NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

NBER-CRIW

Pre-conference on Producer Dynamics:

New Evidence from Micro Data

 

Timothy Dunne, Bradford Jensen, Mark Roberts

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 23, 2004

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

R. JASON FABERMAN, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Estimates of Turnover from BLS Establishment Data

 

 

 

Discussant:  STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 9:45 a.m.

JAMES SPLETZER and RICHARD CLAYTON, Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Business Employment Dynamics

 

 

10:15 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:45 a.m.

ANJA DECRESSIN, TOMEKA HILL, JULIA LANE, KRISTIN MCCUE, and

 

MARTHA STINSON, Bureau of the Census

 

Employer-Provided Benefit Plans, Workforce Composition and Firm Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant:  DAN BLACK, Syracuse University

 

 

11:30 a.m.

DONALD SIEGEL and KENNETH SIMONS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

TOMAS LINDSTROM, National Institute of Economic Research

 

Ownership Change, Productivity, R&D, and Human Capital: New Evidence

 

from Matched Employer-Employee Data in Swedish Manufacturing

 

 

 

Discussant: JUDITH HELLERSTEIN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

RON JARMIN, SHAWN KLIMEK and JAVIER MIRANDA, Bureau of the Census

 

The Evolution of Retail Markets in Micropolitan and Metropolitan Regions

 

 

2:00 p.m.

STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago and NBER,

 

JOHN HALTIWANGER, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 RON JARMIN, Bureau of the Census

 

C.J. KRIZAN, Bank of Spain

 

 KRISTIN SANDUSKY, Bureau of the Census

 

The Dynamics of Young Businesses

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 3:00 p.m.

JOHN BALDWIN and WULONG GU, Statistics Canada

 

The Impact of Trade on Plant Scale, Production-Run Length and Diversification

 

 

 

Discussant:  JIM TYBOUT, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 p.m.

MARY AHERN, JET YEE and PENNI KORB, Department of Agriculture

 

Producer Dynamics in Agriculture

 

 

 

Discussant:  SPIRO STEFANOU, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/11/04