6720 - Papers

Thursday 15 September

10:00 - 11:00 Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Costa Rica's Coffee Chain

*Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick University and CEPR)

Joint with Pepita Miquel-Florensa (Toulouse School of Economics)

11:15 - 12:15 The Value of Relational Adaptation in Outsourcing: Evidence from the 2008 shock to the US Airline Industry

*Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF)

Joint with Ricard Gil (The John Hopkins Carey Business School) and Myongjin Kim (University of Oklahoma)

12:15 - 13:15 “All Together Now" Integration, Decentralisation, and Management

*Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim and CEPR) and Patrick Legros (ECARES - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Northeastern University and CEPR)

Joint with Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), Nick Bloom (Stanford University and CEPR), Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR), Andrew Newman (Boston University and CEPR), Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School and CEPR) and John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and CEPR)

14:15 - 15:15 Keynote Lecture: Short-term, Long-term, and Continuing Contracts

*Oliver Hart (Harvard University)

Joint with Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka (University of Bristol)

15:30 - 16:30 Ownership Structure and Employee Effort: Evidence from Family Firms

*Margarita Tsoutsoura (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

Joint with Morten Bennedsen (INSEAD) and Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University)

16:45 - 17:45 Productivity and Organisation in Portuguese Firms

*Giordano Mion (University of Sussex and CEPR)

Joint with Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University), Luca David Opromolla (Banco de Portugal and CEPR) and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University and CEPR)

Friday 16 September

09:00 - 10:00 The Costs of Bureaucratic Rigidity: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

*Robin Burgess (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Joint with Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago and CEPR), Arunish Chawla (Indian Administrative Service) and Guo Xu (London School of Economics)

10:15 - 11:15 CEO Behaviour and Firm Performance

*Stephen Hansen (University of Oxford and CEPR)

Joint with Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR), Andrea Prat (Columbia University, London School of Economics and CEPR) and Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School and CEPR)

11:15 - 12:15 Keynote Lecture: Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and Organisation

*Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan Business School)

13:15 - 14:15 Import Competition and Agency Problems in Family Firms

*Cheng Chen (University of Hong Kong)

Joint with Claudia Steinwender (Harvard Business School)

14:30 - 15:30 How do managers matter? Evidence from performance metrics and employee surveys in a firm

*Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto)

Joint with Steven Tadelis (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and CEPR)