NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Summer Institute 2005

 

Productivity Potpourri Workshop

 

Ernst Berndt, Organizer

 

July 21, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

CAROL CORRADO, PAUL LENGERMANN and LARRY SLIFMAN,

 

Federal Reserve Board

 

The Contribution of MNCs US Productivity Growth 1977-2000

 

 

 

Discussant: KATHRYN SHAW, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

JAN DE LOECKER, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

 

Product Differentiation, Multi- Product Firms and Structural Estimation of Productivity

 

 

 

Discussant: STEVE BERRY, Yale University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

NICK BLOOM, RAFFAELLA SADUN and JOHN VAN REENEN

 

London School of Economics

 

It Ain't What You Do It's The Way You Do I.T.: Testing Explanations of Productivity Growth Using U.S. Affiliates

 

 

 

Discussant: ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

SUSANTO BASU, Boston College and NBER

 

JOHN FERNALD, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

JONAS FISHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Sector-Specific Technical Change

 

 

 

Discussant: DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

KEVIN J. FOX, University of New South Wales

 

On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:45 pm

JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

JULIE WULF, University of Pennsylvania

 

Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

 

 

 

Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/18/05