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

Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organisations
Commentator: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:50 am

Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Communication in a Large Microfinance Institution (slides)
Commentator: Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am

Bayesian Doublespeak
Commentator: Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40 am

Optimal Feedback in Contests (slides)
Commentator: Elliot Lipnowski, Columbia University
12:25 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:35 pm

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

Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Commentator: Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:25 pm

Fostering Psychological Safety in Teams: Evidence from an RCT
Commentator: Amy Edmondson, Harvard University
4:15 pm

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

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations
Commentator: Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
9:50 am

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

Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants
Commentator: Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
11:40 am

Market Transparency and Relational Collusion in the Colombia Electricity Market
Commentator: Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
12:30 pm
Boxed lunches followed by:

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