NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Empirical Personnel Economics Workshop

Kathryn Shaw, Organizer

July 24 and 25, 2008

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Suite A, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JULY 24:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Welcome and Introduction, KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER
1:05 pm	MARIA GUADALUPE, Columbia University and NBER
	JULIE WULF, Harvard University
	The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
1:50 pm	LISA KAHN, Harvard University
	Asymmetric Information between Employers
2:35 pm	Break
3:05 pm	PAUL OYER and PHILLIP LESLIE, Stanford University and NBER
	Managerial Incentives and Strategic Change: Evidence from Private Equity
3:50 pm	Break
4:05 pm	RACHEL GRIFFITH, University College London
	ANDREW NEELY, Cranfield University
	Incentives and Managerial Experience in Multi-Task Teams: Evidence from within a Firm
4:50 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 25:
	JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University and NBER
	Gender Differences in Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-Based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER
	LUIS GARICANO and RAFAELLA SADUN, London School of Economics
	JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics and NBER
	The distinct effects of information technologies and communication technologies on firm organization
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	BO COWGILL, Google
	JUSTIN WOLFERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Dartmouth College
	Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	TOR ERIKSSON, Aarhus School of Business
	ANDERS POULSEN, University of East Anglia
	MARIE-CLAIRE VILLEVAL, University of Lyon
	Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
	ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	ALEXANDRE MAS, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	DAVID LEE, Princeton University and NBER
	Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets,1961-1999
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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