Topics of Interest - Geopolitical fragmentation and other external shocks: impacts on firms’ tangible and intangible investments, operations, and productivity - Fiscal and financing constraints for firms and governments and their implications for resilient investment and capital reallocation -...

This year’s conference will bring together leading economists, policymakers, and researchers to discuss firm-level productivity, competitiveness, and economic policy insights in the context of global economic shifts. - Cutting-Edge Research: Firm-level data insights, labor market dynamics,...

In line with the mission of CompNet to act as a hub to connect researchers and (micro) data providers from both the realm of policymaking and academia, we seek to attract papers of the highest academic quality that include, but are not limited to the following topics: - Climate shocks: climate...

Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

This conference seeks to bring together innovative research related to these challenges, aiming to provide guidance to policy. In particular, we are interested in research studies (not yet published) that focus on one or more of the following topics: - Public and private investments in shaping...

Topics: - Propagation of financial shocks; - Technology transformation in a locked-down world; - Covid-19 & digitalisation of the workplace; - Green technologies in a post-pandemic world; - Government involvement and investment allocation; - Fiscal emergency measures and the cleansing effects of...

The Full-fledged Conference has been postponed to 18-19 February 2021 (tbc). A short online event will take place on 22 September.It will include a keynote speech by Marc Melitz where he will present the special chapter he co-authored in the CompNet Firm Productivity Report and a policy panel...

The Full-fledged Conference has been postponed to 18-19 February 2021 (tbc). A short online event will take place on 22 September. It will include a keynote speech by Marc Melitz where he will present the special chapter he co-authored in the CompNet Firm Productivity Report and a policy panel...

Topics: - Competitiveness policies in small open economies - Structural transformation and distributional consequences - Industrial policies facing inequality and political populism - Transition to low-carbon economies from firm-level perspective - The interaction between monetary and...

Topics: - productivity measurement at the micro level - micro productivity and aggregate real activity - credit constraints and investment - inefficient lending - funding innovation and entrepreneurs - financial repression, factor accumulation, and re-allocation - macroprudential and monetary...