29th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference.

• Position: Conferences

The 29th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference took place March 11-12 online. Research Associate Joshua K. Hausman of the University of Michigan, and Shin-ichi Fukuda and Kenichi Ueda, both of the University of Tokyo, organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Tommaso Bighelli, Halle Institute for Economic Research; Tibor Lalinsky, National Bank of Slovakia; and Juuso P. Vanhala, Bank of Finland, "COVID-19 Pandemic, State Aid and Firm Productivity"

* Tomohito Honda, University of Tokyo; Kaoru Hosono, Gakushuin University; Daisuke Miyakawa and Iichiro Uesugi, Hitotsubashi University; and Arito Ono, Chuo University, "Determinants and Effects of COVID-19 Business Support Programs: Evidence from a Survey to SMEs in Japan"

* Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER, and John V. Duca, Oberlin College, "How the New Fed Municipal Bond Facility Capped Municipal-Treasury Yield Spreads in the COVID-19 Recession"

* Daisuke Fujii, Hiroyuki Kubota, Taisuke Nakata, Kohei Machi, Yuta Maeda, and Haruki Shibuya, University of Tokyo, and Masataka Mori, Middlebury...