
	Friday, April 12
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Waiting for Napoleon? Historical Democracy and Norms of Cooperation Devesh Rustagi, University of Warwick Discussant: Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat’s Trade-off Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER Yang Yao, Peking University, China Discussant: Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Mark Koyama, George Mason University Discussant: Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Simon Says? (Interpersonal) Authority in Organizations Heikki Rantakari, University of Rochester Discussant: Eric Van den Steen, Harvard University
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Discussant: Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats (slides) Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER Adnan Khan, London School of Economics Discussant: Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Saturday, April 13
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Contracts, Conflicts and Communication Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: David J. Cooper, University of Iowa
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussant: Lori A. Beaman, Northwestern University and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	The Ties That Bind: Family CEOs, Management Practices and Firing Costs Daniela Scur, Cornell University Renata Lemos, The World Bank Discussant: Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments Daniel V. Barron, Northwestern University Yingni Guo, Northwestern University Discussant: Marina Halac, Yale University
2:00 pm	Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER David Frydlinger, Cirio Law Firm Discussant: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel V. Barron, Northwestern University
Lori A. Beaman, Northwestern University and NBER
Karen Bernhardt-Walther, York University
Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
David J. Cooper, University of Iowa
Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University and NBER
Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
David Frydlinger, Cirio Law Firm
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
Robert Gertner, University of Chicago
Tarek F. Ghani, Washington University in St. Louis
Robert S. Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Marina Halac, Yale University
Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER
Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Valerie J. Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University
Ian Larkin, University of California, Los Angeles
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Scott Masten, University of Michigan
Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER
Andrew Newman, Boston University
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Raith, University of Rochester
Joao Ramos, University of Southern California
Luis Rayo, Northwestern University
Devesh Rustagi, University of Warwick
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Orie Shelef, University of Utah
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics
Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alexander Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Giorgio Zanarone, HEC Lausanne
Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne
Jeffrey Zwiebel, Stanford University