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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Nicholas Bloom and Josh Lerner, Organizers

March 24, 2017

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 23
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, March 24:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Introductions
9:05 am	Miguel Anton, IESE Business School Florian Ederer, Yale University Mireia Gine, University of Pennsylvania Martin C. Schmalz, University of Michigan Innovation: The Bright Side of Common Ownership
9:50 am	Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER Nicholas Li, University of Toronto Mu-Jeung Yang, University of Washington The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy: Evidence from Canada
10:35 am	Break
10:55 am	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascual Restrepo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
11:40 am	Dan R. Andrews, OECD Chiara Criscuolo, OECD Peter N. Gal, OECD The Best versus the Rest: The Global Productivity Slowdown, Divergence across Firms and the Role of Public Policy
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm	Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics Stephen Eliot. Hansen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Andrea Prat, Columbia University Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Bilal Zia, The World Bank Pathways to Profits: Identifying Separate Channels of Small Firm Growth through Business Training
3:15 pm	Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan and NBER Namrata Kala, Harvard University Anant Nyshadham, Boston College The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training
4:00 pm	Adjourn