Organizational Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met April 20-21 in Cambridge. Working Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, and Simeon Schudy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and David Schindler, Tilburg University, "The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytic Team Tasks--Evidence from a Field Experiment"

* Daniel V. Barron, George Georgiadis, and Jeroen Swinkels, Northwestern University, "Optimal Contracts with a Risk-Taking Agent"

* Colleen M. Cunningham, London Business School, and Florian Ederer and Song Ma, Yale University, "Killer Acquisitions"

* Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes, and Tom Kirchmaier, London School of Economics, "Face-to-Face Communication in Organizations"

* Steven Callander and Nicolas S. Lambert, Stanford University; and Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University, "Communication in a Complicated World"

* Timothy J. Besley, London School of Economics, and Torsten Persson, Institute for International Economic Studies and NBER, "Organizational Dynamics: Culture...