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	NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
	SI 2016 NBER/CRIW Workshop
	Katharine Abraham, Susanto Basu, Nick Bloom and Carol Corrado, Organizers
	July 18-19, 2016
	Royal Sonesta Hotel Parkview Room 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard Cambridge, Massachusetts
	PROGRAM
Monday, July 18
8:30 am		Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am		Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER A Unified Approach to Estimating Demand and Welfare Discussant: Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
9:45 am		Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Avinash Gannamaneni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Measuring Changes in Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College and NBER
10:30 am		Break
11:00 am		Greg Kurtzon, Bureau of Labor Statistics Breaking Down the Differences between the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U: Weights vs. Formula
11:20 am		W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER Kevin Fox, University of New South Wales The User Cost of Non-renewable Resources and Green Accounting
11:40 am		Alberto Cavallo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Are Online and Offine Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers
12:00 pm		Wendy Li, Bureau of Economic Analysis Offshoring and U.S. Innovation Capacity
12:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm		Christoph Boehm, University of Texas, Austin Aaron Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas, Austin Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Discussant: Susan Houseman, Upjohn Institute
2:15 pm		Regis Barnichon, CREI Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra On the Demographic Adjustment of Unemployment Discussant: Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
3:00 pm		Break
3:15 pm		Alexander Bick, Arizona State University Bettina Brueggemann, Goethe University Frankfurt Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers Discussant: Valerie Ramey, University of California San Diego and NBER
4:00 pm		Adjourn
Tuesday, July 19
		Morning session joint with Macro/Productivity
8:30 am		Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am		John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Robert Kulick, University of Maryland Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER Misallocation Measures: Glowing Like the Metal on the Edge of a Knife Discussant: Pete Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
9:45 am		Matthias Kehrig, University of Texas Nicolas Vincent, HEC Montréal Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Plant-Level Data Discussant: Gordon Philipps, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:30 am		Break
11:00 am		Philippe Aghion, Harvard University Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Brian Lucking, Stanford University Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University John Van Reenen, London School of Economics Growth and Decentralization in Bad Times Discussant: Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
11:45 am		Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University Giordano Mion, University of Sussex Luca David Opromolla, Banco de Portugal Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms Discussant: Serguey Braguinksy, University of Maryland and NBER
12:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm		David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board Stephen Oliner, American Enterprise Institute Daniel Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER A New Look at Prices of Personal Computers, Tablets, and Cell Phones:
		David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board Eugenio Pinto, Federal Reserve Board Time Variation in Rates of Depreciation and Price Change for Personal Computers
		David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board Carol Corrado, The Conference Board ICT Prices and ICT Services: What do they tell us about Productivity and Technology Discussant: Bart Hobijn, Arizona State University
2:45 pm		Break
3:00 pm		Teresa Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER Shawn Klimek, Bureau of the Census The Effects of Industry Classification Changes on US Employment Composition
3:20 pm		Joyce Hahn, Abt Associates Henry Hyatt, Bureau of the Census Hubert Janicki, Bureau of the Census Real Earnings Growth in the U.S. 1994-2014: Job Stayers, Job-to-Job Flows, and Nonemployment
3:40 pm		Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board Alice Henriques, Federal Reserve Board Using Income to Predict Wealth: an Exploration with Panel Data
4:00 pm		Adjourn
5:15 pm		Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom B)