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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Economic Growth

Charles Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

July 15, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Rooms
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA


PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 15

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Gene Grossman, Princeton University and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER
Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics
Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa  (slides)

Discussant:  Paul Romer, New York University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Elisa Keller, Durham University Business School
Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity  (slides)

Discussant:  Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin, Madison (slides)

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Gregor Schwerhoff, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
Martin Stuermer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Non-Renewable Resources, Extraction Technology and Endogenous Growth  (slides)

Discussant:  David Hemous, University of Zurich (slides)

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
John Grigsby, University of Chicago
Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age  (slides)

Discussant:  Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER (slides)

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago and NBER
Technology, Skill and the Wage Structure  (slides)

Discussant:  Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER (slides)

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline  (slides)

Discussant:  Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Group Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel