NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Measuring Economic Activity in Markets for Ideas, Innovation and Other Intangibles

NBER Program on technological Change and Productivity Measurement

Ernst Berndt and Wesley Cohen, Organizers

December 5, 2008

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4:
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Legal Sea Foods
	Kendall Square
	5 Cambridge Center
	Cambridge, MA 02139
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5:
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	JAMES BESSEN, Boston University
	More Machines or Better Machines
	Discussant: PETRA MOSER, Stanford University and NBER
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	RACHEL SOLOVEICHIK, Bureau of Economic Analysis
	Theatrical Movies As A Capital Asset
	Discussant: JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard University and NBER
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	JAISON R. ABEL, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	TODD M. GABE, University of Maine
	Human Capital and Economics Activity in Urban America
	Discussant: JUDITH HELLERSTEIN, University of Maryland and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	DIETMAR HARHOFF, University of Munich
	Patent Families, Equivalents and Patent Value
1:30 pm	CAROL ROBBINS, Bureau of Economic Analysis
	Measuring Payments for the Supply and Use of Intellectual Property
	Discussant: AJAY AGRAWAL , University of Toronto
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Panel Discussion on Useful and Needed Research on Measuring Economic Activity in Markets for Ideas Innovation and Other Intangibles
	Chair: WESLEY COHEN, Duke University and NBER
	Panel: AVI GOLDFARB, University of Toronto
	Measuring Brand Value in Equilibrium Framework
	JONATHAN HASKELL, Imperial College Business School
	CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER
	MARGARET BLAIR, Vanderbilt University
4:10 pm	Break
4:20 pm	CAROL CORRADO, The Conference Board
	Report of the NSF/Conference Board Workshop on Innovation Data
	JULIE LANE, National Science Foundation
	Improvements and Future Challenges for the Research Infrastructure: Administrative Transaction Data
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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