SI 2020 Macroeconomics and Productivity

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 14, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 14
10:55 am
Welcome by Organizers
11:00 am
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Antoine Bergeaud, HEC Paris
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation (slides)
11:30 am
Simcha Barkai, Boston College
Stavros Panageas, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Value without Employment (slides)
12:00 pm
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

The Darwinian Returns to Scale (slides)
12:30 pm
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
Mara P. Squicciarini, Bocconi University
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from France (slides)
1:00 pm
David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University
Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER

Scalable Expertise (slides)
1:30 pm
Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California at Berkeley
Xi He, University of Maryland
James Hodson, AI for Good

AI Adoption, Firm Growth, and Industry Concentration (slides)
2:00 pm
Closing Remarks by Organizers
2:05 pm
Adjourn