Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner
April 26, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd in Cambridge, MA
Meeting Format: 25 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A

Friday, April 26

Continental Breakfast

9:30 am

Technology and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data (slides)

Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

10:05 am

Representation in Product Development: Evidence from Insurance and Clinical Trials

Jennifer L. Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University and NBER

Break

11:00 am

Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing and Cooperation Between Firms

Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University

11:35 am

Gaining Steam: Incumbent Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging

Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Shanon H. Hsu, University of Chicago
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago and NBER
Martin Rotemberg, New York University

Lunch - Somerset Room

1:10 pm

Self-Employment Within the Firm

Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER
Ritwika Sen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Jung Hyuk Lee, University of Southern California
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda

1:45 pm

Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics

Seula Kim, Pennsylvania State University

Break

2:40 pm

Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk

Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California, Berkeley
Alex X. He, University of Maryland, College Park
James Hodson, AI for Good

3:15 pm

Can AI Distort Human Capital?

Xuelin Li, Columbia University
Meizi Zhou, Boston University

Adjourn