SI 2015 Innovation
Organized by Scott Stern, Heidi L. Williams, Nicholas Bloom, and Benjamin Jones
Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
July 14-15, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Tuesday, July 14

9:00 am

Team-Specific Capital and Innovation

Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Neviana Petkova, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Alexander M. Bell, Georgia State University

9:50 am

Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER

11:00 am

International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of WWI

Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich

12:50 pm

How Destructive is Innovation?

Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel Garcia-Macia, International Monetary Fund

2:00 pm

Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry

Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Kosuke Uetake, Yale University

2:50 pm

The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, July 15

9:00 am

The Impact of Money on Science: Evidence from Unexpected NCAA Football Outcomes

Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER

9:50 am

The Effect of Public Funding on Research Output: The New Zealand Marsden Fund

Jason Gush, Royal Society of New Zealand
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Victoria Larsen, University of Otago
Athene Laws, International Monetary Fund

11:00 am

Killing the Golden Goose?

Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER
Andrea Patacconi, Norwich Business School