Thursday, Feb 26, 2026
8:25 a.m. PT
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Financial MarketsGlobal EconomyInflationLabor MarketsU.S. Economy
Welcome
Speaker:
Sylvain Leduc, Executive Vice President and Director of Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Winners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor
Income Risk
Authors:
Brice Green, MIT Sloan School of Management
Leonid Kogan, MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management and NBER
Lawrence D. W. Schmidt, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Discussant:
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Born Different: Entrepreneurship through Inventor Mobility, Innovation, and Growth
Author:
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and CEPR Ia Vardishvili, Auburn University
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Discussant:
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
The Value of Organizational Learning Technologies
Author:
Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley Eduard Talamàs, IESE Business School
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Discussant:
Chad Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Intangible Capital, Multinational Production, and Productivity Growth
Authors:
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Guangbin Hong, Michigan State University
Muhammad Ali Sajid, University of Toronto
Joseph B. Steinberg, University of Toronto
Download paper (Dyrda) (pdf, 3 mb)
NBER Discussant:
Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER
Ideas and Firm Dynamics When It Takes Two to Tango
Authors:
Seula Kim, Pennsylvania State University
Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics and CEPR
Honghao Wang, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
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Discussant:
Lukas Freund, Boston College
The Public Origins of American Innovation
Authors:
Andrea Gazzani, Bank of Italy
Joseba Martinez, London Business School and CEPR
Filippo Natoli, Bank of Italy
Paolo Surico, London Business School and CEPR
Download paper (Martinez) (pdf, 8 mb)
Discussant:
Valerie Ramey, Stanford University, NBER and CEPR