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

Thursday, April 23

6:30 pm

Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel (Longfellow Room)

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, Temple 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 (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)

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Reorganizing Work Inside the Firm: Task Change after Technology Adoption

Eleonora Brandimarti, University of Glasgow
Virginia Minni, The 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, The University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Vanormelingen, KU Leuven

12:30 pm

Lunch - Grand Ballroom A

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 and Higher-Order Work

Suproteem K. Sarkar, The University of Chicago

4:00 pm

Adjourn