NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Macroeconomics Trade and Productivity Workshop

 

Susanto Basu and Ernst R. Berndt, Organizers

 

July 19, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

University BC Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

 6:00 pm

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

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 19:

 

 

 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 am

RASMUS LENTZ, University of Wisconsin

 

DALE MORTENSON, Northwestern University and NBER

 

An Empirical Model of Growth through Product Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant: JEFFREY CAMPBELL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 9:30 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

JAGADEESH SIVADASAN, University of Michigan

 

Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

 

 

 

Discussant: NICK BLOOM, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

PAUL BEAUDRY, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

DAVID A. GREEN and BENJAMIN SAND, University of British Columbia

 

Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

BART VAN ARK, ROBERT INKLAAR, and MARCEL TIMMER, University of Groningen

 

Why is Productivity Growth in Europe still Slow?

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT GORDON, Northwestern University and the NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

ANDREA FINICELLI, PATRIZIO PAGANO and MASSIMO SBRACIA, Bank of Italy

 

Trade-Revealed TFP

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK AGUIAR, University of Rochester

 

 

3:30 pm

HÂLE UTAR, University of Colorado and Boulder

 

Import Competition and Employment Dynamics

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/23/07