Organizational Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Bjorn Bartling and Ernst Fehr from University of Zurich - Klaus Schmidt from University of Munich - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on November 20 and 21, 2009. Organizer Robert S. Gibbons of NBER and MIT chose these papers for discussion:

* Bjorn Bartling and Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich, and Klaus Schmidt, University of Munich, "Screening, Competition and Job Design"

* Claudine Desrieux, University of Paris 2 Pantheon; Eshien Chong, University of Paris XI; and Stephane Saussier, IAE-University of Paris I Sorbonne, "Putting All One's Eggs in One Basket: Relational Contracts and the Provision of Local Public Services"

* Yuk-Fai Fong and Jin Li, Northwestern University, "Relational Contracts, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics"

* David McAdams, Duke University, "Performance and Turnover in a Stochastic Partnership"

* Ricard Gil and Justin Marion, University of California, Santa Cruz, "The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self- Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting: Evidence for California Highway Procurement Auctions"

* Simon Board, University of California, Los Angeles, "Relational Contracts and the Value of Loyalty"

* Hideshi Itoh, Hitotsubashi University, and Hodaka Morita, University of New...