2022

May 26 - UCL Stone Wealth Inequality Centre, "The Future isn't what is used to be", slides

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May 25 - British Academy Conference on Inequalities in the 21st Century: the IFS Deaton Review, London, "Deaton Review: Firms and Inequality", slides

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May 5 - ZEW Public Finance Conference, Mannheim, Keynote "The Case for Growth: Innovation and Diffusion Policies", slides

 

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", slides, video 

 

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

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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

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2020

 

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

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2019

 

December 10 - CRAI conference on Market Power

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November 7 - Workforce of the Future Taskforce, MIT

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November 6 - Applied Micro Seminar, “Superstar Firms” Columbia University

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October 21 - Productivity Workshop, Santiago, Management and the Wealth of Nations

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October 14 - QMW Macro Seminar, “Superstar Firms”

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September 30 - European Central Bank Distinguished Speaker series, Superstar Firms

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September 26 - CEPR Org Econ conference Keynote, Management and the Wealth of Nations, London

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August 31 - Barcelona, EARIE Annual Conference keynote, Changes in Market Structure

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July 18 - NBER Summer Institute, Innovation Policy

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July 8 - Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, Product Market Power

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July 4 - LSE, Climate Change Innovation

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June 18 - Accenture Agile Business Models, “Effects of new technology on jobs and growth”

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June 17 - LSE Capabilities, “Superstar Firms”

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June 11 - Imperial College, “Superstar Firms”

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June 10 - British Academy “Lost Generations”

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May 24 - LSE, “Industrial Policy”

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May 23 - MRSI Trade Workshop, British Academy, “Brexit Economics”

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May 22 - LSE Public Lecture “Where will future growth and jobs come from?” Podcast video

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May 14 - Stanford GSB/Econ Joint Applied Micro Seminar, “Superstar Firms”

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May 9 - Chicago BFI, “The New Gilded Age”, video

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April 16 - Duke Applied Economics, “Superstar Firms”

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March 11 - Cornell, “Lost Einsteins”

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March 8 - Harvard Business School, “Lost Einsteins”

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February 14 - LSE Capabilities, “Superstar Firms”

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January 30 - Zurich, “Future of Work”

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January 21 - HM Treasury, London, Productivity: Technology, Management and Policy

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January 17 - European Commission, Brussels, “Competition Policy in an era of Superstar Firms”

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January 10 - Ireland Higher Education Authority/MIT, Dublin, “What is the Future of Work?”