Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting

Nicholas Bloom, Serguey Braguinsky, Sabrina T. Howell, and Josh Lerner, Organizers

April 26, 2024

Meeting Format: 25 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 26
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Technology and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data (slides)
10:05 am
Jennifer L. Kao, University of California, Los Angeles
Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University and NBER

Representation in Product Development: Evidence from Insurance and Clinical Trials
Break
11:00 am
Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University

Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing and Cooperation Between Firms
11:35 am
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Shanon H. Hsu, University of Chicago
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Martin Rotemberg, New York University

Gaining Steam: Incumbent Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:10 pm
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER
Ritwika Sen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Jung Hyuk Lee, University of Southern California
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda

Self-Employment Within the Firm
1:45 pm
Seula Kim, Pennsylvania State University

Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics
Break
2:40 pm
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California at Berkeley
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
James Hodson, AI for Good

Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk
3:15 pm
Xuelin Li, Columbia University
Meizi Zhou, Boston University

Can AI Distort Human Capital?
Adjourn