April 7 and 8, 2017 Third Organizational Economics Workshop
Berkeley – Paris Third Organizational Economics Workshop
University of California, Berkeley
April 7 and 8, 2017
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 (See the program of the 2015 edition). 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 (See the program of the 2016 edition). The third workshop will be held at the University of California-Berkeley, on the 7th and 8th of April, 2017.
Download the program of the 2017 edition (PDF) or see below
Friday, April 7
Location: Women’s Faculty Club
9:00 – 9:30 am : Registration and Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 : Welcome Remarks
Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School)
Pablo T. Spiller (UC Berkeley)
9:45 – 11:00 am : SESSION I
Paper : « Why do Employees (Not) Make Referrals? »
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman and Nick Zubanov
Speaker : Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto)
Discussant : Stéphane Saussier (Sorbonne Business School)
11:00 – 11:30 am : Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:45 pm : SESSION II
Paper : « The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability »
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Shuang Zhang and Xiao Yu Wang
Speaker : Xiao Yu Wang (Duke University)
Discussant : Rui de Figueiredo (UC Berkeley)
12:45 – 2:00 pm : Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 pm : SESSION III
Paper : « Detecting and Understanding Collusion: the Case of Missing Bids »
Chassang, Kawai, Nakabayashi, and Ortner
Speaker : Sylvain Chassang (New York University)
Discussant : Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)
3:15 – 3:45 pm : Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00 pm : SESSION IV
Paper : « Within-Chain Price Rigidity in US Retail »
Stefano DellaVigna and Matthew Gentzkow
Speaker : Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley)
Discussant : Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University)
5:00 – 7:00 pm : Adjourn
7:00 pm : Reception at the home of Pablo Spiller
(Transport provided from Durant Hotel, 6:30 pm departure)
Saturday, April 8
Location: Women’s Faculty Club
9:30 – 10:00 am : Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 11:15 am : SESSION V
Paper : « Public Contracting for Private Innovation: Government Capabilities, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes »
Joshua R. Bruce, John M. de Figueiredo & Brian S. Silverman
Speaker : Brian Silverman (University of Toronto)
Discussant : Pablo T. Spiller (UC Berkeley)
11:15 – 11:45 am : Coffee Break
11:45 am – 1:00 pm : SESSION VI
Paper : « Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes »
Francesco Decarolis, Riccardo Pacini and Giancarlo Spagnolo
Speaker : Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)
Discussant : Marian Moszoro (George Mason University)
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm : Lunch
2:15 – 3:30 pm : SESSION VII
Paper : « The Value of Relational Adaptation in Outsourcing: Evidence from the 2008 shock to the US Airline Industry »
Ricard Gil, Myongjin Kim and Giorgio Zanarone
Speaker : Ricard Gil (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant : Patrick Warren (Clemson University)
3:30 – 4:00 pm : Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:15 pm : SESSION VIII
Paper : « All Together Now: Integration, Delegation, and Management »
Andrew Newman, Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Paola Conconi, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen
Speaker : Andrew Newman (Boston University)
Discussant : Robert Gibbons (MIT)
5:15 pm : Final Remarks
7:00 pm : Reception at Perbacco, San Francisco
(Transport provided from Durant Hotel, 6:00 pm departure)
Some pictures of the event :
Berkeley-Paris Organizational Economics Workshop
Haas School of Business – U. of California-Berkeley
April 7 and 8th, 2017.