Graduate School of Business
Workshop in the Theory of Organizations
Spring 2000 Schedule
March 27
Preston McAfee, University of Texas
Preston McAfee "Feints"
April 3
Matthew Rhodes Kroft, Columbia University
Matthew Rhodes- Kropf
S Viswanathan"Corporate Reorganizations and Non-Cash Auctions"
April 10
Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago"The Tenuous Tradeoff of Risk and Incentives"
April 17
David Hirshleifer, Ohio State UniversityDavid Hirshleifer "Conversation, Observational Learning, and Informational Cascades"
April 24
Antonio Bernardo, University of Calif-Los Angeles
Antonio Bernardo "Capital Budgeting and Compensation with Asymmetric Information and Moral Hazard"
May 1
Gary Gorton, University of PennsylvaniaGary Gorton
Eitan Goldman"The Visible Hand, The Invisible Hand and Efficiency"
May 8
No Meeting
May 15
Kevin Murphy, University of Southern CaliforniaKevin Murphy "Performance Standards in Incentive Contracts"
May 22
Dimitri Vayanos, MITDimitri Vayanos "The Decentralization of Information Processing in the Presence of Synergies"
June 5
George Baker, Harvard UniversityGeorge Baker "Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts"
The Workshop meets in Rosenwald 405 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Papers will be available from Cynthia Bailey in Rosenwald 325 prior to the seminar.Business 636-01