Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner
March 15, 2019
NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, March 14
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, March 15
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Introductions
High Skill Labor Productivity
9:05 am

The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains

Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
9:50 am

Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
10:35 am
Break
Innovation
10:55 am

Recalls, Innovation, and Competitor Response: Evidence from Medical Device Firms

George P. Ball, Indiana University
Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
11:40 am

Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs

Laurent Fresard, University of Lugano and SFI
Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Donald E. Bowen III, Lehigh University
12:25 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm

The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University
2:10 pm
Break
IT and Digitization
2:30 pm

Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems

Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
3:15 pm

Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Jonathan D. Timmis, The World Bank
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Meeting format: 30 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for Q&A.