Economics of Mega-Firms and Changes in Market Power
Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen, Organizers
September 12-13, 2019
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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| 6:30 pm |
Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA |
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| Friday, September 13 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 am |
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Sina T. Ates, Federal Reserve Board What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
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| 9:20 am |
Xiang Ding, Georgetown University Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:25 am |
José A. Azar, IESE Business School Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Estimating Labor Market Power
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| 11:15 am |
Gregor Jarosch, Duke University and NBER Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
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| 12:05 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER The Rise of Niche Consumption
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| 1:50 pm |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER The Industrial Revolution in Services
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| 2:40 pm | Break | |||
| 2:55 pm |
Luis Aguiar, University of Zurich Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER Platforms, Power, and Promotion: Evidence from Spotify Playlists
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| 3:45 pm |
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER Michael Sinkinson, Yale University and NBER Common Ownership in America: 1980--2017
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