Organizational Economics Meeting

December 6 and 7, 2013
Robert Gibbons of MIT, Organizer

Roland Bénabou, Princeton University and NBER, and Jean Tirole, Institut d'Economie Industrielle

Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking (NBER Working Paper 18936)


Kieron Meagher and Rodney Strachan, Australian National University

Evidence on the Non-Linear Impact of Management


Alessandro Bonatti, MIT, and Heikki Rantakari, University of South California Marshall School of Business

The Politics of Compromise


Stephen Burks, University of Minnesota Morris; Bo Cowgill, University of California, Berkeley; Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto; and Michael Housman, University of Pennsilvania

The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks


Marina Halac and Andrea Prat, Columbia University

Managerial Attention and Worker Engagement


Rui de Figueiredo,University of California, Berkeley; Evan Rawley, Columbia University; and Orie Shelef, Stanford University

Bad Bets: Excessive Risk-Taking, Convex Incentives, and Performance

Björn Bartling, University of Zurich, and Manuel Grieder and Christian Zehnder, University of Lausanne

Delegating Responsibility to the Market: How Competition Shapes Fairness Perceptions


Arthur Campbell, Yale University

Political Capital


Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School; Paola Conconi, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Harald Fadinger,University of Vienna; and Andrew Newman, Boston Universty

Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy (NBER Working Paper 16118)


Ilya Segal, Stanford University, and Michael Whinston, MIT and NBER

Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining


Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University, and Tomas Sjöström, Rutgers University

Coordination, Rent-Seeking and Control