Megafirms and the Post-COVID Economy
Organized by Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
April 22, 2022
Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us
Friday, April 22
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:25 am
Welcome
8:30 am

Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy

Maarten C. De Ridder, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
9:15 am

Are Managers Paid for Market Power?

Renjie Bao, Princeton University
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10:00 am
Break
10:10 am

Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks

Hanwei Huang, City University of Hong Kong
Kalina Manova, University College London
Oscar Perello, University College London
Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt
10:55 am

100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration

Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
Kaspar Zimmermann, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
11:40 am
Break
11:50 am
Keynote Address: The Future of Platform Regulation
Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
12:40 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm

Political Power and Market Power

Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER
Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London
2:10 pm

How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy

Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Mario Leccese, Boston University
Liad Wagman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:55 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences

Hendrik Döpper, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics
Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia
Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER
Joel Stiebale, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
3:50 pm

A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University and NBER
4:35 pm
Farewell
4:40 pm
Adjourn