John Van Reenen
Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE
Presentations
2023
July 28 - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Keynote
speaker
17-21 July - NBER Bootcamp Conference
June 21 - HEC Paris: Conference on "Firm organization and capabilities", Keynote presentation
June 16 - University of Manchester: Conference on "Productivity Revolutions: Past and Future", Keynote presentation
23 May - NBER: Mega Firms Conference
May 10-11 - University of Chicago: The Coase Project Conference
May 4 - University of Oslo: Economics Seminar
May 2 - LSE Environment Day, London
April 14 - University of British Columbia, Canada: Sauder School of Business
April 13 - University of British Columbia, Canada: Department of Economics
April 5 - The Royal Economic Society, Glasgow, "Productivity under global uncertainty"
March 15 - University of Surrey: Economics Seminar, "FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm
Transactions", slides
March 14 - University of Padova, Italy: Economics Seminar (online), "FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-
to-Firm Transactions", slides
March 8 - MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, USA (online), "The Impact of Regulation and Innovation", slides
March 2 - Keystone Strategy's Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy Conference, Brussels, The Rise of
Superstar Firms: Causes and Consequences", slides, video
March 1 - Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
(DCMS), "The Rise of Superstar Firms: Causes and Consequences", slides
February 9 - NBER Economic Analysis of Regulation Conference, USA (online), "The impact of regulation and
innovation", slides
January 25 - Future of Work and Wellbeing Conference, London, "Innovation and firms"
January 23 - OECD High Level Symposium on Pro-Competitive Policies for a Sustainable Economic Recovery, Paris
(online), "Competition and Green Growth", slides
2022
December 14-15 - Empirical Management Conference, IFC, USA, Keynote presentation "The Natural Laws of
December 3 - UCL Stone Centre, London: Workshop on Economic dynamism and distributive justice, "Innovation and investment inequality", slides
November 14 - University of Michigan, USA: Labor and Public Finance Seminar, "The Impact of Regulation on
Innovation", slides
November 7 - Tel Aviv University, Israel: Applied Economics Seminar, "FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from
Firm-to-Firm Transactions", slides
October 26 - DG COMP, European Commission, Brussels: Economic Seminar, "The Rise of Superstar Firms: Causes
and Consequences", slides
October 25 - LSE Economics Society Sen Club, London, "Have Productivity and Pay Decoupled in the UK?", slides
October 5 - Harvard Kennedy School, USA: Reimagining the Economy Project - Workshop on Firm Support
Policies, "Reimagining the Economy: Harvard Kennedy School Discussion", slides
September 30 - University of Oklahoma, USA: Applied Microeconomics Seminar, "The impact of Regulation on
Innovation", slides
September 21 - LSE Environment Week, London, Public Lecture 'Ray of Hope? Innovation and the Climate Crisis',
"The Case for Growth: Threats, Opportunities and Climate Change", slides
September 13-15 - Presentation in Sweden:
- Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), "The Impact of Regulation on Innovation", slides
- Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), "The Case for Growth: Threats, Opportunities and Climate
Change", slides
- Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Department of Economics, "OPENing up Military Innovation: Causal
Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research", slides
August 25 - EEA-ESEM 2022 Congress, Bocconi University, Milan, "The Case for Growth: Threats and Opportunities"
(slides) and "Do tax incentives for research increase firm innovation? An RD Design for R&D" (slides)
July 21 - NBER "Innovation Research Boot Camp, Summer 2022", Boston, Lectures on "The Economics of Innovation
Policy", (slides: The Economics of Innovation Policy: Syllabus; Innovation Policies II: Introduction; Innovation Policies: R&D Spillovers; R&D Tax Credits; General Taxation and Innovation Policies; Direct R&D Subsidies; Innovation and Human Capital Policy)
July 8 - Annual Conference of the OECD Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) 2022, Keynote speech "The Case for
Growth: Threats and Opportunities", slides
June 28 - EU Joint Research Centre, Italy, "OPENing up Military Innovation: An Evaluation of Reforms to the U.S. Air
Force SBIR Program", slides
June 20 - Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Germany, "The Impact of Regulation on Innovation", slides
June 17 - University of Kent, "The Impact of Labour Regulation on Innovation", paper
June 16 - NYU-LMU Panel on "Superstar Firms and Innovation", video
June 10 - CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2022, Keynote lecture "Inequalities among firms: Implications for Labour Markets", slides
May 28 - LSE CEP/Becker Friedman Institute (UChicago): The Chicago/LSE Crime Conference 2022, "Policing and
management", slides, NBER WP 29851
May 26 - UCL Stone Wealth Inequality Centre Launch, "The Future isn't what is used to be", slides, video
May 25 - British Academy Conference on Inequalities in the 21st Century: the IFS Deaton Review, London, "Deaton
Review: Firms and Inequality", slides
May 19 - University of Chicago: Coase Conference on Innovation and Environment, Panel on "Global Diffusion of Solar
