
	Tuesday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	What do Editors Maximize? Evidence from Four Leading Economics Journals David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:50 am	Managing R&D Risk in Healthcare via FDA Hedges Adam Jorring, University of Chicago Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER Manita Singh, Goldman Sachs and MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota Discussant: Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' Failures in Drug Development Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Discussant: Marvin Lieberman, University of California at Los Angeles
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	The Elasticity of the Direction of Science Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:50 pm	Does Economic Insecurity Affect Employee Innovation? Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Richard Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER Discussant: Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Effects of Regulatory Capture: Evidence from Patent Examiners Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
3:50 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Panel: Is Short-Termism Killing the American Innovation Engine? Moderator: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER Karen Mills, Harvard University
	Are U.S. Companies Too Short-Term Oriented? Some Thoughts Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn and reception
	Wednesday, July 19
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris Matthieu Lequien, INSEE Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
9:50 am	Does Offshoring Manufacturing Harm Innovation in the Home Country? Evidence from Taiwan and China Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Jong-Rong Chen, National Central University Britta M. Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Chih-Hai Yang, National Central University Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Dorn, University of Zurich Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER Pian Shu, Harvard University Gary Pisano, Harvard University Discussant: Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
11:50 am	Lunch
	Afternoon joint with Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship
1:30 pm	E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Yizhen Gu, Peking University Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University Discussant: Jonas Hjort, University College London
2:15 pm	The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Tom Nicholas, Harvard University Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Matt Taddy, Amazon Discussant: Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Javed I. Ahmed, Metis
Ayfer Ali, Warwick University
Joseph Anderson, Stanford University
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER
Jordan Bell-Masterson, Amazon
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
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
Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeremy Brown, NBER
Kevin A. Bryan, University of Toronto
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
Jong-Rong Chen, National Central University
Jun Chen, University of Illinois Chicago
Jane J. Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Rebecca E. De Simone, London Business School
Mercedes Delgado, Copenhagen Business School
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame
Edward Egan, Rice University
Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
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
Roberto Fontana, University of Pavia
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Andrea Fosfuri, Bocconi University
Annabelle C. Fowler, Harvard University
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto
Jana Gallus, University of California at Los Angeles
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW Mannheim
Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Michelle Gittelman, Rutgers University
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
John R. Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Victor Hwang, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank
Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
William Janeway, University of Cambridge
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Gary H. Jefferson, Brandeis University
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Christina A. Kent, Stanford University
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD
Tatjana Kleineberg, The World Bank
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
Nicholas Kozeniauskas, Banco de Portugal

Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
Julia Lane, New York University
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Daniel J. Lee, University of Delaware
Renata Lemos, The World Bank
Matthieu Lequien, INSEE
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Marvin Lieberman, University of California at Los Angeles
William Lincoln, Claremont McKenna College
Xiaoding (Cindy) Liu, Texas A&M University
Brian Lucking, Charles River Associates
Hong Luo, University of Toronto
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Myriam Mariani, Bocconi University
Matt Marx, Cornell University and NBER
Mark J. McCabe, SKEMA Business School
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Denis Medvedev, The World Bank
Mike Meurer, Boston University
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
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Yasin Ozcan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Derek Ozkal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Yeshiva University, Visiting Professor Yale School of Management
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David B. Ridley, Duke University
Matthew W. Ridley, Warwick University
Michael Roach, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
Andrés P. Sarto, New York University
Henry Sauermann, European School of Management and Technology
Mike Scherer, Harvard University
Robert Seamans, New York University
Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris
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
Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group
Valentina Tartari, Stockholm School of Economics
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota
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
Andrew Toole, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Russell Toth, University of Sydney
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Stefan Wagner, ESMT Berlin
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute
Jeremy Watson, University of Minnesota
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
Sheryl Winston Smith, BI Norwegian Business School
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
Marta Wosinska, Duke University
Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Oklahoma
Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon
Rebecca Zarutskie, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Brooklynn Zhu, University of Toronto
Arvids A. Ziedonis, Boston University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Boston University and NBER
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne