SI 2024 Macroeconomics and Productivity

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

July 16, 2024

Charles AB

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
9:00 am
Nicholas Lawson, Dalhousie University
Claire LeLarge, University of Paris Saclay
Grigorios Spanos, Geneva School of Economics and Management

The Minimum Wage in Firms' Organizations: Productivity Implications
Discussant: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:40 am
Andrea Atencio, International Monetary Fund
Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Chen Yeh, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor (slides)
Discussant: Daniela Scur, Cornell University
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Vojislav Maksimovic, University of Maryland
Liu Yang, University of Maryland

What Do Unions Do? Incentives and Investments
Discussant: Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER
11:20 am
Russell Cooper, European University Institute
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Jonathan Willis, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level: Sources and Productivity Implications (slides)
Discussant: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm
Charles B
Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Kaspar Zimmermann, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Superstar Firms through the Generations
Discussant: Gian Luca Clementi, New York University and NBER
2:00 pm
Charles B
Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Valuing Labor Market Power: The Role of Productivity Advantages
Discussant: Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Charles B
Dennis Egger, Univeristy of Oxford
Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felix Samy Soliman, University of Zurich
Nachiket Shah, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley

Slack and Economic Development (slides)
Discussant: Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:40 pm
Adjourn