CRIW: Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century

Carol Corrado, Javier Miranda, Jonathan Haskel, Daniel E. Sichel, and Charles R. Hulten, Organizers

March 10-11, 2017

Georgetown McDonough School of Business

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 10
9:30 am
Charles R. Hulten, University of Maryland and NBER
Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

We See the Digital Revolution Everywhere Except in Real GDP
9:35 am
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Kristin Sandusky, U.S. Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired

Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues
11:15 am
Caroline Paunov, OECD
Dominique Guellec, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques

Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
2:00 pm
Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University and NBER
John P. Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology

Measuring the Several Faces of Innovation
2:10 pm
Amanda Myers, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Emin M. Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Census Bureau

An Anatomy of Trademarking Firms in the U.S.
3:30 pm
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Ron S. Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Census Bureau
Julia Lane, New York University

New Ways to Measure Innovation and Diffusion
3:40 pm
Javier Miranda, Friedrich-Schiller University
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Administrative Data
Saturday, March 11
9:00 am
Timothy Erickson, Bureau of Labor Statistics, retired
Steven Sawyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics

New Hedonic Quality Adjustment Approaches for the PPI
9:10 am
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin

Has Moore’s Law Been Suspended or Repealed? An Empirical Economic Analysis of the Pace of Innovation in Semiconductors
10:45 am
Michael Polder, Statistics Netherlands
Pierre Mohnen, Maastricht University
George van Leeuwen, Statistics Netherlands

ICT and Innovation
10:50 am
Bart Los, University of Groningen
Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen

Measuring the Returns to Intangibles: a Global Value Chain Approach.
10:55 am
Alexis N. Grimm, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Trends in U.S. Trade in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Services and in ICT-Enabled Services
1:00 pm
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Accounting for Innovation in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters
1:05 pm
David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
Stephen D. Oliner, American Enterprise Institute
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER

Cloud Computing: Implications for Economic Measurement and Growth
1:15 pm
David Wasshausen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Ana Aizcorbe, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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