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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Productivity, Development & Entrepreneurship Workshop

Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Christopher Woodruff, Organizers
 

July 18, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline DE

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 17:


6:00 pm


Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA


Thursday, July 18:


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Introductions


9:05 am


Russell Toth, University of Sydney
Experience Does Matter: Managerial Capital and the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship


9:50 am


Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
Asanga Fernando, Harvard University
The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile-Based Agricultural Extension

10:35 am

Break


10:55 am


Hunt Allcott, New York University
Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University
Stephen O'Connell, New York University
How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India


11:40 am


Johan Hombert, HEC Paris
Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER
David Sraer, Princeton University and NBER
David Thesmar, HEC Paris
Should the Government Make it Safe to Start a Business? Evidence from a French Reform

12:25 pm

Lunch


1:25 pm


Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small: The Transformation of the State Sector in China

2:10 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Andrea Prat, Columbia University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Managing Firms In An Emerging Economy: Evidence From The Time Use Of Indian CEOs

3:15 pm

Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon University
Atsushi Ohyama, Hokkaido University
Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

4:00 pm

Adjourn