Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner
March 10, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel (Charles Suites)
Meeting Format: 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A.

Friday, March 10

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Introductions

Gender and Innovation

9:05 am

Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation: Evidence from Causal Text Estimation

Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Ali Kakhbod, University of California, Berkeley
Peiyao Li, University of California, Berkeley
Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan

R&D Investment Decisions

9:50 am

Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment

Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

10:35 am

Break

10:55 am

Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER

Human Capital Reallocation

11:40 am

Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs

Jing Xue, Georgia State University

12:25 pm

Lunch - Somerset Room

1:25 pm

Labor Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Monopsony: Evidence from Immigration Wait-Lines

Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:10 pm

Break

Innovation and Public Policy

2:30 pm

The Breakup of the Bell System and its Impact on US Innovation

Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich

3:15 pm

Unleashing the Dragon: The Case for Patent Reform in China

Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh
Huiyan Zhang, Tsinghua University

4:00 pm

Adjourn