NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement

Ernst Berndt and Christopher Knittel, Organizers

 

March 20, 2009

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 19:

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Dante Restaurant

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, MA 02142

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 20:

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

JACQUES MAIRESSE, INSEE and NBER

 

FABIO MONTOBBIO, Universita Bocconi

 

MICHELE PEZZONI, University of Bergamo

 

Determinants of Promotion and Scientific Productivity:

 

A Study on Italiam and French Academic Physicists

 

(Joint with Francesco Lissoni)

 

 

 

Discussant:  PIERRE AZOULAY, MIT and NBER

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

FIONA MURRAY, MIT

 

PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

 

JULIAN KOLEV, Harvard University

 

SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effects of Openness on Innovation

 

(Joint with Mathias Dewatripont)

 

 

 

Discussant:  FRANCES TONEGUZZO, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ASHISH ARORA, Duke University

 

LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological

 

Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese

 

IT Industries, 1983-1999

 

(Joint with Matej Drev)

 

 

 

Discussant:  SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

ALEXANDER FIELD, Santa Clara University

 

Should Capital Input Data Receive a Utilization Adjustment

 

 

 

Discussant:  CHARLES HULTEN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

LEONARDO IACOVONE, The World Bank

 

BEATA JAVORCIK, University of Oxford

 

WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Colorado and NBER

 

JAMES TYBOUT, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Supplier Responses Wal-Mart’s Invasion of Mexico

 

 

 

Discussant:  JAN DE LOECKER, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

3/10/09