Felix Poege (Bocconi University, Italy)
Stefan Haefliger (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
Dominik Siemon (LUT University, Finland)
Vera Blažević (Radboud University, visiting RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Sebastian Bouschery (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Jeffrey Reuer (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
Anna Comacchio (University of Venice, Italy)
Franz Strich (Deakin Business School, Australia)
Jean-Francois Hennart (Tilburg School of Economics and Management) and Stefan Schmid (ESCP Business School, Berlin)
Javier Miranda (U.S. Bureau of the Census; IWH Germany)
Salomé Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Burcu Küçükkeles (University of Amsterdam)
Lucia Foster and Catherine Buffington (US Census); Ryan Decker (Federal Reserve Board)
Henrik Berglund (University of Oslo, Norway)
Keynote: John Van Reenen (MIT, United States)