Organizational Economics Lunch

The Organizational Economics Lunch meets Thursdays 12:05-12:55pm in E62-650. For further details, please e-mail Sam Reisman at reisman@mit.edu. 

Fall 2024 Schedule

  • September 12, 2024

    Aroon Narayanan (MIT)

    "Credit constraints, incomplete contracting, and firm boundaries" (w/ V. Nigam)

  • September 19, 2024

    Zachary Wojtowicz (HBS)

    "Context and Communication"

  • September 26, 2024

    Matthias Weigand (Harvard)

    "Crisis, State Capacity, and the Making of Autocracy: A Design-based Analysis of the Thirty Years' War" (w/ L. Bosshart)

  • October 3, 2024

    No Lunch

  • October 10, 2024

    No Lunch

  • October 17, 2024

    Eduard Talamàs (IESE)

    "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy" (w/ E. Ide)

  • October 24, 2024

    Hazhir Rahmandad (MIT Sloan)

    "What Did We Agree To? The Interdependent Challenges of Couple Learning and Cooperation" (w/ H. Volvovsky)

  • October 31, 2024

    Vishan Nigam (MIT)

    "Managing the Machine: Organizing Production in the Automated Firm" (w/ D. Atkin, A. Khandelwal, & J. van Reenen)

  • November 7, 2024

    Daniel Luo (MIT)

    "Robust Design of Persuasion Games" (w/ E. Gao)

  • November 14, 2024

    Lydia Assouad (Harvard/LSE)

    "Leadership and Nation-Building"

  • November 21, 2024

    Zoë Cullen (HBS)

    "Pushing the Envelope: Effects of Salary Negotiations" (w/ B. Pakzad-Hurson & R. Perez-Truglia)

  • December 12, 2024

    Ivy Li (Fudan)

    "When Better Measures Make Things Worse: Choosing Performance Measure in Hierarchical Organizations" (w/ Y. Huang, J. Li, & Y. Zhou)