SI 2016 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship

Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers

July 20, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 20
8:30 am
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
9:15 am
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
Adam Osman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
10:30 am
Albert Bollard, Stanford University
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Entry Costs Rise with Development
11:15 am
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ejaz Ghani, The World Bank
Arti Grover Goswami, The World Bank
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

Factor Misallocation in India
1:15 pm
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Jonas Poulsen, Uppsala University

The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa
3:00 pm
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers