ALUMNI CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2025
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Breakfast and Registration |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Alexandra Benham, Lee Benham, Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | Conveying Your Research |
| Alexandra Benham, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | I. Current Research by Alumni |
| Algorithmic Governance Solutions, Institutional Gaps, and Political Control in Central Asia: Evidence from Kazakhstan |
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| Michael Rochlitz, University of Oxford, UK | |
| The Lingering Shadow of Tear Gas: How Political Conflicts Shape Public Policy Efficacy in Hong Kong |
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| Derek Huo, University of Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong | |
| Power Transition and Succession in Dynastic Organizations | |
| Xinyu Fan, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China | |
| Religious Orders and State-Building | |
| Marcos Salgado, FGV Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| The Reverse Cargo Cult: Why Authoritarian Governments Lie to Their People |
Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago, USA |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | II. Current Research by Alumni |
| Unintended Consequences of Nudges | |
| Maroš Servátka, Macquarie Business School, Australia | |
| Language as a Form of Formal and Informal Institution in Accounting Communication |
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| Asheq Rahman, Auckland University of Technology, NZ | |
| Satisfaction with Democracy Does Predict Democratic Behaviors | |
| Alberto Simpser, ITAM, Mexico | |
| Gender-Based Pricing in the Flat-Sharing Markets of New Zealand | |
| William Cheung, University of Auckland, NZ | |
| Trust and Social Relations in Financing Decisions: Evidence from Chinese Households |
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| Fali Huang, Singapore Management University, Singapore | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Special Lecture |
| Equilibrium Institutions and Their Determinants | |
| Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland, USA | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Authors' Perspectives on Their New Books |
| The Dual-Track Business Environment for Chinese Private Firms | |
| Cheryl Xiaoning Long, Xiamen University and Xiamen University Malaysia, China and Malaysia; and Lixin Colin Xu, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China | |
| Handbook on Institutions and Complexity | |
| Bernardo Mueller, University of Brasilia, Brazil | |
| Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Second Edition | |
| Mary Shirley, Ronald Coase Institute, USA | |
| Adaptive Governance of Grassland: Logic and Practices | |
| Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, Chiina | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | III. Current Research by Alumni |
| Internalizing Externalities through Ecological Compensation: Evidence from Transboundary Water Pollution in China |
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| Xiaoxi Wang, Zhejiang University, China | |
| Citizen-Centered Rule of Law | |
| Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, Netherlands | |
| Nested Property Rights in State-Owned Rangeland | |
| Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, China | |
| Optimal Share-Fishing Contracts with Heterogeneous Transaction Costs: A Double Learning Approach |
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| Yiming He, South China University of Technology, China | |
| Parental Peer Effects and Educational Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China |
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| Le Lyla Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Wrap-up Discussion |
| RCI Research Grant Program | |
| Divide and Deforest: The Perverse Incentives of Land Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon | |
| Kathryn Baragwanath, University of Melbourne, Australia | |
| Career paths, research topics, data, methods | |
| 17:00 | Reception |
| 18:00 | Festive Dinner and Award Ceremony |