March 8 and 9, 2019 Fifth Organizational Economics Workshop
Berkeley-Paris Fifth Organizational Economics Workshop
University of California – Berkeley
March 8 and 9, 2019
The Haas School of Business (University of California-Berkeley) and the Sorbonne Business School are organizing a series of workshops on Organizational Economics.
The first workshop took place in 2015, and was organized at the University of California Berkeley. The second workshop took place in 2016, and was held at the Sorbonne Business School, with the support from the Institute for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business, the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor Chair in Business and Technology, and the Paris School of Economics — OSE Labex. The third workshop was held at the University of California-Berkeley, on the 7th and 8th of April, 2017. The fourth workshop took place at the University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne, on the 13th and 14th of April, 2018.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
Berkeley-Paris Organizational Economics Workshop
Haas School of Business – University of California, Berkeley
March 8/9, 2019 – Schedule
Location: Women’s Faculty Club
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Dinner: 7:30pm at Oliveto in Oakland
Transport provided from Graduate Hotel, 7:00 pm departure
Friday, March 8, 2019
8:00 – 8:45 am: Registration and Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00: Welcome Remarks
Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School)
Pablo T. Spiller (UC Berkeley)
Session I: 9:00-10:15am
Paper: “Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation”
by Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
Speaker: Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Discussant: Marian Moszoro (GMU/IDB)
Break: 10:15-10:45am
Session II: 10:45-12:00pm
Paper: “Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer”
by Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno and Nicola Persico
Speaker: Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal)
Discussant: Justin Marion (UCSC)
Lunch: 12:00-1:30pm
Session III: 1:30-2:45pm
Paper: “Coordination and Organization Design: Theory and Micro-evidence”
by Wouter Dessein, Desmond (Ho-Fu) Lo, and Chieko Minami
Speaker: Wouter Dessein (Columbia U)
Discussant: Pablo Spiller (UCB)
Break: 2:45-3:15pm
Session IV: 3:15-4:30pm
Paper: “Using Bid Rotation and Incumbency Patterns to Detect Collusion”
by Sylvain Chassang, Kei Kawai, Jun Nakabayashi, Juan Ortner
Speaker: Kei Kawai (UCB)
Discussant: Frank Wolak (Stanford)
Reception 7:00 pm
(Transport provided, 6:30pm departure)
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Location: Women’s Faculty Club
9:00 – 9:30am: Breakfast
Session I: 9:30-10:45am
Paper: “Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions”
by Alexander Mackay
Speaker: Alexander Mackay (HBS)
Discussant: Paola Valbonesi (Padova University)
Break: 10:45-11:15am
Session II: 11:15-12:30pm
Paper: “Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India”
by Guo Xu
Speaker: Guo Xu (UCB)
Discussant: Miguel Espinosa (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Lunch: 12:30-2:00pm
Session III: 2:00-3:15pm
Paper: “Certification, Reputation and Entry: An Empirical Analysis”
by Steve Tadelis
Speaker: Steve Tadelis (UCB)
Discussant: Stephane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School)
Break: 3:15-3:45pm
Session IV: 3:45-5:00pm
Paper: “Conflict and motivation in organizations”
by W. Bentley MacLeod, Victoria Valle Lara, Christian Zehnder
Speaker: W Bentley MacLeod (Columbia U)
Discussant: Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)
CLOSURE
Dinner : 7:00 pm at Perbacco
Transport provided, 6:30 pm departure
