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Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Organized by Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner
April 24, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Grand Ballroom B, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
The format will be 20 minutes for the presenter and 10 minutes for Q&A
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Friday, April 24
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8:30 am
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am
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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
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9:30 am
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Rosie the Researcher: How Female WWII Hires Changed Science in US Firms
Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:15 am
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Growth Is Getting Harder to Find, Not Ideas
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Nathan Goldschlag, Economic Innovation Group
Jack Liang, Temple University
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
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10:45 am
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Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data
(slides)
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)
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11:15 am
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Break
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11:30 am
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Reorganizing Work Inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption
Eleonora Brandimarti, University of Glasgow
Virginia Minni, The University of Chicago and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
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12:00 pm
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Integrators: The Firm Boundaries of Capital-Skill Complementarity
Gert Bijnens, National Bank of Belgium
Anders Humlum, The University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Vanormelingen, KU Leuven
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12:30 pm
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Lunch - Grand Ballroom A
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1:30 pm
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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
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2:00 pm
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Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Regina Seibel, University of Toronto
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
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2:30 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm
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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
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3:30 pm
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AI Agents and Higher-Order Work
Suproteem K. Sarkar, The University of Chicago
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4:00 pm
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Adjourn
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