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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship

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

July 20, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 20
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline Discussant: Steve Redding, Princeton University and NBER
9:15 am	David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER Adam Osman, Yale University Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Discussant: Chad Syversson, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Albert Bollard, Stanford University Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Entry Costs Rise with Development Discussant: Ariel Burstein, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
11:15 am	Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania Ejaz Ghani, The World Bank Arti Grover Goswami, The World Bank William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER Factor Misallocation in India Discussant: Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
	Joint session with the Innovation group
1:00 pm	Abhishek Nagaraj, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Private Impact of Public Maps: Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration Discussant: Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
1:45 pm	Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard University Deepak Hegde, New York University Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University and NBER The Bright Side of Patents Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Michela Giorcelli, University of California at Los Angeles The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers Discussant: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm	Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER Jonas Poulsen, Uppsala University The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa Discussant: Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel