SI 2016 NBER/CRIW Workshop
Organized by Susanto Basu, Carol A. Corrado, Nicholas Bloom, and Katharine G. Abraham
July 18-19, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 18

9:00 am

A Unified Approach to Demand and Welfare

Stephen J. Redding, Stanford University and NBER
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

9:45 am

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Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Avinash Gannamaneni, Carnegie Mellon University

11:00 am

Breaking Down the Differences between the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U: Weights vs. Formula

Greg Kurtzon, Bureau of Labor Statistics

11:20 am

The User Cost of Non-renewable Resources and Green Accounting

W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Kevin Fox, University of New South Wales

11:40 am

Are Online and Offine Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers

Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER

12:00 n

Offshoring and U.S. Innovation Capacity

Wendy Li, Moon Economics Institute

1:30 pm

Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Christoph Boehm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

1:31 pm

Time Variation in Rates of Depreciation and Price Change for Personal Computers

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Eugenio Pinto, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

2:15 pm

On the Demographic Adjustment of Unemployment

Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3:15 pm

Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Bettina Brueggemann, McMaster University
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt

Tuesday, July 19

1:30 pm

A New Look at Prices of Personal Computers, Tablets, and Cell Phones

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Stephen D. Oliner, American Enterprise Institute
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER

1:32 pm

ICT Prices and ICT Services: What do they tell us about Productivity and Technology

David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Carol Corrado, Georgetown University

3:00 pm

The Effects of Industry Classification Changes on US Employment Composition

Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Shawn D. Klimek, U.S. Department of Commerce

3:20 pm

Real Earnings Growth in the U.S. 1994-2014: Job Stayers, Job-to-Job Flows, and Nonemployment

Joyce K. Hahn, Abt Associates
Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau
Hubert Janicki, U.S. Census Bureau

3:40 pm

Using Income to Predict Wealth: an Exploration with Panel Data

Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Alice Henriques, Federal Reserve Board of Governors