NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Conference on Organizational Economics
November 5 and 6, 2004
Robert Gibbons: Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge MA
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5:
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
(Internal and Political) Capital Markets
8:30 am DAVID SCHARFSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER
ILAN GUEDJ, MIT
9:00 am ASIM
KHWAJA, Harvard University
ATIF MIAN, University of Chicago
Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent-seeking in an Emerging Financial Market
9:30 am Discussant:
ANTOINETTE SCHOAR, MIT and NBER
9:50 am Open
discussion
10:10 am Introductions
10:15 am Break
Behavioral Agency
10:35 am ROLAND BÉNABOU, Princeton University and NBER
JEAN TIROLE, University of Toulouse
Incentives and
Prosocial Behavior
11:05 am KLAUS SCHMIDT, University of Munich
ERNST FEHR, University of Zurich
ALEXANDER KLEIN, University of Munich
Contracts, Fairness, and
Incentives
11:35 am Discussant:
W. BENTLEY MACLEOD, University of Southern California
11:55 am Open
discussion
12:15 pm Lunch
Theory of the Firm
1:15 pm BEN KLEIN, UC, Los Angeles
When Does a Contractual Adjustment Involve a Holdup? The Dynamics of Fisher-Body-General Motors
1:45 pm ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER
A Rent-seeking Theory
of the Firm?
2:15 pm Discussant: SCOTT MASTEN, University of Michigan
2:35 pm Open
discussion
2:55 pm Break
Human Resource Management
3:15 pm KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
ANN BARTEL and CASEY ICHNIOWSKI, Columbia University and NBER
An Insider' Econometric Analysis
3:45 pm PAUL OYER, Stanford University and NBER
4:15 pm Discussant: GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER
4:35 pm Open discussion
6:00 pm Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6:
8:00 am Continental
Breakfast
Contract Economics
8:30 am OLIVER HART, Harvard University and NBER
JOHN MOORE, London School of Economics
Contracts that Rule Out but do not Rule In
9:00 am ENRICO PERROTI, University of Amsterdam
THOMAS HELLMANN, University of British Columbia
The Circulation of Ideas: Firms versus Markets
9:30 am Discussant:
DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
9:50 am Open
discussion
10:10 am Break
Internal and External Organization
10:30 am MATTHEW BIDWELL, INSEAD Singapore
What Do Firms Do Differently? Comparing the Governance of Internal and Outsourced IT Projects
11:00 am PIERRE AZOULAY, Columbia University and NBER
11:30 am Discussant:
FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan
11:50 am Open
discussion
12:10 pm Lunch
Production
1:10 pm SIDNEY WINTER, University of Pennsylvania
Towards an Evolutionary
Theory of Production
1:40 pm Discussant:
BENGT HOLMSTROM, MIT and NBER
1:50 pm Open discussion
2:00 pm Break
Outsourcing
2:20 pm STEVEN TADELIS and JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University
Employment versus
Contracting in Procurement: Theory
and Evidence from U.S. Cities
2:50 pm LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
POL ANTRAS, Harvard University and NBER
ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford University
Outsourcing in a
Knowledge Economy
3:20 pm Discussant:
MICHAEL WALDMAN, Cornell University
3:40 pm Open
discussion
4:00 pm Adjourn
10/18/04