Organizational Economics Seminar

The Organizational Economics Seminar meets Tuesdays 2:30-4:00pm in E62-650 unless noted otherwise. For further details, please e-mail Sam Reisman at reisman@mit.edu. 

Spring 2026 Schedule

  • February 24, 2026

    Erina Ytsma (CMU)

    "Gender Differences in the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Academia"

  • March 3, 2026

    Jean Tirole (Toulouse)

    "Hard Facts or Cheap Talk? Strategic Communication and Policy Change in Regulatory Rulemaking" (w/ G. Carenini & B. Hackinen)

  • March 10, 2026

    Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan)

    "Optimal Project Management" (w/ D. Cetemen & J. Toikka)

  • March 17, 2026

    Evgenii Fadeev (Duke) & Mike Powell (Northwestern)

    "A Theory of Firm Boundaries and Knowledge Sharing"

  • March 31, 2026

    Heather Sarsons (Chicago Booth)

    TBA

  • April 7, 2026 [@1PM in E62-350]

    Evan Starr (Maryland) [joint with IWER]

    "Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses" (w/ B. Cowgill & B. Freiberg)

  • April 14, 2026

    Marcella Alsan (Stanford)

    TBA

  • April 21, 2026

    Aroon Narayanan (MIT) & Vishan Nigam (MIT)

    "Supply chain resilience via partial integration"

  • April 28, 2026 [@1PM in E62-350]

    Nick Bloom (Stanford) [joint with IWER]

    "The Value of Office Time"

  • May 5, 2026

    Raffaella Sadun (Harvard) [joint with IWER]

    TBA