Organizational Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on May 13 and 14, 2011. The following papers were discussed:

* Luis Garicano, London School of Economics; Claire LeLarge, SESSI; and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER, "Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France"

* Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER, and Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER, "The LifeCycle of Plants in Mexico and India"

* Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER, "The Effect of Trade on Organization and Productivity"

* Yeon-Koo Che, Wouter Dessein, and Navin Kartik, Columbia University, "Pandering to Persuade"

* Heikki Rantakari, University of Southern California, "Employee Initiative and Managerial Control"

* Florian Ederer, University of California, Los Angeles, and Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics, "Information Search and Revelation in Groups"

* Maria Guadalupe, Columbia University and NBER, and Catherine Thomas and Olga Kuzmina, Columbia University, "Innovation and Foreign Ownership"

* Ian Larkin, Harvard University, "Paying $30,000 for a Gold Star: An Empirical Investigation into the Value of Peer Recognition to Software Salespeople"

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