Syllabus: Part A Within Organizations:
(i) Empirics of management,
(ii) Moral hazard and incentive contracts: the risk-incentives trade-off,
(iii) Moral hazard and incentive contracts: motivation versus rent extraction,
(iv) The economics of working from home,
(v) Decision-making in organizations,
(vi) Hierarchies,
(vii) Corporate governance,
Part B Between Organizations:
(i) Productivity measurement and misallocation,
(ii) Agency frictions and cryptocurrencies,
(iii) Theory of the firm: transaction costs,
(iv) Theory of the firm: property rights,
(v) Venture capital