SI 2021 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship

Nicholas Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Tavneet Suri, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers

July 21, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 21
Format: 30 mins per talk (20 mins presentation, 10 mins Q&A)
10:50 am
Introductions
11:00 am
Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Mechanizing Agriculture
11:30 am
Louise Guillouet, Columbia University
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Matthieu Teachout, Columbia University

Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
12:00 pm
Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Cathy Ge. Bao, University of International Business and Economics
Maggie Chen, George Washington University
Junjie Hong, University of International Business and Economics
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era
12:30 pm
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bo Li, Tsinghua University

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
1:00 pm
Hugh Xiaolong Wu, Washington University in St. Louis
Shannon X. Liu, University of Toronto

Managerial Attention, Employee Attrition, and Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
1:30 pm
David Contreras-Loya, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ada Kwan, University of California, San Francisco

Managerial Practices and Altruism in Health Care Delivery
2:00 pm
Gathertown Reception
2:30 pm
Adjourn