Organizational Economics.

Members of the NBER's Organizational Economics Working Group met November 8-9 in Cambridge. Research Associate Robert S. Gibbons of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Dana Foarta and Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University, "Wait-and-See or Step In? Dynamics of Interventions"

* Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago, "Making A Difference"

* Mark J. Borgschulte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marius Guenzel, University of California, Berkeley; Canyao Liu, Yale University; and Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "CEO Stress and Life Expectancy: The Role of Corporate Governance and Financial Distress"

* Francesco Decarolis and Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University; Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER; and Silvia Vannutelli, Boston University, "Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting"

* Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; Michael Christensen and Jan Rivkin, Harvard University; Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER; and Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Utah, "How Do CEOs Make Strategy?"

* Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER, and Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp, "Corruption in Hierarchies"

* Chen Cheng and Yiqing Xing, Johns Hopkins University, and Wei Huang, National University of Singapore...