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

Thomas R. Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen
Ludvig S. Wier, University of Copenhagen
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Missing Profits of Nations (slides)

Discussant:

Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University and NBER

9:45 am

Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER

Accounting for Factorless Income

Discussant:

Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Nicola Pierri, International Monetary Fund
Francesco Manaresi, Bank of Italy

Credit Supply and Productivity Growth

Discussant:

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER

11:45 am

Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Stephan Hollander, Tilburg University
Laurence van Lent, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Ahmed Tahoun, London Business School

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects (slides)

Discussant:

Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Timothy J. Besley, London School of Economics
Isabelle A. Roland, Bank of England
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

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

David Sraer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David Thesmar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sylvain Catherine, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Chaney, University of Southern California
Zongbo Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints

Discussant:

Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Johannes Boehm, Sciences Po
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Discussant:

Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford

4:00 pm

Cheng Chen, Clemson University
Tatsuro Senga, Queen Mary University of London
Chang Sun, University of Hong Kong
Hongyong Zhang, RIETI

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)