Organizational Economics
Organized by Robert S. Gibbons
November 16-17, 2018
Friday, November 16
Meeting at the NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Feldstein Conference Room - 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments (slides)

Anna Gumpert, University of Tübingen
Henrike Steimer, Stanford University
Manfred Antoni, Institue of Employment Research

Discussant:
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Firm Growth and Promotion Opportunities

Jin Li, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
Rongzhu Ke, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

Discussant:
Michael Waldman, Cornell University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simone Meraglia, University of Exeter
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

A Theory of Equality Before the Law

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alexander Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Gillian Hadfield, Johns Hopkins University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover and the Quality of Public Services (slides)

Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University
Diana B. Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
Laura C. Trucco, Harvard University

Discussant:
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Stanford University and NBER
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Jackson, Stanford University

Discussant:
Rachel Kranton, Duke University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room University BC
Saturday, November 17
Meeting at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin Land Blvd., Riverfront Room, Cambridge, MA
Morning joint with IO Theory Conference
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast - Riverfront Room
8:45 am

Bayesian Persuasion and Moral Hazard

Raphael Boleslavsky, University of Miami
Kyungmin Kim, University of Miami

Discussant:
Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am

Persuasion Meets Delegation (slides)

Anton Kolotilin, University of New South Wales
Andriy Zapechelnyuk, University of St. Andrews

Discussant:
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am

Contracting for Research: Moral Hazard and the Incentive to Overstate Significance

Samuel Hafner, University of Basel
Curtis Taylor, Duke University

Discussant:
Ayça Kaya, University of Miami
12:15 pm
Lunch - Charles Suites
1:00 pm

The Power (of) Lunch and the Role of Incentives for Fostering Productive Interactions

Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, Northeastern University
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Competition, Contracts, and Worker Efforts in Creative Production

Yanhui Wu, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Feng Zhu, Harvard University

Discussant:
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
3:15 pm
Adjourn