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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Nicholas Bloom, and Josh Lerner, Organizers

March 20, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

March 19, 2015:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
March 20, 2015:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Introductions
9:05 am	David C. Chan, Jr, Stanford University and NBER The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department
9:50 am	Ariel Dora Stern, Harvard University Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology
10:35 am	Break
10:55 am	Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Chirantan Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Matthew Higgins, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Starving (or Fattening) the Golden Goose? Generic Entry and the Incentives for Pharmaceutical Innovation
11:40 am	Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University Tarun Khanna, Harvard University Codifying Prior Art and Patenting: A Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the USPTO and EPO
12:25 pm	Lunch – Room Charles B
1:25 pm	Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER Vladimir Mukharlyamov, Harvard University What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Benjamin Pugsley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Grown-up Business Cycles
3:15 pm	Antoine Dechezlepretre, London School of Economics Ralf Martin, London School of Economics Myra Mohnen, University College London Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies
4:00 pm	Adjourn