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, National Bureau of Economic Research
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, University of Basel
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