NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Summer Institute 2005

Economics of Intellectual Property

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JULY 19:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	MANUEL TRAJTENBERG, Tel-Aviv University and NBER
	The Mobility of Inventors and the Productivity of Research
	Discussant: LORI ROSENKOPF, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 am	ALFONSO GAMBARDELLA, Bocconi University
	DIETMAR HARHOFF, University of Munich
	BART VERSPAGEN, Eindhoven University of Technology
	The Value of Patents
	Discussant: THOMAS HELLMANN, University of British Columbia
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	LEE BRANSTETTER, Columbia University and NBER
	RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER
	FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University
	KAMAL SAGGI, Southern Methodist University
	Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence
	Discussant: DIANA HICKS, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	STUART GRAHAM, Georgia Institute of Technology
	DIETMAR HARHOFF, University of Munich
	Would the U.S .Benefit from Patent Post-grant Reviews? Evidence form a “Twinning” Study
	Discussant: IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	MIKE SCHERER, Harvard University
	Quarter Notes and Bank Notes
	Discussant: DENNIS YAO, Harvard University
3:30 PM	JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard University and NBER
	Price Discrimination and Copyright Law: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs
	Discussant: JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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