At last year’s conference, Chad Syverson (University of Chicago) asked whether there are good measures of the long-term effects of antitrust enforcement on productivity growth - in particular through the invention and diffusion of general-purpose technologies. Providing better answers to this question is the goal of the first half of this year’s conference. This debate will start with this first panel, which brings together economists from different fields to discuss how antitrust enforcement impacts long-term innovation.

Moderator:

• Chad Syverson, University of Chicago

Speakers:

• Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago
• Chiara Criscuolo, IFC - World Bank Group
• Daniel Gross, Duke University
• Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London
• John Van Reenen, London School of Economics