WINIR 2026 - Programme
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Version of 6 July 2026
Tuesday 21 July – WINIR Young Scholars Pre-Conference Workshop
09:00-09:15 Welcome
09:15-11:15 WYS session 1
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 WYS session 2
13:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 WYS session 3
16:00-16:30 Closing Remarks
Wednesday 22 July
09:30–11:00 Registration
11:00–12:30 Keynote: Paul Dragos Aligica (Aula C, Building CU002)
12:30–14:00 Lunch (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
14:00–16:00 Parallel Sessions 1
16:00–16:45 Break (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
16:45–18:15 Parallel Sessions 2
18:15–19:30 Welcome cocktail
Thursday 23 July
09:00–10:30 Parallel Sessions 3
10:30–11:15 Break (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
11:15–12:45 Parallel Sessions 4
12:45–14:00 Lunch (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
14:00–15:30 Parallel Sessions 5
15:30–16:15 Break (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
16:15–18:15 Parallel Sessions 6
18:15–19:15 Membership meeting
Friday 24 July
09:00–11:00 Parallel Sessions 7
11:00–11:45 Break (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
11:45–13:15 Parallel Sessions 8
13:15–14:30 Lunch (Terrazza Aula Magna, Building CU001)
14:30–16:00 Parallel Sessions 9
19:00–22:00 Dinner *
Saturday 25 July (by pre-arrangement only)
10:00-11:00 Optional Guided Tour of Villa Farnesina
* The 2026 Elinor Ostrom Prize and the Reviewer of the Year Award will be announced during the conference dinner.
Wednesday 22 July
11:00–12:30 Keynote lecture
Paul Dragos Aligica (University of Bucharest, Romania & George Mason University, USA) Title TBC
Chair: Emma Galli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
14:00-16:00 Parallel sessions 1
S1.1 Institutional Evolution & Rupture: Historical Perspectives on Economic Order & Governance
Convenor: Lucie Mařanová* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia)
Chair: Lucie Mařanová
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Václav Cejthamr* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia) “Expropriation under Institutional Rupture: Political Risk and the Case of Electrolux in Czechoslovakia (1948)”
Tanweer Ali* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia) “Corporate Purpose Revisited: A Historical Analysis of Business Roundtable Governance Statements”
Jan Greitens* (Westfälische Hochschule, Germany) “Safeguarding the Currency: Lessons from German Historical Debates for Contemporary Challenges”
Lucie Mařanová* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia) “Institutional Foundations of Industrialization: The Transformation of the Textile Sector in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria-Hungary (1800–1914)”
S1.2 Energy, Environment & the Green Transition
Chair: Matteo Mostarda
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Maurizio Lisciandra* (LUMSA University, Italy), Giuseppe Terzo (LUMSA University, Italy) & Naomi Fagni (LUMSA University, Italy) “Carbon Pricing and Regional Green Innovation: Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System”
Piotr Waląg* (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland) & Renata Śliwa (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland) “A Global Uniform Carbon Tax and the Institutional Foundations of Structural Convergence”
Elena Midler* (Saint-Petersburg University, Russia) “Economic Behavior of Entrepreneurs and Environmental Sustainability”
Matteo Mostarda* (LUMSA, Italy) “The Mattei Plan for Africa as a Model of Collaborative Governance: Beyond the Extractive Logic of Colonialism and Neocolonialism”
S1.3 Toward an Organizational Turn in Corporate Law (I)
Convenors: David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler (London School of Economics, UK)
Chair: David Gindis
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Duncan Wallace* (Monash University, Australia) “Is the Corporation Natural or Artificial?”
David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK) “Real Entity Theory: A Modern Statement”
Andrew R. Johnston* (University of Warwick, UK) “Recognising the Enterprise in Company Law”
Laura Vialon* (City St George’s, University of London, UK) “A Deliberative Corporate Law”
S1.4 Governing Deep Differences
Convenors: Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy), Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili* (Pittsburgh University, USA) & Paul Dragos Aligica* (University of Bucharest, Romania & George Mason University, USA)
Chair: Paolo Silvestri
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Wojciech Engelking* (University of Warsaw, Poland) “The Place of the State among Pluralistic Institutions. Three Methodological Lenses on Public–Private Governance”
Eduardo J. Martinez* (University of Cincinnati, USA) & Pablo Paniagua (King’s College London, UK) “Democracy’s Attention Problem: Diagnosis and Responses”
Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy) “Percentage Tax Designation Institutions A Model for Polycentric Governance of Public Goods”
Sara Lorenzini* (University of Trento, Italy) “Green Dreams and Workforce Realities: Renegotiating Capabilities in Polycentric Governance for Deforestation-Free Products”
S1.5 Artificial Intelligence, Labour & Regulation
Chair: Jacopo Volpi
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Elisabetta (Lisa) Magnani* (Macquarie University, Australia) “Artificial Intelligence, Investments in Humans and Firm Access to Credit: Employees’ Ivolvement in Times of AI”
Tushita Jha* (Mimir Center for Long Term Futures Research, Sweden), Rory Švarc (Arb Research, UK), Ameya Prabhu (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany) & Matthias Bethge (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany) “Jevons’ Boon: On Artificial Intelligence, the Economics of Synthetic Cognitive Labor, and the Expansion of Institutional Viabilities”
Martin Petrin* (Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada) “When AI Hurts: Corporate Responsibility for Agentic AI”
Jacopo Volpi* (University of Parma, Italy) “Legal Normativity, AI Technologies, and Imagination: Preserving the Historical-Cultural Dimension”
S1.6 Digital Platforms, Big Tech & Public Law
Chair: Pietro Ghirlanda
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Anna Elias* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) “Can ‘Decent Work’ be Institutionalised in the Age of Digital Platform Governance?”
