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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Macroeconomics and Productivity Workshop

 

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

 

July 20, 2011

 

Charles Suite B

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Wednesday, July 20:

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 


8:30 am


Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER
Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises

Discussant: Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 


9:45 am


Devesh Raval, University of Chicago
Estimation of a CES Production Function with Labor Augmenting Productivity

Discussant: John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 


11:00 am


Nicola Gennaioli, CREI
Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College and NBER
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Human Capital and Regional Development

Discussant: David Weil, Brown University

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

  

 

 

1:15 pm

John Asker and Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER

Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER
Productivity Volatility and Misallocation

Discussant: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 


2:30 pm


Hale Utar, University of Colorado at Boulder
Luis B. Torres Ruiz, Banco de Mexico
International Competition and Industrial Evolution: Evidence from the Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras


Discussant: Peter Schott, Yale University and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 


3:45 pm


Chris Edmond, University of Melbourne and NBER
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER
Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER
Competition, Markups, and the Gains from International Trade

Discussant: Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner in honor of Ernie Berndt, Location: Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Boulevard, Cambridge