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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Productivity, Development & Entrepreneurship

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

July 16, 2014

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

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 16
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Missing "Missing Middle" Discussant: James R. Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
9:40 am	Francisco J. Buera, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER Roberto Fattal-Jaef, The World Bank The Dynamics of Development: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Reallocation Discussant: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University and NBER
10:20 am	Break
10:50 am	Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Harun Alp, University of Pennsylvania Michael Peters, London School of Economics Lack of Selection and Imperfect Managerial Contracts: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries Discussant: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
11:30 am	David McKenzie, The World Bank Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition Discussant: Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:10 pm	Lunch
	The afternoon sessions are being held jointly with the Innovation Group
1:00 pm	David Atkin, Yale University and NBER Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan Discussant: Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University
1:45 pm	Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University and NBER Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome Discussant: Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Enrico Moretti, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Claudia Steinwender, Centre for Economic Performance John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and Spillovers Discussant: Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm	Paula Bustos, CREI Bruno Caprettini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Jacopo Ponticelli, University of Chicago Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence from Brazil. . Discussant: Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake - Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA