
	Tuesday, July 19
9:00 am	Who Feeds the Trolls? Patent Trolls and the Patent Examination Process Jiashuo Feng, Harvard University Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics
9:50 am	Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER Elizabeth Webster, Swinburne University of Technology
11:00 am	The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform Alice Kuegler, Central European University
12:50 pm	R&D Networks: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implications Michael Koenig, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Xiaodong Liu, University of Colorado at Boulder Yves Zenou, Monash University
2:00 pm	Industrial Espionage and Productivity Erik Meyersson, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
2:50 pm	Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
	Wednesday, July 20
9:00 am	Living "American Dream" in Finland: The Social Mobility of Inventors Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Ari Hyytinen, Hanken School of Economics Otto Toivanen, Aalto University
9:50 am	The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics
11:00 am	Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Ralf Martin, London School of Economics
11:00 am	Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D Antoine Dechezlepretre, OECD Elias Einio, London School of Economics Ralf Martin, London School of Economics Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

Participants

Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Juan Alcacer, Harvard University
Joseph Anderson, Stanford University
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris
Julian Atanassov, University of Nebraska
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dany Bahar, Brown University
Patrick L. Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University and NBER
Sandra Barbosu
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Jordan Bell-Masterson, Amazon
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER
James Bessen, Boston University
Amar Bhide, Columbia University
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Ant Bozkaya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) & BSE
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
Thomas J. Chemmanur, Boston College
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Gail Cohen, The National Academies of Sciences
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Annamaria Conti, IE Business School
Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
Sean Dougherty, OECD
Douglas Elmendorf, Harvard University and NBER
Kira R. Fabrizio, Boston University
Joan Farre-Mensa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Catherine E. Fazio, Boston University
Josh Feng, University of Utah
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley
Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced
Andrea Fosfuri, Bocconi University
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Central University of Finance and Economics and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto and NBER
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Patrick Gaulé, University of Bristol
Michelle Gittelman, Rutgers University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Anna Goldstein, Prime Coalition
Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Jillian Grennan, Emory University
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Jorge Guzman, Columbia University and NBER
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Deepak Hegde, New York University
Thomas F. Hellmann, University of Oxford
Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
David H. Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank
Marco Iansiti, Harvard University
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Chris Jackson, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shulamit Kahn, Boston University
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Karthik Krishnan, Northeastern University

Alice Kuegler, Central European University
Michael König, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Julia Lane, New York University
Renata Lemos, The World Bank
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Alexander Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Hong Luo, University of Toronto
Annamaria Lusardi, Stanford University and NBER
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics and NBER
Alan Marco, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Mark J. McCabe, SKEMA Business School
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Stephen Merrill, Duke University
Mike Meurer, Boston University
Erik Meyersson, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
Karen G. Mills, Harvard University
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Seongwuk Moon, Sogang University
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Arnobio Morelix, Startup Genome
Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Northwestern University
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Yasin Ozcan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Carol Robbins, National Science Foundation
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Benjamin N. Roin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marc Rysman, Boston University
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School
Sarada Sarada, University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Schankerman, London School of Economics
Mike Scherer, Harvard University
Erin L. Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
Mahnum Shahzad, Harvard University
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Pian Shu, Harvard University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Paula Stephan, Georgia State University and NBER
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Neel Sukhatme, Georgetown University
Richard L. Sweeney, Boston College
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Thompson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Otto Toivanen, Aalto University
Russell Toth, University of Sydney
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER
Myles Wagner, Ohio State University
Stefan Wagner, ESMT Berlin
Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary
Brad Wible, Science Magazine
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Cindy Wu, Experiment.com
Dennis Yao, Harvard University
Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne