SI 2021 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Carol Corrado, Organizers

July 19-20, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 19
Session I: Recent Recessions and the Labor Market (Nicholas Bloom, Chair)
10:00 am
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Etienne Lalé, York University
Lien Ta, Drexel University

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Dynamics and Employment: Real-Time Estimates With Homebase Data
10:15 am
Leland D. Crane, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board
Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Christopher Kurz, Federal Reserve Board

Business Exit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Non-Traditional Measures in Historical Context
10:30 am
Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adam Blandin, Vanderbilt University

Employer Reallocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Validation and Application of a Do-It-Yourself CPS
10:45 am
Michael Dalton, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jeffrey Groen, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Congressional Research Service
Mark Loewenstein, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Analyzing Near-Current Employment Changes by Employer Characteristics using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and Current Employment Statistics (slides)
11:00 am
General discussion of new evidence on COVID and the labor market
11:20 am
Gilbert Cette, Neoma Business School
Jimmy Lopez, Universite de Bourgogne, LEDi
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Giuseppe Nicoletti, OECD

Economic Adjustment during the Great Recession: The Role of Managerial Quality
Discussant: Daniela Scur, Cornell University
12:00 pm
Lunch break
Session II: Incomes and Inequality (Susanto Basu, Chair)
1:00 pm
Guenter W. Beck, University of Siegen
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics

Prices and Global Inequality: New Evidence from Worldwide Scanner Data
Discussant: Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
1:40 pm
Cynthia Balloch, London School of Economics
Julian Richers, Addepar

Asset Allocation and Returns in the Portfolios of the Wealthy
Discussant: Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board
2:20 pm
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Welfare and Output with Income Effects and Taste Shocks (slides)
Discussant: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 20
Session III: Measurement in the Labor Market (Katharine Abraham, Chair)
10:00 am
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago

New Work or Changes in Reporting? A Framework for Measuring Self-Employment Trends in Administrative Data (not available on livestream or to download)
Discussant: Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
10:40 am
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER
Papia Debroy, Opportunity@Work
Justin Heck, Opportunity@Work

Skills, Degrees and Labor Market Inequality
Discussant: Jamin Speer, University of Memphis
11:20 am
J. Carter Braxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Changing Income Risk Across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter
Discussant: Sergio Salgado, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm
Lunch break
Session IV: Market Structure and Intangibles (Carol Corrado, Chair)
1:00 pm
Dominic Smith, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Sergio Ocampo-Diaz, Western University, Canada

The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration (slides)
Discussant: Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
1:40 pm
Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER

Intangibles, Markups, and the Measurement of Productivity Growth
Discussant: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2:20 pm
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University
Ran Zhuo, University of Michigan
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER

Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage
Discussant: Carol Robbins, National Science Foundation
3:00 pm
Adjourn