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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program Meeting

 

March 16, 2012

 

Nick Bloom and Josh Lerner, Organizers

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 15:

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 16:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heekung Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

CEO Pay and Information Technology

 

 

 

Discussant:  Carola Frydman, Boston University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto
Alex Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Why are some Regions more Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity.

 

 

 

Discussant:  Matt Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

 

Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

 

 

 

Discussant: Matt Mitchell, University of Toronto

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Leonid Kogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University
Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER
Noah Stoffman, Indiana University

 

Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth

 

 

Discussant:  Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon University
Sergey V. Mityakov, Clemson University
Andrei Liskovich, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Direct Estimation of Hidden Earnings: Evidence From Administrative Data

 

(additional paper)

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ben Pugsley, University of Chicago

 

 

3:45 pm

Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick

 

Bombs, Brains, and Science - The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientific Knowledge

 

 

 

Discussant:  Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn