Conferences & Events

Organized by Salome Baslandze, Veronika Penciakova, and Jon Willis of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Please register here, the deadline for registration is Friday, November 18, 2022.

Format: Anchor talks: 45 minutes (including questions); regular talks: 30 minutes author, 15 minutes discussant, 15 minutes general audience.

Agenda

Thursday, December 1
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30	Welcome
1:45	Session 1: Firm Financing Anchor talk Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland
2:30	Break
3:00	Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed? Presenter: Corina Boar, New York University Denis Gorea, European Investment Bank Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University Discussant: Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
4:00	Government Procurement and Access to Credit: Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications Presenter: Manuel Garcia-Santana, World Bank Julian di Giovanni, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Priit Jeenas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Enrique Moral-Benito, Banco de España; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Josep Pijoan-Mas, Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussant: Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
5:00	Reception
6:00	Dinner
Friday, December 2
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30	Session 2: Firm Dynamics Anchor talk John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
9:15	Break
9:30	Serial Entrepreneurs, the Macroeconomy, and Top Income Inequality Presenter: Petr Sedlacek, University of New South Wales, University of Oxford Sonia Felix, Bank of Portugal, Nova School of Business and Economics Sudipto Karmakar, Bank of England Discussant: Joonkyu Choi, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
10:30	Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity: A Unified Approach Presenter: Teresa Fort, Dartmouth College Pol Antras, Harvard University Evgenii Fadeev, Harvard University Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago Discussant: Veronica Rappoport, London School of Economics
11:30	Lunch
12:45 p.m.	Session 3: Firm Innovation Anchor talk Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago
1:30	Break
1:45	Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation Song Ma, Yale University Ernest Liu, Princeton University Discussant: Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2:45	Global Mobile Inventors Dany Bahar, Brown University Discussant: Santiago Caicedo, Clemson University
3:45	Adjournment