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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC |
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Summer Institute 2007 |
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Productivity Potpourri Workshop |
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Ernst Berndt, Organizer |
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July 18, 2007 |
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel |
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PROGRAM |
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WEDNESDAY,
JULY 18: |
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8:00 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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8:30 am |
W. ERWIN
DIEWERT, |
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FRANK C.
WYKOFF, |
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Depreciation,
Deterioration and Obsolescence when there is Embodied or Disembodied
Technical Change |
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Discussant: ANA AIZCORBE, Bureau of Economic Analysis |
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9:30 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
KENNETH
FLAMM, |
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Discussant: F. MICHAEL SCHERER, |
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11:00 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
SINAN
ARAL, MIT |
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ERIK
BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER |
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D.J. WU,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Which
Came First, IT or Productivity? A
Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems |
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Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
RAM C.
ACHARYA, Industry |
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Private
and Social Rates of Return to R&D: How Different Are They across
Industries? |
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Discussant: JEFFREY BERNSTEIN, |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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3:00 pm |
LAARNI
BULAN, PAROMA SANYAL and ZHIPENG YAN, |
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CEO Incentives and Firm
Productivity |
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Discussant: JOHANNES VAN BIESEBROECK, |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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6/11/07 |
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