Arina Matvieieva* (Leiden University, Netherlands) & Mishael van Luipen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) “Constitutional or Administrative? Public Law Pathways for Governing Big Tech in the European Union”
Akshaya Kamalnath (Australian National University, Australia) & Victoria Baumfield* (Bond University, Australia) “The Long Arm of the State in the Tech Sector and its Impact on Corporate Purpose”
Pietro Ghirlanda* (University of Pavia, Italy) “Normatively Justifying the Cooperative Governance of Digital Platforms: A Multi-Level Social Contract Perspective”
16:45–18:15 Parallel sessions 2
S2.1 Methodological Innovations in Institutional Grammar: From Coding Rules to Computational Analysis
Convenor: Amineh Ghorbani* (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Chair: Amineh Ghorbani
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Kaninik Baradi (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands), Clara Egger (Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands), Paola Fezzigna (Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands) & Amineh Ghorbani* (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) “Enhancing Institutional Analysis through Automated IG 2.0 Coding”
Alicia Tenza-Peral (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Ismael Lare-David* (Aragon Agrifood Institute, Spain), Laura X. Estévez-Moreno (Aragon Agrifood Institute, Spain), F. Javier Lacosta-García (Aragon Agrifood Institute, Spain) & Irene Pérez-Ibarra* (Aragon Agrifood Institute, Spain) “Enhancing the structural and functional analysis of institutional arrangements through the integration of the Institutional Grammar and a rule taxonomy”
Ali E. Torkayesh (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Amineh Ghorbani* (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) & Sandra Venghaus (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) “Sustainable Aviation Fuels in the European Union: Addressing Institutional Misalignment Across Multi-Level Governance”
S2.2 Artificial Intelligence, Finance & Regulatory Gaps
Chair: Simon Sun
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Clara Martins Pereira* (Durham Law School, UK) “Artificial Intelligence and the future of financial stability: regulatory and supervisory gaps in the UK framework”
Natalia Riveros Núñez* (Independent, Paraguay) “Does Regulatory Fragmentation Undermine AI Oversight in Critical Infrastructure? Evidence from the European Union”
Simon Sun* (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law, Taiwan) & Jaime Carini* (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) “The Openness of AI Models: A Bloomington School of Political Economy Perspective”
S2.3 Digital Sovereignty & Information Governance
Chair: Sunil Tankha
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Dmitry D. Volkov* (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations, France) “A Fractured Quest for Digital Sovereignty: Institutional Trajectories and Structural Dependencies in the Russian IT Sector before February 2022”
Arina Matvieieva* (Leiden University, Netherlands) “Nothing Hidden That Will Not Be Known: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the EU’s Legal Framework on Disinformation in Addressing Russian Information Warfare”
Sunil Tankha* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) “Baking Rules into Code: The Sovereign Sandbox and the Rise of Architecture-as-Governance”
S2.4 Cryptocurrency, DeFi & Monetary Signals
Chair: Joanna Jędrzejewska
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Vanessa Villanueva Collao* (Bocconi University, Italy) “Cryptogatekeepers as a Response to Conflicts in Decentralized Finance”
Disha Bhavnani* (MicroSave Consulting, India) & Akshat Pathak* (MicroSave Consulting, India) “Is AI Enabling Gender Digital Divide or Bridging it?”
