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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Organizational Economics Group Meeting

 

December 10 and 11, 2010

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – Second Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10:

 

 

 

Morning Session: 

 

Joint Productivity Program and Organizational Economics Group Meeting Co-organizers:

 

Ernst Berndt (MIT and NBER) and Robert Gibbons (MIT and NBER)

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs?  The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care

 

 

 

Discussant:  Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago

 

Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine:  An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States

 

 

 

Discussant:  Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER

 

Carol Propper, University of Bristol

 

Stephan Seiler, London School of Economics

 

John van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

 

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

 

 

 

Discussant:  James Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Afternoon Session: 

 

Organizational Economics Group Meeting, Co-organizers:

 

Robert Gibbons (MIT and NBER) and Elizabeth Martinez (Massachusetts General Hospital)

 

 

1:00 pm

Robert Gibbons (MIT) and Elizabeth Martinez (MGH), “Introduction”

 

 

1:20 pm

Lucian Leape, Harvard University

 

Errors in Medicine

Background paper 1

Background paper 2

 

2:10 pm

Break

 

 

2:25 pm

Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

 

 

 

Discussant:  Robert Huckman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:25 pm

Break

 

 

3:40 pm

Elliott Fisher, Dartmouth College

 

Accountable Care Organizations

 

Background paper 1

 

Background paper 2

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

4:45 pm

Shuttle Vans Depart from NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

5:30 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11:

 

 

 

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

 

Organizer:  Robert Gibbons (MIT and NBER)

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Pay for Percentile

 

 

 

Richard Holden, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University

 

Ameet Morjaria, Harvard University

 

The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenya Flower Exporters

 

 

 

Discussant: Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Philippe Jehiel, Paris School of Economics

 

Andrew Newman, Boston University

 

Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form

 

 

 

Discussant: Wouter Dessein, Columbia University

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Henry Schneider, Cornell University

 

Do Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry

 

 

 

Discussant: Ricard Gil, UC, Santa Cruz

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Kenneth Ayotte, Northwestern University

 

Henry Hansmann, Yale University

 

A Nexus of Contracts Theory of Legal Entities

 

 

 

Discussant: Oliver Hart, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER

 

Ximena Cadena, Alexandra Cristea and Heber Delgado-Medrano, Ideas42

 

Madrugador: An Experiment to Fight Procrastination

 

 

 

Discussant: Decio Coviello, University of Rome Tor Vergata

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn