Conferences, Winter 2022-23

12/31/2022

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Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century

A conference on Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 29, 2022. Program Director Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER, “Future of the World Trading System”
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER, “Return to Protection and Global Trade Reallocation”
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER, “Trade and Economically Distressed Regions”
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER, “Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Supply Chain Resilience”
Chad Brown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics delivered a keynote address on "Vaccine Supply Chains."

Materials related to these papers may be found at www.nber.org/conferences/trade-and-trade-policy-21st-century-fall-2022

Economics of Innovation in the Energy Sector

A conference on the Economics of Innovation in the Energy Sector was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 30, 2022. Research Associates Ashley Langer of the University of Arizona and David Popp of Syracuse University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER, and Richard Sweeney, Boston College, “Winds of Change: Estimating Learning by Doing without Cost or Input Data”
Sarah C. Armitage, Environmental Defense Fund and Boston University, “Technology Adoption and the Timing of Environmental Policy: Evidence from Efficient Lighting”
Sarah Johnston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland, “An Empirical Analysis of the US Generator Interconnection Policy”
Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics; Todd Gerarden, Cornell University; Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University; and Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “How DOEs Government Funding Fuel Scientists?”
Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, Syracuse University, and David Popp, “Do Technology Standards Induce Innovation in Grid Modernization Technologies?”
Anna Goldstein, Prime Coalition, “The ARPA Approach to Screening Prospective Energy Technology Research Investments”

Sally Benson, Deputy Director for Energy at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivered a keynote address on "Systems Thinking to Guide a Rapid and Just Energy Transition."

Summaries of these papers can be found at www.nber.org/conferences/economics-innovation-energy-sector-fall-2022

Financial and Economic Decision-Making, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Outcomes over the Lifecycle

A conference on Financial and Economic Decision-Making, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Outcomes over the Lifecycle met at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA on October 7, 2022. Julie Bynum of the University of Michigan and Faculty Research Fellow Nicholas W. Papageorge of Johns Hopkins University organized the meeting, which was supported by the National Institute on Aging and the University of Michigan Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s.

This conference was designed to support interaction between economists and medical researchers. It was structured around a number of presentations highlighting the latest Alzheimer's-related research by each group. The program, including the titles of all presentations, may be found at www.nber.org/conferences/financial-and-economic-decision-making-alzheimers-disease-and-outcomes-over-lifecycle-fall-2022

Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century

A conference on the Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century met over Zoom.us on October 14, 2022. Research Associates Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University, Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard University, and James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology organized the meeting, which was supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon, “Multimodal Transport Networks”
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Nicole Gorton, University of California, Los Angeles; Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER; and Edouard Schaal, Pompeu Fabra University, “Political Economy of Transport Investments: Evidence from the California High-Speed Rail”
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER; Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER; and Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College, “Understanding Port Performance and the Role of Infrastructure”
Michelle M. Marcus, Vanderbilt University and NBER, and Jamie Hansen-Lewis, University of California, Davis, “Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation” (NBER Working Paper 30181)
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER; Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER; and James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER, “Optimal Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles”
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, and Beibei Li, Carnegie Mellon University, “Using New Transportation Options to Drive Low-Income Citizens to Greater Success”
Matthew Freedman, University of California, Irvine, and David C. Phillips, University of Notre Dame, “Eliminating Fares to Expand Opportunities: Experimental Evidence on the Impacts of Free Public Transportation on Economic Disparities”
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER; James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER; and David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis, “Household Vehicle Portfolios and EV Demand”
Cecilia Moreira, Stanford University; Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER; and Ini Umosen, University of California, Berkeley, “Transportation as a Barrier to Education Access: Evidence from Chicago Public Schools”

Summaries of some of these papers can be found at www.nber.org/conferences/economics-transportation-21st-century-fall-2022

Business Taxation in a Federal System

A conference on Business Taxation in a Federal System met at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA on October 14, 2022. Research Associate Joshua Rauh of Stanford University and Research Associate Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato of Duke University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Jiajie Xu, University of Iowa, “The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017”
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER, and Michael P. Devereux and Irem Güçeri, University of Oxford, “Tax Policy, Investment and Profit Shifting”
Christine L. Dobridge, Federal Reserve Board; Patrick J. Kennedy, University of California, Berkeley; Paul Landefeld and Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation, “The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Utrecht University; Petr Janský, Charles University; and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, “Did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Reduce Profit Shifting by US Multinational Companies?” (NBER Working Paper 30086)
Yige Duan and Terry Moon, University of British Columbia, “Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Small Businesses in Canada”
Alina Arefeva and Minseon Park, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Morris Davis, Rutgers University; and Andra C. Ghent, University of Utah, “The Effect of Capital Gains Taxes on Business Creation and Employment: The Case of Opportunity Zones”
Scott Dyreng, Duke University; Robert W. Hills, Pennsylvania State University; and Kevin S. Markle, Michigan State University, “Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of US Multinationals”
Christine L. Dobridge, Federal Reserve Board; Rebecca Lester, Stanford University; and Robert Whitten, Department of the Treasury, “IPOs and Corporate Tax Planning”
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University, and Shogo Sakabe, Columbia University, “Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment”
Alessandro Ferrari, University of Zurich; Sébastien Laffitte, ENS Paris-Saclay; Mathieu Parenti, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and Farid Toubal, University of Paris-Dauphine, “Profit Shifting Frictions and the Geography of Multinational Activity”
Kevin Corinth, University of Chicago, and Naomi E. Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Commercial Investment and Economic Activity”
Roberto Gómez Cram and Marcel Olbert, London Business School, “Measuring the Effects of the Global Tax Reform - Evidence from High-Frequency Data”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/business-taxation-federal-system-fall-2022

