SI 2016 NBER/CRIW Workshop

Susanto Basu, Carol Corrado, Nicholas Bloom, and Katharine G. Abraham, Organizers

July 18-19, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 18
9:00 am	Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER A Unified Approach to Demand and Welfare
9:45 am	Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Avinash Gannamaneni, Carnegie Mellon University test
11:00 am	Greg Kurtzon, Bureau of Labor Statistics Breaking Down the Differences between the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U: Weights vs. Formula
11:20 am	W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER Kevin Fox, University of New South Wales The User Cost of Non-renewable Resources and Green Accounting
11:40 am	Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER Are Online and Offine Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers
12:00 n	Wendy Li, Moon Economics Institute Offshoring and U.S. Innovation Capacity
1:30 pm	Christoph Boehm, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Aaron B. Flaaen, Federal Reserve Board Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
1:31 pm	David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board Eugenio Pinto, Federal Reserve Board Time Variation in Rates of Depreciation and Price Change for Personal Computers
2:15 pm	Regis Barnichon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra On the Demographic Adjustment of Unemployment
3:15 pm	Alexander Bick, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bettina Brueggemann, McMaster University Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
Tuesday, July 19
1:30 pm	David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Stephen D. Oliner, American Enterprise Institute Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER A New Look at Prices of Personal Computers, Tablets, and Cell Phones
1:32 pm	David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Carol Corrado, The Conference Board ICT Prices and ICT Services: What do they tell us about Productivity and Technology
3:00 pm	Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER Shawn D. Klimek, Department of Commerce The Effects of Industry Classification Changes on US Employment Composition
3:20 pm	Joyce K. Hahn, Abt Associates Henry R. Hyatt, U.S. Census Bureau Hubert Janicki, US Census Bureau Real Earnings Growth in the U.S. 1994-2014: Job Stayers, Job-to-Job Flows, and Nonemployment
3:40 pm	Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board Alice Henriques, Federal Reserve Board Using Income to Predict Wealth: an Exploration with Panel Data