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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

NBER Working Group on Organizational Economics

Conference on Relational Contracts

November 20-21, 2009

Organizer: Robert Gibbons

NBER

2^nd floor conference room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20:
8:15 am	2 Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	BJÖRN BARTLING and ERNST FEHR, University of Zurich
	KLAUS SCHMIDT, University of Munich
	Screening, Competition and Job Design
	Discussant: DAVID HUFFMAN, Swarthmore College
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	CLAUDINE DESRIEUX, University of Paris 2 Pantheon
	ESHIEN CHONG, University of Paris XI
	STEPHANE SAUSSIER, IAE - University of Paris I Sorbonne
	Putting All One’s Eggs in One Basket:
	Relational Contracts and the Provision of Local Public Services
	Discussant: FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan
11:30 am	YUK-FAI FONG and JIN LI, Northwestern University
	Relational Contracts, Limited Liability, and Employment Dynamics
	Discussant: MARINA HALAC, Columbia University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	DAVID MCADAMS, Duke University
	Performance and Turnover in a Stochastic Partnership
	Discussant: JON LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	RICARD GIL and JUSTIN MARION, UC, Santa Cruz
	The Role of Repeated Interactions, Self-Enforcing Agreements and Relational [Sub]Contracting:
	Evidence for California Highway Procurement Auctions
	Discussant: KEN CORTS, University of Toronto
4:00 pm	SIMON BOARD, UC, Los Angeles
	Relational Contracts and the Value of Loyalty
	Discussant: NIKO MATOUSCHEK, Northwestern University
5:00 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	2 Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel
5:15 pm	1 Shuttle Van Departs from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge
	(across the street from the Sonesta)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21:
8:00 am	1 Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am	2 Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	HIDESHI ITOH, Hitotsubashi University
	HODAKA MORITA, University of New South Wales
	Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Holdup Problem
	Discussant: HEIKKI RANTAKARI, University of Southern California
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	DAVID COOPER, Florida State University
	KAI-UWE KÜHN, University of Michigan
	Communication, Renegotiation, and the Scope for Collusion
	Discussant: ROBERTO WEBER, Carnegie Mellon
11:30 am	PEDRO DAL BÓ, Brown University and NBER
	GUILLAUME FRÉCHETTE, New York University
	The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence
	Discussant: ALVIN ROTH, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	DAVID MILLER and JOEL WATSON, UC, San Diego
	A Theory of Disagreement in Repeated Games with Renegotiation
	Discussant: SYLVAIN CHASSANG, Princeton University
2:30 pm	GIACOMO CALZOLARI, University of Bologna
	GIANCARLO SPAGNOLO, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'
	Relational Contracts and Competitive Screening
	Discussant: SANDEEP BALIGA, Northwestern University
3:30 pm	Adjourn