Thursday, July 15
11:00 am

Customers and Retail Growth

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University

Discussant:
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am

‘You Will:’ A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising

Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yueyuan Ma, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mehmet Yorukoglu, Koc University

Discussant:
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm

Can Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from US Agriculture

Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm

The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development

Jonas Hjort, University College London
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Discussant:
Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from 100 years of World Patent Data

Kristina Manysheva, Columbia University
Martí Mestieri, Institut d'Analisi Economica - CSIC
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Discussant:
Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm

The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Ahmed Tahoun, London Business School

Discussant:
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 16
11:00 am

Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts

Tianyu Fan, Yale University
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am

Concrete Thinking about Development

Keelan Beirne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin

Discussant:
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm

Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development

Tiago V. Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge
Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Bruno S. Martins, Central Bank of Brazil
Cezar Santos, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Discussant:
Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Brown University and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm

The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization

Nan Li, International Monetary Fund
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund
Tong Xu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Tao Zha, Emory University and NBER

Discussant:
William Easterly, New York University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Scalable Expertise

David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn