Meeting of the EFJK Growth Group
Organized by Ufuk Akcigit and Benjamin Moll
February 26, 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Thursday, February 26

9:00 am

Capital Depreciation and Labor Shares Around the World: Measurement and Implications

Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER

10:00 am

Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks

Vasco M. Carvalho, University of Cambridge
Nico Voigtlaender, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

11:00 am

Aggregate implications of innovation policy

Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

1:00 pm

Fewer but Better: Sudden Stops, Firm Entry, and Financial Selection

Felipe Saffie, University of Virginia and NBER
Sina T. Ates, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

2:00 pm

Structural Transformation and the Wealth of Nations

Marti Mestieri, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

3:00 pm

Grown-up Business Cycles

Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Aysegul Sahin, Princeton University and NBER