Joanna Jędrzejewska* (University of Warsaw, Poland) “The Silent Signals of Central Banks: Nonverbal Communication and Monetary Policy”
S2.5 Ecological Governance & the Anthropocene
Chair: Ebba Hooft Toomey
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) & Rosalien Van‘t Foort-Diepeveen (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) “Governance in the Anthropocene: A Multi-Lens Theoretical Analysis of Emerging Non-Human Inclusive Governance Practices”
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) & Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) “The Ecological Paradox of Critical Minerals: A Legal Framework Analysis of the Governance of the Indonesia-EU Nickel Supply Chain for Batteries”
Ebba Hooft Toomey* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands), Tineke Lambooy* (Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands) “Legally Living Rivers – A Global Empirical Analysis”
S2.6 Local Government & Participatory Governance
Chair: David Fadiran
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Monika Augustyniak* (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland) “Hate Speech in Contemporary Local Government – Experiences and Prospects for Change”
Julia Bäring* (Technical University Dortmund, Germany) “Interdisciplinary Networks and Participatory Governance: Strategies for Sustaining Basic Municipal Services in Rural Germany”
David Fadiran* (University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Hammed Amusa (African Development Bank, Ivory Coast) “Political Economy, Competition, Governance, and Local Government Performance”
Thursday 23 July
09:00–10:30 Parallel sessions 3
S3.1 Theory of the Firm & Corporate Hierarchy
Chair: Marco Mari
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Milan, Italy) “Is the Hierarchical Nature of the Firm Repugnant?”
Massimiliano Vatiero* (University of Milan, Italy), Elisa Flori* (University of Trento, Italy) & Sandra Paterlini (University of Trento, Italy) “Legal Origins and Firm ESG Practices”
Marco Mari* (Bocconi University, Italy and MIT Industrial Performance Center, USA) “The Political Nature of the Firm”
S3.2 Co-production, Institutions & Governance
Convenors: Giampaolo Garzarelli* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Silvia Lucciarini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chair: Giampaolo Garzarelli
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Eleonora Gregori Ferri* (University of Milan, Italy) “From Hierarchy to Hybrid Governance: The Institutional Transformation of Urban Planning”
Giampaolo Garzarelli* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Lyndal Keeton* (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) & Aldo A. Sitoe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) “The Birth and Growth of a Public Service Industry”
Silvia Lucciarini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Andrea Bellini* (University of Milan, Italy) “When the Commons become Cultural and Creative: City Cultural Planning Through the Lens of Co-production”
S3.3 Advances in Virginia Political Economy
Convenor: Rosolino Candela* (George Mason University, USA)
Chair: Rosolino Candela
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Andre Quintas* (George Mason University, USA) “’Trust me, I am not like them’: Political Signaling in a Credibility Crisis”
Alain Marciano (University of Turin, Italy) & Valentina Erasmo* (University of Turin, Italy) “Property Rights Atrophy and Endogenously Unstable Liberalism: Revisiting Sen’s Paretian Liberal Paradox through Buchanan”
S3.4 Banking & Financial Governance in History
Chair: Pierre-Charles Pradier
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU007
Virginia Anastasia Fournari* (University of Thessaly, Greece) “Banking and Governance in the 1980s: Changes in the Commercial Bank of Greece”
William Enrique Echeverría Tigse* (University of Coimbra, Portugal) “Financialised Technological Development in the Downturn Phase of the Long Wave: Rethinking Economic Governance”
Antoine Parent (Université Paris 8, France) & Pierre-Charles Pradier* (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) “The Debt of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris from 1660 to 1690: A Testbed for Sovereign Default”
S3.5 Polycentric Governance of Natural Resources
Chair: Elis Feitosa
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Laurence Amblard* (INRAE, France) & Carsten Mann (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany) “Hybrid Modes of Governance for Ecosystem Services Provision: A Systematic Literature Review”
Flavia Guerrieri* (INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, France), Laurence Amblard* (INRAE, France), Pascal Carrère (INRAE, France) & Etienne Polge (INRAE, France) “Adding the State to Hardin’s Herder Problem: The Role of Regional Public Policies in Preserving Upland Grasslands through Pastoralism”
Elis Feitosa* (University of São Paulo, Brazil) & Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes (University of São Paulo, Brazil) “How Does Polycentric Governance Evolve? Insights from Fisheries Management in the Brazilian Amazon”
11:15-12:45 Parallel sessions 4
S4.1 Governing Deep Differences (I)
