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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement Program Meeting

March 11, 2011

Nick Bloom and Josh Lerner, Organizers

NBER

3^rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 10:

6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
FRIDAY, MARCH 11:
8:15 am	Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
	What do CEOs do?
	Discussant: Tim Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Yi Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
	Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends
	Discussant: Lee Branstetter: Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
	Is High-Quality Production Location-Specific? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
	Discussant Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Iwan Barankay, University of Pennsylvania Rankings and Social Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
	Discussant: Nava Ashraf, Harvard University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Leonardo Iacovone, The World Bank Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER
	Ferdinand Rauch, London School of Economics
	Innovation Responses to Import Competition
	Discussant: Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
3:45 pm	Adjourn