National Bureau of Economic Research

 

ECONOMIC GROWTH CONFERENCE

 

February 12, 2009

 

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

 

Matthias Doepke and Benjamin Jones, Organizers

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, February 12, 2009

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:30 am

Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth

 

MICHELE BOLDRIN, Washington University

 

DAVID LEVINE, Washington University     

 

 

 

Discussant:  PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University

 

 

10:30 am

An Exploration of Technology Diffusion

 

DIEGO COMIN, Harvard Business School

 

BART HOBIJN, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

 

Discussant: PAUL DAVID, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:45 am

Foreign Firms, Domestic Entrepreneurial Skills and Development

 

ALEXANDER MONGE, Penn State University

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

 

 

 

12:45 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

2:00 pm

Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?

 

MICHELE TERTILT, Stanford University

 

ALICE SCHOONBROODT, University of Southampton

 

 

 

Discussant: MURAT IYIGUN, University of Colorado

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

Resource Abundance, Development, and Living Standards: Evidence from Oil Discoveries in Brazil

 

FRANCESCO CASELLI, London School of Economics

 

GUY MICHAELS, London School of Economics

 

 

 

Discussant: SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Stanford University

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

4:15 pm

Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth

 

HYEOK JEONG, Vanderbilt University

 

YONG KIM, University of Southern California

        

 

 

Discussant: BERTHOLD HERRENDORF, Arizona State University

 

 

 

 

5:15 pm

Adjourn