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

Do Words Matter? The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements (slides)
Discussant: Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
9:50 am

Overcoming Discrimination: Harassment and Discrimination Dynamics
Discussant: Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University
Break
11:10 am

The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes ​
Discussant: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm

Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Administrative Data (slides)
Discussant: Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Lunch
1:50 pm

Employment and Community: Socioeconomic Cooperation and Its Breakdown
Discussant: Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
2:40 pm

Governance and Management of Autonomous Organizations
Discussant: Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University
Break
4:00 pm

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Discussant: Florian Englmaier, University of Munich
4:50 pm

Pay Transparency and Mental Health
Discussant: Zoë B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Adjourn
Dinner
Friday, April 12
Breakfast
9:00 am

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

Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare
Discussant: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Break
11:10 am

Unpacking the Innovator-Inventor Gap: Evidence from Engineers
Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm

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

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