Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner
April 24, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
The format will be 20 minutes for the presenter and 10 minutes for Q&A
Thursday, April 23
6:30 pm
Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, April 24
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment

Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Claudio Labanca, Monash University
Jacopo G. Ballabio, University of California, Los Angeles
9:30 am

Rosie the Researcher: How Female WWII Hires Changed Science in US Firms

Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Growth Is Getting Harder to Find, Not Ideas

Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Nathan Goldschlag, Economic Innovation Group
Jack Liang, Yale University
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
10:45 am

Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER
Áureo de Paula, University College London
Agnes Norris Keiller, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Reorganizing Work Inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption

Eleonora Brandimarti, University of Glasgow
Virginia Minni, University of Chicago
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm

Integrators: The Firm Boundaries of Capital-Skill Complementarity

Gert Bijnens, National Bank of Belgium
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Vanormelingen, KU Leuven
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh

Ritam Chaurey, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Gaurav Nayyar, The World Bank
Siddharth Sharma, The World Bank
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
2:00 pm

Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions

Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Regina Seibel, University of Toronto
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Generative AI and Entrepreneurship

Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Franklin Qian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yifan Sun, University of Pennsylvania
Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:30 pm

AI Agents, Productivity, and Higher-Order Thinking: Early Evidence From Software Development

Suproteem K. Sarkar, University of Chicago
4:00 pm
Adjourn