SI 2016 Macroeconomics and Productivity

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 19, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Tuesday, July 19
9:00 am	John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER Misallocation Measures: Glowing Like the Metal on the Edge of a Knife [Placeholder Title]
9:45 am	Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER Nicolas Vincent, HEC Montreal Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Plant-Level Data
11:00 am	Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Brian Lucking, Charles River Associates Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Turbolence and Decentralization in Bad Times
11:45 am	Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER Giordano Mion, University of Sussex Luca David Opromolla, North Carolina State University Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms
1:30 pm	Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error in Inputs
2:15 pm	Andrea Caggese, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI Financing Constraints, Radical versus Incremental Innovation, and Aggregate Productivity
3:15 pm	Vasco M. Carvalho, University of Cambridge Makoto Nirei, University of Tokyo Yukiko U. Saito, Waseda University Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake