Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Organized by nicholas_bloom, Nicholas Bloom, and Josh Lerner
March 20, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Friday, March 20

1

What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Georgetown University

2

Ex-ante Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the USPTO and EPO

Prithwiraj Choudhury, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tarun Khanna, Harvard University

3

Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology

Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute

4

Grown-up Business Cycles

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

5

Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies

Antoine Dechezlepretre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Ralf Martin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Myra Mohnen, University of Ottawa