Monday, September 18


8:00am-9:00amRegistration
 
9:00am-9:15amWelcome:
President Michael H. Moskow , Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Associate Director Thomas L. Mesenbourg, U.S. Census Bureau
 
9:15am-9:30amBreak
 
9:30am-11:00amSession 1
 
Session 1aProductivity Measurement
 
WHAT DO WE ESTIMATE IN PRODUCTION FUNCTION REGRESSIONS? CRITIQUE AND NEW APPROACHES
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of Michigan
 
Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity
Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago and the NBER
Cheryl Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, U.S. Census Bureau and NBER
 
Session 1bWorker Turnover
 
The Micro Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago and NBER
R. Jason Faberman, Bureau of Labor Statistics
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
 
Firm Growth, Worker Turnover and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Dataset
Jeremy T. Fox, University of Chicago
Valerie Smeets, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 
Wage Bill Creation and Destruction
Richard Duhautois, CEE and CREST
Francis Kramarz, Ecole Polytechnique and Crest-Insee
 
Session 1cIncentive Pay and Firms
 
Incentive Pay: Its Influence on the Wage Structure of Firms
Lex Borghans, Maastricht University, ROA
Ben Kriechel, Maastricht University, ROA
 
Doing the Right Thing? Does Fair Share Capitalism Improve Firm Performance?
Alex Bryson, Policy Studies Institute and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Richard Freeman, Harvard University, NBER and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
 
EMPLOYEES' CHOICE OF METHOD OF PAY: What Happens When a Firm Sets Each Employees' Total Pay But Offers All Employees Total Choice Over the Mix of Base, Bonus, and Stock Options
Kevin F. Hallock, Cornell University
 
Session 1dEmerging Economies
 
Business demography, job flows and productivity in enterprise sector in Poland
Wojciech Rogowski, National Bank of Poland
Jacek Socha, National Bank of Poland
 
Geography of Firm Demography: An Explanatory Analysis
Miyase Y. Koksal, University of Gothenburg
Erol Taymaz, Middle East Technical University
 
Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
Albert Park, University of Michigan
Dean Yang, University of Michigan
Xinzheng Shi, University of Michigan
Yuan Jiang, National Bureau of Statistics, China
 
11:00am-11:15amBreak
 
11:15am-12:45pmSession 2
 
Session 2aFirm Investment Decisions and Credit Constraints
 
Corporate Taxation, Tax Planning, and Thin Capitalization Rules - Evidence from a Panel of Multinationals
Thiess Buettner, Munich University (LMU) and CESifo
Michael Overesch, ZEW and Mannheim University
Ulrich Schreiber, Mannheim University and ZEW
Georg Wamser, CESifo und Munich University (LMU)
 
New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints
Andrea L. Eisfeldt, Northwestern University
Adriano A. Rampini, Duke University
 
The response of firms investment and financing to adverse cash flow shocks: the role of bank relationship
Catherine Fuss, National Bank of Belgium
Philip Vermeulen, European Central Bank
 
Session 2bR&D and Innovation
 
INNOVATION NOVELTY IN AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSES - A MICRO DATA ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Donald Brunker, Australian Department of Industry, Tourism & Resources
Umme Salma, Australian Department of Industry, Tourism & Resources
 
Understanding Co-operative R&D Activity: Evidence from Four European Countries
Laura Abramovsky, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Elisabeth Kremp, SESSI
Alberto Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Tobias Schmidt, ZEW
Helen Simpson, Institute for Fiscal Studies
 
Coordination Technologies and Firm Boundaries: Evidence from Taxicabs
Evan T. Rawley, University of California Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Timothy Simcoe, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
 
Session 2cEmployment Contracts
 
Major provisions of Labour Contracts and Theoretical Coherence
Amy Peng, Ryerson University
 
Is there rent sharing in the Finnish metal industry?
Pekka Laine, Statistics Finland
 
Wage Dynamics and Insurance
Mario Macis, University of Chicago
 
Session 2dMeasurement
 
Opinion Formation in Business Surveys: Empirical Evidence from German Micro Data
Klaus Wohlrabe, University of Munich
 
R&D as a Value Creating Asset
Emma Edworthy, Office for National Statistics
Gavin Wallis, Office for National Statistics
 
