SI 2018 Macroeconomics and Productivity

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 17, 2018

Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with CRIW
9:00 am

The Missing Profits of Nations (slides)
Discussant: Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am

Accounting for Factorless Income
Discussant: Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Credit Supply and Productivity Growth
Discussant: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects (slides)
Discussant: Scott R. Baker, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Aggregate E¤ects of Credit Market Frictions: Evidence from Firm-level Default Assessments (slides)
Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
2:15 pm

Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints
Discussant: Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production
Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
4:00 pm

Uncertainty, Imperfect Information and Learning in the International Market (slides)
Discussant: Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
4:45 pm
Adjourn
5:15 pm
Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom Foyer)