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Thursday, April 24
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6:30 pm
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Group Dinner at Monteverdi (Royal Sonesta Hotel)
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Friday, April 25
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8:30 am
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Foreign Political Risk and Technological Change
Joel P. Flynn, Yale University
Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mai Wo, Yale University
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9:40 am
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Technology Spillovers, Diffusion and Rivalry in Firm Networks
Nuriye Melisa Bilgin, University of Turin
Ester Faia, Goethe University Frankfurt
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University
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10:20 am
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Break
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10:40 am
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Firm Productivity and Learning with Digital Technologies: Evidence from Cloud Computing
James M. Brand, Microsoft
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Connor Finucane, Microsoft
Avner A. Kreps, Northwestern University
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11:20 am
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Four 12-minute Egg-Timer Presentations:
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Monopolizing Minds: How M&As Stifle Innovation Through Labor Market Power
Alex X. He, University of Maryland, College Park
Jing Xue, Georgia State University
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From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony
Matthias Mertens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
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Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science
Fabio Bertolotti, Banca d'Italia
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Yang Tham, University of Toronto
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Capital Requirements and Entry into Entrepreneurship
Annika Bacher, BI Norwegian Business School
Andreas Fagereng, BI Norwegian Business School
Marius A. K. Ring, University of Texas at Austin
Ella Wold, BI Norwegian Business School
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12:20 pm
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Lunch - Somerset Room
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1:30 pm
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Technology Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation
Yueyuan Ma, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shaoshuang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK–SZ)
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2:10 pm
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The Ms. Allocation of Talent
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
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2:50 pm
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Entrepreneur Experience and Success: Causal Evidence from Immigration Wait Lines
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Franklin Qian, UNC Kenan - Flagler Business School
Yifan Sun, University of Pennsylvania
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3:30 pm
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Adjourn
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