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 December 7 and 8, 2012. The program was organized by Working Group Director Robert S. Gibbons of MIT. The papers discussed were:

* Brigham Frandsen, MIT, and James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER, "Structuring Incentives within Organizations: The Case of Accountable Care Organizations"

* Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER; Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER; Adam Sacarny, MIT; and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER, "Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector"

* Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Harvard University and NBER, "Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston*"

* Michael L. Powell, Northwestern University, "An Influence-Cost Model of Firm Boundaries and Organizational Practices"

* Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER; Ferdinando Monte, Johns Hopkins University; and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER, "The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies"

* Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER; Raffaella Sadun, Harvard...