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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Organizational Economics Working Group

Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer

April 24-25, 2015

NBER

2rd floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, April 24:
8:15 am	Shuttle vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	David Chan, Jr, Stanford University and NBER Tacit Learning and Influence behind Practice Variation: Evidence from Physicians in Training Discussant: Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, Bristol University Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts Discussant: Bengt Holmstrom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Anne Preston, Haverford College Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams Discussant: Chris Stanton, London School of Economics and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick Richard Holden, University of New South Wales Movers and Shakers Discussant: Andrea Prat, Columbia University
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER Hazhir Rahmandad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nelson P. Repenning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	David Rand, Yale University Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory (joint with Alexander Peysakhovich) David Rand, Yale University (background paper) Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed (joint with Joshua D. Greene and Martin A. Nowak) David Rand, Yale University (background paper) Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation (joint with Alexander Peysakhovich, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, George E. Newman, Owen Wurzbacher, Martin A. Nowak and Joshua D. Greene) Open discussion
5:15 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Shuttle vans (2) depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:15 pm	Group Dinner – Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe
Saturday, April 25:
8:15 am	Shuttle vans (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Andrey Malenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Steven Grenadier, Stanford University Nadya Malenko, Boston College Timing Decisions in Organizations: Communication and Authority in a Dynamic Environment Discussant: Marina Halac, Columbia University
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Size of Markets and the Scope of Firms Discussant: Patrick Legros, ECARES
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Danielle Li, Harvard University Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto Lisa Kahn, Yale University and NBER Discretion in Hiring Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm	Break
1:00 pm	Luis Garicano, London School of Economics Luis Rayo, University of Utah Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases Open discussion
2:30 pm	Adjourn