Organizational Economics

Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer

December 2-3, 2022

Boldface type indicates a presenter.

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 2
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Diego Battiston, London School of Economics
Jordi Blanes i Vidal, London School of Economics
Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics
Katalin Szemeredi, Corvinus University

Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organisations
Commentator: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:50 am
Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University

Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Communication in a Large Microfinance Institution (slides)
Commentator: Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am
Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Toronto
Alice Hsiaw, Brandeis University

Bayesian Doublespeak
Commentator: Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40 am
Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
Sina Khorasani, University of California, San Diego
Luis Rayo, Northwestern University

Optimal Feedback in Contests (slides)
Commentator: Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
12:25 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:35 pm
Mary Ann Bronson, Georgetown University
Peter Skogman Thoursie, Stockholm University

The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory
Commentator: Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:25 pm
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Woojin Kim, University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University

Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Commentator: Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:25 pm
Silvia F. Castro, LMU Munich
Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD

Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT
Commentator: Amy Edmondson, Harvard University
4:15 pm
John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER

Organizations not Atoms: Rules, Organizations, and Long-Term Development
Commentator: Charles Angelucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner to thank Bob Gibbons for his two decades of group leadership. The dinner will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the Skyline Rooms.
Saturday, December 3
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Ada Gonzalez-Torres, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations
Commentator: Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
9:50 am
Jason Sandvik, Tulane University
Richard Saouma, Michigan State University
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Should Workplace Programs be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship
Commentator: Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University

Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants
Commentator: Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
11:40 am
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Mario Bernasconi, Tilburg University
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University
Carlos Suarez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Market Transparency and Relational Collusion in the Colombia Electricity Market
Commentator: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
12:30 pm
Boxed lunches followed by:
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Daniel le Maire, University of Copenhagen

Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark (slides)
Commentator: Robert S. Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:45 pm
Adjourn