Economics and Politics of Mega-Firms
Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen, Organizers
February 19, 2021
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
on Zoom.us
| Friday, February 19 | ||
| 10:55 am | Welcoming remarks | |
| 11:00 am |
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Plants in Space |
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| 11:30 am |
Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach |
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| 12:00 pm |
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Eyub Yegen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving |
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| 12:30 pm |
Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER Esteban Mendez-Chacon, Central Bank of Costa Rica Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company |
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| 1:00 pm | Break | |
| 1:30 pm |
Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany |
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| 2:00 pm |
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Hyunseob Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Shareholder Power and the Decline of Labor |
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| 2:30 pm |
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris Timo Boppart, IIES, Stockholm University Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents |
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| 3:00 pm |
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University The Darwinian Returns to Scale |
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| 3:30 pm | Closing remarks and adjourn | |