Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner, Organizers
March 15, 2019
NBER, Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
| Thursday, March 14 | ||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) | |
| Friday, March 15 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |
| High Skill Labor Productivity | ||
| 9:05 am |
Greer K. Gosnell, Rethink Possibilities John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Robert Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains |
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| 9:50 am |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics |
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| 10:35 am | Break | |
| Innovation | ||
| 10:55 am |
George P. Ball, Indiana University Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute Recalls, Innovation, and Competitor Response: Evidence from Medical Device Firms |
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| 11:40 am |
Laurent Fresard, University of Lugano and SFI Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California Donald E. Bowen III, Lehigh University Technological Disruptiveness and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs |
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| 12:25 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:25 pm |
Shai Bernstein, Harvard University and NBER Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Beatriz Pousada, Stanford University The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States |
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |
| IT and Digitization | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems |
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| 3:15 pm |
Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham Jonathan D. Timmis, World Bank Cloud Computing and Firm Growth |
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| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| Meeting format: 30 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for Q&A. | ||