Megafirms and the Post-COVID Economy
Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen, Organizers
April 22, 2022
Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us
| Friday, April 22 | ||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 8:25 am | Welcome | |
| 8:30 am |
Maarten C. De Ridder, London School of Economics Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy |
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| 9:15 am |
Renjie Bao, Princeton University Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Jan Eeckhout, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Are Managers Paid for Market Power? |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:10 am |
Hanwei Huang, City University of Hong Kong Kalina Manova, University College London Oscar Perello, University College London Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks |
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| 10:55 am |
Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER Kaspar Zimmermann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration |
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| 11:40 am | Break | |
| 11:50 am |
Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics |
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| 12:40 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:25 pm |
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Andrea Prat, Columbia University and NBER Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London Political Power and Market Power |
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| 2:10 pm |
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER Mario Leccese, Boston University Liad Wagman, Lally School of Management - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy |
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| 2:55 pm | Break | |
| 3:05 pm |
Hendrik Döpper, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER Joel Stiebale, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences |
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| 3:50 pm |
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry |
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| 4:35 pm | Farewell | |
| 4:40 pm | Adjourn | |