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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Working Group in Organizational Economics

 

October 31 and November 1, 2014

Organized by Robert Gibbons (MIT)

 

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PROGRAM 

 

Friday, October 31:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Benjamin Hermalin, University of California at Berkeley

 

At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? The Pros and Cons of Charismatic Leadership

 

 

 

Discussant: Eric Van den Steen, Harvard University

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University

 

Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills  (with A. Morjaria)

 

 

 

Discussant: Emily Breza, Columbia University

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Mark Granovetter, Stanford University

 

The Impact of Mental Constructs on Economic Action: Norms, Values, Moral Economy, Culture, Schemata and Institutional Logics  references

 

 

 

Discussant: Robert Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER

 

Never Waste a Good Crisis? Growth and Decentralization in the Great Recession

 (with P. Aghion, N. Bloom, and J. Van Reenen)

 

 

 

Discussant: Maria Guadalupe, IINSEAD

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Claudine Gartenberg, New York University

 

The Contingent Effect of Management Practices

 (with S. Blader and A. Prat)

 

 

 

Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, Warwick University and NBER

 

 

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Massimo Warglien, Ca Foscari University

 

A Formal Framework for Strategic Representations and Conceptual Reorganization  

(with T. Ehrig and J. Jost)

 

 

 

Discussant: Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street

(at the Garden Court Hotel), Palo Alto

 

 

Saturday, November 1

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt

 

Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain

 (with M. Heinz, M. Krüger, and N. Zubanov)

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Discussant: Orie Shelef, Stanford University

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Daniel Barron Northwestern University

 

Policy Commitments in Relational Contracts

(with M. Powell)

 

 

 

Discussant: Luis Rayo, University of Utah

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Pablo Spiller, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Rigidity of Public Contracts

(with M. Moszoro and S. Stolorz)

 

 

 

Discussant: Michael Powell, Northwestern University

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Gordon Phillips, University of Southern California and NBER

 

The Incentives for Vertical Acquisitions and Integration

 (with L. Frésard and G. Hoberg)

 

 

 

Discussant: Steven Tadelis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Wouter Dessein, Columbia University

 

Managerial Style and Attention

(with T. Santos)

 

 

 

Discussant: John Roberts, Stanford University

 

 

3:45 pm

Adjourn