Organizational economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on April 28-29. Working Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* David Cooper, Florida State University; Christos Ioannou, University of Southampton (U.K.); and Shi Qi, College of William and Mary, "Coordination with Endogenous Contracts: Incentives, Selection, and Strategic Anticipation"

* Claudine M. Gartenberg, New York University; Andrea Prat, Columbia University; and George Serafeim, Harvard University, "Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance"

* Marshall Ganz, Harvard University, "Leading Change: Stories, Strategy, and Structure"

* Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto and NBER, and Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, "How Do Managers Matter? Evidence from Performance Metrics and Employee Surveys in a Firm"

* Avidit R. Acharya, Stanford University, and Juan M. Ortner, Boston University, "Progressive Learning"

* Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and In-Uck Park, University of Bristol (U.K.), "Coordination of Humanitarian Aid by Mediated Communication"

* Marta Troya-Martinez, New Economic School (Moscow), and Liam Wren-Lewis, Paris School of Economics, "Relational Incentive Contracts with Collusion"

* Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University; Myongjin...