NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Summer Institute 2004

 

Productivity Potpourri Workshop

 

Ernst Berndt, Organizer

 

July 22, 2004

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

JOINT WITH INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION (morning only)

 

 

 8:45 a.m.

CHRIS KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

VICTOR STANGO, Dartmouth College

 

Incompatibility and Consumer Demand: Evidence from ATMs

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERT PINDYCK, MIT and NBER

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:00 a.m.

ALI HORTACSU, University of Chicago

 

CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Vertical Integration, Productivity, and Prices: Causes and Effects

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:15 a.m.

JEFF PRINCE, Cornell University

 

Measuring the Digital Divide: Structural Estimation of the Demand for Personal Computers

 

 

 

 

Discussant: STEVE BERRY, Yale University and NBER

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

CHIARA CRISCUOLO and RALF MARTIN, London School of Economics

 

Multinationals and US Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain

 

 

 

Discussant: WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 2:45 p.m.

ZAUR RZAKHANOV, Suffolk University

 

Scale, Scope and Knowledge Spillovers in Drug Development:

 

Do They Matter for Drug Development Success of Biotechnology Firms?

 

 

 

Discussant: REBECCA HENDERSON, MIT and NBER

 

 

 3:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

ADRIAN GOTTSCHALK, MIT

 

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

MATTHEW STROBECK, MIT

 

The Prescription Drug User Fee Acts and Productivity at the FDA:

 

An Economic Evaluation

 

 

 

Discussant: JOSEPH DI MASI, Tufts University

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

6/1/04