Organizational Economics

Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer

November 20-21, 2020

Friday, November 20
10:50 am	Welcome / Gather
11:00 am	Management Practices and Firm Performance during the Great Recession: Evidence from Spanish Survey Data
	Moderator: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am	The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes
	Moderator: Wouter Dessein, Columbia University
12:20 pm	Break / Gather
12:40 am	Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting
	Moderator: Andrea Prat, Columbia University
1:20 pm	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	Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions
	Moderator: Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:00 pm	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	Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
	Moderator: Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
11:40 am	Training, Recruitment, and Outplacement as Endogenous Adverse Selection
	Moderator: Ricardo Alonso, London School of Economics
12:20 pm	Break / Gather
12:40 pm	Early-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting?
	Moderator: Marina Halac, Yale University
1:20 pm	Designing Career Concerns (slides)
	Moderator: Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt
2:00 pm	Break / Gather
2:20 pm	Fostering Collaboration
	Moderator: Meg Meyer, University of Oxford
3:00 pm	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