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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Working Group in Organizational Economics

 

Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2013

 

Organized by Robert Gibbons (MIT)

 

National Bureau of Economic Research

Feldstein Conference Room - 2nd Floor

 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, December 6

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Roland Bénabou, Princeton University and NBER

 

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking  

(with J. Tirole)

 

 

Discussant: Mike Waldman, Cornell University

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Kieron Meagher, Australian National University

 

Evidence on the Non-Linear Impact of Management

(with R. Strachan)

 

 

Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Politics of Compromise  

(with H. Rantakari)

 

 

Discussant: Andrea Prat, Columbia University

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto

 

The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks  

(with S. Burks, B. Cowgill, and M. Housman)

 

 

Discussant: Ricardo Alonso, University of Southern California

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Marina Halac, Columbia University

 

Managerial Attention and Worker Engagement  

(with A. Prat)

 

 

Discussant: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:45 pm

Orie Shelef, Stanford University

 

Bad Bets: Excessive Risk-Taking, Convex Incentives, and Performance (with R. de Figueiredo and E. Rawley)

 

 

Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

4:45 pm

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

5:15 pm

Shuttle Van Departs from the NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

Saturday, December 7

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne

 

Delegating Responsibility to the Market: How Competition Shapes Fairness Perceptions  

(with B. Bartling and M. Grieder)

 

 

 

Discussant: Florian Ederer, Yale University

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Arthur Campbell, Yale University

 

Political Capital

 

 

 

Discussant: Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Andrew Newman, Boston Universty

 

Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy   

(with L. Alfaro, P. Conconi, and H. Fadinger)

 

 

 

Discussant: Mike Powell, Northwestern University

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Michael Whinston Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining  

(with I. Segal)

 

 

 

Discussant: Richard Holden, University of New South Wales and NBER

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University

 

Coordination, Rent-Seeking and Control  

(with T. Sjöström)

 

 

 

Discussant: Wouter Dessein, Columbia University

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn