Conference Room Location: KC-101
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome and Introductions
9:00 - 9:45
Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices
Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto) [Presenter], Hong Luo (Harvard Business School)
9:45 - 10:30
Teamwork in Contests
Guillermo Marshall (Sauder School of Business, UBC) [Presenter], Jorge Lemus (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:00 - 11:45
Innovation and Firm Dynamics with Patent Wars
Mark Rempel (University of Toronto)
11:45 - 12:30
Unleashing the Dragon: The Case for Patent Reform in China
Douglas Hanley (University of Pittsburg)
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:00
Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation, and Endogenous Market Structure
Laurent Cavenaile (University of Toronto), Murat Alp Celik (University of Toronto), Pau Roldan-Blanco (Banco de España), Xu Tian (Terry College of Business, University of Georgia)
15:30 - 16:15
New Evidence on Productivity Dynamics
Markus Poschke (McGill University)
16:15 - 17:00
Dynamic Wage Setting: The Role of Monopsony Power and Adjustment Costs
Ming Xu (Queen's University) [Presenter], Mons Chan (Queen's University), Elena Mattana (Aarhus University), Sergio Salgado (University of Pennsylvania )
Conference Room Location: KC-101
9:00 - 9:45
Handling Endogenous Regressors in Correlated Heterogeneous Panels with Copula Augmented Mean Group Estimation
Liying Yang (Sauder School of Business, UBC) [Presenter], Yi Qian (Sauder School of Business, UBC) and Hui Xie (Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University)
9:45 - 10:30
Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science
Fabio Bertolotti (Bank of Italy), Kyle Myers (Harvard Business School) [Presenter], Wei Yang Tham (Harvard Business School)
11:00 - 11:45
Firm Dynamics, Geographic Expansion and Local Competition
Anubha Agarwal (University of Toronto)
11:45 - 12:30
Financial Shocks, Productivity, and Prices
Simone Lenzu (NYU STern), David Rivers (University of Western Ontario) [Presenter], Joris Tielens (KU Leuven and National Bank of Belgium), Shi Hu
14:00 - 14:45
How Rules and Compliance Impact Organizational Outcomes: Evidence from Delegation in Environmental Regulation
James Fenske (University of Warwick) [Presenter], Muhammad Haseeb (University of Bristol) and Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan School of Management)