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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Personnel Economics

Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw, Organizers

July 24-25, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline ABC Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24:

Joint Session with Labor Studies

12:15 pm

Lunch


1:15 pm


Ross Levine, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Yona Rubinstein,
London School of Economics
Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment


2:00 pm


Hyejin Ku, University College London
Fair Trade in the Fields of Florida: The Impact of the Penny-Per-Pound on Tomato Pickers


2:45 pm


John McCormack, University of Bristol
Carol Propper, Imperial College London
Sarah Smith, University of Bristol
Herding Cats? Management and University Performance


3:30 pm


Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
Bradley Larsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Devin Pope, University of Chicago and NBER
Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin
Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes

4:15 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, JULY 25:

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries


8:30 am


Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Andrea Prat, Columbia University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs

9:30 am

Break


9:45 am


Claudine Madra. Gartenberg, New York University
Julie Wulf, Harvard University and NBER
Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

10:45 am

Break


11:00 am


Valerie Smeets, Aarhus University
Michael Waldman, Cornell University
Frederic Warzynski, Aarhus University
Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Oskar Nordstrom Skans, IFAU
Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University
Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes

2:00 pm

Break


2:15 pm


Constanca Esteves-Sorenson, Yale Unversity
Rosario Macera, Yale University
Robert Broce, Southern Connecticut State University
Do Monetary Incentives Crowd-Out Intrinsic Motivation? A Field Test in the Workplace.

3:15 pm

Break


3:30 pm


Stefan Legge, University of St. Gallen
Lukas Schmid,
University of St. Gallen
The Role of Rankings, Big Shots, and Random Successes


4:30 pm


Kelly Shue, University of Chicago
Richard Townsend, Dartmouth College
Swinging for the Fences: Executive Reactions to Quasi-Random Option Grants

5:30 pm

Adjourn