N.G.O.: Non-Profits, Governments, and Organizations

Castello di Santa Severa, June13-14, 2019

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Thursday, June13

09:30– 09:40 Welcome and opening remarks

SESSION 1 Chair: Marco Marini (Sapienza U., Italy)

09:40 – 10:40 Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent, U.K.)

“Guilt, Esteem and Motivational Investments”

10:40 – 11:40 Andrea Prat (Columbia University, U.S.)

"The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: a Field

Experiment with Bureaucrats"

11:40– 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 David Martimort (Paris School of Economics, France)

“When Olson meets Dahl: from Inefficient group Formation

to Inefficient Policy Making”

13:40– 14:15 Lunch

SESSION 2 Chair: Emmanuelle Auriol (U. of Toulouse I, France)

14:15– 15:15 Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School, U.S.)

“The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS”

15:15 – 16:15 Gianni De Fraja (U. Rome Tor Vergata and U of Nottingham, U.K.)

“Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Empirical Evidence from Italy”

16:15 – 16:35 Coffee break

16:35 – 17:35 Gabriel Burdin (Leeds U. Business School, U.K.)

“The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers”

17:35 – 18:35 Reneé Adams (U. Oxford, UK)

" Gender Corporate Culture"

19:30 Conference dinner

Friday, June 14

SESSION 3 Chair: Gani Aldashev (U. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

09: 00 – 10: 00 Davide Ticchi (Polytechnic U. of Marche, Italy)

“The Unintended Effects of Foreign Interventions: Patriotism,

Tax Compliance, and State Building in Weak States”

10:00 – 11:00 Micael Castanheira (U. libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

“A Theory of Small Campaign Contributions”

11:00- 11:20 Coffeebreak

11:20 - 12:20 Andrew Newman (Boston University, U.S.)

“Competing for the Quiet Life: A Theory of Market and Ownership Structure”

12:20- 13:30 Lunch

SESSION 4 Chair: Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

13:30– 14:30 Avner Ben-Ner (U of Minnesota, U.S. and U. Sapienza, Italy)

"Is the Nonprofit Sector a Polarizing or Unifying Force in Society?"

14:30 – 15:30 Sebastian Krautheim (U. of Passau, Germany)

"International Trade, Global Sourcing and the Geography of Social Activism”

15:30 - 15:45 Coffeebreak

15:45 – 16:45 Matthias Heinz (U of Cologne, Germany)

“Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on

Worker Productivity: A Field Experiment”

16:45 – 17:45 Sonja Settele (Goethe and Copenhagen U.)

"How Do Beliefs About the Gender Wage Gap Affect the

Demand for Public Policy?"