NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

PRBB Macroeconomics, Trade and Productivity Workshop, Summer Institute 2008

Susanto Basu and Ernst R. Berndt, Organizers

July 16, 2008

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Christian Broda, University of Chicago and NBER
	Joshua Greenfield, Columbia University
	David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
	From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
	Discussant: Marshall Reinsdorf, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Nick Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
	Mirko Draca, London School of Economics and UCL
	John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
	Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on IT and Innovation
	Discussant: Marc Melitz, Princeton University and NBER
11:30 a.m.	Bee Aw, Pennsylvania State University
	Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
	Daniel Xu, New York University
	R&D Investment and Export Dynamics
	Discussant: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth and NBER
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Antonio Ciccone, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
	Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College
	Entry Regulation and Intersectoral Reallocation
	Discussant: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
2:30 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Eric Bartelsman, University of Amsterdam
	John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
	Stefano Scarpetta, OECD
	Cross Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocative Efficiency
	Discussant: Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER
4:00 p.m.	Adjourn
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