CRIW Conference on Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth

Susanto Basu, Lucy P. Eldridge, John C. Haltiwanger, and Erich H. Strassner, Organizers

March 17-18, 2022

Washington, DC and on Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 17
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome
9:05 am

Digital Concrete: Productivity in Infrastructure Construction (slides)
Discussant: Kevin J. Fox, University of New South Wales
9:55 am

The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector
Discussant: Wulong Gu, Statistics Canada
10:45 am
Break
11:05 am

An Occupation and Asset Driven Approach to Capital Utilisation Adjustment in Productivity Statistics (slides)
Discussant: Paul Schreyer, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
11:55 am
Lunch

Speaker: Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
1:25 pm

Data, Digitization, and Productivity (slides)
Discussant: Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
2:15 pm

Valuing the U.S. Data Economy using Machine Learning and Online Job Postings (slides)
Discussant: Eleanor W. Dillon, Microsoft Research
3:05 pm
Break
3:25 pm

Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion (slides)
Discussant: Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
4:15 pm
Member Meeting, Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Friday, March 18
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome
8:35 am

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey
Discussant: Chiara Criscuolo, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
9:25 am

Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition

Slides
Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:35 am

Historical Geography of the Semiconductor Industry
Discussant: Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Independent Consultant
11:25 am

TFP Accounting with Secondary Production
Discussant: John Fernald, INSEAD
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Similarities and Differences in the Adoption of General Purpose Technologies
Discussant: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
2:05 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Panel Discussion: Technology, Productivity and Policy
Moderator: Stephanie Aaronson, Brookings Institution
Panelists: Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Janice Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
Susan Helper, CEA and NBER
Paul Lengermann, Federal Reserve Board
3:55 pm
Closing