SI 2015 NBER/CRIW Workshop

Susanto Basu, Carol Corrado, Nicholas Bloom, and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers

July 13-14, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 13
9:00 am
9:00 am
Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States Since 1913
10:30 am
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
David J. Price, University of Toronto
Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER

Firming Up Inequality
11:15 am
11:15 am
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Richard Blundell, University College London and IFS
David Hemous, University of Zurich

Innovation and Top Income Inequality
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER
Hale Utar, Grinnell College

International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
1:45 pm
1:45 pm
Dongya Koh, University of Arkansas
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Barcelona GSE
Yu Zheng, Queen Mary University of London

Labor Share Decline and the Capitalization of Intellectual Property Products
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Margaret R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring the Effects of the Tipped Minimum Wage Using W-2 Data
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Muge Adalet McGowan, OECD
Dan R. Andrews, OECD

Labour Market Mismatch and Labour Productivity: Evidence from PIAAC Data
Tuesday, July 14
9:00 am
9:00 am
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
Jonathan Haskel, Imperial College London
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, University LUISS Guido Carli
Bilal Nasim, Institute of Education

Is International R&D Tax Competition a Zero-sum Game? Evidence from the EU
9:45 am
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board
Jae Sim, Federal Reserve Board

Why Do Innovative Firms Hold So Much Cash? Evidence from Changes in State R&D Tax Credits
11:00 am
11:00 am
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moore’s Law goes Multicore: The Economic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in how Computers work
11:45 am
John Bai, Northeastern University
Daniel Carvalho, Indiana University
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Impact of Bank Credit on Labor Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity
3:15 pm
3:15 pm
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Cheryl Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Zoltan Wolf, U.S. Census Bureau

Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: Is the Devil in the Details?