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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Organizational Economics Meeting
Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer
November 18-19, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel Riverfront Room 40 Edwin Land Boulevard Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
Friday, November 18
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Marina Halac, Columbia University Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification Discussant: Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Exit, Tweets and Loyalty Discussant: Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Wouter Dessein, Columbia University Richard Holden, University of New South Wales Organizations with Power-Hungry Agents
	Discussant: Oliver Hart, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch - Parkview Room
1:30 pm	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Lucia Foster, Bureau of the Census Ron S. Jarmin, Bureau of the Census Megha Patnaik, Stanford University Itay Saporta Eksten, Tel Aviv University John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER What Drives Differences in Management? Discussant: Andrea Prat, Columbia University
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Miguel Anton, IESE Business School Florian Ederer, Yale University Mireia Gine, WRDS, University of Pennsylvania Martin C. Schmalz, University of Michigan Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives Discussant: Kevin J. Murphy, University of Southern California
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Heikki Rantakari, University of Rochester Relational Influence Discussant: Alex Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Saturday, November 19
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Toulouse School of Economics Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts in the Costa Rica Coffee Chain Discussant: Silke Forbes, Case Western Reserve University
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Christopher Hansman, Columbia University Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER Gianmarco Leon, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Matthieu Teachout, Columbia University Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters Discussant: Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Enghin Atalay, University of Chicago Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER Jialin Li, University of Chicago Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER How Wide Is the Firm Border? Discussant: Michael Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch - Parkview Room
1:15 pm	Alan M. Benson, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Danielle Li, Harvard University Kelly Shue, University of Chicago and NBER Can Promotion Tournaments Produce Bad Managers? Evidence of the ‘Peter Principle’ Discussant: Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
2:15 pm	Adjourn