NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth

 

Ernst R. Berndt, Charles M. Hulten, and David W. Wilcox, Co-organizers

 

July 28-29, 2003

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 28:

 

  8:30 AM                   Coffee and Pastries

 

  9:00 AM                   ANA AIZCORBE, STEPHEN OLINER and DANIEL SICHEL,

                   Federal Reserve Board Semiconductor Price Puzzles

 

Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

10:00 AM                   Break

 

10:15 AM                   CAROL CORRADO, WENDY DUNN, and MARIA OTOO,

Federal Reserve Board,

An Initial Look at Incentives and Prices for Motor Vehicles:

What Has Been Happening in Recent Years?

 

Discussant: MELVYN FUSS, University of Toronto and NBER

 

11:15 AM                   Break

 

11:30 AM                   MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel Aviv University and NBER

Defense R&D in the Anti-terrorist Era

 

Discussant:  ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

12:30 PM                   Lunch

 

 1:30 PM                   TEAGUE RUDER and TED TO, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Hedonic Regressions with Supply and Demand Controls: An Example Using Stereo Receiver Scanner Data

 

Discussant: DANIEL SICHEL, Federal Reserve Board

 

 2:30 PM                   Break

 

 2:45 PM                   KARI MANNINEN, BEA and University of Helsinski

Controlling for Quality Change in Digital Camera Price Index

 

Discussant:  AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 3:45 PM                   Break

 

 4:00 PM                   JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group

ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER

ALAN G. WHITE, Analysis Group

Price Indexes for Microsoft's Personal Computer Software Products

 

Discussant: DAVID JOHNSON, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

 5:00 PM                    Adjourn

 

TUESDAY, JULY 29:

 

 8:30 AM                   Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 AM          ROBERT MCGUCKIN and SEAN DOUGHERTY, Conference Board

ROBERT C. INKLAAR, Netherlands

BART VAN ARK, Conference Board

International Comparisons of R&D: Expenditure:

Does R & D PPP Make a Difference?

 

Discussant: JEFFREY BERNSTEIN, Carleton University and NBER

 

10:00 AM                   Break

 

10:15 AM                   MAURY GITTLEMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics

THIJS TEN RAA, Tilbug University         

EDWARD N. WOLFF, New York University and NBER

The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth:

An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

 

Discussant:  W. ERWIN DIEWERT, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

11:15 AM                   Break

 

11:30 AM                   FRANK C. WYKOFF, Pomona College

Obsolescence in Economic Depreciation from the Point of View of the Revaluation Term

 

Discussant:  MICHAEL HARPER, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

12:30 PM                   Lunch

 

 1:30 PM          DENNIS FIXLER, MARSHALL REINSDORF, and GEORGE SMITH

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Revised Nominal Measures of the Implicit Services of Financial Intermediaries

in the National Income and Product Accounts

 

Discussant:  JACK E. TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution

 

 2:30 PM                   Break

 

 2:45 PM                   CINDY ZOGHI, and SABRINA PABILONIA, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Which Workers Gain from Computer Use?

 

Discussant:  B. K. ATROSTIC, Census Bureau                

 

 3:45 PM                   Break

 

 4:00 PM                   LUCIA FOSTER, Census Bureau

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

Reallocation, Firm Turnover and Efficiency:

Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

 

Discussant:  MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 5:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

 

 

6/9/03