Organizational Economics

Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer

November 20-21, 2020

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 20
10:50 am
Welcome / Gather
11:00 am
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Jose Galdon-Sanchez, Universidad Publica de Navarra
Ricard Gil, Queen's University
Michael Kaiser, LMU Munich

Management Practices and Firm Performance during the Great Recession: Evidence from Spanish Survey Data
Moderator: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes
Moderator: Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
12:20 pm
Break / Gather
12:40 am
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Daniela Scur, Cornell University

Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting
Moderator: Andrea Prat, Columbia University
1:20 pm
Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER

Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act
Moderator: Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
2:00 pm
Break / Gather
2:20 pm
Gani S. Aldashev, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Giorgio Zanarone, HEC Lausanne

Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions
Moderator: Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:00 pm
Weijia Li, Monash University

Meritocracy and Dual Leadership: Historical Evidence and an Interpretation
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
Andrea Weber, Central European University
Ingrid Huitfeldt, University of Oslo
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
Andreas R. Kostol, Arizona State University and NBER

Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
Moderator: Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
11:40 am
Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto
Ian Jewitt, University of Oxford
Clare Leaver, University of Oxford

Training, Recruitment, and Outplacement as Endogenous Adverse Selection
Moderator: Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics
12:20 pm
Break / Gather
12:40 pm
Arjada Bardhi, NYU
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?
Moderator: Marina Halac, Yale University
1:20 pm
Erik Madsen, New York University
Basil Williams, New York University
Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University

Designing Career Concerns (slides)
Moderator: Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
2:00 pm
Break / Gather
2:20 pm
Joyee Deb, Yale University
Aditya Kuvalekar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University

Fostering Collaboration
Moderator: Meg Meyer, University of Oxford
3:00 pm
Marco Casari, University of Bologna
Maurizio Lisciandra, University of Messina

Institutional Change in Property Rights: Model and Evidence of a Centuries-Long Dynamic
Moderator: Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales
3:40 pm
Break / Gather
4:00 pm
Adjourn