The program for the upcoming NBER OrgEcon Working group looks great. It involves a session honoring Heikki Rantakari whose tragic death still leaves us in shock.

Next year's SIOE conference will take place Harris Policy The University of Chicago and be organized by @sgehlbach. The line-up so far looks great, we are looking forward to seeing everyone in beautiful Chicago in June :)

Many of you have probably seen the important paper "Shaping Institutions" by Willie Fuchs and Satoshi Fukuda. The authors gave a very interesting interview about their paper which you can find here: faculti.net/shaping-instit…

The German-speaking OrgEcon meeting will take place just after this year's relational contracting workshop, we are very much looking forward to a fantastic week in September!

This paper by Matthias Fahn and Takeshi Murooka considers Relational Contracts in a setting with labor market frictions. Their model generates some interesting insights on the consequences of higher labor supply or the role of minimum wages to combat discrimination.

The 10th edition of the Relational Contract Workshop is starting! The program is available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1oZ…

Last week we met for our annual meeting, hosted by Matthias Fahn JKU Department of Economics. We had a number of fantastic presentations and many inspiring conversations in a beautiful setting (the program can be found here: onedrive.live.com/edit?id=9162ED…)

We are excited to announce the inaugural Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, which will be held HKU Business School on March 13th and 14th! More information, in particular on how to submit a paper, can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1e4…

You have 6 more days to submit your paper for the first Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, taking place on March 13/14 in Hong Kong. This will be a great event, let me know if you have any question :) docs.google.com/document/d/1e4…

Please submit your papers for our 11th edition of the Workshop! This year, we will meet on Sep 19/20 in Chicago Becker Friedman Institute for Economics The University of Chicago (the local organizer is Lisa bernstein). Please, submit to [email protected] by April 30th Matthias Fahn Marta Troya Martinez Daniel Barron

Meet CAMO, The University of Hong Kong’s Centre for AI, Management & Organization—a hub exploring how AI is reshaping firms, management, and the nature of work. 🤝

Our CAMO Conference 2025 delivered insightful insights by top scholar. Our director Jin Li introduced the “Great Compression”—AI rapidly narrows performance gaps and reshapes how firms build, motivate, and organize talent. Slides: camo.hku.hk/slides-prof-ji… 1/6

Excited to announce the CfP for the 2nd Asian OrgEcon conference at HKU Business School (from March 12-14, 2026). Submit your latest OrgEcon paper by December 15, in particular if it is related to AI & Org (HKU Center for AI, Management and Organization is the co-organizers of this year's conference).