SI 2016 Macroeconomics and Productivity
Organized by Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson
July 19, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Tuesday, July 19

9:00 am

Misallocation Measures: Glowing Like the Metal on the Edge of a Knife [Placeholder Title]

John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Chad Syverson, The University of Chicago and NBER

9:45 am

Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
Nicolas Vincent, HEC Montreal

11:00 am

Turbolence and Decentralization in Bad Times

Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Brian Lucking, Charles River Associates
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER

11:45 am

Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Giordano Mion, ESSEC Business School
Luca David Opromolla, North Carolina State University
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, The University of Chicago and NBER

1:30 pm

Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error in Inputs

Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER
Jan De Loecker, KU Leuven

2:15 pm

Financing Constraints, Radical versus Incremental Innovation, and Aggregate Productivity

Andrea Caggese, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3:15 pm

Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Vasco M. Carvalho, University of Cambridge
Makoto Nirei, The University of Tokyo
Yukiko U. Saito, Waseda University
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University