April 8 and 9, 2016 Organizational Economics Workshop
Organizational Economics Workshop – April 8 & 9th 2016
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 (See the program). 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.
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
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:00am
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
Continental Breakfast: 9:00 – 9:30am
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
- Discussant: Robert Gibbons (MIT)