CompNet ProdTalks
CompNet ProdTalks is a monthly recurring 1.5 hour virtual event, two selected papers will be presented including presentation, discussion and Q&A. The topic will be general, such as: Productivity Research, Finance, Trade and Labour.
Please find below the latest resources to past ProdTalk episodes.
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17 January 2023, Conversation with Thomas Philippon on Competition and Productivity (Program)
"How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets: A Study of Institutional Drift", Thomas Philippon with Germán Gutiérrez", JEEA forthcoming
Book: The Great Reversal
Matthias Mertens, Filippo di Mauro, Marc J Melitz, Tommaso Bighelli
Recording of the ProdTalk No 19 - 17 January 2023
6 September 2022, ProdTalk on "Global Value Chains – Where do we stand?" (Program)
“Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks”
Paper by Hanwei Huang (City University of Hong Kong and CEP), Kalina Manova, (UCL, CEPR and CEP), Oscar Perelló (UCL), Frank Pisch (TU Darmstadt, CEP)
Presented by Kalina Manova, (UCL, CEPR and CEP)
Discussion by Davin Chor (Tuck School of Business)
PANEL discussion on GVC prospects by Bob Koopman, Kalina Manova, Davin Chor and chaired by Filippo di Mauro.
Recording of the ProdTalk No 18 - 6th September 2022
10 May 2022, ProdTalk on "Robot & Automation" (Program)
“Robots, Firms & Workforce Composition”
Paper by Liuchun Deng, Verena Plümpe, Steffen Müller & Jens Stegmaier Presented by Deng Liuchun (IWH & Yale-NUS College)
Discussion by Simon Bunel (INSEE & Banque de France)
"Robots for Economic Development" Paper by Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente Presented by Giorgio Presidente (Oxford Martin School, Oxford University)
Discussion by Verena Plümpe (IWH)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 17 - 10 May 2022
5 April 2022, ProdTalk on "War and Sanctions: Impacts on the Economy and its Productivity" (Program)
"Worth the pain? Firms' exporting behaviour to countries under sanctions” (2021, EER)
Papers by Julian Hinz (Economist & Professor at Bielefeld University, Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
“The implications of sanctions on the Russian economy”
Paper by Sergei Guriev (Economist & Professor at Department of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris)
“What if? The Economic Effects for Germany of a Stop of Energy Imports from Russia” Paper by Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Andreas Peichl, Moritz Schularick and Karen Pittel (Director of the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Resources)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 16 - 5 April 2022
1 March 2022, with our special guest Professor Richard Baldwin (Program)
Keynote Presentation by Professor Richard Baldwin (Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva) “Risks and global supply chains: What we know and what we need to know” Paper by Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Rebecca Freeman (Bank of England)
Panel Discussion on Measurement, Exposure to Shocks & Inflation, followed by Q&A
The Panel:
Gianluca Benigno (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 15 - 1 March 2022
1 February 2022, co-hosted by EBRD (Program)
“Serial Entrepreneurs, the Macroeconomy and Top Income Inequality”
Paper by Sónia Félix (Bank of Portugal and Nova School of Business and Economics), Sudipto Karmakar (Bank of England), Petr Sedlácek (University of New South Wales and University of Oxford)
Discussion by Niklas Garnadt (German Council of Economic Experts)
“Startup Types, Structural Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in Europe”
Paper by Ralph De Haas (EBRD), Vincent Sterk (University College London) and Neeltje Van Horen (Bank of England)
Discussion by Javier Miranda (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 14 - 1 February 2022
7th December 2021, co-hosted by ISTAT (Program)
“Environmental regulation and productivity growth: Main policy challenges”
Paper by Roberta De Santis (ISTAT and Luiss University), Piero Esposito (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Luiss School of European Political Economy), Cecilia Jona Lasinio (ISTAT and Luiss University)
Discussion by Eleonora Sfrappini (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
“ Climate Change-Related Regulatory Risks and Bank Lending”
Paper by Isabella Mueller and Eleonora Sfrappini (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Discussion by Michael Donadelli (University of Brescia)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 13 - 7 December 2021
2nd November 2021, co-hosted by the World Bank (Program)
“Long-term Labor Market Adjustment to Transitory Shocks: Worker Impact and Firm Channels”
Paper by Ana Margarida Fernandes (World Bank) and Joana Silva (World Bank)
Discussion by Jose Garcia-Louzao (Bank of Lithuania)
“The Division of Unexpected Revenue Shocks”
Paper by Paulo Bastos (World Bank), Natalia Monteiro (University of Minho), and Odd Rume Straume (University of Minho)
Discussion László Tétényi (Bank of Portugal)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 12 - 2nd November 2021
6th July 2021, co-hosted by the Bank of Spain (Program)
“A Tale of Two Margins: Monetary Policy and Capital Misallocation in Spain”
Paper by Silvia Albrizio(Bank of Spain), Beatriz González(Bank of Spain)
Discussion by Sara Calligaris (OECD)
“Monetary policy, Firm exit and Productivity”
Paper by Benny Hartwig (Goethe University Frankfurt), Philipp Lieberknecht (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Discussion by Matthias Meier (University of Mannheim, Department of Economics)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 11 - 6th July 2021
1st June 2021, co-hosted by IMF (Program)
Paper by Paper by Federico J Diez; Romain A Duval; Jiayue Fan; José Garrid; Chiara Maggi; Maria Soledad Martinez Peria; Nicola Pierri (all IMF); Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Maryland)
Discussion by Carolina Villegas Sanchez (ESADE Business School)
"Firm exit patterns and the post-Covid cleansing mechanism: Evidence from Japan"
VOXEU column by Gee Hee Hong (IMF), Yukiko Saito (Waseda University)
Discussion by Daisuke Miyakawa (Hitotsubashi University Business School (HUB))
Recording of the ProdTalk No 10 - 1st June 2021
4th May 2021, co-hosted by The Productivity Institute (Program)
“A concerted effort to tackle the UK Productivity Puzzle”
A brief introduction of the Productivity Institute by Bart van Ark and Tony Venable; TPI @ Manchester
“Productivity in UK healthcare during and after the Covid-19 pandemic”
Paper by Diane Coyle, Kaya Dreesbeimdiek and Annabel Manley; TPI @ Cambridge
Discussion by Paul Schreyer (OECD)
Paper by Stephen Roper, Halima Jibril, Mark Hart; TPI @ Warwick/Aston
Discussion by Tibor Lalinsky (National Bank of Slovakia)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 9 - 4th May 2021
6th April 2021, co-hosted by CAF - Developing Bank Latin America (Program)
“Talk on firm-level data for Latin American countries”
by Marcela Eslava (Professor of Economics at University de los Andes, Colombia)
“Product-Level Efficiency and Core Competence in Multi-Product Plants”
Paper by Álvaro García, (Assistant Professor at University de la Andes, Chile)
"How resilient are exporting firms? Evidence from Chavez's trade war with Colombia."
Paper by Nicolás de Roux (Assistant Professor at University de los Andes, Colombia)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 8 - 7th April 2021
2nd March 2021, co-hosted by Bank of Finland (Program)
“The life and death of zombies – evidence from government subsidies to firms”
Paper by Satu Nurmi, Juuso Vanhala, Matti Virén (Bank of Finland)
Discussion by Angelos Athanasopoulos (Trinity College Dublin)
Paper by Manfred Antoni, Michael Koetter, Steffen Müller & Talina Sondershaus (IWH Halle)
Discussion by Martin Kornejew (Uni-Bonn)
Recording of the ProdTalk No 7 - 2nd March 2021
2nd February 2021, co-hosted by Banque de France (Program)
Welcome and Introduction by the Chairman of CompNet, Filippo di Mauro
Panel Discussion - Follow up on VOXEU column by Chad Syverson and Filippo di Mauro: Covid Crisis and Productivity Growth.
Panel Discussion by
Agnès Bénassy-Quèrè (French Treasury; Paris School of Economics)
Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
Steven Davis (University of Chicago)
Carolina Villegas Sanchez (ESADE Business School)
Recording of the ProdTalk No. 6 - 2nd February 2021
12th January 2021, co-hosted by Banco de Portugal (Program)
"On the Cleansing Effect of Recessions and Government Policy"
Paper by Nicholas Kozeniauskas, Pedro Moreira & Cezar Santos (Banco de Portugal)
Discussion by Virginia di Nino (ECB)
"Networks and Manager Pay: Evidence from Time-varying Exogenous Metrics"
Paper by Sharmin Sazedj (Banco de Portugal)
Discussion by Luca Opromolla (Banco de Portugal)
1st December 2020, co-hosted by German Council of Economic Experts (SVR) (Program)
"Productivity Growth through Innovation: Advancing Digitalisation"
Report by the German Council of Economic Experts, presented by Niklas Garnadt
Discussion by Michael Connolly (Irish National Statistical Institute, NSI)
"Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment"
Paper by Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University
Discussion by Steffen Viete (German Council of Economic Experts, GCEE)
Recording of the ProdTalk No. 4 - 1st Dec. 2020
3rd November 2020, co-hosted by Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) (Program)
"Firm dynamism"
Paper by Ufuk Akcigit
"Transportation Costs and Firm Performance"
Paper by Catarina Branco, Dirk C. Dohse, Joao Pereira dos Santos, and Jose Tavares"
Recording of the ProdTalk No. 3 - 3rd Nov. 2020
6th October 2020, hosted by the European Investment Bank (Program)
"Investment vs debt trade-off in the post-COVID-19 European economic landscape"
Paper by Laurent Maurin & Rozalia Pal, European Investment Bank
"Policy Effects of International Taxation on Firm Dynamics and Capital Structure"
Paper by Adam Spencer, School of Economics, The University of Nottingham
Recording of the ProdTalk No. 2 - 6th Oct. 2020
1st September, hosted by European Central Bank (Program)
Paper by Alistair Dieppe, World Bank
