Relational Contracts

Articles, conferences, seminars and stories related to relational contracts and informal relationships in business, politics, etc.

[Marta Troya Martinez @Marta_TroyaM]

Many thanks to all speakers and participants of the @bse_barcelona Summer Forum @RelConWorkshop for excellent papers, insightful comments, and wonderful conversations
https://t.co/4WEdL0tsjI

[Marta Troya Martinez @Marta_TroyaM]

12th Workshop on Relational Contracts comes to Barcelona!
BSE Summer Forum, June 15–16
Keynotes: Catherine Wolfram (MIT Sloan) & Bård Harstad (Stanford GSB).
Spotlight on climate change — where self-enforcing cooperation matters most.
https://t.co/qFyBsUpaXL

[Matthias Fahn @FahnMatthias]

We are hiring! The OrgEcon group at @HKUFBE is recruiting at all ranks.
We welcome applicants from all areas of Organizational Economics, with particular interest in AI & Org. The job ad can be found here: https://t.co/grGTu7K7FV

[Matthias Fahn @FahnMatthias]

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

[HKU Centre for AI, Management and Organization @hkucamo]

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: https://t.co/pIXfRMOIT0 1/6

[HKU Centre for AI, Management and Organization @hkucamo]

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

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

Please submit your papers for our 11th edition of the Workshop! This year, we will meet on Sep 19/20 in Chicago @BeckerFriedman @UChicago (the local organizer is @Lisaber71585816). Please, submit to [email protected] by April 30th @FahnMatthias @Marta_TroyaM @dvbarron

[Matthias Fahn @FahnMatthias]

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 :)
https://t.co/FxxzEpQnvR

[Matthias Fahn @FahnMatthias]

We are excited to announce the inaugural Asian Conference on Organizational Economics, which will be held @HKUFBE on March 13th and 14th! More information, in particular on how to submit a paper, can be found here: https://t.co/FxxzEpQVlp

[Organizational Economics 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 @OrgEcon_VfS]

Last week we met for our annual meeting, hosted by @FahnMatthias @jku_econ. We had a number of fantastic presentations and many inspiring conversations in a beautiful setting (the program can be found here: https://t.co/rVTBzgcZsb)

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

The 10th edition of the Relational Contract Workshop is starting! The program is available here: https://t.co/yD4XpCycoc

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

This paper by @FahnMatthias 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 Economic Journal @EJ_RES]

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Informal Incentives and Labour Markets’ by Matthias Fahn, Takeshi Murooka https://t.co/OIN0cbuCF8 @FahnMatthias @RoyalEconSoc @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

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!

[Organizational Economics 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 @OrgEcon_VfS]

Our annual meeting, on Sep 5-6, 2024, will be hosted by @jku_econ, the local organizer is @FahnMatthias. Before our meeting, on Sep 4-5, the bi-annual "Lectures on the Economics of Organizations and Human Resources", (LEOH) will be given by Namrata Kala (@MITSloan).

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

We are looking forward to seeing you in Linz! Info about past workshops can be found at https://t.co/RVfMK4JU7f
@Marta_TroyaM @dvbarron

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

The CfP for our 10th Workshop is out! We will meet on Sep 2/3 in Linz (Austria) @jku_econ, the local organizer is @FahnMatthias. Submit your papers until April 30th to [email protected]! This year, submissions related to behavioral econ are particularly welcome.

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we will have a panel discussion on how to bring insights from behavioral econ into relational contracting research. Discussants are Claudine Gartenberg, David Huffman, and Christian Zehnder, the moderator is W. Bentley MacLeod.

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

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: https://t.co/AVET3eiLn1

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

It contains papers by J. Thomas & T. Worrall, W.B. MacLeod & J. Malcomson, G. Baker & R. Gibbons & K. Murphy, D. Miller & J. Watson, D. Pearce & E. Stacchetti, P. Ghosh & D. Ray, O. Kvaløy & T. Olsen, J. Li & N. Matouschek, M. Halac, R. Macciavello & A. Morjaria, and D. Huffman.

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

We are very excited to announce a symposion on Relational Contracts that has just been published by JITE. Its format is novel: the authors of seminal contributions were approached and asked to elaborate on their personal perspective on the literature based on their own work,

[Relational Contracts @RelConWorkshop]

The editorial preface has brief summaries of all contributions and discusses avenues for future research; it is also available as an @iza_bonn working paper:
https://t.co/jownDdsK87