
	Thursday, October 18
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Friday, October 19
	FORMAT 25 mins presenter 10 mins discussant 10 mins open discussion
8:15 am	Shuttle Van Leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Increasing Differences between Firms: Market Power and the Macro-Economy John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
9:30 am	The Large Firm Pay Premium Redux Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER Brian Lucking, Charles River Associates Benjamin S. Smith, University of California at Los Angeles Jae Song, Social Security Administration Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Discussant: Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
10:15 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	New Evidence on Market Power, Profit, Concentration, and the Role of Mega-Firms in the US Economy Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
11:15 am	The Modern Wholesaler: Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Labor Market Concentration José A. Azar, IESE Business School Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Marshall I. Steinbaum, University of Utah Department of Economics Discussant: Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University and NBER
1:45 pm	Granular Identification Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm	Coffee Break
2:45 pm	The Use of Performance-Based Pay versus Wage Insurance within the Megafirm: Implications for the Within-Person Volatility of Income Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau Brooks Pierce, Congressional Budget Office Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
3:30 pm	Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks vs. Responsiveness Ryan Decker, Federal Reserve Board John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University Discussant: Chiara Criscuolo, IFC
4:15 pm	Adjourn

Participants

José A. Azar, IESE Business School
Efraim Benmelech, Northwestern University and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Chiara Criscuolo, IFC
Xiang Ding, Georgetown University
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Robert E. Hall, Stanford University and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER

Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin S. Smith, University of California at Los Angeles
Sebastian Steffen, Boston College
Marshall I. Steinbaum, University of Utah Department of Economics
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Sean Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service
Michael B. Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Sammy Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology