First Annual IZA Workshop on Behavioral and Organizational Economics

Monday, May 30:

08:45	-	09:00		Introduction Bentley MacLeod (University of Southern California and IZA)
09:00	-	10:00		Lorenz Götte (National University of Singapore and IZA*)), Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich and IZA)
				"Do Workers Work More when Wages are High?"
				Discussant: Johannes Abeler (University of Oxford and IZA)
10:00	-	11:00		Henry S Farber (Princeton University and IZA*))
				"Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers"
				Discussant: Thomas Dohmen (University of Bonn and IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee/Tea Break
11:15	-	12:15		Bruce S. Shearer (Université Laval and IZA*)), Harry J. Paarsch (University of Iowa)
				"The Response of Worker Effort to Piece Rates: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
				Discussant: Uwe Sunde (University of Munich and IZA)
12:15	-	13:15		Lunch
13:15	-	14:15		Dorothea Kübler (WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin*)), Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel (Humboldt University Berlin)
				"Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition"
				Discussant: Bernd Irlenbusch (University of Cologne and IZA)
14:15	-	15:15		Matthias Kräkel (University of Bonn and IZA*))
				"Emotions and Incentives"
				Discussant: Alexander K. Koch (Aarhus University and IZA)
15:15	-	16:45		Poster Session
16:45	-	17:45		Iwan Barankay (University of Pennsylvania and IZA*)), Oriana Bandiera (CEPR and London School of Economics), Imran Rasul (CEPR and GSB University of Chicago)
				"Cooperation in Collective Action"
				Discussant: David B. Huffman (University of Pittsburgh and IZA)
19:30				Conference Dinner

Tuesday, May 31:

09:00	-	10:00		Michael Gibbs (University of Chicago and IZA*)), Cindy Zoghi (BLS), Alec Levenson (USC)
				"Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?"
				Discussant: Anders Frederiksen (Aarhus University and IZA)
10:00	-	11:00		James B. Rebitzer (Boston University and IZA*)), Jonathan C. Javitt (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA), Lonny Reisman (CEO, Active Health Management, Inc.)
				"Information Technology and Medical Errors: Evidence from a Randomized Trial"
				Discussant: Winfried Koeniger (University of St. Gallen and IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee/Tea Break
11:15	-	12:15		Ricardo Alonso (Northwestern University*)), Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University and IZA)
				"Relational Delegation"
				Discussant: Peter R. Mueser (University of Missouri, Columbia and IZA)
12:15	-	13:15		Lunch
13:15	-	14:15		Martin Brown (Swiss National Bank*)), Armin Falk (IZA, University Bonn), Ernst Fehr (University Zürich)
				"Competition and Relational Contracts"
				Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod (Princeton University)
14:15	-	15:15		Ferdinand von Siemens (Goethe University Frankfurt*))
				"Bargaining under Incomplete Information, Fairness, and the Hold-Up Problem"
				Discussant: Felix Marklein (Federal Ministry of Finance)
15:15	-	15:45		Coffee/Tea Break
15:45	-	16:45		Regina T. Riphahn (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA*))
				"Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company"
				Discussant: Michael L. Bognanno (Temple University and IZA)