Power and the Role of China", slides
May 5 - ZEW Public Finance Conference, Mannheim, Keynote "The Case for Growth: Innovation and Diffusion Policies",
April 29 - The Sandmo Lecture on Public Policy, Bergen, Norway, Keynote "Inequality and Superstar Firms", slides
April 27 - Bundesbank Research Seminar, Germany, "The aggregate consequences of default risk: evidence from firm-
level data", slides
March 25 - Nova School of Business and Economics' Finance Seminar, Portugal, "OPENing up Military Innovation:
Causal effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research", slides
March 24 - British Academy Conference on Technology and the Future of Labour: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives, "Technology, Labour Markets and Firms", slides
March 15 - LSE/Labour UK/CEA/The Resolution Foundation webinar, "Bidenomics: Lessons for the UK", video
March 11 - NBER Labor Studies Discussion of: “Why Do Larger Firms have Lower Labor Shares?” by de Frahan,
Lamadon, Meling and Mogstad, slides
March 4 - LSE Economy 2030 Inquiry Workshop, "Economy 2030: Firms", slides
March 3 - IFS Seminar on Firms, market power, innovation and inequality, "Deaton Review: Firms and Inequality", slides
February 3 - Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, “OPENing up Military Innovation: Causal
effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research”, slides
January 27 - Policy Unit @ No. 10, London, "Policies to Raise Pay and Productivity: Innovation and Diffusion", slides
January 14 - 15th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, "The Rise of Superstar Firms: Causes and Consequences",
January 7 - American Economic Association Conference, USA, "FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-
Firm Transactions", slides
January 7 - American Economic Association Conference, USA, "Management and Misallocation Evidence from
Mexican Firms", slides
2021
December 17 - ESRI International Conference, "Policies to accelerate investment and innovation to raise
productivity", slides
December 2 - HMT Enterprise and Growth Seminar Series, "Policies to Raise Productivity & Pay: Innovation, Diffusion &
Misallocation", slides
December 1 - LBS Economics, "The Impact of Regulation on Innovation", slides
November 18 - Lazaridis Institute, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, "Rapid Research", slides
November 4 - UCL Applied Micro Seminar, "Regulation and Innovation", slides
October 29-30 - University of Mannheim, ZEW-EPos Workshop, "Regulation and Innovation", slides
October 21 - European Research Workshop in International Trade, Milan, "Superstar Spillovers", slides
October 5 - UCL, “Tribute to Wendy Carlin: 35 years at UCL” Lecture, slides
September 29 - ECB Forum on Central Banking, Sintra, "Discussion of Productivity Dispersion", slides
September 15 - PrOPEL Hub and the University of Nottingham, "Management and Productivity in a Post-pandemic
World: Trends and Lessons on Building a Productive Workforce", slides
September 14 - Dublin Economic Workshop - Annual Economic Policy Conference 2021, slides
August 28 - European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), "The Role of the State in the post
COVID-19 Economy", 3 presentations (John Van Reenen, Wendy Carlin, Philippe Aghion)
June 9-12 - The Economics of Creative Destruction, Paris, 2 presentations (John Van Reenen, Rachel Griffith)
June 3 - Industry Studies Association Annual Conference, Panel on Future of Work
May 26 - Powering Ahead: Raising Productivity, Resolution Foundation
May 21 - UNB Future of Growth Conference, “Going for Growth”, slides
May 20 - NBER Wage Dynamics, Discussion of Derenoncourt et al “Spillover effects from voluntary employer Minimum
Wages”, slides
May 19 - INSEAD, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
May 14 - UK Civil Service, “Productivity and Growth”, slides
May 13 - Kellogg Northwestern, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
May 10 - MIT TIES, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
May 6 - National Academies’ conference on FDI and Innovation, Colorado, “Superstar Spillovers”
May 4 - Deaton Review, IFS, “Firms and Inequality”
April 29 - OECD Keynote, “Going for Growth”, slides
April 27 - Bergen Keynote, “Superstar Firms”
April 23 - European Central Bank, “Going for Growth”, slides
April 21 - School of Finance, Tsingua University, China, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
April 8 - UC Berkeley, USA, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
April 7 - US Census Bureau, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
March 30 - LSE Labour Workshop, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
March 22 - Erasmus University, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
March 18 - MIT Organizational Economic Lecture II, slides
March 16 - MIT Organizational Economic Lecture I, slides
March 16 - MIT Organizational Economics, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
March 11 - LSE Capabilities, “Opening up military innovation”, slides
February 22 - London, Mallow Street Association of Pension Fund Investors, “Going For Growth”, slides
February 8 - LSE, “Going For Growth” Public Lecture, video, slides
January 3-5 - AEA, 3 presentations
2020
December 18 - IMT School Workshop on Technology and Labour
December 1 - Economists for Inclusive Prosperity, “What Should Biden do?”
