Organizational economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on December 4-5. Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University, and Juan M. Ortner, Boston University, "Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement"

* Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER, and Alex Wolitzky, MIT, "Sustaining Cooperation: Community Enforcement vs. Specialized Enforcement" (NBER Working Paper No. 21457)

* John Antonakis and Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne; Giovanna d'Adda, Polytechnic University of Milan; and Roberto Weber, University of Zurich, "Just Words ? Just Speeches ? On The Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership"

* Alexander Schmitt and Johannes Van Biesebroeck, University of Leuven, "Governing Supply Relationships: Evidence from the Automotive Sector"

* Laura Alfaro and Pol Antras, Harvard University and NBER; Davin Chor, National University of Singapore; and Paola Conconi, Universite libre de Bruxelles, "Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis" (NBER Working Paper No. 21582)

* Francine Lafontaine...