Economics of Mobility

A conference on the Economics of Mobility met at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 2, 2022. Research Associates Sandra E. Black of Columbia University and Jesse Rothstein of the University of California, Berkeley organized the meeting, which was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Maggie R. Jones, US Census Bureau; and Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER, “Tribal Casinos, Economic Wellbeing, and Intergenerational Mobility”
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER; Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame; and Danielle Sandler, US Census Bureau, “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux”
Daniel K. Fetter, Stanford University and NBER; Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER; and Paul Mohnen, University of Pennsylvania, “Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security”
Dubravka Ritter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Phillip B. Levine, Wellesley College and NBER, “The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access”
Lukas Althoff, Princeton University, and Hugo Reichardt, London School of Economics, “Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery”
Keith Finlay, US Census Bureau; Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan; and Brittany Street, University of Missouri, “Measuring Intergenerational Exposure to the US Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data”

Research Associate Stefanie Stantcheva of Harvard University delivered a keynote address on "Mobility: Facts, Perceptions, and Policy."

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/economics-mobility-fall-2022

Innovative Data in Household Finance: Opportunities and Challenges

A conference on Innovative Data in Household Finance: Opportunities and Challenges met at Le Méridien, Cambridge, MA and over Zoom.us on December 9, 2022. Faculty Research Fellows Scott R. Baker of Northwestern University and Jialan Wang of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Research Associate Stephen P. Zeldes of Columbia University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Vanguard Group. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Rachel J. Nam, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers”
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER; Ralph S. J. Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER; Federico Mainardi and Sangmin Oh, University of Chicago; and Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER, “Asset Demand of US Households”
Asger L. Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, and Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen; Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER; and Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER, “Disaggregated Economic Accounts” (NBER Working Paper 30630)
Shaun M. Gilyard and Scott Schuh, West Virginia University, “New Evidence on Consumption and Income Dynamics from a Consumer Payment Diary”
Natalia Kovrijnykh, Arizona State University; Igor Livshits, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Carnegie Mellon University, “Building Credit Histories”
Deniz Aydin, Washington University in St. Louis, “Forbearance vs. Interest Rates: Tests of Liquidity vs. Strategic Default Triggers in a Randomized Debt Relief Experiment”
Peter Ganong, Pascal J. Noel, and Joseph S. Vavra, University of Chicago and NBER; Fiona E. Greig, Vanguard; and Daniel M. Sullivan, JPMorgan Chase Institute, “Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data” (NBER Working Paper 30315)
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University, and Shogo Sakabe, Columbia University, “Coming In at a Trickle: The Optimal Frequency of Public Benefit Payments”
Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley, and Marianna Kudlyak and John A. Mondragon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Dynastic Home Equity”
Marco Di Maggio, Harvard University and NBER, and Justin Katz and Emily Williams, Harvard University, “Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Spending Patterns” (NBER Working Paper 30508)

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/innovative-data-household-finance-opportunities-and-challenges-fall-2022

Japan Project Meeting

A Japan Project meeting was held at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan on December 13–14, 2022. Shiro P. Armstrong of the Australian National University, Research Associate Charles Yuji Horioka of Kobe University, Takeo Hoshi and Tsutomu Watanabe of the University of Tokyo, and Research Associate David Weinstein of Columbia University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Asian Development Bank Institute. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER, and Yasutora Watanabe, University of Tokyo, “Yardstick Competition-Driven Political Cycles”
Sagiri Kitao and Minamo Mikoshiba, University of Tokyo, “Why Women Work the Way They Do in Japan: Roles of Fiscal Policies”
Taiyo Fukai, University of Tsukuba, and Ayako Kondo, University of Tokyo, “Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings”
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University, and Shogo Sakabe, Columbia University, “Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment”
Yoko Shibuya, Duke University, “Firm Size and Complementarity between Geography and Products”
Atsushi Yamagishi, Princeton University, and Yasuhiro Sato, University of Tokyo, “Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan’s Invisible Race”
Daisuke Miyakawa, Hitotsubashi University, and Koki Oikawa and Kozo Ueda, Waseda University, “Misallocation under the Shadow of Death”
Kentaro Asai, Paris School of Economics, and Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University, “The Consequences of Hometown Regiment”

Summaries of these papers are available at www.nber.org/conferences/japan-project-meeting-fall-2022

Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Economic Outcomes

A conference on Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Economic Outcomes was held at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India on December 17–18, 2022. Shilpa Aggarwal of the Indian School of Business and Research Associate Amit Seru of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

Jessica Bai, Harvard University; Shai Bernstein and Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER; and Abhishek Dev, Yale University, “The Dance between Government and Private Investors: Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe” (NBER Working Paper 28744)
Terry Moon and Yige Duan, University of British Columbia, “Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Small Business Deductions in Canada”
Aarushi Kalra, Brown University, “Local Elections, Leader Identity, and Hate Speech in Rural India”
Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School, “Women’s Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap”
Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and Nishant Vats, University of Chicago, “Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program”
Sandhya Garg, Institute of Economic Growth; Samarth Gupta, Ahmedabad University; and Sushanta Mallick, Queen Mary University of London, “Financial Access and Gender-Wise Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Rural India”
Sampreet Singh Goraya, Stockholm School of Economics, “How Does Caste Affect Entrepreneurship? Birth versus Worth”
Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER; Lakshita Jain, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL, “The Unholy Trinity: Regulatory Forbearance, Government-Owned Banks and Zombie Firms” (NBER Working Paper 28435)
Ritam Chaurey, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University; and Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University and NBER, “Demonetization and Firm Exports”
Meera Mahadevan, University of California, Irvine, “You Get What You Pay For: Electricity Quality and Firm Response”