NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Summer Institute 2010
Macro/International/Industry Productivity Workshop
July 21, 2010
Susanto Basu and Ernst R. Berndt, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel Charles Suite B
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21:
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania
	William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
	Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
	Discussant: Sam Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Hernan Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia
	Pablo DʼErasmo, University of Maryland
	Financial Structure, Informality and Development
	Discussant: Luis Serven, The World Bank
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Luis Cabral, New York University
	Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
	Xu Yi, New York University
	The Determinants of Geographic Concentration of Industry: A Quantitative Analysis
	Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Robert Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER
	The Demise of Okun's Law and Procyclical Fluctuations in Conventional and Unconventional Measures of Productivity
	Discussant: Roger Brinner, The Parthenon Group
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
	Shawn Klimek, U.S. Bureau of the Census
	James Schmitz, Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
	Does Competition Spur Productivity? Evidence From Post WWII U.S. Cement Productivity
	Discussant: Nick Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Vasco Carvalho, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER
	The Great Diversification and Its Undoing
	Discussant: Scott Schuh, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
4:45 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA