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Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop

Nick Bloom, Alexandre Mas and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

July 26 and 27, 2007

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JULY 26:
12:00 n	Lunch Honoring Walter Oi
1:30 pm	Welcome and Introduction, KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
1:35 pm	IAN LARKIN, Harvard University
	The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales
2:15 pm	RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford University
	The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	MORTEN BENNEDSEN, Copenhagen Business School
	FRANCISCO PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ, Columbia University
	DANIEL WOLFENZON, New York University and NBER
	Do CEOs Matter?
4:15 pm	Break
4:30 pm	"New Ideas; New Data” Group Panel Discussion
	NICK BLOOM and KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University
	ALEXANDRE MAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University
	LISA LYNCH, Tufts University and NBER
	FREDERIC WARZYNSKI, Aarhus University
	PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER
	EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors
5:40 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve and NBER
	RANDALL CEBUL and MARK VOTRUBA, Case Western Reserve
	RAY HERSCHMAN, WebMD Health Services
	LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon University
	Employer-Based Insurance Markets and Investments in Health
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER
	JIALAN WANG, MIT
	JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER
	Superstar Extinction
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	FEDERICO CINGANO and ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy
	People I Know: Workplace Networks and Job Search Outcomes
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER
	MARK KLEBANOV and MORTEN SORENSEN, University of Chicago
	Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago and NBER
	THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER
	Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence from U.S. Law Firms
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	ORIANA BANDIERA, London School of Economics
	IWAN BARANKAY, University of Warwick
	IMRAN RASUL, University College London
	Social Incentives in the Workplace
4:45 pm	EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER
	The Importance of Academic Labor Economics (or Personnel Economics) in Policy
5:45 pm	Adjourn
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