June 26
BREAKFAST - Vistas
Professional Development Centre Room 103
8:50 Welcome and Introductions
9-9:45 Josh Feng (Utah) "Who Hires Whom? Entrepreneurial Backgrounds and Labor Market Opportunities "
9:45-10:30 Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State) "Innovation Nation: Evidence from Broadening Access to Ph.D. Training in the U.S."
Coffee Break
11-11:45 Jean-Félix Brouillette (HEC Montreal) "Variable Markups, Incomplete Pass-Through, and R&D Misallocation"
11:45-12:30 Jesse Perla (UBC) "Spooky Boundaries at a Distance: Inductive Bias, Dynamic Models, and Behavioral Macro"
LUNCH - Vistas
Professional Development Centre Room 103
1:30-2:15 Bank of Canada Key Note: Ben Jones (Northwestern) "Artificial Intelligence in R&D "
2:15-3:00 Giacomo De Giorgi (GESM - Geneva) "Farming, Non-Farm Enterprises, and Migration under Incomplete Markets"
Coffee Break
3:30-4:15 Ruben Gaetani (Toronto) "More Trade, Less Diffusion: Technology Transfers and the Dynamic Effects of Import Liberalization"
5:30 DINNER - The Balkan
June 27
BREAKFAST - Vistas
Professional Development Centre Room 103
9--9:45 Bruno Caprettini (St Gallen) "Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution"
9:45-10:30 Ralf Meisenzahl (Chicago Fed) "The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History"
BREAK
11-11:45 Francesca Truffa (Michigan-Ross) "How Female Representation Changes Science: Evidence from College Coeducation "
11:45-12:30 Longzhou Wang (Alberta) "Expressways and Firm Upgrading Evidence from Export Product Quality"
LUNCH - Vistas
Professional Development Centre Room 103
1:30-2:15 Bank of Canada Key Note: Nate Baum Snow (Toronto) “Local Human Capital Spillovers”
2:15-3:00 Alvaro Pinzon (Toronto) "Innovation in the Presence of Distortions"
BREAK
3:30-4:15 Alexander Amundsen (IMF) "Firm Performance, Business Supports and Zombification over the Pandemic"
DINNER - Vistas