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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Productivity Program Meeting
December 10, 2010
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9:
6:30 pm	Group Dinner Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Sq., 5 Cambridge Center (corner of 6^th & Main Sts.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10:
	Morning Session: Feldstein Conference Room – Second Floor Joint Productivity Program and Organizational Economics Group Meeting Co-organizers: Ernst Berndt (MIT and NBER) and Robert Gibbons (MIT and NBER)
8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care Discussant: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine: An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States Discussant: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Carol Propper, University of Bristol Stephan Seiler, London School of Economics John van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER The Impact of Competition on Management Practices in Public Hospitals Discussant: James Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon Session: Third Floor Conference Room Productivity Program Meeting Co-organizers: Ernst Berndt (MIT and NBER) and Iain Cockburn (Boston University and NBER)
1:00 pm	Diego Comin, Harvard University and NBER Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Discussant: Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope; Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM Discussant: Richard Schmalensee, MIT and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Alberto Cavallo, MIT Roberto Rigobon, MIT and NBER The Distribution of the Size of Price Changes Discussant:  Daniel Sichel, Federal Reserve Board
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Shuttle Vans Depart from NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel