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SI 2026 Macroeconomics and Productivity
Organized by Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Chad Syverson
July 21, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Room: Charles AB
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Tuesday, July 21
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Continue in Charles A
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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Morning Session Joint with Conference on Research in Income and Wealth |
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9:00 am
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Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy
(slides)
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Pol Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Yifan Wang, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Dávid László, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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9:40 am
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Safety in Unemployment and Risky Experimentation of Young Firms
Renato Faccini, Danmarks Nationalbank
Seho Kim, Danmarks Nationalbank
Javier Miranda, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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10:20 am
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Break
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10:40 am
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Still Waters, Rapid Currents: Early Labor Market Transformation under Generative AI
Anders Humlum, The University of Chicago and NBER
Emilie Vestergaard, University of Copenhagen
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11:20 am
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The Skill Premium in Times of Rapid Technological Change
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
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12:00 pm
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Lunch
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Continue in Charles A
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1:00 pm
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Propagation of Shocks in Networks: Identification and Applications
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Davide Viviano, Harvard University
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1:40 pm
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Spreading Out Across Expanding Idea Space
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Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Vitaly Meursault, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Nicholas F. Reynolds, University of Essex
Discussant:
TBA
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2:20 pm
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Break
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2:40 pm
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Causes and Consequences of Labor Utilization: Evidence from Ugandan Firms
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Imran Rasul, University College London
Anna O. Veroux, Institute for Fiscal Studies: IFS
Anna Vitali, New York University
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3:20 pm
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Concentrating on Customers
Alex Blumenfeld, University of California, Berkeley
Christina Patterson, The University of Chicago and NBER
Joseph S. Vavra, The University of Chicago and NBER
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4:00 pm
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Adjourn
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