Convenors: Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy), Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili* (Pittsburgh University, USA) & Paul Dragos Aligica* (University of Bucharest, Romania & George Mason University, USA)
Chair: Paolo Silvestri
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Mirela Cerkez* (University of Bucharest, Romania), Andreea Zamfira (University of Bucharest, Romania) & Fatma Ruxandra Yilmaz (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania) “Governance structures and value heterogeneity. The case of the Turkish community in Romania”
Robert Gabriel Ciobanu* (University of Bucharest, Romania) “Institutional Agreement and Political Legitimacy in Modus Vivendi Theory and Constitutional Political Economy”
Marc Goetzmann* (Université de Tours, France) & Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger (Université Catholique de Lille, France) “Polycentricity, For and Against Cities’ Autonomy”
S4.2 Extending Institutional Research Using the Institutional Grammar
Convenor: Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University, USA)
Chair: Carlos Alberto Prieto Valero
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Carlos Alberto Prieto Valero* (European University Viadrina, Germany) & Albrecht Söllner* (European University Viadrina, Germany) “Institutional Grammar and the Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Multi-Level Approach”
Arezoo Mirzaei* (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) & Insa Theesfeld (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) “Institutional Analysis in Governance Arrangements: A Systematic Review of the Application of Institutional Grammar”
Irene Pérez Ibarra* (Universidad Zaragoza, Spain), Alicia Tenza Peral (Universidad Zaragoza, Spain), Juan Sebastian Uribe Quintero (Syracuse University, USA) & Tomas Olivier (Syracuse University, USA) “Do Institutions Speak the Same Grammar? A Cross-Language Assessment of Institutional Grammar 2.0”
S4.3 Private Money, Morality & Transactions
Convenor: Georgina M. Gomez* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Chair: Georgina M. Gomez
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Georgina M. Gomez* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) “Multiple Circuits in Argentina: Between State and Non-state Money”
Valentino Cattelan* (Birmingham City University, UK) “Coining the Complementary Dirham: Community Currencies, Cultural Diversity and Islamic Finance”
Luca Giachi* (CNR, Italy) “Intentional Communities and the Use of Complementary Currency. The Case of the Damanhûr Community”
S4.4 Water, Forest & Rangeland Commons Governance
Chair: Mai Nusir
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Isabel Guerrero* (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru) & Cathy Rubiños* (EM Normandie, France) “Formal Rules, Informal Practices, and Institutional Misfits in Amazonian Forest Governance”
Cathy Rubinos* (Normandie Business School, France) “Sequencing Institutional and Infrastructure Investments Under Climate Shocks: An Evolutionary Analysis of Irrigation System Robustness”
Mai Nusir* (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), Frank Wätzold (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany), Amani Al-Assaf (University of Jordan, Jordan) & Charlotte Gelring (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) “Robust Institutions, Deteriorating Ecosystems: Traditional Knowledge-Based Rangeland Governance in the Jordanian Southern Badia”
S4.5 Externalities & the Corporate Form
Convenors: David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK)
Chair: Claudia Paduano
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Claudia Paduano* (University of Glasgow, UK) “Externalities in the Taxonomy of the Corporate Form: The Emperor’s New Clothes for Corporate Law?”
Clara De Chirico* (University of Macerata, Italy & University of Ottawa, Canada) “A Commons-Based Legal Approach to Corporate Theory”
Constantijn van Aartsen* (Maastricht University, Netherlands) “Beyond Public and Private: An Ecological Architecture for Sustainable Law and Business”
S4.6 Cooperatives, Commons & Community Enterprise
Chair: Stanislav Jurčišin
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Christos Andrikopoulos* (Cardiff University, UK) “SME Clusters as Commons: A Governance and Legal Framework for Long-term Socio-economic Sustainability”
Arno Foppe* (Wageningen University, Netherlands), Stefano Pascucci (University of Exeter, UK), Valentina Christina Materia (Wageningen University, Netherlands) & Shayegheh Ashourizadeh (Wageningen University, Netherlands) “When Protest turns into Community-Entrepreneurship: Rule Formation and Identity Building in an Emerging Community-Based Enterprise”
Stanislav Jurčišin* (ISREP, Slovakia) “Beyond Capitalism: The Model of Cooperativism as a Systemic Alternative Towards Economic Democracy”
14:00–15:30 Parallel sessions 5
S5.1 Reforming Corporate Law
Convenors: David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK)
Chair: Sarah Alkandari
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Sarah Alkandari* (University College London, UK) “An Institutional Approach to Dual-Class Share Structures in the UK Public Market”
Ewan McGaughey* (King’s College London, UK) “Stakeholder Governance: Workers, Investors and Service-users in Public or Private enterprise”
