In recent decades, research organizations have brought the "market inside the firm" by allowing workers to sort themselves into teams. How do teams form absent a central authority? We introduce a model of team formation in which workers first match and then produce correlated signals about an...

In recent decades, research organizations have brought the “market inside the firm” by allowing workers to sort themselves into teams. How do research teams form absent a central authority? We introduce a model of team formation in which workers first match and then non-cooperatively produce...

How does a profit-maximizing manager form teams and compensate workers in the presence of both adverse selection and moral hazard? Under complete information, it is well known that any complementarity in characteristics implies that positive assortative matching is productively efficient. But,...

This dissertation analyzes the incentives of workers in organizations that utilize teams. In Chapter 1, I study a moral hazard in teams model in which a principal knows that the agents she compensates are identical and independent, but does not know all of the actions they can take. In the face...