Organizational Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on April 24-25. Working Group Director Robert Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* David C. Chan, Jr., Stanford University and NBER, "Tacit Learning and Influence behind Practice Variation: Evidence from Physicians in Training"

* Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, University of Bristol, and Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University and NBER, "Short-Term, Long-Term, and Continuing Contracts" (NBER Working Paper No. 21005)

* Casey Ichniowski, Columbia University (deceased), Anne Preston, Haverford College, "Do Star Performers Produce More Stars ? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams" (NBER Working Paper No. 20478)

* Robert Akerlof, University of Warwick, and Richard Holden, University of New South Wales, "Movers and Shakers"

* Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER, and Hazhir Rahmandad and Nelson P. Repenning, MIT, "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster" (NBER Working Paper No. 16367)

* Alexander Peysakhovich, Harvard University, and David Rand...