Episode 19: Anna Gumpert on Travel Time and Organisational Structure

Anna Gumpert is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, LMU Munich

The paper discussed in this episode is “Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments”, by Anna Gumpert, Henrike Steimer, and Manfred Antoni.

Other papers discussed in this episode are:

Battiston, Diego, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, and Tom Kirchmaier (2020). Face-to-Face Communication in Organisations. Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

Caliendo, Lorenzo, Ferdinando Monte, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2015). The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies. The Journal of Political Economy 123(4), 809-852.

Garicano, L. (2000). Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production. Journal of Political Economy, 108(5), 874-904.

Giroud, Xavier and Holger M. Mueller (2019). Firms' Internal Networks and Local Economic Shocks. American Economic Review 109(10), 3617-49.