Programme Highlights – 14th CompNet Annual Conference, Vilnius, 25–26 September 2025

The conference program featured a rich mixture of keynote lectures, policy panels, poster sessions, and academic paper sessions across themes of productivity, firm dynamics, competitiveness, and resilience. Below is a structured summary of the the main sessions and presentations. 

Day 1 – Thursday, 25 September (Live stream)

Poster Session: MDI Applications 

The Digitalized Economy by Reetuparna Vishwanath (HEC Lausanne) & Daniele Aglio (VU Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute)

Net Zero Emissions and Energy Price Signaling by Marcelo Piemonte Ribeiro (Geneva Graduate Institute) 

Business Dynamism and Responsiveness: Cross-country Evidence from Europe by Alberto Ferreira (EUI & CompNet), Javier Miranda (IWH, FS Univ. & CompNet), Chengzi Yi (EUI & CompNet) 

Cross-country TFP Estimation and Productivity Indicators by Jorge de la Cal Medina (VU Amsterdam), Marco Miorandi (Universiteit van Amsterdam) 

Liberation Day, China Shock, and World Markets by Filippo di Mauro (CompNet), Ashim Dubey (CompNet), Manuel Gruber-Német (Austrian Productivity Board), Marc Melitz (Harvard University)

Opening Remarks
— Julita Varanauskienė (Deputy Chair, Board of Lietuvos bankas)
— Filippo di Mauro (Founder & Chairman, CompNet)

Keynote Lecture by Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)

Academic Paper Session 1 – Labour Markets

• Labour Market Power and Aggregate Productivity (Bernardo Mottironi, LSE)

• Job protection deregulation, productivity and distribution of income: evidence from Italy (Guido Franco)

Academic Paper Session 2 – Productivity Challenges

• Reviving growth in a time of workforce ageing: The role of job mobility (José Garcia-Louzao Perez, Lietuvos bankas)

• Europe’s Productivity Weakness: firm-level roots and remedies (Gee Hee Hong, IMF)

Academic Paper Session 3 – Finance & Productivity

• A Structural Break in EU Leverage Trends (Alessandro Zona Mattioli)

• Finance and Productivity Growth: The Role of Intangibles (Philip Schnattinger)

Day 2 – Friday, 26 September (Live Stream)

Opening Remarks
— Gediminas Šimkus (Chair, Board of Lietuvos bankas)

Policy Panel I – Productivity, Competitiveness & Europe
Panelists included Eric Bartelsman, Debora Revoltella, Rolf Strauch

Interview Session
— Aurelija Proškutė & Chad Syverson

Policy Panel II – Policies for Small Open Economies
Panel chaired by Filippo di Mauro, with speakers including Mihnea Constantinescu, Filiz Unsal, Vladas Algirdas Bumelis, Agnė Klimavičienė

Academic Paper Session 4 – Environment & Productivity

• Fueling the Future: Macro-level impacts of environmental policies via firm-level responses (Fatih Özturk, OECD)

• Emissions-Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (Maarten De Ridder, LSE)

Academic Paper Session 5 – Structural Resilience & Technological Adaptation

• Regional Growth and Industrial Specialization under Uncertainty (Lukas Boehnert, Oxford)

Closing Remarks
— Javier Miranda (IWH)
— Aurelija Proškutė (Lietuvos bankas)