Organizational Economics Working Group

Raffaella Sadun and Andrea Prat, Organizers

April 11-12, 2024

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 11
Breakfast
9:00 am
Benjamin Wilhe Arold, ETH Zurich
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER

Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements (slides)
Discussant: Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
9:50 am
Yi Chen, Cornell University
Adam Dearing, Cornell University and NBER
Michael Waldman, Cornell University

Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics
Discussant: Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University
Break
11:10 am
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes ​
Discussant: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Edoardo Di Porto, University of Naples Federico II
Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia and NBER
Marco Pagano, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Fabiano Schivardi, Luiss Guido Carli University
Vincenzo Pezone, Tilburg University

Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Administrative Data (slides)
Discussant: Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Lunch
1:50 pm
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alexander Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
Discussant: Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
2:40 pm
Daniel Ferreira, London School of Economics
Jin Li, University of Hong Kong

Governance and Management of Autonomous Organizations
Discussant: Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University
Break
4:00 pm
Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Kevin Huang, University of California, Los Angeles

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Discussant: Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
4:50 pm
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Morten Bennedsen, Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel Wolfenzon, Columbia University and NBER

Pay Transparency and Mental Health
Discussant: Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Adjourn
Dinner
Friday, April 12
Breakfast
9:00 am
Shan Aman-Rana, University of Virginia
Clement Minaudier, City, University of London

Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan
Discussant: Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER
9:50 am
Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ambar La Forgia, University of California, Berkeley
Adam Sacarny, Columbia University and NBER

Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare
Discussant: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Break
11:10 am
Colleen Chien, Berkeley Law School
Jill Grennan, Emory University

Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers
Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Enrique Ide, IESE Business School
Eduard Talamas, IESE Business School

Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
Discussant: Luis Garicano, London School of Economics

Working Lunch
Speaker: Lior Div, CEO, Co-Founder of seven.ai