Organizational Economics
Organized by Robert S. Gibbons
December 2-3, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and on Zoom
Boldface type indicates a presenter.
Friday, December 2
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organisations

Diego Battiston, University of Edinburgh
Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Katalin Szemeredi, Corvinus University

Commentator:
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:50 am

Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Communication in a Large Microfinance Institution (slides)

Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University

Commentator:
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am

Bayesian Doublespeak

Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Toronto
Alice Hsiaw, Brandeis University

Commentator:
Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40 am

Optimal Feedback in Contests (slides)

Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
Sina Khorasani, University of California, San Diego
Luis Rayo, Northwestern University

Commentator:
Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
12:25 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:35 pm

The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory

Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University
Peter Skogman Thoursie, Stockholm University

Commentator:
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:25 pm

Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Woojin Kim, National Bureau of Economic Research
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University

Commentator:
Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:25 pm

Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT

Silvia F. Castro, INSEAD
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD

Commentator:
Amy Edmondson, Harvard University
4:15 pm

Organizations not Atoms: Rules, Organizations, and Long-Term Development

John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER

Commentator:
Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner to thank Bob Gibbons for his two decades of group leadership. The dinner will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the Skyline Rooms.
Saturday, December 3
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Ada Gonzalez-Torres, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle

Commentator:
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
9:50 am

Should Workplace Programs be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship

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

Commentator:
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am

Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants

Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University

Commentator:
Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
11:40 am

Market Transparency and Relational Collusion in the Colombia Electricity Market

Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Mario Bernasconi, University of Basel
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Carlos Suarez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Commentator:
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
12:30 pm
Boxed lunches followed by:

Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark (slides)

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland, College Park
Daniel le Maire, University of Copenhagen

Commentator:
Robert S. Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:45 pm
Adjourn