Workshop on
The Social Dimension of Organizations
April 27-28, 2012 CEU, Budapest
Programme
Friday, 27 April 2012
[PDF Version]
8:30 – 9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome Addresses and Award ceremony:
- Gábor Kézdi, Head of Department of Economics, CEU
- Dr. Mihály Patai, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt
- Dr. Gianni Franco Papa, Head of UniCredit CEE Division
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture: Iwan Barankay (University of Pennsylvania) “Shaping Habits with Financial Incentives”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:30 Christiane Bradler (ZEW) “Employee Recognition and Performance - A Field Experiment” (with Robert Dur, Susanne Neckermann, Arjan Non)
11:30 – 12:00 Alessandro Bucciol (University of Verona) “Pay Dispersion and Work Performance” (with Marco Piovesan)
12:00 – 12:30 Pedro Rey-Biel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “On the Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Social Incentives” (with Uri Gneezy)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Bjorn Bartling (University of Zurich) “Reference Points in (Re)negotiations: The Role of Contracts and Competition” (with Klaus Schmidt)
14:00 – 14:30 Christian Zehnder (University of Lausanne) “How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?” (with Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart)
14:30 – 15:00 John Hamman (Florida State University) “Managing Credibility: An Experiment on Leadership and Coordination.”
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 15:45 Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna) “Teams or Tournaments? An Experiment on the Effectiveness of Alternative Grading Policies” (with Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Reggiani)
15:45 – 16:00 Dana Sisak (Erasmus University) “Social Preferences or Collusion? Experimental Evidence” (with Pablo Hernandez, Dylan Minor)
16:00 – 16:15 Tommaso Reggiani (University of Bologna) “How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives” (with Lucia Marchegiani, Matteo Rizzolli)
16:15 – 16:30 Leonie Gerhards (Goethe University) “How(Not) to Incentivize Motivated Agents - An Experiment with Employees from a Non-Profit Organization”
16:45 – 17:45 Keynote Lecture: Roberto Weber (University of Zurich) “Social Preferences and Organizations”
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, 28 April 2012
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee
9:30 – 10:00 Rosario Macera (Yale University) “Reference-Dependent Social Preferences” (with Constanca Esteves-Sorenso)
10:00 – 10:30 Robert Dur (Erasmus University) “Social Relations and Relational Incentives”
10:30 – 11:00 Kristof Madarasz (LSE) “Conscience Accounting: Emotional Dynamics and Social Behavior” (with Uri Gneezy, Alex Imas)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote Lecture: Jim Andreoni (UCSD) “On the Inherent Sociality of Giving”
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Dirk Engelmann (University of Mannheim) “Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers? An Experiment on Minimum Wages” (with David Danz, Dorothea Kubler)
14:00 – 14:30 Nikos Nikiforakis (University of Melbourne) “Competitive Pressure and Exploitation: An Experimental Analysis” (with Joerg Oechssler, Anwar Shah)
14:30 – 15:00 Ola Andersson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics) “Person-Organization Fit in Contests: Experimental Evidence” (with Marieke Huysentruyt, Topi Miettinen, Ute Stephan)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 16:00 Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh) “Gender Differences in Reputation Concerns: Prosocial Behavior in the Field & Lab” (with Daniel Jones)
16:00 – 16:30 Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) “Pro-social Motivation among Public Sector Workers: Evidence from the World Values Survey” (with Edd Cowley)
16:30 – 17:00 Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton and CEU) “Private and Social Incentives in Effort Provision: An Online Experiment” (with Michael Vlassopoulos)
19:00 Dinner
The Organizers
Mirco Tonin (UniCredit & Universities Research Fellow, Economics Department, CEU; Economics Division, University of Southampton) and Michael Vlassopoulos (Economics Division, University of Southampton)
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