SI 2017 Macroeconomics and Productivity

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 18, 2017


Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning session is joint with the CRIW group
9:00 am
Titan M. Alon, University of California, San Diego
David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Robert C. Dent, Nomura Securities

Older and Slower: The Startup Deficit's Lasting Effects on Aggregate Productivity Growth (AUTHOR SLIDES)
Discussant: Steven J. Davis, Stanford University and NBER
9:45 am
Ryan Decker, Federal Reserve Board
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University

Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks vs. Responsiveness (DISCUSSANT SLIDES)
Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Cian Ruane, International Monetary Fund

Misallocation or Mismeasurement? (AUTHOR SLIDES)  (DISCUSSANT SLIDES)
Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
11:45 am
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
Kirk White, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring Cross-Country Differences in Misallocation (AUTHOR SLIDES) (DISCUSSANT SLIDES)
Discussant: Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Macroeconomics and Productivity continues in Charles B
1:30 pm
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Sina T. Ates, Federal Reserve Board
Giammario Impullitti, University of Nottingham

Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Discussant: Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2:15 pm
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison

Human Capital and Development Accounting Revisited
Discussant: David N. Weil, Brown University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

The Macroeconomic Impact of Microeconomic Shocks: Beyond Hulten's Theorem
Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn
5:15 pm
Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom Foyer)