Organizational Economics Meeting
Robert S. Gibbons, Organizer
April 12-13, 2019
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
| Friday, April 12 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am |
Devesh Rustagi, University of Warwick Waiting for Napoleon? Historical Democracy and Norms of Cooperation
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER Yang Yao, Peking University, China The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat’s Trade-off
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Mark Koyama, George Mason University Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Heikki Rantakari, University of Rochester Simon Says? (Interpersonal) Authority in Organizations
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER Adnan Khan, London School of Economics Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm |
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) |
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| Saturday, April 13 | ||||
| 8:15 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 8:45 am |
Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER Contracts, Conflicts and Communication
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| 9:45 am | Break | |||
| 10:00 am |
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt Matthias Heinz, University of Cologne Nick Zubanov, Goethe University Frankfurt What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 11:15 am |
Daniela Scur, Cornell University Renata Lemos, The World Bank The Ties That Bind: Family CEOs, Management Practices and Firing Costs
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Daniel V. Barron, Northwestern University Yingni Guo, Northwestern University The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments
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| 2:00 pm |
Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER David Frydlinger, Cirio Law Firm Overcoming Contractual Incompleteness: The Role of Guiding Principles
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |||