Economic Growth Small Group Meeting

Martí Mestieri and Christopher Tonetti, Organizers

February 28, 2019

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Yellen Conference Center, First Floor, 101 Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, February 28
FORMAT: For each paper, there will be a 20 min presentation by the author followed by a 20 min discussion by the discussant and 20 min of open-floor questions.

8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Jie Cai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Nan Li, International Monetary Fund
Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Knowledge Diffusion, Trade and Innovation across Countries and Sectors
Discussant: Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Wyatt Brooks, Arizona State University
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia

Bringing Data to the Model: Quantitative Implications of an Equilibrium Diffusion Model
Discussant: Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Julian Neira, University of Exeter
Rish Singhania, University of Exeter

From Population Growth to Firm Demographics: Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share
Discussant: Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch - Market Street Dining Room
1:30 pm
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Discussant: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER

Workers’ Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps: Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany
Discussant: Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Matthew J. Delventhal, Claremont McKenna College
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Nezih Guner, CEMFI

Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space (slides)
Discussant: Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, October 26
1:30 pm
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER

Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Discussant: Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER