SI 2015 Innovation

Scott Stern, Heidi L. Williams, Nicholas Bloom, and Benjamin Jones, Organizers

July 14-15, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Summer Institute 2015 master schedule

Tuesday, July 14
9:00 am
9:00 am	Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury Alexander M. Bell, Georgia State University Team-Specific Capital and Innovation
9:50 am
9:50 am	Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Christian Fons-Rosen, University of California at Merced Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
11:00 am
11:00 am	Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of WWI
12:50 pm
12:50 pm	Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER Daniel Garcia-Macia, International Monetary Fund How Destructive is Innovation?
2:00 pm
2:00 pm	Mitsuru Igami, Yale University Kosuke Uetake, Yale University Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry
2:50 pm
2:50 pm	Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries
Wednesday, July 15
9:00 am
9:00 am	Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER The Impact of Money on Science: Evidence from Unexpected NCAA Football Outcomes
9:50 am
9:50 am	Jason Gush, Royal Society of New Zealand Adam B. Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER Victoria Larsen, University of Otago Athene Laws, IMF The Effect of Public Funding on Research Output: The New Zealand Marsden Fund
11:00 am
11:00 am	Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER Sharon Belenzon, Duke University and NBER Andrea Patacconi, Norwich Business School Killing the Golden Goose?