Megafirms and the Economy

Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen, Organizers

September 13, 2024

Format: 30 minutes presenter, 15 minutes Q&A.

Friday, September 13
	Continental Breakfast
	Welcome
8:30 am	James Bessen, Boston University Felix Poege, Bocconi University Ronja Roettger, Boston University Competing for Talent: Large Firms and Startup Growth (slides)
9:15 am	Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Naman Nishesh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elena Simintzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Big Data & Bigger Firms: A Labor Market Channel
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER Mengdi Zhang, Northwestern University Kaspar Zimmermann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Business Concentration around the World: 1900--2020
11:00 am	Sara Calligaris, OECD Miguel Chaves, NIPE/University of Minho Chiara Criscuolo, IFC Josh De Lyon, OECD Andrea Greppi, OECD Oliviero Pallanch, OECD Exploring the Evolution and the State of Competition in the EU
	Lunch - Charles B
12:45 pm	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Bocconi University Christopher Roth, University of Cologne When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
1:30 pm	Giuseppe Berlingieri, ESSEC Business School and CEP Maarten De Ridder, London School of Economics Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Davide Rigo, London School of Economics Growth through Innovation Bursts
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Seth G. Benzell, Chapman University Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Ruyu Chen, Stanford University Which Jobs Scale and Why (slides)
3:15 pm	Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics Mauricio Ulate, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Jose P. Vasquez, London School of Economics Roman Zarate, The World Bank The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions
4:00 pm	Adjourn