Contributions to Health Insurance Premiums: When Does the Employer Pay 100 Percent?
Alice Zawacki, U.S. Census Bureau
Amy Taylor, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 
Measuring Output in the Computer Industry
Kimberly N. Bayard, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Shawn D. Klimek, U.S. Census Bureau
 
12:45pm-1:45pmLunch
 
1:45pm-3:15pmSession 3
 
Session 3aThe Impact of Global Engagement on Firm Performance
 
Effects on productivity from Swedish offshoring
Eva Hagsten, Statistics Sweden
Patrik Karpaty, Orebro University
 
International trade in Services and firm performance: evidence from the the UK
Chiara Criscuolo, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
 
The Output and Productivity Consequences of Foreign-Sourced R&D
William R. Kerr, Harvard Business School
 
Session 3bEntry and Exit
 
Survival and exit in a distorted environment: Indonesian manufacturing establishments in the Suharto era, 1975-1995
Virginie Vial, EUROMED Business School
 
Entry and Exit in Geographic Markets
Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Shawn D. Klimek, U.S. Census Bureau
Mark J. Roberts, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Yi Xu, The Pennsylvania State University
 
Entry, Costs Reduction, and Competition in the Portuguese Mobile Telephony Industry
Philippe Gagnepain, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Pedro Pereira, Autoridade da Concorrencia
 
Session 3cOutsourcing
 
THE DECISION TO CONTRACT WORK OUT: HOW IMPORTANT ARE LABOR COSTS?
Mine Zeynep Senses, Johns Hopkins University
 
The Use of Temporary Workers and Volatilities
Yukako Ono, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Dan Sullivan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 
Session 3dDynamics of Firm Wages
 
Dynamics of Workplace and Firm-level Wages
Alex Bryson, Policy Studies Institute and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
James C. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau
Richard Freeman, Harvard University, NBER and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
 
Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?
Diego Comin, New York University
Erica L. Groshen, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Bess Rabin, Watson Wyatt
 
Whose pay cut? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s
Petri Bockerman, Labour Institute for Economic Research
Seppo Laaksonen, University of Tampere and University of Helsinki
Jari Vainiomaki, University of Tampere
 
Session 3eLabor Market Regulations - International Comparisons
 
LABOR MARKET REGULATION, JOB CREATION AND EMPLOYMENT ADJUSTMENT: Evidence from international firm-level data
Reyes Aterido, The World Bank
Carmen Pages, The World Bank
 
Reallocation, Productivity, and the Effects of Privatization: Estimates from Manufacturing Firms in Transition Economies
J. David Brown, Heriot-Watt University
John S. Earle, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and Central European University
Almos Telegdy, Central European University
 
Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe
Julian Messina, European Central Bank (DG-Research), Universita di Salerno (CSEF) and IZA
Giovanna Vallanti, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
 
3:15pm-3:30pmBreak
 
3:30pm-4:30pmSession 4
 
Session 4aEmployment Dynamics
 
Estimating the True Cost of Job Loss: Evidence using Matched Data from California 1991-2000
Andrew K. G. Hildreth, University of California Berkeley
Till M. von Wachter, Columbia University
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, University of California Berkeley
 
Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine, Public Policy Institute of California, NBER, and IZA
Junfu Zhang, Public Policy Institute of California
Brandon Wall, Public Policy Institute of California
 
Session 4bImport Competition and Firm Behavior
 
Import Price Pressure on Firm Production and Input Choice: The Case of US Textiles
Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Employment Dynamics and Import Competition
Hale Utar, University of Colorado, Boulder
 
Session 4cThe Impact of Environmental Regulation
 
Evaluating Voluntary U.S. Climate Programs: The Case of Climate Wise
William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future
 
Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?
Wayne B. Gray, Clark University
Ronald J. Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and U.S. E.P.A., National Center for Environmental Economics
 
Session 4dProductivity and Firm Selection
 
Productivity as a determinant of the hazard of exits in a panel of French Manufacturing firms
Flora Bellone, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS-Gredeg, and OFCE-DRIC
Patrick Musso, CNRS-Gredeg and OFCE-DRIC
Lionel Nesta, OFCE-DRIC and CNRS-Gredeg
Michel Quere, CNRS-Gredeg and OFCE-DRIC
 
Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection
Allan G. Collard-Wexler, New York University - Stern School of Business
 
4:30pm-4:45pmBreak
 
4:45pm-5:45pmKeynote: Professor James J. Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER

Tuesday, September 19


8:30am-9:00amBreak
 
9:00am-10:30amSession 5
 
Session 5aJob Mobility
 
Entry Cohort-Effects at the Firm Level: Internal Labor Markets or Competitive Wage Differences
Till von Wachter, Columbia University
Stefan Bender, Institute for Employment Research
 
Evaluation and Impact of grouped Firm-to-Firm Mobility on the Labor Market
Claude Picart, INSEE-CREST
 
Big fish in small pond or small fish in big pond? An analysis of job mobility
Ana Rute Cardoso, Institute for the Study of Labor(IZA) and CEPR
 
Session 5bEntrepreneurship
 
Reconciling Household and Administrative Measures of Self Employment and Entrepreneurship
Melissa Bjelland, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cornell University and LEHD
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, NBER and LEHD
Kristin Sandusky, LEHD (U.S. Census Bureau)
James Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
Part-time Entrepreneurs and Wealth Effects: New Evidence from The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
Kameliia Petrova, Paul Smith's College
 
Session 5cOrganizational Capital and ICT
 
It Ain't what you do it's the way that you do I.T.
Nick Bloom, Dept. Economics, Stanford & Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Raffaella Sadun, Dept. Economics & Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
John Van Reenen, Dept. Economics & Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
 
ICT, Reorganization and Productivity Growth
Laura Abramovsky, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), University College London (UCL) and Advanced Institute for Management (AIM) Research
Rachel Griffith, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), University College London (UCL) and Advanced Institute for Management (AIM) Research
 
Information Technology and Organizational Capital
Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT
Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania
Adam Saunders, MIT
 
Session 5dMicro Data Disclosure Techniques
 
Recent Confidentiality Research Related to Access to Enterprise Microdata
Arnold Reznek, U.S. Census Bureau
 
Statistical Disclosure Control in a Research Environment
Felix Ritchie, U.K. Office of National Statistics
 
Making public use, synthetic files of longitudinal establishment data
Jerry Reiter, Duke University
Satkartar Kinney, Duke University
 
10:30am-10:45amBreak
 
10:45am-12:15pmSession 6
 
Session 6aDynamics of Young Firms
 
Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes
Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago and NBER
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
C.J. Krizan, U.S. Census Bureau
Javier Miranda, U.S. Census Bureau
Alfred Nucci, U.S. Census Bureau
Kristin Sandusky, U.S. Census Bureau
 
Business Demography in Spain: Determinants of Firm Survival
Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Banco de Espana
Sergio Puente, Banco de Espana
 
A Firm's First Year
Jaap H. Abbring, Free University
Jeffrey R. Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
 
Corporate growth and industrial dynamics: evidence from French manufacturing
Giulio Bottazzi, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies
Alex Coad, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies & MATISSE, University of Paris
Nadia Jacoby, MATISSE, University of Paris
Angelo Secchi, S.Anna School of Advanced Studies
 
Session 6bLabor Markets and Older Workers
 
Retirement Age and Labour Market Outcomes
Pedro Martins, Queen Mary, University of London; and IZA
Alvaro Novo, Banco de Portugal; and ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Pedro Portugal, Banco de Portugal; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; and IZA
 
Wages, Productivity and Aging
Benoit Dostie, HEC Montreal
 
Labor Market Rigidities and the Employment Behavior of Older Workers
David Blau, University of North Carolina
Tetyana Shvydko, University of North Carolina
 
Session 6cMultinationals
 
The Effect of Innovation on Exports: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Bettina Becker, Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Stefan Lachenmaier, Ifo Institute for Economic Research
 
Export versus FDI with market potential: evidence from France
Benjamin Nefussi, CREST
 
FDI, Labour Mobility and Wages
Hanna O. Pesola, Helsinki School of Economics
 
Session 6dAllocation of Skills and Capital
 
City Size, Industrial Composition, and the Urban Wage Premium
Joel Elvery, Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
Human Capital and the Diffusion of Personal Computers, 1990-2002
Mark Doms, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
 
