SI 2017 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship
Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers
July 19, 2017
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Tuesday, July 18 | ||||
| 5:15 pm |
Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Reception Grand Ballroom Foyer/ West Tower |
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| Wednesday, July 19 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Wyatt Brooks, Arizona State University Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya
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| 9:45 am |
Margaret S. McMillan, Tufts University and NBER Michel Serafinelli, University of Essex Girum Abebe, Dr, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations: Evidence from Ethiopia
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Mari Tanaka, The University of Tokyo Exporting Sweatshops? Evidence from Myanmar
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| 11:45 am |
Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon joint with Innovation in Ballroom B | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Victor Couture, University of Toronto Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Yizhen Gu, Peking University Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China
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| 2:15 pm |
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Tom Nicholas, Harvard University The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:15 pm |
Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Matt Taddy, Amazon, Inc. Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run
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| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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