THURSDAY, MARCH 8:
6:30 PM Dinner
Dante Restaurant
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, MARCH 9:
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM SINAN ARAL, MIT
ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER
MARSHALL VAN ALSTYNE, Boston University
Information Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence
Discussant: SUSAN HELPER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
9:45 AM Break
10:00 AM NICK BLOOM, Stanford Univesrsity and NBER
The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks: A Firm-Level Estimation and a 9/11 Simulation
Discussant: SUSANTO BASU, Boston College and NBER
11:00 AM Break
Over, Please!
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
11:15 AM TIMOTHY ERICKSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics
ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to the
Monthly Data on Other Goods
Discussant: JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM JAMES ADAMS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute and NBER
Announcement: The NBER-RPI Scientific Papers Database: An Overview
1:30 PM Recent US Productivity Growth: A One-Time Blip or Sustainable?
A Panel Discussion- Moderated by Ernst R. Berndt , MIT and NBER
Presentations by:
KEVIN STIROH, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and
DALE W. JORGENSON, Harvard University
A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence
DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board
ROBERT J. GORDON, Northwestern University and NBER
Was the Post-1995 Productivity Growth Upsurge a Will-o'-the Wisp?
BARRY BOSWORTH and JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
The 21st Century Productivity Expansion Is STILL in Services
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER
AVIV NEVO, Northwestern University and NBER
Errors in Self-Reported Data: A Cross-Validation of Homescan Data
Discussant: ALVIN J. SILK, Harvard University
4:30 PM Adjourn
3/8/07