Past meetings

Previously discussed papers (reverse chronological order):

• "Economic Growth and the Rise of Large Firms" (2023) by Zhang Chen 

• “Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy" (2024) by Maarten De Ridder

• “Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution" (2024) by Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Lint Barrage, and David Hemous.

• “Immigration, Innovation, and Growth" (2024) by Stephen Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, and Tarek Hassan

• “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Economic Growth” (2022) by Marta Prato

• "Patents to products: Product innovation and firm dynamics" by David Argente, Salome Baslandze, Douglas Hanley, and Sara Moreira

• "Spillovers and the Direction of Innovation: An Application to the Clean Energy Transition" by Eric Donald

• "Cross-border Patenting, Globalization, and Development"  by Jesse LaBelle, Inmaculada Martınez-Zarzoso, Ana Maria Santacreu, and Yoto V. Yotov

• "The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriations Shocks"  by Andrew Fieldhouse and Karel Mertens

• "Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-In and Entrant Leapfrogging" by Richard Hornbeck, Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu, Anders Humlum, and Martin Rotemberg  (2024)

• "The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" by Daron Acemoglu (2024)

• "Growth through Innovation Bursts" by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Maarten De Ridder, Danial Lashkari, and Davide Rigo (2024)

• "Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World" by Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding, and Moto Yogo (2024)

• “The Creativity Decline: Evidence from U.S. Patents” by Aakash Kalyani (2024)

• “Misallocation and Asset Prices ” by Winston Wei Dou, Yan Ji, Di Tian & Pengfei Wang (2024)

• “The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D” by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Larisa C. Cioaca, Lia Sheer, and Hansen Zhang (2023)

• “Knowledge is (Market) Power” by Jinglun Yao (2023)

• “Embracing the Future or Building on the Past? Growth with New and Old Technologies” by Bernardo Ribeiro (2023)

• “Concentration, Market Power, and Misallocation: The Role of Endogenous Customer Acquisition” by Hassan Afrouzi, Andres Drenik, and Ryan Kim (2023)

• “Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea” by Nathan Lane (2022)

• “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Markup Estimation” by Maarten De Ridder, Basile Grassi, and Giovanni Morzenti (2022)

• “Innovation and Production in the Global Economy” by Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple (2018)

• “One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains” by Rick Hornbeck and Trevor Logan (2023)

• “The Neoclassical Growth of China” by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Lee Ohanian, and Wen Yao (2023)

• “Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?” by Daron Acemoglu (2023)

• “Supplier Churn and Growth: A Micro-to-Macro Analysis” by David R. Baqaee, Ariel Burstein and Cedric Duprez (2022)

• “Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation” by Stephie Fried (2022)

• “Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation, and Endogenous Market Structure” by Laurent Cavenaile, Murat Alp Celik, Pau Roldan-Blanco, and Xu Tian (2022)

• “Monopsony in the US Labor Market” by Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso, and Brad Hershbein (2022)

• “Entrepreneurial Human Capital and Firm Dynamics” by Francisco Queiro (2022)

• “Inequality and Measured Growth” by Ezra Oberfield (2023)

• “The Effects of Startup Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth” by Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco and Tom Schmitz (2023)

• “R&D Return Dispersion and Economic Growth: The Case of Inventor Market Power” by Nils Lehr (2022)

• “Additive Growth” by Thomas Philippon (2022)

• “Rising Markups or Changing Technology?” by Lucia S. Foster, John C. Haltiwanger and Cody Tuttle (2022)

• “Propagation and Amplication of Local Productivity Spillovers” by Xavier Giroud, Simone Lenzuy, Quinn Maingiz and Holger Muellerx (2022)

• “On the Direction of Innovation” by Hugo Hopenhayn and Francesco Squintani (2021)

• “Labor Market Dynamics when Ideas are Harder to Find” by Adrien Bilal, Nikolas Engbom, Simon Mongey, and Gianluca Violante (2021)

• “Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth” by Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley (2022)

• “Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?” by Corina Boar, Denis Gorea, and Virgiliu Midrigan (2021)

• “A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change” by Benjamin Jones and Xiaojie Liu (2022)

• “Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion” by Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo (2022)

• “Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations” by Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr (2018)

• “Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy” by Ernest Liu and Song Ma (2021)

• “Misallocation and Growth” by Boyan Jovanovic (2014)

• “Misallocation and Inequality” by Nezih Guner and Alessandro Ruggieri (2022)

• “Optimal Tax and R&D Policies” by Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and Stefanie Stantcheva (2022)

• “Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation” by Gideon Bornstein and Alessandra Peters (2022)

• “Population Growth and Firm Dynamics” by Michael Peters and Conor Walsh (2021)

• “Are Markups Too High? Competition, Strategic Innovation, and Industry Dynamics” by Laurent Cavenaile, Murat Alp Celik and Xu Tian (2021)

• “Endogenous Growth and Optimal Market Growth” by Maria Voronina (2021)

• “Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation, Misallocation and Aggregate TFP?” by Joel David, Lukas Schmid and David Zeke (2021)

• “Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth” by Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Noah Stoffman (2017)

• “Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry” by Nick Bloom, Mark Schankerman, and John Van Reenen (2013)

• “Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier” by Jess Benhabib, Jesse Perla and Chris Tonetti (2021)

• “From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?” by Michael Konig, Zheng Michael Song, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti (2020)

• “Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth” by Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde (2021)

• “Aggregation Implications of Innovation Policy” by Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein (2019)

• “Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China” by Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Daniel Yi Xu (2021)

• “Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?” by Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson (2008)

• “Good Dispersion, Bad Dispersion” by Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent (2020)

• “Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production” by Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield  (2021)

• “Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries” by Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp and Michael Peters (2021)

• “Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development” by Tiago V. Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno S. Martins and Cezar Santos (2021)

• “Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-Level Data” by Virgiliu Midrigan and Daniel Yi Xu (2014)

• “Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe” by Gita Gopinath, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Loukas Karabarbounis and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (2017)

• “How Costly are Markups?” by Chris Edmond, Virgiliu Midrigan and Daniel Yi Xu (2021)

• “Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity under Firm Heterogeneity” by Swati Dhingra and John Morrow (2019)

• “Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection” by Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta (2013)