Organizational economics meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes - Brief article

The NBER's Working Group on Organizational Economics met in Cambridge on May 18 and 19, 2012. The program was organized by Working Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of MIT. The papers discussed were:

* Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago, "The Economics of Wild Goose Chases"

* Eric Van den Steen, Harvard University, "A Theory of Explicitly Formulated Strategy"

* Marina Halac, Navin Kartik, and Qingmin Liu, Columbia University, "Optimal Contracts for Experimentation"

* Heski Bar-Isaac and Joyee Deb, New York University, "Reputation for a Servant of Two Masters"

* Rajkamal Iyer, MIT, and Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER, "Ex Post (In)efficient Negotiation and the Breakdown of Trade"

* Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER, "The Corporation in Finance"

* Guido Friebel, Universite de Toulouse, and Michael Raith, University of Rochester, "Silo or Market: Internal Labor Markets in Multi-divisional Firms"

* Birger Wernerfelt, MIT, "The Equilibrium Organization of Labor"

* Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University, and Christian Zehnder...