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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Macroeconomics and Productivity

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 16, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 15:
6:00 pm	Reception – Royal Sonesta Hotel
Tuesday, July 16:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Introductions
9:05 am	David Lagakos, Arizona State University and NBER Lee E. Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Simeon Alder, University of Notre Dame The Decline of the U.S. Rust Belt: A Macroeconomic Analysis
9:50 am	Jacopo Ponticelli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Court Enforcement and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Bankruptcy Reform in Brazil
10:35 am	Break
10:55 am	Giovanni Peri, University of California at Davis and NBER Kevin Y. Shih, University of California at Davis Chad Sparber, Colgate University STEM Workers, H1B Visas and Productivity in US Cities
11:40 am	Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon University Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Andre Regateiro, Carnegie Mellon University The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
12:25 pm	Lunch
	Joint sessions with the CRIW group
1:25 pm	John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Luis Garicano, London School of Economics Claire LeLarge, SESSI Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
3:15 pm	William Hawkins, Yeshiva University Ryan Michaels, University of Rochester Jiyoon Oh, Korea Development Institute The Joint Dynamics of Capital and Employment at the Plant Level
4:00 pm	Adjourn