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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Personnel Economics Workshop

 

 

 

 

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

 

 

 

 

July 28 - 29, 2011

 

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suites

 

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 27:

 

 

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 28:

 

 

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 


8:30 am


Bjorn Bartling, University of Zurich
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich
The Endogenous Emergence of Authority

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 


9:45 am


Carola Frydman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Early Twentieth Century

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 


1:00 pm


Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 


2:15 pm


Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Classic Promotion Tournaments Versus Market Based Tournaments

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 


3:30 pm


Kenneth Whelan, Cornell University
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin F. Hallock, Cornell University and NBER
Ronald Seeber, Cornell University
The Cornell Staff Retirement Incentive Program

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

Friday, July 29:

 

 

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Joint session with the Labor Studies Group

 

 


8:30 am


Kelly Shue, Harvard University
Executive Networks and Firm Policies: Evidence from the Random Assignment of MBA Peers

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 

 

 

9:45 am

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

Chris Stanton, University of Utah

 

 

Value of Bosses

 

 

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 


11:00 am


James Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Role of Establishments (and the Jobs Therein) in Wage Inequality Growth

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 


1:00 pm


Christopher A Parsons, University of California at San Diego

 

 

Edward D. Van Wesep, University of North Carolina

 

 

The Timing of Pay

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago
Pay for Performance

 

 

 

 

3:15 pm

Adjourn