Organizational Economics Working Group
Organized by Raffaella Sadun and Andrea Prat
April 11-12, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 11

Breakfast

9:00 am

Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements (slides)

Benjamin Wilhe Arold, University of Cambridge
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
W. Bentley MacLeod, Yale University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER

9:50 am

Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics

Yi Chen, Cornell University
Adam Dearing, Cornell University and NBER
Michael Waldman, Cornell University

Discussant:
Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University

Break

11:10 am

The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes 

Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:00 pm

Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Administrative Data (slides)

Edoardo Di Porto, University of Naples Federico II
Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER
Marco Pagano, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss Guido Carli University
Vincenzo Pezone, Tilburg University

Discussant:
Virginia Minni, University of Chicago

Lunch

1:50 pm

Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown

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

Discussant:
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University

2:40 pm

Governance and Management of Autonomous Organizations

Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Jin Li, HKU Business School

Discussant:
Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University

Break

4:00 pm

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Kevin Huang, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich

4:50 pm

Pay Transparency and Mental Health

Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Morten Bennedsen, Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Zoë B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER

Adjourn

Dinner

Friday, April 12

Breakfast

9:00 am

Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan

Shan Aman-Rana, University of Virginia
Clement Minaudier, City, University of London

Discussant:
Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER

9:50 am

Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare

Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ambar La Forgia, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Adam Sacarny, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

Break

11:10 am

Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers

Colleen Chien, University of California, Berkeley
Jill Grennan, Emory University

Discussant:
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:00 pm

Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy

Enrique Ide, University of Navarra
Eduard Talamas, IESE Business School

Discussant:
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics

Working Lunch
Speaker: Lior Div, CEO, Co-Founder of seven.ai