
	Friday, November 20
10:50 am	Welcome / Gather
11:00 am	Management Practices and Firm Performance during the Great Recession: Evidence from Spanish Survey Data Florian Englmaier, University of Munich Jose Galdon-Sanchez, Universidad Publica de Navarra Ricard Gil, IESE Business School Michael Kaiser, LMU Munich
	Moderator: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am	The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Moderator: Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
12:20 pm	Break / Gather
12:40 am	Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER Daniela Scur, Cornell University
	Moderator: Andrea Prat, Columbia University
1:20 pm	Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
	Moderator: Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
2:00 pm	Break / Gather
2:20 pm	Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions Gani S. Aldashev, Université Libre de Bruxelles Giorgio Zanarone, HEC Lausanne
	Moderator: Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:00 pm	Meritocracy and Dual Leadership: Historical Evidence and an Interpretation Weijia Li, Monash University
	Moderator: James Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER
3:40 pm	Break / Gather
4:00 pm	Adjourn
	Saturday, November 21
10:50 am	Welcome / Gather
11:00 am	Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach Andrea Weber, Central European University Ingrid Huitfeldt, University of Oslo Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin Andreas R. Kostol, BI Norwegian Business School
	Moderator: Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
11:40 am	Training, Recruitment, and Outplacement as Endogenous Adverse Selection Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto Ian Jewitt, University of Oxford Clare Leaver, University of Oxford
	Moderator: Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics
12:20 pm	Break / Gather
12:40 pm	Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? Arjada Bardhi, NYU Yingni Guo, Northwestern University Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
	Moderator: Marina Halac, Yale University
1:20 pm	Designing Career Concerns (slides) Erik Madsen, New York University Basil Williams, New York University Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University
	Moderator: Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
2:00 pm	Break / Gather
2:20 pm	Fostering Collaboration Joyee Deb, Yale University Aditya Kuvalekar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
	Moderator: Meg Meyer, University of Oxford
3:00 pm	Institutional Change in Property Rights: Model and Evidence of a Centuries-Long Dynamic Marco Casari, University of Bologna Maurizio Lisciandra, University of Messina
	Moderator: Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales
3:40 pm	Break / Gather
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick
Gani S. Aldashev, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics
Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto
Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania
Arjada Bardhi, NYU
Daniel V. Barron, Northwestern University
Karen Bernhardt-Walther, York University
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics
Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
Renee Bowen, Georgetown University and NBER
Marco Casari, University of Bologna
David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER
Tom Chang, University of Southern California
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Chen Cheng, Johns Hopkins University
Joyee Deb, Yale University
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
Erika Deserranno, Bocconi University
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Dana Foarta, Stanford University
Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University and NBER
Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Jose Galdon-Sanchez, Universidad Publica de Navarra
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
Robert Gertner, University of Chicago
Robert S. Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ricard Gil, IESE Business School
Manuel Grieder, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
Marina Halac, Yale University
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, University of Bristol
Benjamin Hermalin, University of California
Holger Herz, University of Fribourg
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Richard T. Holden, University of New South Wales
Bengt R. Holmström, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ingrid Huitfeldt, University of Oslo
Ian Jewitt, University of Oxford
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Michael Kaiser, LMU Munich

Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
Aditya Kuvalekar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Weijia Li, Monash University
Marco LiCalzi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
Maurizio Lisciandra, University of Messina
W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Erik Madsen, New York University
Scott Masten, University of Michigan
Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University
Kieron Meagher, Australian National University
Margaret Meyer, Nuffield College
Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER
Andrew Newman, Boston University
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Ali F. Palida, University of Pittsburgh
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Simon Quinn, Imperial College London
Michael Raith, University of Rochester
John Roberts, Stanford University
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER
Devesh Rustagi, University of Warwick
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Orie Shelef, University of Utah
Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics
Marta Troya-Martinez, New Economic School
Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
Andrea Weber, Central European University
Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Basil Williams, New York University
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong
Giorgio Zanarone, HEC Lausanne
Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
Jeffrey Zwiebel, Stanford University