Megafirms and the Economy
Chad Syverson and John Van Reenen, Organizers
May 23-24, 2023
FORMAT: 30 minutes for the presenter, 15 minutes for Q&A.
| Tuesday, May 23 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Short Presentation by John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER | |
| 9:30 am |
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago and NBER Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity: A Unified Approach |
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| 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am |
Shoki Kusaka, Yale University Ken Onishi, Federal Reserve Board Naoki Wakamori, Hitotsubashi University Tetsuji Okazaki, Meiji Gakuin University The Decline of Labor Share and New Technology Diffusion: Implications for Markups and Monopsony Power |
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| 11:15 am |
Terry Moon, University of British Columbia David Arnold, University of California, San Diego and NBER Kevin S. Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER Amirhossein Tavakoli, University of British Columbia Job Transitions and Employee Earnings After Acquisitions: Linking Corporate and Worker Outcomes |
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| 12:00 pm | Break | |
| 12:15 pm | Keynote on Antitrust Enforcement by Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER | |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch - ArtBar Patio | |
| 2:00 pm |
Yuheng Ding, The World Bank Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland and NBER Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board Karam Jo, Korea Development Institute Seula Kim, Princeton University Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data |
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| 2:45 pm |
David Argente, Yale University and NBER Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh Sara Moreira, Northwestern University Patents to Products: Product Innovation and Firm Dynamics |
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:45 pm |
Yameng Fan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Feng Zhou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Market Power and Political Connections |
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| 4:30 pm |
Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, HEC Lausanne and LSE Sanctions and Misallocation: How Sanctioned Firms Won and Russia Lost |
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:30 pm | Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta) | |
| Wednesday, May 24 | ||
| 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 am |
Luis Cabral, New York University Big Tech Acquisitions |
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| 9:15 am |
Olivier Darmouni, Columbia University Lira Mota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Savings of Corporate Giants |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am |
Melanie Wallskog, Duke University Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Scott W. Ohlmacher, Federal Reserve Board Cristina Tello-Trillo, U.S. Census Bureau Pay, Productivity and Management |
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| 11:00 am |
Xian Jiang, University of California, Davis Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion |
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| 11:45 am | Break | |
| 12:00 pm |
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto Guangbin Hong, University of Toronto Joseph B. Steinberg, University of Toronto A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises |
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| 12:45 pm | Adjourn and Lunch - ArtBar Patio | |