Organizational economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on organizational economics - Conference news

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on April 25 and 26, 2014. Working Group Director Robert Gibbons of MIT chose these papers to discuss:

* William Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley, and Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo, London School of Economics, "Optimal Contracting and the Organization of Knowledge"

* Anton Kolotilin, University of New South Wales, "Optimal Information Disclosure: Quantity vs. Quality"

* Florian Englmaier, University of Munich; Andreas Roider, University of Regensburg; and Uwe Sunde, University of St. Gallen, "Te Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment"

* Florian Ederer, Yale University, and Alexander Stremitzer, University of California, Los Angeles, "Promises and Expectations"

* Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER, and Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College, "Ownership Structure and Economic Outcomes: Te Case of Sugarcane Mills in India"

* Eric Van den Steen, Harvard University, "Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy"

* Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER; Bradley Larsen, Stanford University; Devin Pope, University of Chicago and NBER; and Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin, "Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes" (NBER...