Updated June 3, 2026
Presentations are scheduled for 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Thursday June 11
18:00 Pre-conference dinner at the restaurant Båthuset (15 min walk from the hotel)
Friday June 12
08:30–8:55 Registration
08:55–09:00 Welcome remarks
SESSION 1
Labor Market Institutions and Worker Careers
(Chair: Hans Grönqvist)
09:00–09:30 Marco Pagano – Family Ties, Corporate Power and Workers’ Careers (with Luca Coraggio, Annalisa Scognamiglio, and Joacim Tåg)
09:30–10:00 Ramin Baghai – Employee Debt Overhang and Firm Performance (with Marieke Bos, Elin Molin, and Paula Roth)
10:00–10:30 Andrea Ichino – Gender Policy and Signaling (with Gilat Levy, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo, and Cecile Pierre)
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:30 Merih Sevilir – No-Compete Agreements and Investing in Employees (with Ye Cai)
11:30–12:00 Jessica Jeffers – Noncompete Litigation (with Tania Babina)
12:00–13:00 Lunch
SESSION 2
Worker Sorting, Mobility, and Firm Adjustment
(Chair: Gabriella Massenz)
13:00–13:30 Oskar Nordström Skans – Wage Markdowns and the Sorting of Workers to Firms when Skills are Bundled (with Phillipe Choné, and Francis Kramarz)
13:30–14:00 Andrea Weber – The Returns to International Migration in a Free Mobility Setting: Evidence from Austria and Germany (with David Card, Wolfgang Dauth, Wolfgang Frimmel, Julia Schmieder, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer)
14:00–14:30 Hans Grönqvist – Making Background Salient: Criminal Records and Labor Market Sorting (with Erika Forsberg, Susanne Niknami, and Mårten Palme)
14:30–15:00 Coffee break
15:00–15:30 Ernst Maug – Post-Merger Restructuring of the Labor Force (with Britta Gehrke, Stefan Obernberger, and Christoph Schneider)
15:30–16:00 Andreas Kostøl – Firm Pay and Consumption Inequality (with Sigurd Galaasen and Michael Simmons)
17:15–18:30 Guided Walking Tour of Sigtuna (meet-up outside the Hotel)
18:45 Group photo in front of the Hotel
19:00 Swedish BBQ Dinner at Hotel Kristina
Saturday, June 13
SESSION 3
Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Firm Organization
(Chair: Malin Gardberg)
09:00–09:30 Elena Simintzi – Generative AI and Entrepreneurship (with Abhinav Gupta, Franklin Qian, and Yifan Sun)
09:30–10:00 Spyridon Lagaras – Entrepreneurship on a Safety Net: Evidence from the World’s Largest Cash Transfer Program (with Murillo Campello and Guilherme Junqueira)
10:00–10:30 Margarita Tsoutsoura – The Talent Gap in Family Firms (with Morten Bennedsen and Daniel Wolfenzon)
10:30–11:00 Coffee break (and check out from the hotel)
11:00–11:30 Horng Chern Wong – Skill-Biased Technological Change Across Firms
11:30–12:00 Gabriella Massenz – Tax-Motivated Firm Splitting
12:00–12:05 Closing remarks
12:05-13:30 Lunch at Hotell Kristina