IZA Workshop: Economics of Leadership

Thursday, August 02:

08:30	-	09:00		Breakfast
08:45	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks
09:00	-	10:45		Session A: What Leaders Do
09:00	-	09:25		Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University)
				"Why CEOs Are Needed to Drive Change"
09:25	-	09:50		Maria Guadalupe (Columbia University and IZA), Hongyi Li (MIT), Julie Wulf (Harvard Business School)
				"Who Lives in the C-Suite: The Division of Labor in Top Management"
09:50	-	10:15		Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School), Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Andrea Prat (Columbia and LSE)
				"Managerial Capital at the Top: Evidence from CEOs Use of Time"
10:15	-	10:45		Discussion
10:45	-	11:05		Break
11:05	-	12:25		Session B: Supervisors and Senior Managers
11:05	-	11:30		Jan Sauermann (Maastricht University and IZA), Ben Kriechel (ROA, Maastricht University and IZA)
				"Under Pressure: Supervisor's Role in Implicit Targets and Effort"
11:30	-	11:55		Christopher Stanton (University of Utah), Edward Lazear (Stanford University and IZA), Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University and IZA)
				"The Value of Bosses"
11:55	-	12:25		Discussion
12:30	-	13:45		Lunch
13:45	-	15:30		Session C: Education
13:45	-	14:10		Roland Fryer (Harvard University)
				"Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston"
14:10	-	14:35		Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford University), Gregory Branch (University of Texas at Dallas), Steven Rivkin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
				"Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals"
14:35	-	15:00		Bruce A. Weinberg (Ohio State University and IZA), Xu Lin (Wayne State University)
				"Popular Peers' Effects"
15:00	-	15:30		Discussion
15:30	-	15:45		Break
15:45	-	17:30		Session D: Characteristics of Leaders
15:45	-	16:10		Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago), Mark Klebanov (Ziff Brothers Investments), Morten Sorensen (Columbia University)
				"Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?"
16:10	-	16:35		Amanda H. Goodall (IZA), Ganna Pogrebna (University of Sheffield)
				"Expert Leaders in a fast Moving Environment"
16:35	-	17:00		Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
				"Understanding the Size and Profitability of Firms: The Role of a Biological Factor"
17:00	-	17:30		Discussion
18:30				Dinner

Friday, August 03:

08:00	-	08:30		Breakfast
08:30	-	09:40		Session E: Gender and CEOs
08:30	-	08:55		Amalia Miller (University of Virginia), David Matsa (Northwestern University)
				"A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas"
08:55	-	09:20		Luca Flabbi (Georgetown University and IZA), Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University and IZA), Fabiano Schivardi (University of Cagliari)
				"Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Firm Performance and Gender Gaps in Wages and Promotions."
09:20	-	09:40		Discussion
09:40	-	09:50		Break
09:50	-	11:30		Session F: Why CEOs Matter
09:50	-	10:15		Francisco Perez-Gonzalez (Stanford University), Daniel Wolfenzon (Columbia University), Morten Bennedsen (INSEAD)
				"Evaluating the Impact of The Boss: Evidence from CEO Hospitalization Events"
10:15	-	10:40		Antoinette Schoar (MIT and IZA), Luo Zuo (MIT)
				"Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles"
10:40	-	11:05		Eric Van den Steen (Harvard Business School)
				"The Role of Leaders in Strategy Formulation"
11:05	-	11:30		Discussion
11:30	-	11:45		Wrap-up