November 25 - Peking HSBC Business School, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
November 24 - CEP/POID, “Covid and technology adoption”
November 19 - CEPR Globalisation, Labor Markets and Technology, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
November 18 - MIT/IDE Future of Work, video
October 12 - UCL Gorman Workshop, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
October 8 - Microsoft Research Group, “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
September 30 - LSE Development “Management, Development and the Wealth of Nations”
September 29 - INET Live Webinar, “What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, or Displacer”, video
September 18 - ESCOE Annual Conference Keynote, “Finding the Measure of Management”
August 27 - Rotterdam, CAED Keynote, “Organizational Data for the COVID Era”
August 4 - Tokyo: MITSUI Executive Briefing, Lost Einsteins
July 27 - Schmidt Futures Post-Apex Group, Innovation Policies
July 25 - NBER Summer Institute (Productivity and Macro), “Regulation and Innovation”, slides
June 25 - Brussels: ECFIN European Commission, “RD for R&D”, video
June 16 - Washington DC, Hamilton Foundation, Innovation Policies
June 13 - Rome: Presentation to Italian Prime Minister on COVID policy
June 12 - LBS: COVID Webinar, COVID: Public policy and firm policy slides and video
May 5 - Chicago: Heckman Inequality Seminar, “Firms and Inequality”
April 8 - CEPR-IO workshop, "RD for R&D", video
April 6 - LSE-EBRD Power Breakfast, “Economics of COVID”
April 1 - NYU Finance, “RD for R&D”, video
January 28 - Tony Blair Institute, “Superstar firms and policy”
January 3-5 - San Diego AEA, 7 presentations
2019
December 10 - CRAI conference on Market Power
November 7 - Workforce of the Future Taskforce, MIT
November 6 - Applied Micro Seminar, “Superstar Firms” Columbia University
October 21 - Productivity Workshop, Santiago, Management and the Wealth of Nations
October 14 - QMW Macro Seminar, “Superstar Firms”
September 30 - European Central Bank Distinguished Speaker series, Superstar Firms
September 26 - CEPR Economics Conference, London, Keynote "Management and the Wealth of Nations"
August 31 - Barcelona, EARIE Annual Conference, Keynote "Changes in Market Structure"
July 18 - NBER Summer Institute, Innovation Policy
July 8 - Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, Product Market Power
July 4 - LSE, Climate Change Innovation
June 18 - Accenture Agile Business Models, “Effects of new technology on jobs and growth”
June 17 - LSE Capabilities, “Superstar Firms”
June 11 - Imperial College, “Superstar Firms”
June 10 - British Academy “Lost Generations”
May 24 - LSE, “Industrial Policy”
May 23 - MRSI Trade Workshop, British Academy, “Brexit Economics”
May 22 - LSE Public Lecture “Where will future growth and jobs come from?” Podcast video
May 14 - Stanford GSB/Econ Joint Applied Micro Seminar, “Superstar Firms”
May 9 - Chicago BFI, “The New Gilded Age”, video
April 16 - Duke Applied Economics, “Superstar Firms”
March 11 - Cornell, “Lost Einsteins”
March 8 - Harvard Business School, “Lost Einsteins”
February 14 - LSE Capabilities, “Superstar Firms”
January 30 - Zurich, “Future of Work”
January 21 - HM Treasury, London, Productivity: Technology, Management and Policy
January 17 - European Commission, Brussels, “Competition Policy in an era of Superstar Firms”
January 10 - Ireland Higher Education Authority/MIT, Dublin, “What is the Future of Work?”