NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NBER Conference on Organizational Economics
December 12 and 13, 2003
Robert Gibbons , Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11:
6:30 PM Group Dinner
Davio's Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Contract Economics
9:00 AM NICOLAE GARLEANU, University of Pennsylvania
JEFFREY ZWIEBEL, Stanford University
Design and Renegotiation of Debt Covenants
9:30 AM BIRGER WERNERFELT, MIT
10:00 AM JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
ULRIKE MALMENDIER, Stanford University
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances
10:30 AM Introductions
10:35 AM Break
11:00 AM Discussants: GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER
REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER
11:30 AM Open discussion
12:00 N Lunch
Entrepreneurship
1:00 PM EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER
1:30 PM THOMAS HELLMANN, Stanford University
When Do Employees become Entrepreneurs?
2:00 PM Discussant: FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER
2:20 PM Open discussion
2:40 PM Break
Vertical Integration
3:10 PM POL ANTRAS, Harvard University and NBER
ELHANAN HELPMAN, Harvard University and NBER
3:40 PM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER
RACHEL GRIFFITH, Institute for Fiscal Studies
FABRIZIO ZILIBOTTI, Stockholm University
Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence
4:10 PM Discussant: ROBERT GERTNER, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 PM Open discussion
6:00 PM Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Resource Allocation
9:00 AM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER
Cash Flow and Investment Project Outcomes:
Evidence from Bidding on Oil and Gas Leases
9:30 AM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
ANTIONETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER
DAVID THESMAR, ENSAE-CREST
Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure:
Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985
10:00 PM OGUZHAN OZBAS, University of Southern California
Integration, Organizational Process, and Allocation of Resources
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Discussants: JEREMY STEIN, Harvard University and NBER
STEVE TADELIS, Stanford University
11:30 AM Open discussion
12:00 N Lunch
Corporate Governance
1:00 PM BENJAMIN HERMALIN, UC, Berkeley
Trends in Corporate Governance
1:30 PM KEVIN J. MURPHY and JAN ZABOJNIK, University of Southern California
Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs
2:00 PM Discussant: NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University and NBER
2:20 PM Open discussion
2:40 PM Break
Culture and Codes
3:10 PM COLIN CAMERER, California Institute of Technology
ROBERTO WEBER, Carnegie Mellon University
Organizational Codes in the Lab
3:40 PM JACQUES CRÉMER, Universite des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse
LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
ANDREA PRAT, London School of Economics
4:10 PM Discussant: JOHN ROBERTS, Stanford University
4:30 PM Open discussion
4:50 PM Adjourn
12/10/03