Organizational Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on November 17-18. Working Group Director Robert Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; Aprajit Mahajan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; David McKenzie, World Bank; and John Roberts, Stanford University, "Do Management Improvements Persist? Evidence from India"

* Camelia M Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER, and Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Demand Fluctuations, Precarious Incomes, and Employee Turnover"

* Michael Waldman, Cornell University, and Xin Jin, University of South Florida, "Lateral Moves, Promotions, and Task-Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence"

* Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, and Luis Rayo, University of Utah, "Training and Effort Dynamics in Apprenticeship"

* Tianjiao Dai and Juuso Toikka, MIT, "Robust Incentives for Teams"

* Tarek F. Ghani, Washington University in St Louis, and Tristan Reed, University of Chicago, "Relationships, Risk and Rents: Evidence from a Market for Ice"

* Wouter Dessein...