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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Innovation Policy and the Economy

 

Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

April 23, 2013

 

National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW

Washington, DC

 

PROGRAM

 

 

8:00 am

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Morning Keynote
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

9:10 am

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

 

(Joint with Jonathan Levin)

 

9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

 

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

 

(Joint with Aaron Chatterji and Edward Glaeser)

 

10:45 am

Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

 

Industry Standards and Innovation Policy

 

 

11:25 am

Break

 

 

11:40 am

Michael Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms

 

(Joint with Brett Danaher and Rahul Telang)

 

12:20 pm

Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER

 

The Simple Economics of Crowdfunding

 

(Joint with Christian Catalini and Avi Goldfarb)

 

1:00 pm

Luncheon

 

 

 

Luncheon Keynote

 

Douglas W. Elmendorf, Congressional Budget Office