Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting
Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner, Organizers
March 10, 2023
Meeting Format: 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A.
| Friday, March 10 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |
| Gender and Innovation | ||
| 9:05 am |
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Ali Kakhbod, University of California, Berkeley Peiyao Li, University of California, Berkeley Kunal Sachdeva, University of Michigan Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation: Evidence from Causal Text Estimation |
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| R&D Investment Decisions | ||
| 9:50 am |
Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment |
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| 10:35 am | Break | |
| 10:55 am |
Alexander P. Frankel, University of Chicago Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment |
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| Human Capital Reallocation | ||
| 11:40 am |
Jing Xue, Georgia State University Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation: Evidence from Technological Breakthroughs |
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| 12:25 pm | Lunch - Somerset Room | |
| 1:25 pm |
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Labor Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Monopsony: Evidence from Immigration Wait-Lines |
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |
| Innovation and Public Policy | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich The Breakup of the Bell System and its Impact on US Innovation |
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| 3:15 pm |
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh Huiyan Zhang, Tsinghua University Unleashing the Dragon: The Case for Patent Reform in China |
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| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |