Friday, July 10

9:00 am

The Race between Machine and Man: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares and Employment

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER

10:15 am

Natural Resources and Global Misallocation

Alexander Monge-Naranjo, European University Institute
Juan M. Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Barcelona GSE

11:30 am

Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India

Jose Asturias, U.S. Census Bureau
Manuel Garcia-Santana, The World Bank
Roberto Ramos, Bank of Spain

1:30 pm

Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia

Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER

2:45 pm

The Global Diffusion of Ideas

Francisco J. Buera, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER

4:00 pm

Measuring and Explaining International Differences in Hours Worked

Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln, Goethe University Frankfurt
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER