Thursday, July 9
11:00 am

European Immigrants and the United States' Rise to the Technological Frontier

Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Sun K. Lee, Columbia University
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am

The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population (slides)

Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm

Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Jeremy G. Pearce, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant:
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm

Misallocative Growth

Niklas Engbom, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Harun Alp, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences: New Evidence from Multinational Firms (slides)

Vanessa I. Alviarez, Inter-American Development Bank
Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER
Natalia Ramondo, Boston University and NBER

Discussant:
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Achieving Scale Collectively (slides)

Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Raffaela Muoio, BRAC Uganda
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Ritwika Sen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda

Discussant:
Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 10
11:00 am

The Changing Economics of Knowledge Production

Simona Abis, University of Colorado Boulder
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am

The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability (slides)

Cian Ruane, Central Bank of Ireland
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm

Labor Substitutability among Schooling Groups

Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Kai-Jie Wu, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant:
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm

The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History

Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Discussant:
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Are Markups Too High? Competition, Strategic Innovation, and Industry Dynamics (slides)

Laurent Cavenaile, University of Toronto
Murat Alp Celik, University of Toronto
Xu Tian, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

Discussant:
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Occupational Exposure to Capital Embodied Technical Change

Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Elisa Keller, University of Exeter
David Jaume, Banco de Mexico

Discussant:
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT: 20 min presenter, 15 min discussant and 15 min Q&A.