CRIW: Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century
Organized by Carol A. Corrado, Javier Miranda, Jonathan Haskel, Daniel E. Sichel, and Charles R. Hulten
March 10-11, 2017
Georgetown McDonough School of Business
Friday, March 10
9:30 am

We See the Digital Revolution Everywhere Except in Real GDP

Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
9:35 am

Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues

Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Kristin Sandusky, U.S. Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired
11:15 am

Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income

Caroline Paunov, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Dominique Guellec, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques
2:00 pm

Measuring the Several Faces of Innovation

Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
John P. Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:10 pm

An Anatomy of Trademarking Firms in the U.S.

Amanda Myers, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Emin M. Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Goldschlag, Economic Innovation Group
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
3:30 pm

New Ways to Measure Innovation and Diffusion

Nathan Goldschlag, Economic Innovation Group
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Julia Lane, New York University
3:40 pm

Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Administrative Data

Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Saturday, March 11
9:00 am

New Hedonic Quality Adjustment Approaches for the PPI

Timothy Erickson, Bureau of Labor Statistics, retired
Steven Sawyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:10 am

Has Moore’s Law Been Suspended or Repealed? An Empirical Economic Analysis of the Pace of Innovation in Semiconductors

Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
10:45 am

ICT and Innovation

Michael Polder, Statistics Netherlands
Pierre Mohnen, Maastricht University
George van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands
10:50 am

Measuring the Returns to Intangibles: a Global Value Chain Approach.

Bart Los, University of Groningen
Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen
10:55 am

Trends in U.S. Trade in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Services and in ICT-Enabled Services

Alexis N. Grimm, Bureau of Economic Analysis
1:00 pm

Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters

Carol Corrado, Georgetown University
David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
1:05 pm

Cloud Computing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Growth

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Carol Corrado, Georgetown University
Stephen D. Oliner, American Enterprise Institute
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
1:15 pm

BEA Deflators for Information and Communications Technology Goods and Services Historical Analyses and Future Plans

David Wasshausen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis, retired