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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.

September 11, 2025

Christina Nguyen (MIT Sloan)
"When Low Performance Takes Root: Deadwood and Delay at the U.S. Patent Office"
September 18, 2025

Birger Wernerfelt (MIT Sloan)
"Submitting to Authority: Agreeing To Follow Ex Ante Unknown Orders"
September 25, 2025

Anton Kolotilin (UNSW)
"Many-to-One Matching with Transfers" (w/ A. Wolitzky)
October 2, 2025

Daniel Luo (MIT)
"Paying and Persuading"
October 9, 2025

Tiffany Kreutschy (Lausanne, visiting MIT Sloan)
"Charismatic Leadership: An Antidote to the Pitfalls of Incentives?"
October 16, 2025

Brad Turner (MIT Sloan)
"Navigating the Classificatory Void: Why Activist Short Sellers Tell Messy Stories"
October 23, 2025

Moritz Seebacher (LMU Munich)
"Career Effects of Online Social Network Access at Labor Market Entry"
October 30, 2025

Florian Ederer (BU)
"Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions" (w/ R. Seibel & T. Simcoe)
November 6, 2025

Chris Teh (UNSW)
"Organizational Culture, Discrimination and Transparency"
November 13, 2025

Nathan Lazarus (MIT)
"Efficient Layoff Prioritization"
November 20, 2025

Edward Wiles (Harvard)
"Relational Frictions Along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Senegalese Traders" (w/ D. Houeix)