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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Organizational Economics Working Group

 

Robert Gibbons, Organizer

 

May 13 and 14, 2016

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, May 13

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Johannes Horner, Yale University

 

Motivational Ratings

(Joint with N. Lambert, Stanford University)

 

Discussant:  Marina Halac, Columbia University

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER

 

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

(Joint with O. Bandiera, London School of Economics, S. Hansen, Pompeu Fabra, and A. Prat, Columbia University)

 

Discussant:  Lisa Kahn, Yale University and NBER

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Personnel Economics of the State

(Joint with F. Finan, University of California at Berkeley and NBER and B. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

 

Discussant:  John de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Charles Sabel, Columbia University

 

Regulation under Uncertainty: The Co-evolution of Industry and Regulation in the Norwegian Offshore Gas and Oil Industry

(Joint with G. Herrigel, University of Chicago and P.H. Kristensen, Copenhagen Business School)

 

Discussant:  Robert Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

 

Recruitment by Petition

 

Discussant:  Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER

 

Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science

(Joint with J. Shi, RMIT University, Y. Wang, University of Southern California, and R. Xu, Renmin, University of China)

 

Discussant:  Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:15 pm

Adjourn

5:15 pm

Shuttle Van Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:00 pm

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

Saturday, May 14

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Supreet Kaur, Columbia University and NBER

 

Enforcement Constraints in an Indian Village

(Joint with R. Bubb, New York University and S. Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER)

 

 

Discussant:  Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Gautam Rao, Harvard University and NBER

 

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
(Joint with S. DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER, J. List, University of Chicago and NBER, and U. Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER)

 

Discussant:  Florian Englmaier, University of Munich

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Karen Bernhardt-Walther, University of Toronto

 

The First Time is Different: A Problem-Solving Approach to Innovation

 

Discussant:  Luis Rayo, University of Utah

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Brett Green, University of California at Berkeley

 

Breakthroughs, Deadlines, and Self-Reported Progress: Contracting for Multistage Projects

(Joint with C. Taylor, Duke University)

 

Discussant:  George Georgiadis, Northwestern University

2:15 pm

Adjourn