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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Technological Progress & Productivity Measurement Program Meeting

 

Ajay Agrawal and Ben Jones, Organizers

 

December 4, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Paper presentations: 30 minutes; discussants: 15 minutes; general discussion: 15 minutes

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3:

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner – Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

                        (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

                        JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

                        GUSTAVO MANSO, MIT

                        Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences

 

                        Discussant: JERRY THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

10:00 am         TIM SIMCOE, Boston University and NBER

What’s in a (Missing) Name? Status Signals in Open

                        Standards Development

 

                        Discussant: BRONWYN HALL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:15 am         ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT and NBER

                        LYNN WU, MIT

                        The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow

Housing Prices and Sales     

 

                        Discussant:  LU HAN, University of Toronto

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

 1:15 pm          ALEX OETTL, Georgia Institute of Technology

Productivity and Helpfulness: Implications of a New Taxonomy for Star Scientists

 

                        Discussant:  SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          YURIY GORODNICHENKO, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        MONIKA SCHNITZER, University of Munich

                        Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

 

                        Discussant:  BILL KERR, Harvard University and NBER

 

 3:30 pm          HEIDI WILLIAMS, Harvard University

                        Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

 

                        Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 4:30 pm          Adjourn