10:30-11:30

Matthew Elliott (Cambridge) and Benjamin Golub (Harvard)

Supply Network Formation and Fragility

Break

11:45-12:45

Daron Acemoglu (MIT)

Firms, Failures, and Fluctuations (with Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi)

2:00-3:00

Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard)

Microfoundations of Aggregate Production Functions (with David Baqaee)

Break

3:15-4:15

David Baqaee (UCLA)

Networks, Barriers, and Trade (with Emmanuel Farhi)

Break

4:30-5:30

Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Northwestern)

Optimal Monetary Policy in Production Networks (with Jennifer La'O)

9:00-10:00

Marc Melitz (Harvard)

Exporting Ideas: Knowledge Flows from Expanding Trade in Goods (with Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timothee Gigout, and Matthieu Lequien)

10:15-11:15

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton)

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Break

11:30-12:30

Vasco Carvalho (Cambridge)

Network Bottlenecks and Market Power (with Matthew Elliott and John Spray)