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
Lukas B. Freund, Columbia University

Superstar Teams
Discussant: Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
9:50 am
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parker Howell, University of Michigan

Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
Discussant: Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
Joanna Venator, Boston College
Michael Dalton, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap?
Discussant: Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
12:00 pm
Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Michal Zator, University of Notre Dame

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
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
Miguel Espinosa, Bocconi University

Value Dissonance at Work
Discussant: Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:40 pm
Mikhail Drugov, New Economic School
Margaret Meyer, Nuffield College
Marc Moeller, University of Bern

Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck
Discussant: George Georgiadis, Northwestern University
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Jin Xie, Peking University
Jiaquan Yao, Jinan University

Trust and Contracts: Empirical Evidence
Discussant: Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
4:50 pm
Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Masyhur Hilmy, University of New South Wales
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Mahvish Shaukat, World Bank Development Research Group
Andreas Stegmann, University of Warwick

It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies
Discussant: Philipp Barteska, Harvard University
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
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
Ben Weidmann, Harvard University
Joseph Vecci, Gothenburg University
Farah Said, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Warwick

How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Discussant: Alessandra Fenizia, The George Washington University and NBER
9:50 am
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University
Andrea Pignataro, ION Group, London

Search Speed and Theory Discovery: A Model for Innovation
Discussant: Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
James M. Brand, Microsoft
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Connor Finucane, Microsoft
Avner A. Kreps, Northwestern University

Firm Productivity and Learning in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Cloud Computing
Discussant: Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
12:00 pm
Anna M. Stansbury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kyra Rodriguez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia
Discussant: Soumitra Shukla, Yale University
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