Ellen McGrattan, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, director of the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute, and consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, discussed “Intangible Capital and Measured Productivity.”

Steve Davis, the William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, discussed “The Social Impact of Private Equity over the Economic Cycle” with John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda.