Workshop on Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power

Time

Description

Room

12:00-13:15

Arrival/registration

Lunch

WB-1020 Restaurant

13:15-13:30

Welcome

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13:30-14:30

Keynote: Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London)

“AI, Growth and Competition”

(chair: Jakob Schneebacher)

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14:30-15:30

Session 1: Measuring Innovation Diffusion (chair: Spyros Galanis)

Pia Andres (Durham University),
“Directed Technological Change and General Purpose Technologies: Can AI Accelerate Clean Energy Innovation?”

Jinghui Yu (Lancaster University),
“Pre-Grant Patents and Innovation Diffusion”

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15:30-15:50

Coffee break

WB-1020 Restaurant

15:50-16:50

Session 2: Innovation and Diffusion Policies (chair: Anastasiia Parakhoniak)

Haoran Sun (Durham University),

“The Effect of Direct and Indirect Support for Innovation on Productivity: Evidence from Young UK Businesses”

Pavel Chakraborty (University of Bath),

 “R&D Tax Credit and Product Quality vs. Scope”

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16:50-17:00

Break

17:00-18:00

Session 3: Technology and Diffusion in the UK (chair: Fizza Jabbar)

Yannis Papadakis (Competition and Markets Authority),

“Innovation and Diffusion in the UK”

Gaia Dossi (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance),

“Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870-1940”

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Time

Description

Room

08:30-09:00

Arrival, coffee

WB-1020 Restaurant

9:05-10:05

Session 4: Capital and Labour Market Frictions (chair: Daniel Li)

Peter Lambert (London School of Economics),

“The Aggregate Consequences of Default Risk: Evidence from Firm-level Data”

Sergio Inferrera (Queen Mary University of London),

“Declining Job Reallocation in Europe: The Role of Shocks, Market Power, and Technology”

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10:05-10:15

Break

10:15-11:15

Session 5: UK Productivity and Dynamism (chair: Ana Rincon Aznar)

Yannis Galanakis (King’s College London),

“Real-Time Firm Entry and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from UK Administrative Data”

Josh Martin (Bank of England),

“Labour Productivity Estimates for Detailed Industries in the UK, 2009 to 2023”

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11:15-11:30

Coffee break

WB-1020 Restaurant

11:30-12:30

Session 6: Industrial Composition and Industrial Policy (chair: John Moffat)

Ana Rincon Aznar (Competition and Markets Authority),

“UK Industrial Policies”

Sophie Piton (Bank of England),

“Tradability and Goods’ Prices: A Tale of Two Regions”

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12:30-13:30

Lunch

WB-1020 Restaurant

13:30-14:30

Session 7: Industry Studies (chair: Joel Kariel)

Leonard Gregor (University of Duesseldorf),

“The Rise of Refinery Margins: The Case of the Energy Tax Cut in Germany”

Nikhil Datta (University of Warwick),

“Planning, Power, and Prices: The Competitive Impacts of Land-Use Regulation”

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14:30-14:50

Coffee break

WB-1020 Restaurant

14:50-15:50

Session 8: Corporate Governance and Competition (chair: Rajssa Mechelli)

Yunus Aksoy (Birkbeck University of London),

“Firm Ownership and the Macroeconomics of Incentive Leakages”

Mirko De Maria (Imperial College London),

“Shared Directors, Shared Gains?”

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15:50-16:00

Closing remarks

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