Organizational Economics Working Group
Organized by Raffaella Sadun and Andrea Prat
December 5-6, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
FORMAT: 25 minutes for presenter, 10 minutes for discussant, remaining time for Q&A.
Thursday, December 5
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Superstar Teams

Lukas B. Freund, Boston College

Discussant:
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
9:50 am

Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food

Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parker Howell, University of Michigan

Discussant:
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?

Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
Joanna Venator, Boston College
Michael Dalton, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discussant:
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm

Price Discovery in Labor Markets: Why Do Firms Say They Cannot Find Workers?

Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
12:50 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:50 pm

Value Dissonance at Work

Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:40 pm

Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck

Mikhail Drugov, New Economic School
Margaret Meyer, Nuffield College
Marc Moeller, University of Bern

Discussant:
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Jin Xie, Peking University
Jiaquan Yao, Jinan University

Discussant:
Ameet Morjaria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:50 pm

It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies

Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Masyhur Hilmy, University of New South Wales
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Mahvish Shaukat, The World Bank
Andreas Stegmann, University of Warwick

Discussant:
Philipp Barteska, University of Hong Kong
5:40 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner at Royal Sonesta Hotel, Somerset Room
Friday, December 6
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

How Do You Find a Good Manager?

David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Ben Weidmann, Harvard University
Joseph Vecci, Gothenburg University
Farah Said, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Warwick

Discussant:
Alessandra Fenizia, The George Washington University and NBER
9:50 am

Search Speed and Theory Discovery: A Model for Innovation

Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University
Andrea Pignataro, ION Group, London

Discussant:
Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Firm Productivity and Learning in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Cloud Computing

James M. Brand, Microsoft Research
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Connor Finucane, Microsoft Research
Avner A. Kreps, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
12:00 pm

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kyra Rodriguez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Soumitra Shukla, Harvard Business School & The Burning Glass Institute
12:05 pm
The following session will not be livestreamed:
12:50 pm
Working Lunch and Guest Speaker:
Rochelle Walensky, Harvard Kennedy School
1:50 pm
Adjourn