S5.2 Polycentric Water Governance & Metropolitan Coordination in Chile
Chair: Karina Retamal-Soto
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Karina Retamal-Soto* (Pontificia Universidad de Chile, Chile), Karina Arias* (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) & Camila Ramos (Birmingham University, UK) “Institutional Design and Network Motifs in Water Pollution Governance: Analyzing Coordination Patterns in Polycentric Systems”
Camila Paz Ramos Fuenzalida (University of Birmingham, UK), Karina Retamal-Soto* (Universidad de Chile, Chile) & Karina Arias-Yurisch* (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) “When Coordination Breaks Down: Exploring Misalignments between Institutional Design and Crisis Response in Latin America”
Karina Arias Yurisch (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile), Karina Retamal-Soto* (Universidad de Chile, Chile) & Camila Ramos Fuenzalida (University of Birmingham, UK) “Analyzing Mandated Collaboration within Metropolitan Governance: A Case of the Pollution Plan in Santiago, Chile”
S5.3 Moral Systems of the Past & Their Long-Term Consequences
Convenor: Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy)
Chair: Nadia von Jacobi
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Giampaolo Garzarelli* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Lyndal Keeton* (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) “Replication as a Strategy: State Formation in Historical South Africa”
Mahdi Khesali* (University of Hamburg, Germany), Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg, Germany) & Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy) “Culture Matters: On the Distal Determinants of the Rule of Law”
Nadia von Jacobi (University of Trento, Italy), Elisa Flori* (University of Trento, Italy), Stefan Voigt (University of Hamburg, Germany) & Mahdi Khesali (University of Hamburg, Germany) “Network Formation Patterns and the Rule of Law: Moral Systems of the Past”
S5.4 Innovation Policy & State Capacity
Chair: Paulo Antônio Zawislak
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
André Alves* (FGV EAESP, Brazil) & Nicholas Vonortas (George Washington University, USA) “Matching Policy Design to Capabilities: Understanding Brazil’s Innovation Policy-Capability Trajectories”
Alexandre Gomes* (State University of Campinas, Brazil) “Mission-Oriented Innovation, State Capacities, and Local Experimentation: The Case of Electric Vehicles in China”
Nathália Pufal (NITEC – Innovation Center, Brazil), Paulo Antônio Zawislak* (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) & André Cherubini Alves* (FGV EAESP, Brazil) “Thriving in Innovation Ecosystems: Toward an Ecosystemic Innovation Capability”
S5.5 Energy, Agri-Food & Meso-Institutions
Chair: Stefano Ciliberti
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Moustafa Elshiekh* (Hult International Business School) “Organizational Interpretation as a Meso-Level Institutional Mechanism in Governing Emerging Energy Technologies: A Multi-Level Adoption Model in Saudi Arabia”
Torange Khonsari* (London Metropolitan University, UK) “Boundary of Distributive Commons as an Institutional Design Problem”
Stefano Ciliberti* (University of Perugia, Italy) “Dynamics and Acceptance of Contractual Terms for Agri-Food Systems in Transition: A Best-Worst Scaling Analysis among Italian Farmers”
S5.6 Public Health, Efficiency & Crisis Response
Chair: Katarzyna Smolny
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Giacomo Maino* (University of Milan, Italy) “The Downsides of Liability Reforms in Healthcare: A Game Theoretical Model of Defensive Medicine”
Ho-Don Yan* (Feng Chia University, Taiwan), Liang-Chih Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) “Policy Entrepreneurship and the Formation of Taiwan’s National Face Mask Team in Response to COVID-19”
Katarzyna Smolny* (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland), Małgorzta Gałecka (Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland) & Łukasz Brzezicki (Ustka City Hall, Poland) “The Efficiency of Urban Community Cultural Centres in Poland: A DEA-Based Analysis”
16:15–18:15 Parallel sessions 6
S6.1 Institutions, Governance & Democratic Values in Transition Economies
Convenor: Luca Andriani* (Birkbeck Business School, UK)
Chair: Luca Andriani
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Luca Andriani* (Birkbeck Business School, UK) “Do Democratic Preferences Shape Tax Contributions? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”
Elodie Douarin* (SSEES University College London, UK) & Julie Litchfield (University of Sussex, UK) “Barrier to Entry? How the Perceived Quality of the Public Debate Impacts on the Political Participation of Women in Rural Kosovo”
Gaygysyz Ashyrov* (Estonian Business School, Estonia), Niveditha Prabakaran (Estonian Business School, Estonia) & Kaire Põder (Estonian Business School, Estonia) “Merit or Connections? Democratic Attitudes and Perceived Cronyism in Central Asian Higher Education”
S6.2 Toward an Organizational Turn in Corporate Law (II)
Convenors: David Gindis* (University of Warwick, UK) & Eva Micheler* (London School of Economics, UK)
Chair: David Gindis
