IMO Workshop Papers

Keynote lecture

Background readings for R. Gibbons' (MIT) keynote lecture:

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises (co-author Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University)

Cyert and March (1963) at Fifty: A Perspective from Organizational Economics

Slides

Presentation papers:

Management as a technology

Slides

*Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University and CEPR), Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School) and John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and CEPR)

A Simple Theory of Growth in a Complicated World

*Steven Callander (Stanford University) and Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University and CEPR)

The mortality cost of political connections

* Raymond Fisman (Columbia Business School) and Yongxiang Wang (University of Southern California)

Profit with Purpose? A Model of Social Enterprise with Theory and a Test

Timothy Besley and *Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium

Slides

Michael Powell (Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University)

Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service

Slides

*Imran Rasul and Daniel Rogger (University College London and CEPR)

Small steps for workers, a giant leap for productivity

Igal Hendel (Northwestern University) and *Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University and CEPR)

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