Productivity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship met in Cambridge on March 24. Program Directors Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Josh Lerner of Harvard University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Miguel Anton and Mireia Gine, IESE Business School (Barcelona); Florian Ederer, Yale University; and Martin C. Schmalz, University of Michigan, "Innovation: The Bright Side of Common Ownership?"

* Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER; Nicholas Li, University of Toronto; and Mu-Jeung Yang,

University of Washington, "The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy: Evidence from Canada" (NBER Working Paper No. 22840)

* Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER, and Pascual Restrepo, Boston University, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from U.S. Labor Markets" (NBER Working Paper No. 23285)

* Dan R. Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo, and Peter N. Gal, OECD, "The Best versus the Rest: The Global Productivity Slowdown...