Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, Peterson Institute for International Economics, chairs the second panel of the conference "Making Sense of the Productivity Slowdown," held at the Institute on November 16, 2015. Speakers at the panel "Comparative National Perspectives on the Slowdown" included Kyoji Fukao, Hitotsubashi University, on Japan; Marcel Fratzscher, German Institute for Economic Research, on Germany; Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland, on Southern Europe; Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago, on China; and Sir David Ramsden, HM Treasury, on the United Kingdom. For more information, visit: www.piie.com/events/event_detail.cfm?EventID=416