin American Metropolis”
Altay Mustafayev (Indiana University, United States), “The Use of Elinor Ostrom’s IAD Framework in Comparative Law Research: The Case of Judicial Discretion in Common Law and Civil Law”
N
Miguel Nkegbe (University of London, United Kingdom), “The Sustainable Governance of Low-Earth Orbit: Soft Law and Public-Private Partnerships”
Jiri Nohejl (George Mason University, United States), “Currency Competition, International Institutions and Network Topology”
Mohamad Ichsana Nur (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), “Politics in Public Sector Innovation: How Political Leadership can Uphold the Implementation of Public Service Mall in Indonesia”
O
Jose Carlos Orihuela (PUCP, Peru) & Jose Luis Chicoma (The New Institute, Germany), “The Case for Traditional Supply Chains: How Informal Markets and Policy Innovations Can Foster a More Equitable and Sustainable Food Economy”
Smaranda Pantea (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic) & Nadzeya Laurenstyeva (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic), “The Effects of Winning Public Tenders on Firm Growth: Evidence from the IT Sector in the Czech Republic”
P
Fernanda Steiner Perin (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom), “The role of Health Technology Assessment in Reimbursement Decisions and Pricing of New Medicines Across Diverse Healthcare Systems”
Adam Piłat (University of Warsaw, Poland), “Understanding Corporate Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of OECD Countries”
Jaroslaw Plichta (Krakow University of Economics, Poland), “Entrepreneurial Logic as an Endogenous Institutional Logic Driving Innovation: A Mixed‐Methods Approach to Identifying and Validating Its Antecedents”
R
Domagoj Racic (Knowledge Network, Croatia), “The Political Economy of Knowledge: Between Knowledge Economy and Cognitive Capitalism”
Ringa Raudla (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), James W. Douglas (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States) & John Szmer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States), “Does Lame-Duck Status Affect Governors’ Behaviors when Proposing Tax Changes?”
Blaž Remic (Leiden University, Netherlands), “From Cognitive Bias to Temporal Orientation: Institutions and Agency in Thucydides”
Frank van Rijnsoever (Utrecht University, Netherlands) & Robert McDonald (Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Netherlands), “The Moderating Effect of the Incumbent Agrifood Regime on Productive Entrepreneurship within Entrepreneurial Ecosystems”
Giacomo Roma (Bank of Italy, Italy), “The Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in a Comparative Perspective: An Apparent Paradox”
James Rosenberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison/WZB Berlin Social Science Center, United States), “Do Sleeping Sovereigns Dream of Digital Identities?: Identity, Sovereignty, Citizenship”
S
Bensari Sabrim (University of Pécs, Hungary) “Empowering Sustainable Futures: The Institutional Dimensions of Women’s Leadership in Sustainability and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems”
Loïc Sauce (ISTEC Business School, France), “The Emerging Institutions of Decentralised Finance (DeFi)”
Magdalena Sawczuk (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland), “Academic Entrepreneurship through the Lens of a Multi-Stakeholder Approach”
Gopika Shah (SMU Dedman School of Law, United States), “Banking vs. Tech: The Fight for the Future of Money”
Naimitya Sharma (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, India), “Entrepreneurship as Heuristics for Better Environmental Outcomes”
Paolo Silvestri (University of Catania, Italy), “Percentage Tax Designation Institutions: A Model for Polycentric Governance of Public Goods”
Pavneet Singh (Indian Institute of Management Amritsar, India), “Does Good Governance improve FDI in the Indian States?”
Renata Sliwa (University of the National Education Commission, Poland) & Barbara Kiełbasa (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland), “Activities of Rural Housewives’ Clubs in Poland as a Possible Source of Unbundling Regulatory Governance Potential at Local Level Development”
Petr Špecián (Charles University, Czech Republic), “Breaking the Experimentation Bottleneck: Generative Agents as Institutional Design Accelerators”
Mikael Stenkula (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden), “The Institutional Framework and Productive Investments: Dividend and Corporate Taxation in Closely Held Corporations”
Marco Stimolo (University of Siena, Italy), Pierpaolo Parrotta (University of Siena, Italy) & Alessandro Stringhi (University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic) “YOUTH. Youngsters Observing Unlawful Tendencies in High-crime areas”
Ernst-Jan Stokvis (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic), “University-Startup Collaborations in Digital Healthcare Transformation: An Inductive Case Study Approach”
Ernst-Jan Stokvis (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic), “Evolving Roles of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (UIEEs)”
Simon Sun (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan) & Max Fang (Indiana University Bloomington, United States), “Governing Public AI As Global Infrastructure”
Maria-Eleni Syrmali (University of the Aegean, Greece), “The Many Faces of Development: Socioeconomic and Institutional Perspectives”
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Abhinav Surya Lalitha Thiyagarajan (Centre for Development Studies, India), “Value Chain Relationship and Value Capture in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector”
Bill Tulloh (RMIT University, Australia), “Abstract Interfaces: The Microstructure of Institutional Change”
Christian Turner (University of Georgia, United States), “Conceptions of Artificial Institutional Agents”
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Faruk Ulgen (Université Grenoble Alpes, France), “Nemo Judex in Causa Sua: Regulation and Financial Stability as a Public Good”
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Carlos Alberto Prieto Valero (European University Viadrina, Germany) & Albrecht Söllner (European University Viadrina, Germany), “Expanding the Comprehension of Governance in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Analysis of the Heilbronn Ecosystem using the Institutional Grammar Method”
Massimiliano Vatiero (Universita di Trento, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Italy), “In Search of the Transaction in Transaction Cost Economics”
Andrei Vernikov (Institute of Economics RAS, Russia) & Anna Kurysheva (Southern Federal University, Russia), “Financialization and the Over-Production of Elites”
Andrea Sáenz de Viteri (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic) & Julieta Sammartino (University of Navarra, Spain), “Populism, Currency Overvaluation, and the Role of Institutions: Evidence from Latin America”
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Piotr Waląg (University of Agriculture, Poland) & Renata Sliwa (University of the National Education Commission, Poland), “A Global Uniform Carbon Tax and the Convergence of the Structure of Economies between Countries.”
Y
Deepika Yadav (Indian Institute of Management, India) & Rnajan Kumar Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management, India) & Prashant Kumar Das (Indian Institute of Management, India) “Land Tenure Quality and Agricultural Land Rents




