Second workshop on Organizational Economics.

                              

The Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley and the Sorbonne Business School are organizing a series of workshops on Organisational Economics.

The first workshop has been organized at the University of California Berkeley.  The second one will be 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.

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2nd Berkeley-Paris Organizational Economics Workshop
Sorbonne Business School – U. of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
21, rue Broca, 75005 Paris
April 8 and 9th, 2016.

Dinner on Thursday 7pm — Restaurant TBC

Friday April 8th

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Registration:  8:00 – 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:00am

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Introduction speech: 9:00-9:05am

Stéphane Saussier & Pablo Spiller

Session I: 9:05-10:20am

Paper: « Do managers motivate? Evidence from performance metrics and employee surveys in a firm » — Peter Coles, Mitchell Hoffman, Steven Tadelis

Speaker: Steven Tadelis (U. of Calif. Berkeley)

Discussant: Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD)

Break: 10:20-10:45am

Session II: 10:45-12:00pm

Paper: « Endogenous (In)Formal Institutions » — Serra Boranbay, Carmine Guerriero

Speaker: Carmine Guerriero (U. of Amsterdam)

Discussant: Eric Brousseau (U. Paris Dauphine)

Lunch: 12:00-2pm

Session III: 2:00-3:15pm

Paper: « Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda’s Coffee Mills » — Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria

Speaker: Rocco Macchiavello (U. of Warwick)

Discussant: Jean Beuve (U. Paris I Sorbonne)

Break: 3:15-3:45pm

Session IV: 3:45-5:00 pm

Paper: Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financing Instruments — Abhay Aneja, Marian Moszoro, Pablo T. Spiller

Speaker: Pablo Spiller (U.of Calif. Berkeley)

Discussant: Henrik Jordahl (IFN)

Break: 5:00-5:45pm

Session V: 5:45-7:00 pm

Paper: « The Permeability of Public Contracts: Evidence from Renegotiations in the French Car Park Sector » — le Squeren Z and Moore J.

Speaker: Zoé Le Squeren (Sorbonne Business School)

Discussant: Brian Silverman (Rotman School of Management)

Reception: 7.30 pm  — Place TBC

Saturday, April 9th

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Continental Breakfast: 9:00 – 9:30am

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Session I: 9:30-10:45am

Paper: « Rising Wages and Human Capital in the Federal Government », Alex Bolton and J. de Figueiredo

Speaker: J. de Figueiredo (Duke University)

Discussant: Decio Coviello (HEC Montreal)

Break: 10:45-11:15am

Session II: 11:15-12:30pm

Paper: The Value of Revolving Doors in Brazilian Public Procurement, K. Barbosa and S. Straub

Speaker: Stéphane Straub (Toulouse School of Economics)

Discussant: Paola Valbonesi (U. of Padova)

Lunch: 12:30-2:00pm

Session III: 2:00-3:15pm

Paper: « Knowledge Spillovers in Cost-Reduction Incentives » — Luis Aguiar, Philippe Gagnepain

Speaker: Philippe Gagnepain (Paris School of Economics)

Discussant: Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

Break: 3:15-3:45pm

Session IV: 3:45-5:00pm

Paper: « Malfeasance and Guile in Agency Theory » – B. MacLeod

Speaker: Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)

Discussant: Robert Gibbons (MIT)

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