Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
9:00 am

The Minimum Wage in Firms' Organizations: Productivity Implications

Nicholas Lawson, Dalhousie University
Claire LeLarge, University of Paris Saclay
Grigorios Spanos, Geneva School of Economics and Management

Discussant:
Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9:40 am

Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor (slides)

Andrea Atencio, International Monetary Fund
Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Chen Yeh, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Discussant:
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

What Do Unions Do? Incentives and Investments

Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland, College Park
Liu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

Discussant:
Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:20 am

Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level: Sources and Productivity Implications (slides)

Russell Cooper, European University Institute
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Jonathan Willis, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Discussant:
Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Superstar Firms through the Generations

Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Kaspar Zimmermann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Discussant:
Gian Luca Clementi, New York University and NBER
2:00 pm

Valuing Labor Market Power: The Role of Productivity Advantages

Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Slack and Economic Development (slides)

Dennis Egger, Univeristy of Oxford
Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felix Samy Soliman, University of Zurich
Nachiket Shah, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:40 pm
Adjourn