SI 2018 Economic Growth
Organized by Ufuk Akcigit, Francisco J. Buera, and David Lagakos
July 13, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Friday, July 13

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Developmet

Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Raphaël Franck, University of Stuttgart

Discussant:
Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Learning from Coworkers

Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Labor Market Flows and Development

Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Jianyu Lu, Central Bank of Chile
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant:
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

How do Firms Grow? The Life Cycle of Products Matters

David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data

Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium

David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University

Discussant:
Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Group Dinner - Ballroom B