Friday, October 15

11:00 am

100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration

Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
Kaspar Zimmermann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Discussant:
Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER

11:50 am

Break

12:00 pm

The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:50 pm

Break

1:50 pm

A Model of the Data Economy

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER

2:40 pm

Break

2:50 pm

The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Ahmed Tahoun, London Business School

Discussant:
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

3:40 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Task Based Discrimination (slides)

Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Kazuatsu Shimizu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

4:50 pm

Break

5:00 pm

Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
Fiona E. Greig, Vanguard
Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel M. Sullivan, JPMorgan Chase Institute
Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

5:50 pm

Adjourn