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Petri Mäntysaari* (Hanken School of Economics, Finland) “The Matrix Theory of Corporate Law, a Functionalist Corporate Governance Theory, and the Agency Costs of the Firm”
Christian Witting* (National University of Singapore, Singapore) “Models of the Company: Criteria of Validity”
David Cabrelli (University of Edinburgh, UK) & Ewa Kruszewska* (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) “The Political Economy of Corporate Law”
S6.3 Trade Shocks & Institutional Transformation in Italy’s International Integration
Convenor: Renato Rafaele Amoroso (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Chair: Renato Rafaele Amoroso
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Giacomo Zanibelli* (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) “Tuscan Sharecropping between Exogenous Shocks and Agrarian Transformation, 1870–1918”
Renato Rafaele Amoroso* (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) “Financing Development in Times of Crisis: Southern Italy, the EIB, and Global Loans”
Mattia Muscherà* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Beyond The Trade War: The Reorganisation Of the Italian Wine Sector after the Breakdown of Commercial Relations with France”
S6.4 Democracy, Demography & Institutional Dynamics
Chair: Mauro Costantini
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Mauro Costantini* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Alberto Batinti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) & Silvia Polettini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Demographic Change and Democratic Trajectories: A Hidden Semi-Markov Approach”
Emma Galli* (Sapienza University of Roma, Italy), Roberto Basile (Sapienza University of Roma, Italy), Francesca Centofanti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) & Nadia Fiorino (University of L’Aquila, Italy) “Institutional Quality and Migration Trajectories of Southern Italian Individuals”
Przemysław Kurek* (University of Warsaw, Poland), Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Maja Pieńkos (SWPS University, Poland) “Persistence of Informal Institutions: The Case of Media-Induced Blame Game during 2019 European Parliamentary Electoral Campaign in Poland”
Vincenzina Vitale* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Mauro Costantini* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Pierpaolo D’Urso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Anna Maria Paola Toti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “A Dynamic Bayesian Network to Model and Predict Changes in Democratic Institutions”
S6.5 ESG & Corporate Sustainability Governance
Chair: Eva Micheler
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Karoly Mike* (Eötvös University, Hungary) “What Kind of Institution is ESG?”
Chang-hsien (Robert) Tsai* (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Luke Hung-Yu Chuang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) “When the Brussels Effect Meets the Transplant Effect: Institutional Co-Evolution and Regulatory Diffusion in Corporate Sustainability Governance”
Eva Micheler* (LSE, UK) & Özlem Ata Polat* (Yeditepe University, Turkey) “Regulatory Regimes and Institutional Design in DLT-Based Securities Systems”
Jan Falkowski* (University of Warsaw, Poland) “Geopolitical Risk and Global Food Prices: Evidence from 1990–2025”
S6.6 Regulation, Markets & Financial Stability
Chair: Korkut Erturk
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Faruk Ulgen* (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) “Polycentric Regulation to Prevent Financial Markets from Losing the Eco-Transition Game”
Renata Sliwa* (University of the National Education Commission, Poland) “Economic regulation and economic performance”
Nikhilesh Sinha* (Hult International Business School, UK) “Misidentification and Misdirection: How Microfinance Misallocates Risk”
Korkut Erturk* (University of Utah, USA) “Barzel on Rent Seeking. Governance, Information and Power”
Friday 24 July
09:00–11:00 Parallel sessions 7
S7.1 Energy, Environment & the Green Transition
Chair: Matteo Mostarda
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Maurizio Lisciandra* (LUMSA University, Italy), Giuseppe Terzo (LUMSA University, Italy) & Naomi Fagni (LUMSA University, Italy) “Carbon Pricing and Regional Green Innovation: Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading System”
Piotr Waląg* (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland) & Renata Śliwa (University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland) “A Global Uniform Carbon Tax and the Institutional Foundations of Structural Convergence”
Elena Midler* (Saint-Petersburg University, Russia) “Economic Behavior of Entrepreneurs and Environmental Sustainability”
Matteo Mostarda* (LUMSA, Italy) “The Mattei Plan for Africa as a Model of Collaborative Governance: Beyond the Extractive Logic of Colonialism and Neocolonialism”
S7.2 Firms, Organisations & Economic Behavior
Chair: Matteo Rizzolli
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Rosolino Candela* (George Mason University, USA), Vincent J. Geloso (George Mason University, USA) & Nathaniel Webb Smith (Sweet Briar College, USA) “Did Henry Ford Really Pay Efficiency Wages?”
Yemi Oluseun* (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France) “Retention as a Stabilising Organisational Capability in Technology-Mediated Service Firms”
Friederike Wall* (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) “When Reciprocity of Trust Backfires: An Agent-based Computational Study of Incomplete Contracts in Organizations”
Matteo Rizzolli* (LUMSA University of Rome, Italy), Plinio Limata* (LUMSA University of Rome, Italy) & Marco Fabbri (University of Bologna, Italy) “Labor, Convention, and Taking Aversion: A Lab-in-the-Field Test of Competing Theories of Property”
S7.3 Regulation, Governance & Institutional Change
Chair: Sixtus Bolom-Kotari
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Kirti Tater* (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India) & Rajat Kathuria (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India) “The Indian Model of Regulatory Governance: Between Autonomy and Oversight”
Panagiotis Christias* (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) “The European Governance System”
Gabriela Pepeleascov Gomes* (UFPR, Brazil) & Vinicius Klein (UFPR, Brazil) “Regulatory Stability as a Governance Mechanism: Mitigating Political Risk in Port Concessions in Emerging Economies”
Sixtus Bolom-Kotari* (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia) “The Transformation of Public Space in Prague and Bohemia at the Turn of the 19th Century: A ‘Laboratory of Modernisation’”
S7.4 Cooperatives in Place & Practice: Distribution, Equity & Sustainable Development
Convener: Francesca Gagliardi* (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Chair: Francesca Gagliardi
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Francesca Gagliardi* (University of Hertfordshire, UK) “Cooperatives as Commons Institutions for Sustainable Development”
Giulio Galdi* (University Mercatorum), Eddi Fontanari (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises), Giovanni Saccon (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises) “Multistakeholder Governance and Patterns of Adoption of Twin Transition Technologies in Cooperatives”
Ermanno Tortia* (University of Trento, Italy) “External and Internal Distributive Equity in Worker Cooperatives: A Rawlsian Perspective?”
Silvia Sacchetti* (University of Trento, Italy) & Roger Sugden (University of British Columbia, Canada) “The Vitality of People and Places: A Perspective on the Backward and Forward Linkages of Capabilities”
S7.5 The Formal-Informal-Rules-in-Use Continuum & Governance Effectiveness
Convenor: Irene Pérez Ibarra* (University of Zaragoza, Spain) & Ute Brady (Arizona State University, USA)
Chair: Irene Pérez Ibarra
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Irene Pérez Ibarra* (University of Zaragoza, Spain) & Ute Brady (Arizona State University, USA) “A Multidimensional Framework for Analyzing the Continuum between Formal, Informal, and Rules-in-Use”
Maria Mancha-Cisneros* (Michigan State University, USA) & Maria Claudia Lopez (Michigan State University, USA) “Pathways for Small-scale Fisheries as Safety nets and Aquatic Food Systems: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions”
Ismael Lare David* (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Alicia Tenza Peral (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Laura Estévez Moreno (University of Zaragoza, Spain) & Francisco Javier Lacosta (University of Zaragoza, Spain) “Patterns of Institutional Overlap Between Formal Rules and Rules-in-Use: A Case Study of Communal Pastoral Lands”
Isabel Guerrero* (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru) & Cathy Rubiños* (EM Normandie, France) “Institutional Misfits”
S7.6 Book launch: Institutional Economics: Past and Present by Delia Montero
Chair: Delia Montero
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
Discussion panel with Delia Montero* (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico), Georgina Gómez* (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) & Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Ramón* (FLACSO, Ecuador)
11:45–13:15 Parallel sessions 8
S8.1 Philosophies of Institutions: 4E Economics
Convenor: Paolo Silvestri* (University of Catania, Italy)
Chair: Paolo Silvestri
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Guido Baggio* (Roma Tre University, Italy) “Collective Agency and Interest Integration”
Shaun Gallagher* (University of Memphis, USA) “Institutional Narratives and Institutional Transformations”
Enrico Petracca* (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria) “Norms are Practices: Normativity for a Post-Northian Institutional Economics”
S8.2 Federalism, Polycentricity & Self-Governance
Chair: James Rosenberg
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Jaime Carini* (Indiana University, USA) & Paul Dragos Aligica* (George Mason University, USA) “Vincent Ostrom and the Covenantal Analytics of American Federalism: Self-Governance, Democratic Anomalies, and the ‘Habits of Heart and Mind’”
T. T. Arvind* (University of York, UK) & Barry Knight* (Centris Trust & University of Staffordshire, UK) “Seeing like a Community? Epistemic Insulation and Governance in the Modern State”
James Rosenberg* (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) “Governance in the Cybernetic State”
S8.3 Institutional Grammar & Rules-in-Use
Chair: David Beech
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Martha Chadabe* (State University of New York, USA) “Rules of the Game of Compliance: An Institutional Grammar and IAD Analysis of Algorithmic Accountability Artifacts”
Adrian Florin Dinca* (University of Bucharest, Romania) “From Rules-on-Paper to Rules-in-Use: Measuring Behavioral Governance at the Public–Private Interface”
David Beech* (University of Salford, UK) “The Evolutionary Dynamics of Normative Interests in Constitutional Niche Construction Across Levels of Analysis in Different types of socio-political rule making”
S8.4 Statutory Legality & Legal Evolution
Chair: Massimiliano Marletta
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Matunga Barwell* (Cardiff University, UK) “The Institutional Production of Statutory Legality in a Multi-level State”
Giacomo Roma* (Bank of Italy, Italy) “Evolution and Quality of Italian Law”
Massimiliano Marletta* (University of Catania, Italy), Maurizio Caserta* (University of Catania, Italy) & Francesco Mastroianni (University of Catania, Italy) “Constitutional Compliance as an Incentive Equilibrium: Judges, Prosecutors, and the Structural Evolution of Legal Norms”
S8.5 Heterodox Foundations & Institutional Thought
Chair: Marianne Johnson
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Stefan Kesting (Leeds University Business School, UK) “What are the Moral and Ontological Foundations of Heterodox Schools in Economics? Normative Tensions or Overlapping Value Systems?”
