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 of Governors
Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Christopher Kurz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics 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 of Governors
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