7^th CompNet Annual Conference, June 21-22, 2018, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale), Germany

The main target of this conference was to present the current state of research on international developments in productivity dispersion across countries and its determinants. It also aimed at bringing together researchers and policy makers on the subject. 

For more details, please check the conference program and the conference summary. Follows the presentations and materials discussed during the conference.

Introductory Remarks 

• Chairman Address

Keynote Speech

Appropriability of Intellectual Assets and the Organization of Global Supply Chains
^{Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)}

Session 1: Productivity

• Does the Sector Matter? Unbundling the Size-Productivity-Wage Premium
  ^{Guiseppe Berlingieri(OECD; ESSEC Business School; CEP; LSE); Sara Calligaris (OECD); Chiara Criscuolo (OECD; CEP; LSE)}
  
• To which extent does GDP volatility result from the productivity volatility across sectors and firms? The case of France
  ^{Marie-Baïanne Khder (INSEE, France); Remi Monin (INSEE, France)}
• The contribution of small firms to the Dutch productivity frontier: leaders and followers
  ^{Harro van Heuvelen (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis); Leon Bettendorf (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis); Gerdien Meijerin (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)}

Session 2: Misallocation, Frictions

• Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
  ^{Christoph Weiss (EIB); Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley);
  Debora Revoltella (EIB); Jan Svejnar (Columbia University)}
• Loss-Offset Provisions in the Corporate Tax Code and Misallocation of Capital
  ^{Immo Schott (University of Montreal); Baris Kaymak (University of Montreal)}
• Do Marginal Products Differ from User Costs? Micro-Level Evidence from Italian Firms
  ^{Francesco Manaresi (Bank of Italy), Simone Lenzu (University of Chicago)}
• Firm-level Adjustments to Financial Shocks: The Case of Mark-ups
  ^{Philipp Meinen (Deutsche Bundesbank; Aarhus University); Sven Blank (Deutsche
  Bundesbank)}

Keynote Address

Declining Business Dynamism: Some Lessons from Modern Growth Theory and Patent Data
^{Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago)}

Session 3: Trade, Internationalisation, Globalisation

• Non-tariff measures, competitiveness and the population of exporters
  ^{Emanuele Forlani* (University of Bologna); Giorgio Barba Navaretti (University
  Milan); Giulia Felice (Politecnico di Milano); Paolo G. Garella (University of Milan)}
• The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis (link to the paper)
  ^{Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim; CEPR); Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business
  School; NBER); Alejandro Cunat* (University of Vienna; CES-ifo); Yanping Liu
  (University of Mannheim)}

Session 4: Intangibles 

• Product Market Deregulation, Monetary Policy and Intangible Investment: Firm-Level Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis
  ^{Romain Duval (IMF); JaeBin Ahn (IMF); Can Sever (University of Maryland)}
• Unlocking Investment in Intangible Assets
  ^{Peter Voigt (European Commission); Anna Thum-Thysen (European Commission);
  Benat Bilbao-Osorio (European Commission); Christoph Maier (European
  Commission); Diana Ognyanova (European Commission)}

Poster presentations: 

• The Distribution of Productivity: Measurement and Implications
• Productivity Growth and Resources Reallocation in France: The Creative Destruction Process
• CompNet’s 6th vintage: investigating cross country comparability
• The effect of euro adoption on firm-level export
• CompNet’s 6th vintage: novelties and main stylized facts
• Labor Market Power and the Distorting Effects of International Trade
• Explaining Wage Losses after Job Displacement: Employer Size and Lost Firm Rents
• Do Asset Purchase Programmes Prevent Plant Exits?