Mark McAdam* (ADA University, Azerbaijan) & Sebastian Atakan-Zachrau* (University of Siegen, Germany) “Humanomics’ Missing Foundation? Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology as a Missing Link between Humanomics and Institutionalism”
Marianne Johnson* (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA) “John R. Commons, Public Institutions, and Good Governance”
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions 9
S9.1 The Rivalrous Origins of Non-Rivalrous Governance: Beyond Markets & States
Convenor: Rosolino Candela* (George Mason University, USA)
Chair: Rosolino Candela
Venue: Aula C, Building CU002
Anja Shortland* (King’s College London, UK) “The Dark Economy of Hacking and Ransomware”
Edward Peter Stringham* (Trinity College, UK) “Digital Private Governance and the Rise of Anarcho-Capitalist Inspired Smart Contracts in Use in Crypto Markets and On Wall Street”
Marek Hudek* (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia) “Exit, Voice, and the Anthropocene”
S9.2 Constitution-Making & Political Order
Chair: Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Ramón
Venue: Aula D, Building CU002
Liana Eustacia Reyes* (Purdue University, USA), Jennifer Murtazashvili* (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Charles Crabtree (Monash University, Australia) & Dmitrii Kofanov (University of Pittsburgh, USA) “Post-Conflict Constitution Making: Causes and Consequences for Peace”
Bryan Druzin* (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) “The Option to Exit: The Impact of Institutional Fragmentation on International Legal Regimes”
Juan Pablo Jaramillo-Ramón* (FLACSO, Ecuador) & Carolina Curvale (FLACSO, Ecuador) “Homicidal Violence and State Capacity in Latin America: The Story of the Paper Leviathans”
S9.3 Gender, Justice & Inequality
Chair: Andrea Salustri
Venue: Sala Lauree, Building CU002
Veronica Salcerini (Hult International Business School, UK) “The Institutional Paradox of Female Power: Gender Populism and Informal Constraints in Italy”
Luana Mathias Souto* (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) “Reproductive Justice and Data Power: Rethinking Governance in the Age of Femtech”
Andrea Salustri* (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Silvia Sacchetti (University of Trento, Italy) & Eugenio Montefusco (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Polycrises and Inequalities: an Interpretative Model”
S9.4 Corruption, Integrity & Governance Failure
Chair: Andrzej Żurawski
Venue: Aula XI Aldo Moro, Building CU002
Jessica Holl* (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany) “Institutional Design for Combating Corruption in Brazil and the Car Wash Operation”
David Coldwell* (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) “Ethical Trickle-Down and Governance Discontinuity: Political Leadership and The Fragility of Institutional Integrity in South Africa”
Andrzej Żurawski* (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland) “Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: Institutional Underpinnings and Consequences of the Ban on School Homework in Poland”
S9.5 State Capitalism, Ports & Political Risk
Chair: Delia Montero
Venue: Aula 14, Building CU007
Gabriela Pepeleascov Gomes* (UFPR, Brazil) “The Unique Hybridism of Public and Private Boundaries in Port Governance”
Delia Montero* (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico) “Water Management in Mexico City: Governance of Public and Private Actors”
S9.6 Digital Agriculture, Rural & Complex-System Governance
Chair: Nicholas Currie
Venue: Auletta di sociologia, Building CU007
T H Bhuvaneshwari* (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India) “Governing Digital Farms: Institutional Readiness and Interoperability in India’s Digital Agriculture Transition”
Akshay Deshmukh* (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India) & Parmod Kumar (Institute for Social and Economic Change, India) “Assessing the Impact of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) on Farmers’ Welfare in India: An Institutional and Policy Analysis”
Nicholas Currie* (Beyond Blue Ltd., UK) “Collaborative Governance of Complex Systems”
15:45–17:45 Membership Meeting
Chair: Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut, USA)
Room: Plenary, Aula C, Building CU002
Agenda and Minutes of Previous Meeting, Announcement of WINIR 2027
