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Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

The Organization and Productivity of Healthcare Delivery

Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

and Elizabeth Martinez (Massachusetts General Hospital)

December 7, 2012

 

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

December 7 and 8, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

The Organization and Productivity of Healthcare Delivery

Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

and Elizabeth Martinez (Massachusetts General Hospital)

 

December 7, 2012

 

1:00 pm

James Rebitzer, Boston University

 

Structuring Incentives within Organizations: The Case of Accountable Care Organizations  

(with B. Frandsen)

 

 

Discussant: David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Robert Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Elizabeth Martinez, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Checklists, Cultures, and Capabilities: A Partial Survey

 

 

2:30 pm

Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins University (by video)

 

TBD

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:45 pm

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector  

(with A. Chandra, A. Sacarny, and C. Syverson)

 

 

Discussant: Doug Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

 

 

4:45 pm

Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER

 

Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston

 

 

Discussant: Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

5:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

 

December 8, 2012

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 am

Michael Powell, Northwestern University

 

An Influence-Cost Model of Firm Boundaries and Organizational Practices

 

 

Discussant: Heikki Rantakari, University of Southern California

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER

 

The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies  

(with L. Caliendo and F. Monte)

 

 

Discussant: Julie Wulf, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER

 

Management as a Technology?

(with N. Bloom and J. Van Reenen)

 

 

Discussant: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

Joshua Schwartzstein, Dartmouth College

 

Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming  

(with R. Hanna and S. Mullainathan)

 

 

Discussant: Marina Halac, Columbia University

 

 

1:45 pm

Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

You Owe Me

(with K. Schmidt)

 

 

Discussant: Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

2:45 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Joyee Deb, New York University

 

Relational Contracts with Subjective Peer Evaluations  

(with J. Li and A. Mukherjee)

 

 

Discussant: James Malcomson, Oxford University

 

 

4:00 pm

Renee Bowen, Stanford University

 

Rules With Discretion and Local Information  

(with D. Kreps and A. Skrzypacz)

 

 

Discussant: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel