Saturday, July 16

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown

Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics

Discussant:
Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change

Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Xiaojie Liu, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation

Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER
Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch - Ballroom B

1:30 pm

Minimum Wages, Efficiency and Welfare (slides)

David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

Discussant:
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?

Christian K. Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant:
Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?

Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Rodolfo D. Rigato, European Central Bank
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
John V. Leahy, University of Michigan and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn