SI 2021 Economic Growth

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

July 15-16, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 15
11:00 am
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University

Customers and Retail Growth
Discussant: Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yueyuan Ma, University of California Santa Barbara
Mehmet Yorukoglu, Koc University

‘You Will:’ A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising
Discussant: Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm
Jacob Moscona, Harvard University
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Can Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from US Agriculture
Discussant: Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development
Discussant: Francesco Caselli, London School of Economics
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Kristina Manysheva, Columbia University
Martí Mestieri, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Enrico Berkes, The Ohio State University

Global Innovation Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from 100 years of World Patent Data
Discussant: Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Ahmed Tahoun, London Business School

The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies
Discussant: Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 16
11:00 am
Tianyu Fan, Yale University
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University and NBER

Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts
Discussant: Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
11:50 am
Break
11:55 am
Keelan Beirne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin

Concrete Thinking about Development
Discussant: Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
12:50 pm
Tiago V. Cavalcanti, University of Cambridge
Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Bruno S. Martins, Central Bank of Brazil
Cezar Santos, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:20 pm
Nan Li, International Monetary Fund
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund
Tong Xu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Tao Zha, Emory University and NBER

The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization
Discussant: William Easterly, New York University and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:15 pm
David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER
Sara Moreira, Northwestern University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University and NBER

Scalable Expertise
Discussant: Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER

Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown
Discussant: Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn