Organizational Economics.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Organizational Economics Working Group met April 1-2 in Cambridge and online. Working Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Gary Hamel, London Business School, "Reinventing Management: Lessons from the Vanguard"

* Bo Cowgill and Patryk Perkowski, Columbia University; Jonathan M. V Davis, University of Oregon; and Pablo Montagnes, Emory University, "Matchmaking Principals: Theory and Evidence from Internal Labor Markets"

* Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley; Guojun He, University of Hong Kong; Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago; and Qiong Zhang, Renmin University of China, "Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China"

* Florian Englmaier, University of Munich; Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, and Simeon Schudy, LMU Munich; and David Schindler, Tilburg University, "The Value of Leadership: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment"

* Xiang Ding, Georgetown University; Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER; Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER; and Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER, "Structural Change within versus across Firms: Evidence from the United States" (NBER Working Paper 30127)

* Elena Paltseva, Stockholm School of Economics, and Gerhard Toews and Marta Troya-Martinez, New Economic School, "I'll Pay You Later: Relational Contracts in the Oil Industry"

* Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER, and Michael Ting, Columbia University, "An Organizational Theory of State Capacity"

* Albert Choi, University of...

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