Organizational Economics Working Group

Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer

April 24-25, 2015

NBER, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 24
1
Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick
Richard T. Holden, University of New South Wales

Movers and Shakers
2
Alexander Peysakhovich, Harvard University
David G. Rand, Yale University

Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory
3
Steven Grenadier, Stanford University
Andrey Malenko, Boston College
Nadya Malenko, Boston College and NBER

Timing Decisions in Organizations: Communication and Authority in a Dynamic Environment
4
Birger Wernerfelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The size of Markets and the Scope of Firms
5
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Lisa B. Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discretion in Hiring
6
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
Luis Rayo, Northwestern University

Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases