Episode 32: Jordi Blanes i Vidal on Face-to-face Communication in Organisations

Jordi Blanes i Vidal is an Associate Professor of Managerial Economics at the London School of Economics

The paper discussed in this episode is “Face-to-Face Communications in Organisations”, by Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, and Tom Kirchmaier.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Blanes i Vidal, J., & Kirchmaier, T. (2018). The effect of police response time on crime clearance rates. The Review of Economic Studies, 85(2), 855-891.

Bolton, P., & Dewatripont, M. (1994). The firm as a communication network. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109(4), 809-839.

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

Van Zandt, T. (1999). Real-time decentralized information processing as a model of organizations with boundedly rational agents. The Review of Economic Studies, 66(3), 633-658.