SI 2023 Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Katharine G. Abraham, Susanto Basu, and David M. Byrne, Organizers

July 17-18, 2023

Charles Room AB

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:59 am
Disaggregated Economic Activity
9:00 am

Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation (slides)
Discussant: Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
9:40 am

Consumption Zones
Discussant: Ryan A. Decker, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Distribution of US Personal Consumption Expenditures
Discussant: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER
11:20 am

Disaggregated Economic Accounts
Discussant: Brent Moulton, Bureau of Economic Analysis, retired
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:59 pm
Measurement of Output and Productivity
1:00 pm

Transistors All the Way Down: Viability of Direct Volume Measurement (and Price Indexes) for Semiconductors
Discussant: Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:40 pm

The Value of Free Digital Goods (slides)
Discussant: Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm

Antitrust Enforcement Permanently Increases Economic Activity
Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:20 pm

A New Dataset to Study a Century of Innovation in Europe and in the US
Discussant: Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University and NBER
4:00 pm
Introduction of Robert Summers Fellows
4:15 pm
CRIW Members Meeting
4:45 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:59 am
Morning joint with Macroeconomics and Productivity
9:00 am

Inequality and Measured Growth
Discussant: Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
9:40 am

Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms
Discussant: Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries
Discussant: Cian Ruane, Central Bank of Ireland
11:20 am

Profit Puzzles and the Fall of Public-Firm Profit Rates
Discussant: German Gutierrez, University of Washington
12:00 pm
Lunch
Meeting continues after lunch in Charles A.
12:59 pm
Income, Employment and Wealth
1:00 pm

Comparing Survey and Administrative Measures of Self-Employment Income: New Implications from the Health and Retirement Study
Discussant: Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
1:40 pm

Self-Employment Status: Imputations, Implications, and Improvements
Discussant: Seth Murray, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm

National Experimental Wellbeing Statistics
Discussant: Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
3:20 pm

The Wealth of Generations
Discussant: Alice Henriques Volz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
4:00 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception - Ballroom Foyer