The Role of Life Cycle Changes on Changes in Skill Intensity
T. Lynn Riggs, U.S. Census Bureau
Grigoris Zarotiadis, Department of Economics, University of Ioannina
Ioannis Theodosiou, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia
 
12:15pm-1:15pmLunch
 
1:15pm-2:45pmSession 7
 
Session 7aThe Importance of Chains - Evidence from the Retail Sector
 
Retail Market Structure and Dynamics: A Three Country Comparison of Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.
Jonathan E. Haskel, Queen Mary, University of London
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Kazuyuki Motohashi, University of Tokyo
 
The Evolution of National Retail Chains: How We Got Here
Lucia S. Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, U.S. Census Bureau, and NBER
C.J. Krizan, U.S. Census Bureau
 
The Evolving Food Chain: Competitive Effects of Wal-Mart Entry into the Supermarket Industry
Emek Basker, University of Missouri
Michael Noel, University of California - San Diego
 
The Production Decisions of Large Competitors: Detecting Cost Advantages and Strategic Behavior in Restaurants
Clarissa A. Yeap, University of Minnesota
 
Session 7bGovernment Regulations and Markets
 
Equivocal Enforcement: Regulatory Contests in OSHA
Anna Belova, Clark University
 
Worksharing revisited - Lessons from a Natural Experiment
Jose Varejao, Faculdade de Economia do Porto and CETE
 
Session 7c Within-Firm Wage Distributions
 
The Evolution of the Corporate Hierarchy: Span of Control, Compensation and Career Dynamics. Evidence from a Large Scandinavian Firm
Valerie Smeets, Aarhus School of Business
Frederic Warzynski, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 
Wage inequality and firm performance in Germany
Hermann Gartner, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
 
Decomposing Productivity and Wage Effects of Intra-establishment Labor Restructuring
Mika Maliranta, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Pekka Ilmakunnas, Helsinki School of Economics and HECER
 
The Returns to Hierarchy
Luis Garicano, University of Chicago
Thomas Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
 
Session 7dFirm Size
 
"Begin at the Beginning": Initial Conditions Matter for the Size Distribution of Firms
Rebecca Hellerstein, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Miklos Koren, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
 
Structural change in German chemical manufacturing industry during the 1990's. An analysis at the micro-level
Oleg Badunenko, European University Viadrina
 
Plant Size and Plant Function
Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
John J. Stevens, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
 
2:45pm-3:00pmBreak
 
3:00pm-4:00pmSession 8
 
Session 8aMultinationals and the Home Market
 
Going Multinational: What are the effects on home market performance?
Robert Jaeckle, Ifo Institute for Economic Research
 
The effects of the internationalization of Danish enterprises on home employment and wages: Analysis of firm data
Tor Eriksson, Aarhus School of Business and Center for Corporate Performance
Jingkun Li, Aarhus School of Business and Center for Corporate Performance
 
Session 8bThe Impact of Hurricane Katrina
 
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Business Establishments
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Javier Miranda, U.S. Census Bureau
 
Business Employment Dynamics - New National, State Data and Post Katrina Effects
Richard L. Clayton, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Akbar Sadeghi, Bureau of Labor Statistics
David Talan, Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
Session 8cInternational Trade and Wage Premia
 
Linking Productivity to Trade in the Structural Estimation of Production Within UK Manufacturing Industries
Marian Rizov, Middlesex University Business School and IIIS, Trinity College, Dublin
Patrick Paul Walsh, Trinity College, Dublin
 
The Takeover and Selection Effects of Foreign Ownership in Germany: An Analysis Using Linked Worker-Firm Data
Martyn Andrews, University of Manchester
Lutz Bellman, Institut fur Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
Thorsten Schank, Freidrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Richard Upward, University of Nottingham
 
Session 8dProductivity Growth - International Comparisons
 
National and International Productivity Levels, Growth and Convergence: New Evidence from International Micro Data
Eric Bartelsman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
Jonathan E. Haskel, Queen Mary, University of London
Ralf Martin, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
 
Reallocation and Productivity Growth: The FAQs
Eric Bartelsman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, U.S. Census Bureau, and NBER
Stefano Scarpetta, World Bank and IZA
 
4:00pm-4:15pmBreak
 
4:15pm-5:15pmKeynote: Professor Francis Kramarz, Ecole Polytechnique and Crest-Insee