This year CompNet celebrates its 10th Annual Conference, together with Banque de France as co-host, which took place in Paris. The topic of the conference is 

"Firm-dynamics, factors reallocation and organization of production in the context of COVID-19"

Please find the official program here. 
The summary of the event can be viewed here.

Programme

Thursday, 14 October 2021
10h00 10h45	Registration and Coffee Official Welcome by Chairman of CompNet and Banque de France
Session 1 - The impact of the pandemic on productivity and business dynamism Chair/discussant – Jan de Loecker (Katholieke Univ., Leuven)*
11h15	“Firm-level heterogeneity in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic” By Alejandro Fernandez-Cerezo (Bank of Spain, BoS), Beatriz Gonzalez (BoS), Mario Izquierdo (BoS) & Enrique Moral-Benito (BoS)
11h45	“Business Dynamism and Productivity in a Pandemic” By Guido Ascari (Univ. of Oxford, Univ. of Pavia), Andrea Colciago (Bank of The Netherlands, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca) & Riccardo Silvestrini (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute)
12h15	Discussion and Q&A
12h45	Lunch & Poster Session
14h00	Keynote: John Van Reenen (LSE)*
Session 2 - The international dimension of firms: supply chains and corporate tax avoidance Chair/discussant – Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi Univ.)*
15h00	“Covid-19 Supply Chain Disruptions” By Matthias Meier (Univ. Mannheim) & Eugenio Pinto (Federal Reserve Board)
	“Corporate Tax Avoidance and Industry Concentration” By Julien Martin (Univ. du Québec à Montréal & CEPR), Mathieu Parenti (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles & CEPR) & Farid Toubal (Univ. Paris-Dauphine- PSL, CEPII, CESifo & CEP)
	Discussion and Q&A
16h30	Break
17h00	Policy Panel: Isabel Vansteenkiste (ECB), Deborah Revoltella (EIB), Rolf Strauch (ESM)*, Agnès Benassy-Quere (French Treasury) & Reint Gropp* (IWH Halle) Chair: Filippo di Mauro (CompNet)
18h30	Networking and Poster Session
Friday, 15 October 2021
Session 3 - Covid and productivity, what role for creative destruction? Chair/discussant –  Javier Miranda (IWH Halle)
09h00	“The Impact of COVID-19 on Productivity” By Nicholas Bloom (Stanford Univ.), Philip Bunn (Bank of England, BoE), Paul Mizen (Nottingham Univ.), Pawel Smietanka (BoE) & Gregory Thwaites (Nottingham Univ.)
	“COVID-19, Productivity and Reallocation Timely evidence from three OECD countries” By Dan Andrews* (OECD), Andrew Charlton (Macquarie Univ. & e61 Institute) & Angus Moore (Accenture)
10h30	Discussion and Q&A Break
Session 4 - Tracking the Covid impact in Real-Time, the use of innovative data Chair/discussant – Eric Bartelsman (Tinbergen Institute)
11h00	“A Resilient Economy? Business Creation in the UK during COVID-19” By Anthony Savagar (Univ. of Kent), Sophie Piton (BoE) & Saleem Bahaj (BoE)
	“Tracking the Footprints of COVID-19: A Textual Study of the Collapse and Recovery” By Shijie Shi (World Bank) &Temel Taskin* (World Bank)
	Discussion and Q&A
12h30   13h00 14h00	Guest Intervention and Q&A (Paloma Lopez-Garcia) (Occasional Paper ECB September 2021) Lunch & Poster Session Keynote: Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School)*
Session 5 - Management practices and automation: individual country evidence Chair/discussant – Chad Syverson (Univ. of Chicago)*
15h00	“What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France” By Philippe Aghion (Collège de France & LSE), Celine Antonin (Sciences Po & OFCE), Simon Bunel (BdF & PSE) & Xavier Jaravel (LSE)
	“Management practices and resilience to shocks: Evidence from COVID-19” By Andrea Lamorgese (Bank of Italy, BoI), Megha Patnaik (Luiss Univ. & CEPR), Andrea Linarello (BoI) & Fabiano Schivardi (Luiss Univ., EIEF & CEPR)
	Discussion and Q&A
16h30	END of Conference
POSTER SESSIONS, papers to be presented during breaks: 1.              “Hibernating during the pandemic. A quantitative assessment of business failures and risk of zombification of French firms”, by Raul Sampognaro (OFCE-Sciences Po) 2.              “Resource allocation with markups and policy distortions: is the covariance always informative?” by Filippo Biondi (KU Leuven & Research Foundation Flanders) 3.              “European Firm Concentration and Aggregate Productivity” by Matthias Mertens (IWH and CompNet), Tommaso Bighelli (IWH & CompNet), Filippo di Mauro (IWH, NUS and CompNet) & Marc Melitz (Harvard Univ.) 4.              “COVID-19 government support and its consequences for the pandemic productivity: a cross-country evidence” by Tommaso Bighelli (IWH & CompNet) & Tibor Lalinsky (National Bank of Slovakia) 5.              “Labour Market Power in Europe: Stylised facts from the CompNet database” by Bernardo Mottironi (London School of Economics and Political Science)
* Virtual