Organizational Economics Working Group

Raffaella Sadun and Andrea Prat, Organizers

December 5-6, 2024

FORMAT: 25 minutes for presenter, 10 minutes for discussant, remaining time for Q&A.

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 5
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Superstar Teams
Discussant: Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
9:50 am

Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
Discussant: Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?
Discussant: Anders Humlum, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm

Price Discovery in Labor Markets: Why Do Firms Say They Cannot Find Workers?
Discussant: Felix Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University
12:50 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:50 pm

Value Dissonance at Work
Discussant: Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:40 pm

Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck
Discussant: George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence
Discussant: Ameet Morjaria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:50 pm

It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies
Discussant: Philipp Barteska, University of Hong Kong
5:40 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner at Royal Sonesta Hotel, Somerset Room
Friday, December 6
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Discussant: Alessandra Fenizia, The George Washington University and NBER
9:50 am

Search Speed and Theory Discovery: A Model for Innovation
Discussant: Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Firm Productivity and Learning in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Cloud Computing
Discussant: Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
12:00 pm

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Discussant: Soumitra Shukla, Harvard Business School & The Burning Glass Institute
12:05 pm
The following session will not be livestreamed:
12:50 pm
Working Lunch and Guest Speaker:
Rochelle Walensky, Harvard Kennedy School
1:50 pm
Adjourn