SI 2020 Economic Growth

Ufuk Akcigit, Francisco J. Buera, and David Lagakos, Organizers

July 9-10, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 9
11:00 am
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Sun K. Lee, Columbia University
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER

European Immigrants and the United States' Rise to the Technological Frontier
Discussant: William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER

The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population (slides)
Discussant: Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Jeremy G. Pearce, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
Discussant: Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Niklas Engbom, New York University and NBER

Misallocative Growth
Discussant: Harun Alp, Federal Reserve Board
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Vanessa I. Alviarez, Inter-American Development Bank
Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER
Natalia Ramondo, Boston University and NBER

Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences: New Evidence from Multinational Firms (slides)
Discussant: Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Raffaela Muoio, BRAC Uganda
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Ritwika Sen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda

Achieving Scale Collectively (slides)
Discussant: Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 10
11:00 am
Simona Abis, University of Colorado Boulder
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

The Changing Economics of Knowledge Production
Discussant: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am
Cian Ruane, Central Bank of Ireland
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER

The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability (slides)
Discussant: Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm
Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER
Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Kai-Jie Wu, Pennsylvania State University

Labor Substitutability among Schooling Groups
Discussant: Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History
Discussant: Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Laurent Cavenaile, University of Toronto
Murat Alp Celik, University of Toronto
Xu Tian, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

Are Markups Too High? Competition, Strategic Innovation, and Industry Dynamics (slides)
Discussant: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Elisa Keller, University of Exeter
David Jaume, Banco de Mexico

Occupational Exposure to Capital Embodied Technical Change
Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn

FORMAT: 20 min presenter, 15 min discussant and 15 min Q&A.