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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Organizational Economics Group Meeting

 

Organized by R. Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

November 19, 2011

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – Second Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

Friday, November 18

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

Saturday, November 19

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

James Malcomson, Oxford University

 

Relational Incentive Contracts with Persistent Private Information

 

 

 

Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Maria Guadalupe, Columbia University and NBER

Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf, Harvard University

 

Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management

 

 

 

Discussant:  Heikki Rantakari, University of Southern California

 

 

11:00 am

Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania

 

Gender Differences in Productivity Responses to Performance Rankings: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University and NBER

Christopher Stanton, University of Utah

 

The Value of Bosses

 

 

 

Discussant:  Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University

 

 

1:45 pm

Yanhui Wu, University of Southern California

 

Authority, Incentives and Performance: Theory and Evidence from a Chinese Newspaper

 

 

 

Discussant:  Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:45 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Silke Forbes, University of Southern California at San Diego

Mara Lederman, University of Toronto

Trevor Tombe, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Quality Disclosure and Gaming: Do Employee Incentives Matter?

 

 

 

Discussant:  Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

Luigi Guiso, EUI

Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Value of Social Networks in Bank Lending

 

 

 

Discussant:  Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn