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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Macroeconomics and Productivity

 

Susanto Basu, Nicholas Bloom, and Chad Syverson, Organizers

 

July 18, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University B/C

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 18:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Sophie Osotimehin, Paris School of Economics, CREST
Aggregate Productivity and the Allocation of Resources over the Business Cycle


9:20 am


John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Management as a Technology

10:10 am

Break

 

10:30 am


Matthias Kehrig, University of Texas at Austin
Nicolas Vincent, HEC Montreal
Investment Dynamics on the Plant and the Firm Level


11:20 am


Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Ferdinando Monte, Johns Hopkins University
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

12:10 pm

Lunch


1:10 pm


Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER
Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER
Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry


2:00 pm


Pablo D'Erasmo, University of Maryland
Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
Intangibles and Endogenous Firm Volatility over the Business Cycle

2:50 pm

Break


3:10 pm


Sylvain Leduc, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Uncertainty Shocks Are Aggregate Demand Shocks


4:00 pm


Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER
Enisse Kharroubi, Banque de France
Monetary Policy, Liquidity, and Growth

4:50 pm

Adjourn


6:00 pm


Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA