
	Monday, July 19
	Session I: Recent Recessions and the Labor Market (Nicholas Bloom, Chair)
10:00 am	The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Dynamics and Employment: Real-Time Estimates With Homebase Data André Kurmann, Drexel University Etienne Lalé, York University Lien Ta, Drexel University
10:15 am	Business Exit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Non-Traditional Measures in Historical Context Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Christopher Kurz, Federal Reserve Board
10:30 am	Employer Reallocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Validation and Application of a Do-It-Yourself CPS Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University
10:45 am	Analyzing Near-Current Employment Changes by Employer Characteristics using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and Current Employment Statistics (slides) Michael Dalton, Bureau of Labor Statistics Jeffrey Groen, Bureau of Labor Statistics Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service Mark Loewenstein, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:00 am	General discussion of new evidence on COVID and the labor market
11:20 am	Economic Adjustment during the Great Recession: The Role of Managerial Quality Gilbert Cette, Neoma Business School Jimmy Lopez, Universite de Bourgogne, LEDi Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER Giuseppe Nicoletti, OECD Discussant: Daniela Scur, Cornell University
12:00 pm	Lunch break
	Session II: Incomes and Inequality (Susanto Basu, Chair)
1:00 pm	Prices and Global Inequality: New Evidence from Worldwide Scanner Data Guenter W. Beck, University of Siegen Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics Discussant: Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
1:40 pm	Asset Allocation and Returns in the Portfolios of the Wealthy Cynthia Balloch, London School of Economics Julian Richers, Addepar Discussant: Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board
2:20 pm	Welfare and Output with Income Effects and Taste Shocks (slides) David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Discussant: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm	Adjourn
	Tuesday, July 20
	Session III: Measurement in the Labor Market (Katharine Abraham, Chair)
10:00 am	New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data (not available on livestream or to download) Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago Discussant: Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
10:40 am	Skills, Degrees and Labor Market Inequality Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER Papia Debroy, Opportunity@Work Justin Heck, Opportunity@Work Discussant: Jamin Speer, University of Memphis
11:20 am	Changing Income Risk Across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter J. Carter Braxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau Lawrence Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm	Lunch break
	Session IV: Market Structure and Intangibles (Carol Corrado, Chair)
1:00 pm	The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration (slides) Dominic Smith, Bureau of Labor Statistics Sergio Ocampo-Diaz, Western University, Canada Discussant: Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
1:40 pm	Intangibles, Markups, and the Measurement of Productivity Growth Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER Discussant: John Fernald, INSEAD
2:20 pm	Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University Ran Zhuo, University of Michigan Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Carol Robbins, National Science Foundation
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Jaison R. Abel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
John M. Abowd, Cornell University and NBER
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Brian Adams, Bureau of Labor Statistics
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Cynthia Balloch, London School of Economics
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Erling Barth, Institute for Social Research and NBER
Eric Bartlesman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
Guenter W. Beck, University of Siegen
Randy A. Becker, U.S. Census Bureau
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Mary Bohman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
J. Carter Braxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
Benjamin R. Bridgman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Charles C. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
J. David Brown, U.S. Census Bureau
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Cathy Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau
Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
David M. Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER
Stephen G. Cecchetti, Brandeis University and NBER
Gilbert Cette, Neoma Business School
Barry Chiswick, George Washington University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
Rena M. Conti, Boston University
Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Michael Dalton, Bureau of Labor Statistics
James C. Davis, Economic Research Service USDA
Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Papia Debroy, Opportunity@Work
Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board
Cynthia Doniger, Federal Reserve Board
Timothy Dunne, Notre Dame University
Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Lucy P. Eldridge, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board
Bruce Fallick, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
John Fernald, INSEAD
Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Lucia S. Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Alan Fox, U.S. International Trade Commission
Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Thesia Garner, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elisabeth Gerber, University of Michigan
Britta Glennon, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Nancy Gordon, U.S. Census Bureau
Robert J. Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER
Wayne B. Gray, Clark University and NBER
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Cheryl Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
Jeffrey Groen, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Erica L. Groshen, Cornell University
Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada
John Guyton, Internal Revenue Service
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Michael Harper, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Retired
Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London
Justin Heck, Opportunity@Work
Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jeffrey Hill, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University and NBER
David Johnson, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Fariha Kamal, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin Kay, Federal Reserve Board
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER

Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Lori Kletzer, University of California at Santa Cruz
Shawn D. Klimek, Department of Commerce
Edward Kokkelenberg, SUNY, Binghamton, Emeritus
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Gregory Kurtzon, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mark J. Kutzbach, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Etienne Lalé, York University
J. Steven Landefeld, U.S. Naval Academy
David G. Lenze, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Daniel Levy, Bar-Ilan University
Wendy Li, Moon Economics Institute
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER
Mark Loewenstein, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Gerald R. Marschke, State University of New York at Albany and NBER
Robert Martin, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Robert McClelland, Tax Policy Center
Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau
Paul Menchik, Michigan State University
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Pierre Mohnen, Maastricht University
Kevin Moore, Federal Reserve Board
Kimberly Moore, U.S. Census Bureau
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Brent Moulton, Bureau of Economic Analysis, retired
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University
Leonard I. Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Nicole Nestoriak, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Mary O'Mahony, King's College London
Sergio Ocampo-Diaz, Western University, Canada
Nick Orsini, U.S. Census Bureau
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Greg Peterson, Statistics of Canada
Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, U.S. Census Bureau
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER
Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board
Sophie Piton, Bank of England
Anne Polivka, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER
Dylan G. Rassier, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
Julian Richers, Addepar
Rebecca Riley, King's College London
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
Carol Robbins, National Science Foundation
Mark J. Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
David T. Robinson, Duke University and NBER
Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau
Anne Russell, U.S. Census Bureau
John Sabelhaus, Brookings Institution
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Claudia Sahm, Jain Family Institute
Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
Kristin Sandusky, US Census Bureau
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Robin C. Sickles, Rice University
Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dominic Smith, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gary Solon, University of Michigan and NBER
Jamin Speer, University of Memphis
Charles Steindel, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John J. Stevens, Federal Reserve Board
Jay Stewart, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Martha Stinson, U.S. Census Bureau
Erich H. Strassner, International Monetary Fund
Stephen J. Terry, University of Michigan and NBER
Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Kenneth R. Troske
James R. Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Randal Verbrugge, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
J. Christina Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
William Wascher, Federal Reserve Board
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Kirk White, U.S. Census Bureau
Lloyd Whitman, National Science Foundation
Edward N. Wolff, New York University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Valentin Zelenyuk, University of Queensland
Ran Zhuo, University of Michigan
Joyce Zickler, Federal Reserve Board (retired)
Kimberly Zieschang, University of Queensland
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER